THE GIRL UNDER THE FLOOR

Discover the hottest crime thriller this year. 

EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE WITH ONE TWIST AFTER ANOTHER 

Saturday morning. A rare day off for Detective Maddie Ives. She’s about to have a relaxing shower with her boyfriend Vince when she gets the call: There’s been another one… 

Ron and Sandy Blackman’s brutalised bodies are found in the hallway of their isolated rural home. They’ve been stabbed multiple times; Ron’s hands are tied tightly behind his back; Sandy has several fingernails ripped out. The safe has been forced open. 

This is the second house of horrors that Maddie and her team have been called out to in a matter of days. 

Four days earlier, single mother Maria was also stabbed to death in her own home – with the same murder weapon. 

Maddie’s partner Vince was first on the scene. He finds Maria’s traumatised daughter trapped under the floorboards. 

Jade saw everything – but can remember nothing. 

Maddie is convinced these aren’t robberies gone wrong. These two families were specifically targeted, tortured for information. But what secrets was the killer so desperate to find out? 

The key to the mystery lies with eleven-year-old Jade. Maddie and her team are in a race against time to find out the truth before Jade’s memories come back … and the killer returns to silence her forever. 

Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney or Mark Billingham. 

DON’T MISS THE MOST UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER YOU’LL READ THIS YEAR! 

PRAISE FOR CHARLIE GALLAGHER 

“One of the best police procedural authors available right now.” Tracy W. 

“Absolutely loved this book from start to finish.” Nerys R. 

“Could not put this one down. This author is fantastic. I have loved every single bit of this book.” Vikkie W. 

“This is my No. 1 favourite crime author.” Greta H. 

THE DETECTIVE 

Acting Inspector Maddie Ives’s policing career has been anything but conventional. During the first few days of her training, she was plucked from the classroom and thrust straight into the world of undercover policing, forcing her to survive on her wits. Just as she was beginning to find her feet, she was once again wrenched out of her comfort zone with an enforced move into Major Crime with no previous experience of major investigations and no time to learn. Now, shaped, hardened - and maybe damaged - by the constant need to adapt to new surroundings, Maggie feels she may have finally found her place, with Harry Blaker as her friend and mentor and Vince Arnold as her lover. But Maggie’s relationship with a more junior colleague is often fraught with difficulties. And if experience has taught her nothing else, any and all of it can be thrown back up in the air at a moment’s notice. 

THE AUTHOR 

Charlie Gallagher was a serving UK police officer for more than ten years, starting as a front-line response officer, then as a member of a specialist tactical team and as a detective investigating serious offences. 

ALSO BY CHARLIE GALLAGHER 

MADDIE IVES 
Book 1: HE IS WATCHING YOU 
Book 2: HE WILL KILL YOU 
Book 3: HE WILL FIND YOU 
Book 4: HE KNOWS YOUR SECRETS 
Book 5: HE WILL GET YOU 
Book 6: THE DEADLY HOUSES 
Book 7: LAST ONE ALIVE 
BOOK 8: THE GIRL UNDER THE FLOOR  

GEORGE ELMS, LANGTHORNE SERIES 
Book 1: BODILY HARM 
Book 2: PANIC BUTTON 
Book 3: BLOOD MONEY 
Book 4: END GAME 
Book 5: MISSING 
Book 6: THEN SHE RAN 
Book 7: HER LAST BREATH 

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