The Wicked Girls

'We are the devil now…'

Shortlisted for the International Thriller Writer Awards 2013 and the Edgar Allen Poe Award 2014.

Twenty-five years ago, eleven-year-old Jade and Bel became public shorthand for all that is evil when they were convicted of the murder of four-year-old Chloe. Long released on licence, forbidden to have contact and watched by the probation service, each has built a new life with a new name, their notorious pasts carefully hidden from even the closest to them. But when a serial killer starts to stalk the streets of the seaside town where Amber Gordon lives and works, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is sent to cover the story – precipitating a chain of events that threatens to destroy their carefully constructed worlds…