Believe No One

Forensic expert Professor Nick Fennimore has engineered lectures in Chicago and St Louis a ploy to get to Detective Chief Inspector Kate Simms. She s in the United States on sabbatical with St Louis PD, and he s keen to see her again. Simms is working with a method swap team, reviewing cold cases, sharing expertise. But Simms came to the US to escape the fallout from their previous case the last thing she needs is Fennimore complicating her life.

A call for help from a sheriff s deputy in Oklahoma seems like a welcome distraction for the professor until he hears the details: a mother dead, her child gone echoes of Fennimore s own tragedy.

Nine-year-old Red, adventuring in Oklahoma s backwoods, has no clue that he and his mom are in the killer s sights. Back in St Louis, investigators discover a pattern: victims all of them young mothers dumped along a 600 mile stretch of I-44. The Oklahoma and St Louis investigations converge, uncovering serial murders across two continents and two decades. Under pressure, the killer begins to unravel, and when a fresh body surfaces, the race is on to catch the I-44 killer and save the boy.

“The best book I have read in years ... I don't have enough superlatives to describe how I feel about this book.”

Mo Hayder

A. D. Garrett is the pseudonym for the writing collaboration of prize-winning thriller writer Margaret Murphy and forensic scientist Professor Dave Barclay. Margaret Murphy is the author of nine psychological thrillers. She lectures on writing and is a former Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow. She is founder of Murder Squad, a touring collective of crime writers, and was Chair of the Crime Writers' Association in 2009-10. Professor Barclay holds two university posts and is a forensic adviser to the police forces and the media. He was Head of Physical Evidence at the UK National Crime and Operations Faculty for 10 years. He is currently working for several UK police forces and a state of Australia on high profile murders. He is part of the 'Murder, Mystery and Microscopes' team which aims to explain the real science behind popular crime fiction via a national series of public lectures.

Forensic expert Professor Nick Fennimore has engineered lectures in Chicago and St Louis a ploy to get to Detective Chief Inspector Kate Simms. She s in the United States on sabbatical with St Louis PD, and he s keen to see her again. Simms is working with a method swap team, reviewing cold cases, sharing expertise. But Simms came to the US to escape the fallout from their previous case the last thing she needs is Fennimore complicating her life.A call for help from a sheriff s deputy in Oklahoma seems like a welcome distraction for the professor until he hears the details: a mother dead, her child gone echoes of Fennimore s own tragedy.Nine-year-old Red, adventuring in Oklahoma s backwoods, has no clue that he and his mom are in the killer s sights. Back in St Louis, investigators discover a pattern: victims all of them young mothers dumped along a 600 mile stretch of I-44. The Oklahoma and St Louis investigations converge, uncovering serial murders across two continents and two decades. Under pressure, the killer begins to unravel, and when a fresh body surfaces, the race is on to catch the I-44 killer and save the boy.

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