The Red Light Secret

Taxi driver Raj Patel picks up a stranger running for the last train on a rain-soaked Friday night. By morning, that man is dead - and Raj is the last person known to have seen him alive.

The dead man was a journalist, eight months into exposing a smuggling operation running straight through the quiet village of Ashton. The officer who's directed traffic at the junction for eighteen years - trusted by everyone, waved through every checkpoint of village life - is not what he seems.

With shopkeeper Sarah Wilson and Peter, a homeless man invisible to Ashton for six years and the only one who ever really watched it, Raj follows a trail someone is willing to kill to keep buried.

Tense, atmospheric, and emotionally charged, The Red Light Secret explores how far people will go when the truth is close enough to touch - but still just out of reach.

Everyone in Ashton thinks they know who to trust. They're about to find out how wrong they are.

For readers of Ann Cleeves and Louise Penny.