The Angel Maker

Katie Shaw grows up in a handsome house in the English countryside, close to finishing school, with a devoted boyfriend and a younger brother, Chris, whom she looks after with fierce care. Then a violent stranger attacks, and her family's course is altered for good.

Years later, Katie is a mother herself. Guilt over what happened to Chris has never left her, and it makes her wary of every danger, so that she struggles to tell real threats from imagined ones. A phone call breaks into that uneasy routine: Chris has gone missing, and he needs his sister again.

A second thread follows Detective Laurence Page, who is handed a brutal murder. The victim is a professor who studies fate and free will, killed only hours after he dismissed his staff. Every lead Page follows runs back to two older cases: the assault on the teenage Christopher Shaw, and the crimes of a notorious serial killer, said in local legend to have seen the future.

The book is a dark, suspenseful thriller that alternates between Katie's family story and the police investigation. Its concerns are fate, the pull between siblings, and whether anyone can foresee what comes next. It is by the author of The Whisper Man and The Shadows.