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Mark Hurst is a crime and psychological thriller author from the North West of England. With a career in construction, and after being inspired by his son, Daniel, he began pursuing his own passion for storytelling and has started to release his first full-length books ...

When Samantha and David decide to have a night out separately with their friends, events overtake them, and the lies lead them down a path of destruction. To everyone else, it looked like Samantha and David had the perfect life. From meeting at university and falling in love to starting a successful business together, they made a great team. However, as everybody knows, appearances can be deceptive… 

That one night out changed everything between them and things would never be the same again; not unless they could face up to their own truths and correct the wrongs. 

Neither thought they could become the people they became and do the things they did. But that’s just what happens when two people wronged become consumed by a need for the truth, for justice, and ultimately, for the price to be paid. If either of them had let it go, it could have all been so different – but neither of them could.

The fast paced and gripping debut novel, a crime and psychological thriller that will keep you turning the pages as you try to answer the question yourself – could you have let it go?

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Samantha and Blade continue playing the deadly game of truth versus lie, reality against perception.

Dame Samantha Walsh now a world icon, a person of respect, wealth and charity, flawless and untouchable in equal measure, continues to grow her empire on her terms. Her enormous wealth and reach bring about power and control never before contemplated, opening up new interests and outcomes for her, both inside and outside legal and moral boundaries.

Blade, recently released from prison, needing to re-integrate with society, has his own path to follow to find the truth. He needs work, he needs income, and what better way to fund finding the truth than by taking paid work doing what he is good at, what he was trained to do.

The race is on to find out the truth of what happened to their friends. Who will find out first? Who will win?

The story continues apace. This true sequel will have you considering if the end justifies the means. 

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Should you trust the people closest to you?

A well-deserved weekend away in the English countryside, a time to catch up with friends and have fun. Martin and his wife Tanya, meet up with friends Melissa and her husband Craig, in a luxury barn conversion outside the small village of Brambleside, in the tranquil Lake District in the north of England.

Four close friends, each with very different professional careers, enjoy their collective time together, reconnecting after Martin’s recovery from a recent illness. Within forty-eight hours, two are dead, one is unconscious in the hospital, and the fourth is charged with double murder and attempted murder.

With unexpected twists and revelations, who can be trusted? Is everything as it seems?

Would you trust your partner more than your friend?

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Can you trust what you’ve been told?

Paul marries his second wife, Kate, in front of friends and family and they set out on a new life together. Shortly after the wedding, what starts out as an innocent gift between friends becomes the catalyst to marriage difficulties, family tensions, the testing of friendships, a brutal murder, and much more.

Can Paul get the outcome he desires? Can Kate find the truth she is searching for?

Decisions made now, and in the past, unleash a series of challenges leading to deception and death.  

Will the full truth be known and the secret revealed…?

Knowing what you now know, can things ever be the same again?

Out 28th December 2024