The Mourner

The second instalment in the gripping gangland UK crime scene, from compelling author, Susan Wilkins.

If she can't get justice, will she settle for vengeance?

Kaz Phelps has escaped her brother and her criminal past to become an anonymous art student in Glasgow. But can life under the witness protection scheme ever give her the freedom she craves?

Banged up and brooding, Joey Phelps faces 30 years behind bars. Still, with cash and connections on the outside, can an overstretched prison system really contain him?

Helen Warner, once Kaz's lawyer and lover, is a rising star in Parliament. But has she made the kind of enemies who have no regard for the democratic process, or even the law?

Ousted from the police and paralysed by tragic personal loss, Nicci Armstrong is in danger of going under. Can a job she doesn't want with a private security firm help her to put her life back back on track?

A murder dressed up as suicide and corruption that goes to the heart of government unite ex-cop and ex-con in a deadly quest to learn the truth. What they discover proves what both have always known - villainy is rife on both sides of the law.

'A thundering...talent - read it and be gripped'
Jessie Keane, Sunday Times bestselling author

'The tightly written plot of a classic La Plante, and the edgy dialogue and dangerous cast of Cole'
Crimesquad.com

'Authentic, gritty and enthralling'
The Sunday Mirror