{"product_id":"alice-clark-platts-the-taken-9780718181109","title":"The Taken","description":"A tense and powerful police procedural set in the city of Durham where a murdered preacher may be more monstrous than his own killer.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThere's the lost. There's the missing. And there's the taken.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nShe asked me once if we had any secrets and I shook my head. 'No secrets between us ' she said. 'No ' I answered. 'Never ever.'\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a Durham hotel at dawn celebrated preacher Tristan Snow is murdered as he prays. None of the other guests - not even his daughter his wife or her sister - saw or heard anything.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut then again they all had a motive for murder.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDetective Inspector Erica Martin is confronted by secrets and lies lost in a case where nothing is what it seems.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWith no answers DI Martin is consumed by questions: Is anyone in this family innocent? When the victim might have been a monster - is there such a thing as justice? And does anyone deserve to die?\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPraise for Alice Clark-Platts:\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Had me on the edge of my sun lounger. Excellent plotting and a genuinely unguessable resolution to the mystery' Sophie Hannah\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Grabbed me from the first page and wouldn't let go. A compelling read beautifully written ... A tense captivating tale brilliantly told' Rachel Abbott\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'A gripping highly charged thriller' Ralph Fiennes\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'A brilliantly plotted and utterly gripping thriller' Emma Kavanagh\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Superb ... A very assured page-turning storm I read in one sitting' Stav Sherez\n\u003cbr\u003e\n'Intriguing and sinister with masterful plotting and tension' Mel Sherratt","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53938227020118,"sku":"9780718181109-V","price":5.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/alice-clark-platts-the-taken-9780718181109","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}