The Last Girl

She can't scream. She can't call for help. And time is running out.

Clem Vallins thought he'd seen the worst Watersmeet had to offer. He was wrong.

When fifteen-year-old Fiona Crumb vanishes from her home in the dead of night, Clem and his tenacious young constable Effie Shorrock have just hours to find her. Fiona has been mute since birth — and someone is counting on that.

Then a chilling phone call arrives at the station. It's a girl's voice, strange and otherworldly: "You've got one day to find her. Because tomorrow, she'll be dead."

The call traces deep into the wilderness, miles from the nearest road. What Clem and Effie discover out there will defy everything they thought they knew: a hidden community frozen in time, a centuries-old vendetta against one family's bloodline, and a terrifying ritual that has claimed victims for nearly three hundred years.

From the creator of The River Man comes a heart-pounding mystery that begins as a missing persons case and descends into something far darker, where folk horror meets pulse-racing thriller, and the sins of the past refuse to stay buried.