Tell Tale

Tom Harper has built a career telling other people’s darkest stories. A former detective turned true-crime sensation, he is used to staring evil in the face from a safe distance.

But after a sold-out event in his home city of Liverpool, Tom vanishes. When he wakes in a locked cellar, chained to the floor, he finds himself face to face with a man who claims to be a serial killer known only as the Dark Angel. A man who doesn’t want ransom, revenge or escape.

What he wants is far more terrifying: to be understood. As the killer begins to unravel the truth about his crimes, Tom is forced into a nightmare of confession, manipulation and murder. And when long-buried secrets about Tom’s own past begin to surface, he realises this is no random abduction…