She s trying to tell you if only you d listen
About to break the news to his wife, Diane, that he s infertile, criminology expert, Harper Penn, gets a call to say she s been rushed to hospital with a miscarriage. Five days later, when Diane fails to return from the village shop, police think she must have taken off with a secret lover, but Harper is convinced the online messages are not from her.
In the same Hampshire village, plucky seven-year-old Clara has retreated into a make-believe world after an accident. Then she, too, goes missing.
As Harper sets out on a desperate quest to find them both, he has no idea what he s up against. Could the threat be closer than he thinks? And is there a hidden message in Clara s fairy tales? DARK PLACE TO HIDE is a chilling psychological mystery with a cold-blooded deviant lurking at the core.