Beneath the surface

THE SECOND TOM REYNOLDS MYSTERY FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIE'Fiendishly clever' Irish Sunday IndependentDid I know it would come to this?

There is no shot at redemption. I am going to die. The gun is in my eye-line as the second bullet is fired.

That's the one that kills me. Late at night, two powerful men meet in a secret location to discuss a long nurtured plan about to come to fruition.

One is desperate to know there is nothing standing in their way - the other assures him everything is taken care of.

Hours later, a high-ranking government official called Ryan Finnegan is brutally slain in the most secure building in Ireland - Leinster House, the seat of parliament.

Inspector Tom Reynolds and his team are called in to uncover the truth behind the murder. At first, all the evidence hints at a politically motivated crime, until a surprise discovery takes the investigation in a dramatically different direction.

Suddenly the motive for murder has got a lot more personal. . . but who benefits the most from Ryan's death?'Engrossing' Sunday TimesNobody was supposed to get out alive. On a Dublin city street, packed with afternoon shoppers, a young woman appears, naked, traumatised and bearing burn marks. Tom Reynolds, now Chief Superintendent, is no longer head of the murder squad.

But when it transpires the woman escaped from a house fire started deliberately and that there are more victims, Tom is sucked in.

What begins as a straightforward case of arson, soon becomes something much more sinister. The people in that house never wanted to be there in the first place.

Now more of them are missing. Tom is faced with a ticking clock as he tries to locate the others and as he does, a terrifying spider's web of domestic and international crime unfolds. And not everybody will survive the fallout. PRAISE FOR JO SPAIN'S TOM REYNOLDS SERIES'A stunning read' Woman's Way'Refreshing and full of twists' Express'Clever, pacey, compulsive' Sunday Mirror'Expertly crafted, deeply immersive and timely' Irish Independent