A prison guard teams up with an ex-detective inmate to solve a brutal murder in this thrilling mystery for fans of Rachel Abbott, Ed James, and Joy Ellis.Ariadne Teddington is surrounded by people who lie, but that is to be expected when you work in prison where every man claims to be innocent.Charlie Bell, an ex-police detective, now finds himself in that prison serving time for murder after taking the law into his own hands.Now, when a fellow inmate is killed Charlie is asked to investigate the case from the inside. Soon he finds himself working with Ariadne, but she is a guard, he is an inmate and some lines should never be crossed . . . Can two people on different sides of the law come together to solve the case? And do the answers lie closer to home than anyone ever imagined?Praise for Locked Up "Tense and claustrophobic, with a spine-chilling denouement!" —Caro Ramsay, author of the Anderson and...

Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of her, she shakes her head, feeling she hasn't the heart or the strength to go on. As she teeters on the brink of a nervous breakdown, a phone call summons ghosts from the past. She discovers that one of the family is dead and the others need her help. Martha returns and when she comes face to face with the evil, psychotic Jackser, she can no longer suppress the nightmares of her childhood. A suicide attempt sees her admitted to the 'mad house', where a hunger strike takes her even nearer to death. But finally she sees a chink of light at the end of the tunnel. Could love in an unexpected form pull her back from the brink?