THE GIRLS UPSTAIRS

Discover the most explosive crime thriller this year. 

EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE WITH ONE TWIST AFTER ANOTHER. 

Emmy and her little sister Dani are sleeping upstairs. Their parents are downstairs in the kitchen. 

A knife is jammed to their mother’s throat. Their father has a stack of kitchen plates balanced on his back. 

The intruder rasps, ‘Don’t be breathing too hard now. I reckon smashing plates is the sort of noise that’ll wake a child. Have them coming down to see what’s going on. There can’t be witnesses . . .’ 

What Detective Maddie Ives will find in that nice family kitchen will horrify even this most hardened cop. 

And she knows the victim . . . 

Perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, Patricia Gibney or Mark Billingham. 

DON’T MISS THE MOST UNPUTDOWNABLE THRILLER YOU’LL READ THIS YEAR! 

READERS LOVE THE MADDIE IVES SERIES: 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An edgy, heart-stopping, action-packed crime thriller . . . Impossible to put down.’ Peggy B. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A fantastic, fast-paced, well-written book, with lashings of suspense and twists and turns.’ Wendy R. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I loved it! Lots of twists and turns and it kept you guessing.’ Emily C. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Wow, what a read . . . The twists in this tale come thick and fast.’ Claire B. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A brilliant, fast-paced book. The story was so gripping I couldn’t put it down at all.’ Michelle G. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘My attention was grabbed immediately . . . Highly recommended.’ Lesley L. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I don’t think I’ve ever been so chilled to the bone from the first page to the last.’ Breda A. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Plenty of surprises and twists which I didn’t see coming. One not to be missed.’ Carol S. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I read this book in one day. I could not put it down once I started.’ Paula L. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Completely engrossing to the last page.’ Martha B. 

THE DETECTIVE 
Acting Inspector Maddie Ives’s policing career has been anything but conventional. During the first few days of her training, she was plucked from the classroom and thrust straight into the world of undercover policing, forcing her to survive on her wits. Just as she was beginning to find her feet, she was once again wrenched out of her comfort zone with an enforced move into Major Crime with no previous experience of major investigations and no time to learn. Now, shaped, hardened — and maybe damaged — by the constant need to adapt to new surroundings, Maddie feels she may have finally found her place, with Harry Blaker as her friend and mentor and Vince Arnold as her lover. But Maddie’s relationship with a more junior colleague is fraught with difficulties. And if experience has taught her nothing else, any and all of it can be thrown back up in the air at a moment’s notice. 

THE AUTHOR 
Charlie Gallagher was a serving UK police officer for more than ten years, starting as a front-line response officer, then as a member of a specialist tactical team and as a detective investigating serious offences. 

ALSO BY CHARLIE GALLAGHER 
MADDIE IVES 
Book 1: HE IS WATCHING YOU 
Book 2: HE WILL KILL YOU 
Book 3: HE WILL FIND YOU 
Book 4: HE KNOWS YOUR SECRETS 
Book 5: HE WILL GET YOU 
Book 6: THE DEADLY HOUSES 
Book 7: LAST ONE ALIVE 
Book 8: THE GIRL UNDER THE FLOOR
Book 9: THE GIRLS UPSTAIRS