Her Secret Past

<p><strong>Jean Angus pours the last of the lukewarm tea into her chipped cup shivering as she looks outside into the dark night. Her eyes are drawn to a slow movement not far from her cosy farmhouse. She’s not expecting visitors. And as the back door opens with a bang she doesn’t even have time to shout for help.</strong><br /><br />On a dark winter night the bodies of <strong>Malcolm and Jean Angus</strong> lie cold and still in a pool of blood in their kitchen. <strong>Detective Jessie Blake</strong> is called in to find out what happened to the reclusive pair.<br /><br />Searching the couple’s property Jessie learns about a vicious dispute with a nearby landowner <strong>Rachel Ferguson</strong> and when Jessie looks into Rachel further she doesn’t expect what comes up. Rachel isn’t the person everyone thinks she is and a previous murder conviction just made her Jessie’s prime suspect.<br /><br />The small Perthshire town begins to gossip about the double murder and Jessie’s own past comes back to haunt her when her abusive ex-husband begins to interfere in her new life. As the town starts a witch hunt against Rachel Jessie is under pressure to find out what really happened in the farmhouse that night. Because if it isn’t Rachel then who is the murderer living among them waiting to kill again?<br /><br /><strong>If you like LJ Ross Val McDermid and Helen H. Durrant you’ll love this addictive new crime thriller from Kerry Watts. <em>Her Secret Past</em> will have you hooked from the start!</strong><br /> </p><p>What readers are saying about Kerry Watts:</p><p><br />????? ‘<strong>OMG this book was sooooo good</strong>… I couldn’t wait to find out what happened and devoured each page like it was the last. <strong>I couldn’t sleep until I found out what was going on. The ending blew my mind</strong>.’ Goodreads reviewer<br /><br />????? ‘<strong>What an amazing book</strong>. <strong>I couldn’t put it down.</strong> Had my attention from start to finish. <strong>Plenty of twists and turns.</strong> Just when I thought I had figured it out I was proven wrong.’ Goodreads reviewer<br /><br />????? ‘This is the kind of story where you could easily have pulled the sofa I was sitting on from underneath me and I would not have noticed… <strong>A great story that made your head spin</strong>.’ Goodreads reviewer<br /><br />????? ‘<strong>Wow! </strong>I legitimately feel like I have had the stuffing knocked out of me as <strong>this book packs a punch</strong>. I simply couldn’t tear myself away and read it a single afternoon. <strong>I was completely engrossed</strong>.’ <em>Avid Readers Retreat</em></p>