THE BOY IN THE REEDS an absolutely gripping Detective Jemima Huxley crime thriller

<p><strong>It's the perfect light for birdwatching. The sun's rays stretching out low in the early morning. At first she thinks the movement in the reeds is a bird. But then she sees - it's a little boy barefoot dirty and barely clothed.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Emerging from the undergrowth the little boy leads a woman by the hand through the marshy wetlands. She's bleeding. Badly. Terror etched on their faces.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Who are they running from?</em></p><p><br></p><p>When Detective Jemima Huxley gets the call from the hospital she learns three things:</p><p><br></p><p><strong>One:</strong> the little boy is too traumatized to speak.</p><p><strong>Two:</strong> the woman had been placed in a medically-induced coma.</p><p><strong>Three:</strong> the woman has been missing for eight years. The boy is too young to be her son.</p><p><br></p><p>Who are they? They've clearly escaped from something unimaginably horrific . . .</p><p><br></p><p><em>What if they weren't the only ones?</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Readers of Simon McCleave Rachel McLean Ann Cleeves Joy Ellis J.M. Dalgliesh and J.D. Kirk will love Gaynor Torrance's feisty and flawed protagonist DI Jemima Huxley.</strong></p>