Walk-Up Girl

<h3><strong>A cold case buried by power. A woman erased by history. And a forensic profiler who refuses to let her die forgotten.</strong></h3><p></p><p>When Dr. Charlie Morrow agrees to look into the decades-old murder of Ginger Rae-a beloved Soho walk-up girl whose death was dismissed and quietly buried-she expects a dead end. What she finds instead is a live fuse.</p><p></p><p>Ginger Rae wasn't just a sex worker. She was a fighter an activist a protector of queer youth and immigrant girls in 1990s London. And someone wanted her gone. Someone with enough money influence and police cooperation to make the case disappear.</p><p></p><p>As Charlie digs deeper old Soho stirs with whispers: corrupt councilmen a powerful developer with a vicious moral crusade and a son imprisoned by his own secrets. The deeper she ventures the more she realizes Ginger Rae's story was rewritten by the powerful-and Charlie might be the first person in thirty years willing to tell it right.</p><p></p><p><strong>But corruption has a long memory.</strong> And those who silenced Ginger Rae once are willing to do so again.</p><p></p><p>With the help of her loyal dog Moose two battle-scarred detectives and a literary historian who refuses to let Soho's ghosts fade Charlie races to expose every layer of corruption-past and present. The truth will break families topple legacies and threaten Charlie's own fragile peace.</p><p></p><p><strong>Some stories refuse to stay buried. </strong>And Charlie Morrow will make sure Ginger Rae's is one of them.</p><p></p><p>Perfect for readers of <strong>Tana French</strong> <strong>Ann Cleeves</strong> and <strong>Val McDermid</strong> this atmospheric psychological crime novel blends emotional depth queer history and unflinching suspense into a story about whose lives get remembered-and whose are erased.</p>