Blood Traces
About this audiobook
*Previously published as The Clearing in 2023*
From the author of the Sanctus series comes a brilliant new serial killer thriller featuring forensic specialist Dr Laughton Rees and Detective Inspector Tannahill Khan‘The ending is genuinely one of the most jaw-dropping ones I’ve read in a long time. Absolutely superb.’ M.W. Craven
‘Unnerved me to my core’ Sam Holland
‘Scared the bloody daylights out of me. The very definition of haunting’ Helen Fields
‘In the spirit of Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta... Everything here suggests that Rees merits a long series run.’ Publisher’s Weekly
Maddie Friar is missing
And she isn’t the first
Women have been going missing around the forest of Dean for decades. Residents dismiss the disappearances as runaways. Her sister, Adele is frantically searching, and local police are no help. But Forensic criminologist Laughton Rees knows the truth.
There is something dark lurking in this town. Something Deadly.
About the author
Simon Toyne is the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy: Sanctus, The Key and The Tower. He wrote Sanctus after quitting his job as a TV executive to focus on writing. It was the biggest-selling debut thriller of 2011 in the UK and an international bestseller. His books have been translated into 27 languages and published in over 50 countries. Dark Objects is the first book in a new series featuring forensic criminologist Laughton Rees and DCI Tannahill Khan. Simon lives with his family in Brighton and the South of France.
