Devil's Table

THE GRIPPINGLOCKED-ISLAND MYSTERY # 5 An absolute master of pace, plotting and characterELLY GRIFFITHS When a young child goes missing on the Isles of Scilly, the community rushes to help DI Ben Kitto and his team with the search. Her twin brother, Ethan, was there when she was taken. But the shocking events of her disappearance have rendered him mute. Another person on the island knows exactly where the girl is. Someone with a deep-seated anger for Jades family. To find the truth, Kitto must investigate the lives of the people he has known all of his life. People he trusts and respects. And he must do it quickly - because it isnt long until a body is found . . .PRAISE FOR KATE RHODES: ';Gripping, clever and impossible to put down. I've been a Kate Rhodes fan for years and in Ben Kitto she has created a detective who is just as complex and compelling as Kate's elegant plotting and stunning prose. The claustrophobia and paranoia of the island are so brilliant evoked, I could almost feel the tide encroaching as time ran out to find the killerERIN KELLY ';Absorbing and complex,Hell Baykept me guessinguntil the final pages'RACHEL ABBOTT A vividly realised protagonistwhose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storylineSOPHIE HANNAH Beautifully written and expertly plotted; this is a masterclassGUARDIAN Expertly weaves a sense of place and character into a tense and intriguing storyMETRO Rhodes doesa superb job of balancing a portrayal of a tiny community oppressed by secretswith an uplifting evocation of settingJake Kerridge,SUNDAY EXPRESS ';The whole book tingles with tension. I hope it does for the Scilly Isles what Ann Cleeves did for ShetlandMEL MCGRATH I love reading Kates booksin the way I love reading Sophie Hannah a poet writing crime fiction is a great thing . . . It is at once a locked-room mystery, a story of the returning hero, and an examination of fear and abuse.It has the air of a twenty-first century Agatha ChristieJULIA CROUCH