Clearing
‘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
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Maddie Friar is missing
And she isn’t the first.
Women have been going missing around the forest of Dean for decades. Residents usually dismiss the disappearances as runaways.
Maddie Friar's sister, Adele, is frantically searching but local police are no help.
Only forensic criminologist Laughton Rees might know the truth.
There is something dark lurking in this town. Something deadly.
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.