Hold My Hand

How long do you hunt for the missing?

A horrible vanishing act…

When a young Josie Masters sees a boy wearing a red football shirt, Dylan Jones, being taken by a clown at a carnival, she tries to alert the crowds. But it’s too late. Dylan has disappeared…

Thirty years later, Josie is working as a police officer in Bath. The remains of the body of a child have been found – complete with tatters of a torn red football shirt. Is it the boy she saw vanish in the clutches of the clown? Or is it someone else altogether?

And then another child disappears…

• Taps into the nation’s fear of clowns after the spate of sightings that gripped the country and America in 2016 – 17
• A key Avon title publishing with a stellar social media and marketing campaign
• Clowns are an ever-popular topic with a remake of Stephen King’s hugely successful IT movie set to hit screens in 2017, our book is well timed for the expected DVD release in early 2018
• Clowns have created their own sub-genre of fear (one I Hate Clowns Facebook page has nearly 400,000 likes).
• The fear of clowns is so common that it has earned its own term: coulrophobia.
• Perfect for fans of Peter James and Karin Slaughter, this is a crime novel with a chilling mystery at its heart

Competition: Missing Presumed Persons Unknown bring me back. MJ Arlidge Karin Slaughter Stuart MacBride James Oswald Peter James Susie Steiner