LINDSAY SCOTT
BLOOD BETWEEN US
Book One in the New Forest Crime Drama Series
How far would you go to protect your brother when the truth could destroy everything?
When a local woman is left for dead in a hit-and-run, New Forest Chronicle journalist Hep Anderssen is determined to uncover the truth. But the deeper she digs, the closer the trail leads to home and the erratic behaviour of her older brother Bill. Has he made her an unwitting accomplice to a terrible crime?
As the community demands justice and her newspaper offers a reward, Hep finds herself torn between loyalty to her family, her moral duty to reveal the truth, and the betrayal that could shatter everything she holds dear.
In this gripping crime drama set against the brooding backdrop of the New Forest, sibling bonds are tested by dark revelations. How far will Hep go to protect her brother—and herself?
MEET HEPZIBAH
You wouldn’t notice Hep Anderssen first in a room of two people and that’s how she likes it. She’s spent her life trying to escape the name that suggests glamour and flamboyance when she prefers to listen and observe. But life moves on, things change. How long will she be happy staying in the shadows?
The New Forest Crime Drama series is about Hep, a journalist on the New Forest Chronicle, who uses her unrivalled knowledge of the local area and its people, to solve crimes the police have overlooked.
COMING SOON
BODY ON THE TIDE
Book Two in the New Forest Crime Drama series
Body on the Tide – In the New Forest, truth drifts just below the surface.
When Ian Haines's body is pulled from the Lymington River after being missing for two weeks, the official verdict is swift: accidental death. No evidence of foul play, no suicide note—case closed.
But New Forest Chronicle journalist Hep Anderssen isn't ready to let her old friend's story end there. Ian was part of her tight-knit college circle, and the memories of their friendship compel her to find about why he’d died in such tragic circumstances. Driven by loyalty to the man she once knew, Hep uncovers passionate secrets and bitter tensions in Ian’s life – have they had deadly consequences?
This second compelling mystery set in the atmospheric landscape of the New Forest, reminds us that the past is never truly gone and sometimes it demands justice.
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