The Hit: A gripping, gritty thriller that will have you hooked from the first page! Rosie Gilmour 9
By (Author) Anna Smith
Quercus Publishing
Quercus Publishing
10th October 2017
5th October 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
823.92
Paperback
416
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 30mm
320g
'The real deal . . . Rosie Gilmour is a captivating character who drags the reader along at breakneck speed' Daily Express
A money-laundering accountant disappears in Romania. The hitman hired to disappear him is found dead in a Glasgow flat. And the owner of the flat, the accountant's widow, claims she knows nothing about it.Crime reporter Rosie Gilmour isn't convinced by Helen Lewis's innocent facade - she is convinced Helen was the one who ordered the hit on her husband, and she's going to prove it. But when she discovers that Helen's husband worked for a ring of gangsters selling babies from Romanian orphanages, her focus shifts. Now she has two sets of criminals to bring to justice - she'd better pray they don't catch up with her first.A nail-biting thriller for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Dreda Say Mitchell and Jessie KeaneAnna Smith is the real deal . . . Rosie Gilmour is a captivating character who drags the reader along at breakneck speed - Daily Express
Smith develops this multi-stranded story at a furious pace, with no spare words and no fillers . . . But it is the author's journalistic ability, her eye for observing and recording even the most horrific or depressing detail that makes this such a great read - Crime ReviewAnna Smith has been a journalist for over twenty years and is a former chief reporter for the Daily Record in Glasgow. She has covered wars across the world as well as major investigations and news stories from Dunblane to Kosovo to 9/11. Anna spends her time between Lanarkshire and Dingle in the west of Ireland, as well as in Spain to escape the British weather.