Watt, Holly – The Bell Bookshop

The end of the game

Emma — Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

‘Addictive, exciting and impossible to put down’ – Ellery Lloyd‘I loved this … Watt’s unstoppable heroine, and the shadowy worlds she navigates, are perfectly realised and terrifyingly plausible’ – Katherine Faulkner _______________Only a journalist goes where even the police fear to tread….Casey Benedict is the globe-trotting star reporter at London paper The Post, is tenacious, fearless, inventive – and still in recovery after her last major story jeopardised her life, and all of those close to her.Invited to spend the day at the races, she sees a man being hunted across the racecourse. A horrified Casey intervenes to save his life – and in doing so finds herself face to face with her next major investigation. From London to Budapest, from snowy mountain retreats to glitzy Mediterranean coastal resorts, Casey is on a desperate hunt to find the person behind the shadowy organisations responsible and expose them to the public before anyone else’s lives are lost._______________Readers say:‘Her best yet’ ‘Really has it all, outstanding characters and great suspense’ ‘Fascinating and exciting’

The Dead Line

Emma — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

A SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEARTHE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTHLONGLISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD ‘Vivid and packed with journalistic lore… Mixing pulsating derring-do with painstaking detective work’ Sunday Times A Bangladeshi camp. A British ambassador. A Harley Street doctor.Investigative journalist Casey Benedict is used to working on stories that will take her from the bottom to the top of society – stories with a huge human cost. And her latest case is no different.A frantic message is found hidden in clothes manufactured for the British high street. They take the girls? Casey and her team at the Post know they are on the brink of a major exposé but identifying the factories in which the clothes have been made is one challenge, following the trail of those taken is another. Their attempts to find the girls will take Casey from her London newsroom across the world and into the very heart of families who will be destroyed if what she uncovers is ever revealed.The Dead Line is the second book by Holly Watt featuring Casey Benedict.The Hunt and the Kill, the third in the Casey Benedict series, is out now.