The Lost - Paperback

by Simon Beckett (Author)

A London detective makes a gruesome discovery that could solve the riddle of his son's disappearance in this crime thriller series debut.

Det. Sgt. Jonah Colley of the Metropolitan firearms unit has been wracked with guilt for the past ten years, ever since his son went missing under his care. The tragedy broke up his marriage and left him estranged from his best friend, Det. Sgt. Gavin McKinney. But now Gavin calls him out of the blue. Desperate for help, he needs Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay.

Jonah arrives to a horrifying crime scene where Gavin was brutally attacked and left for dead. As the only survivor, he is also a person of interest. But even while under suspicion himself, Jonah is determined to find out what happened. Uncovering a network of secrets and lies about the people he thought he knew, he's forced to question what really happened all those years ago.

The Lost is the first book in the Jonah Colley thrillers by the award-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of the David Hunter series.

Author Biography

Simon Beckett is the No.1 International Bestselling author of the David Hunter series. His books have been translated into twenty-nine languages, appeared in the Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller lists and sold over ten million copies worldwide. A former freelance journalist who has written for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday, and The Observer, the inspiration for the first David Hunter novel came after a visit to the world-renowned Body Farm in Tennessee introduced him to the work of forensic anthropologists.

As well as co-winning the Ripper Award in 2018/19, the largest European crime prize, Simon has won the Raymond Chandler Society's 'Marlowe' Award and been short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger, CWA Dagger in the Library and Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year.

In addition to the six David Hunter titles, the most recent of which is The Scent of Death, he has written five standalone novels, one of which, Where There's Smoke, was adapted into a major ITV two-part drama.