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A return train ticket sparks a chilling murder investigation in this Glasgow-based police procedural. Perfect for fans of Happy Valley and Dept. Q.  \nWhen Holly Campbell’s body is found on the train tracks at Glasgow Central, police quickly rule it a suicide.  \nShe’d had a troubled past. She’d tried before. But Sergeant May Mackay can’t let one detail go. If Holly never wanted to come home, why did she buy a return ticket?  \nDriven by her own haunting loss and a promise to Holly’s grieving mother, May is determined to solve the mystery. But the deeper she digs, the more sinister the truth becomes.  \nSomeone is hiding a terrible secret. And they’ll do whatever it takes to keep it buried.  \nEven if it means silencing May for good    \n08/01/2026 9781529946918  \n£16.99  \nRoyal Hardback  \nCRIME & MYSTERY  \nEva Macrae was born in Glasgow, and is a former newspaper photographer turned crime author. She’s covered stories including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War, in addition to many high-profile murder cases, which have had an influence on her popular Detective Shona Oliver police procedural series that Eva writes under her real name, Lynne McEwan. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing programme and splits her time between Lincolnshire and Scotland.  \nThe First Time I Saw Him  \nLAURA DAVE  \nThe long-awaited follow-up to the global bestselling The Last Thing He Told Me, soon to be a major series on Apple TV+ (coming 2026) .  \n‘GET OUT OF THE HOUSE. NOW.’  \nA text from an unknown number. It’s from Owen, Hannah’s husband, who left her and his daughter Bailey without warning five years ago, and hasn’t been seen since.  \nHannah saw him the previous evening though, and although they didn’t even acknowledge each other, she knows she and Bailey are in danger. And that they need to run.  \nBut why has Owen come back now?  \nAs Hannah drives north up the Californian coast, along minor roads where she and Bailey won’t be seen, she wrestles with this question as well as who can be hunting them.  \nFinally they come to an airport to board a plane to Paris, where Hannah has been told someone is waiting for them. Paris, a special city where Hannah and Owen had honeymooned; where she hopes she and Bailey will be safe;  \nand where her and Owen’s enemies are plotting their revenge    \nLaura Dave is the global No. 1 bestselling author of several novels, including The Last Thing He Told Me and Eight Hundred Grapes. Her novels have been translated into thirty-eight languages, and six of them, including The Night We Lost Him , have been optioned for film and television. 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