Tower (London)

An intricate, gritty and believable crime novel about a mother and daughter in peril - and two police officers who set out to save them. October 1987: the morning after the Great Storm. Fifteen-year-old Tania Mills walks out her front door and disappears. Twenty-seven years later her mother still prays for her return. DS Sarah Collins in the Met's Homicide Command is determined to find out what happened, but is soon pulled into a shocking new case and must once again work with a troubled young police officer from her past, Lizzie Griffiths. PC Lizzie Griffiths, now a training detective, is working in the Domestic Violence Unit, known by cops as the 'murder prevention squad'. Called to an incident of domestic violence, she encounters a vicious, volatile man - and a woman too frightened to ask for help. Soon Lizzie finds herself drawn into the centre of the investigation as she fights to protect a mother and daughter in peril. As both cases unfold, Sarah and Lizzie must survive the dangerous territory where love and violence meet.

The fourth novel in Kate London's gripping police procedural series, now a major ITV drama. When Ryan Kennedy is imprisoned for the murder of a police officer, he knows what he has to do. Keep his mouth shut about who he was working for, keep his head down, and rely on his youth to keep his sentence short. When he gets out, he'll be rewarded. Following the death in the line of duty of her colleague, DI Keiran Shaw, DS Sarah Collins has left the Met for a quieter life in the countryside. But when the mother of a missing teenager begs her for help, she finds herself drawn into a much bigger investigation, one that leads her right back to London, her ex-colleagues Lizzy Griffiths and Steve Bradshaw, and Ryan Kennedy, the kid who shot Kieran. The powerful fourth instalment of The Tower explores the devastation that organized drug-running gangs can wreak on young lives. It asks who deserves to be saved - and whether saving them is even possible...