Scared to Death: A gripping crime thriller you won’t be able to put down

Scared to Death: A gripping crime thriller you won’t be able to put down
Kate Medina

Everyone is afraid. But some fears can kill you.A gripping new thriller featuring a brilliantly complex psychologist, Dr Jessie Flynn, who struggles with a dark past. Perfect for fans of Nicci French and Val McDermid.Sometimes you should be frightened of the dark…A baby is abandoned in the middle of the night. DI Bobby ‘Marilyn’ Simmons suspects the father is planning to take his own life following the violent suicide of his eldest son Danny a year earlier.Meanwhile an investigation begins into the murder of trainee soldier Stephen Foster. Just sixteen years old, he has been stabbed in the neck and left to die in the woods.When psychologist Dr Jessie Flynn sees connections between the deaths of Stephen and Danny, she fears a third traumatized young man faces the same fate…

KATE MEDINA

Scared to Death

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Dedication (#uded5e52e-ea5d-5299-b9a9-89810508eba5)

For my mother, Pamela Taylor, with love

The Story of the Three Bears (#uded5e52e-ea5d-5299-b9a9-89810508eba5)

ONCE upon a time there were Three Bears, who lived together in a house of their own in a wood. One of them was a Little, Small, Wee Bear, and one was a Middle-Sized Bear, and the other was a Great, Huge Bear.

Robert Southey, 1774–1843

Table of Contents

Cover (#u392f871c-7a59-58ab-a19f-c49d60e494f7)

Title Page (#ud81328eb-81f0-5ce4-860e-51356879be30)

Copyright (#uc7d5aa0f-63e0-54c7-b207-8dc6383f6f65)

Dedication (#u2420c8ba-453e-5010-a263-9ab8369ab694)

The Story of the Three Bears (#u4943115d-78f4-5df7-a2a4-a121cd30f4ea)

Chapter 1 (#u4705d400-aa4c-5901-b718-d1a8f01f2a08)

Chapter 2 (#u19abbd4e-d173-5e72-bde5-b29eb424be0a)

Chapter 3 (#u9aeb0028-77b3-5e45-8f5d-bc8e9329987e)

Chapter 4 (#udb3d55ce-5b4f-5d97-960e-986997dc4873)

Chapter 5 (#u9d7210e3-d3eb-5e62-9b68-9ea13c4e2b71)

Chapter 6 (#ud68f94dd-9231-5bf3-9f8a-49c8fdaf93dc)

Chapter 7 (#u649863ec-aa29-5fbf-982d-8629ec482cb3)

Chapter 8 (#ufd6e514a-4b08-5015-bc5d-64a4cc3168b2)

Chapter 9 (#u7ce3127e-ecf6-5266-b363-87f852615cb6)

Chapter 10 (#udd6b39b5-93a3-5e46-9fc8-d2c3ee10ab8f)

Chapter 11 (#ue0530fae-3220-5291-9fee-88e942e8ec35)

Chapter 12 (#u83fd10f6-f8e8-5164-9a96-0a236e7c058c)

Chapter 13 (#u97766709-f11d-52b7-8a03-2ed294408c71)

Chapter 14 (#uf209bff8-afdd-577a-af50-6b53ef6d8e3a)

Chapter 15 (#u6c84597b-6fd9-5621-8281-4395bea9fc21)

Chapter 16 (#u966266e6-437c-5696-a3b9-18a2110d9a3d)

Chapter 17 (#u81f2cb84-e6ef-5db0-ac94-3f6842be770f)

Chapter 18 (#u7108c2a2-eaad-5c6f-8bed-a65bdeea2db8)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)