Hold My Hand: The addictive new crime thriller that you won’t be able to put down in 2018

Hold My Hand: The addictive new crime thriller that you won’t be able to put down in 2018
M.J. Ford

‘Superb, gritty and realistic’ MEL SHERRATT, million copy bestsellerHow long do you hunt for the missing?A horrible vanishing act…When a young Josie Masters sees a boy wearing a red football shirt, Dylan Jones, being taken by a clown at a carnival, she tries to alert the crowds. But it’s too late. Dylan has disappeared…Thirty years later, Josie is working as a police officer in Bath. The remains of the body of a child have been found – complete with tatters of a torn red football shirt. Is it the boy she saw vanish in the clutches of the clown? Or is it someone else altogether?And then another child disappears…

M.J. FORD

Hold My Hand

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Table of Contents

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Title Page (#ubde195c9-fb76-5fe5-8859-66d5721e64af)

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Yarnton, Near Oxford, July 26th, 1987 (#u5b30d72e-dd56-554d-8a80-8ff9b03817ff)

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Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

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