A Room Full of Killers: A gripping crime thriller with twists you won’t see coming

A Room Full of Killers: A gripping crime thriller with twists you won’t see coming
Michael Wood

‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly GriffithsThe third book in Michael Wood’s darkly compelling crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Peter James, Lee Child and Karin Slaughter.Eight killers. One house. And the almost perfect murder…Starling House is home to some of the nation’s deadliest teenagers, still too young for prison.When the latest arrival is found brutally murdered, DCI Matilda Darke and her team investigate, and discover a prison manager falling apart and a sabotaged security system. Neither the staff nor the inmates can be trusted.The only person Matilda believes is innocent is facing prison for the rest of his life. With time running out, she must solve the unsolvable to save a young man from his fate, and find a murderer in a house full of killers…

A Room Full of Killers

MICHAEL WOOD

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Table of Contents

Cover (#ud061723b-6e5e-539e-8084-2a64ca5e1b01)

Title Page (#ue17d7371-fc18-520d-81c1-c822a438dea1)

Copyright (#ub0ed1e47-8076-53de-a384-411245ae6724)

Dedication (#ubd56b539-016f-57e3-9b09-c8a6b8109cf2)

Prologue (#u559dcda1-ccc0-5b49-afb5-dbf3548b166e)

Chapter One (#uc9e2ba70-ea06-5c1f-8088-5e9612b3082f)

Chapter Two (#u7c191ec2-8153-51d3-b593-1afa9e038ec6)

Chapter Three (#ub29b8d07-0956-506c-8dca-f62a0e2dae2a)

Callum Nixon (#u76a9741c-fc21-5a6c-a7c9-b15952d6b4d5)

Chapter Four (#u29d1f1dd-e5bf-55a9-80be-6b5344632128)

Lee Marriott (#ue4c8e028-2718-59be-9f90-47e79c093ff7)

Chapter Five (#ud807539a-7106-5546-bae8-0a79fe3e1856)

Chapter Six (#uc326eb17-e3b9-5e6b-bb0a-6ba9d3dbe04b)

Chapter Seven (#uc82c0dca-3905-59b9-90ca-02d5ca40c6c3)

Mark Parker (#ube84d869-e38e-5aa4-879b-99e60cfbc075)

Chapter Eight (#ubf323226-7248-5414-bbf3-9232703b80ac)

Chapter Nine (#ud8f64e44-fd76-5649-aa3c-2adc1e7c76f0)

Chapter Ten (#u8cb5692e-55f3-5234-a66c-7c34b02274a1)

Chapter Eleven (#u4e75f3f2-8728-5075-bfc9-0436b86084a4)

Craig Hodge (#u9a074be0-f4a5-5fbd-b9f1-4db438bbbeff)

Chapter Twelve (#u71849cb9-23fb-5366-8e15-b3de6a0383a5)

Chapter Thirteen (#u241329fa-7ef6-589f-a2da-5e2b8994cf34)