Trial Under Fire Read online

  If, however, you want the full story of what happened to Charlie after she left the Army, and how she found her way into close protection, you’ll want to start at the beginning, with KILLER INSTINCT: #1, or CHARLIE FOX: THE EARLY YEARS eBoxset #1.

  the Lakes Crime Thriller trilogy

  DANCING ON THE GRAVE: #1 A sniper with a mission, a CSI with something to prove, a young cop with nothing to lose, and a teenage girl with a terrifying obsession. The calm of the English Lake District is about to be shattered.

  BONES IN THE RIVER: #2 Driving on a country road, late at night, you hit a child. There are no witnesses. You have everything to lose. What do you do?

  standalone crime thrillers

  THE BLOOD WHISPERER Six years ago CSI Kelly Jacks woke next to a butchered body with the knife in her hands and no memory of what happened. She trusted the evidence would prove her innocent. It didn’t. Is history now repeating itself?

  AN ITALIAN JOB (with John Lawton) Former soldiers Gina and Jack are about to discover that love is far deadlier the second time around.

  NEW: the Blake & Byron crime series

  THE LAST TIME SHE DIED (Oct 2021) She came back on the day of her father’s funeral, ten years after she vanished. But she can’t be who she says she is. Because we killed her. Didn’t we?

  Dedication

  for all those who were there

  * * *

  First published in Great Britain 2021

  by

  ZACE

  Registered UK Office:

  Kemp House, 160 City Road, London EC1V 2NX

  [email protected]

  Copyright © Zoë Sharp 2021

  The moral right of the author has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the author, nor otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than in which it is published.

  ISBN-13: 978-1-909344-41-9

  All characters and events in this novel, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

  Contents

  Preface

  Also by Zoë Sharp

  Author’s Note

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Epilogue

  Afterword

  About Zoë Sharp

  Acknowledgements

  The stories so far…