No Love Lost

A gripping 20-year British cold case mystery featuring a vanished mother, a dark family secret, and an amateur detective who becomes the target.

Are family secrets best left unspoken?

One Friday afternoon, twenty years ago, Helen Cassidy left her office and never returned. Did she escape an abusive husband — or was she abducted and murdered?

Now Mandy Paige wants environmental health officer Kent Fisher to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby. With only a photograph of a woman he once knew, Kent agrees, unaware of the secrets he might disturb.

As his inquiries dig deeper into Helen's disappearance, people connected to her die under suspicious circumstances.

When his prime suspect dies, Kent realises he's not the one pursuing the killer.

The killer's pursuing him.

Set in the atmospheric Downland landscape of Sussex, No Love Lost is the sixth instalment in the acclaimed British Downland Murder Mystery series. Expertly blending multi-layered family secrets with modern crime humour, this intense psychological whodunit is essential reading for fans of Elly Griffiths' character-driven procedurals, Ann Cleeves' coastal mysteries, and The Thursday Murder Club.

Features Kent's ongoing dedication to his local animal sanctuary and his loyal Westie sidekick, Columbo.

A traditional British murder mystery featuring a long-buried disappearance, deadly secrets, and an investigator determined to uncover the truth.