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The Black Highway, July 2025
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Dark Objects, July 2023
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The Girl from the Ashes, July 2023
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Dark Objects, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Dark Objects, May 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Boy Who Saw, March 2018
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The Boy Who Saw, July 2017
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The Searcher, October 2015
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The Tower, June 2014
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Tower, June 2013
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The Key, June 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Sanctus, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book

DARK OBJECTS
By: Simon Toyne

A Novel

Laughton Rees #1
William Morrow
July 2022
On Sale: July 12, 2022
Featuring: Laughton Rees
400 pages
ISBN: 0062329790
EAN: 9780062329790
Kindle: B07H4TG91Y
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Psychological

Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy.

How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn’t exist?

A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records, neither of them exists.

The only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman’s body, including a set of keys and a book called How to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees—a book that appears to have helped the killer forensically cleanse the crime scene.

Laughton Rees is an academic who doesn’t usually work live cases after the brutal murder of her mother as a teen left her traumatized and emotionally scarred. But the presence of her book at this scene draws her unwillingly into the high-profile investigation and media circus that springs up around it. As the dark objects found beside the body lead her closer to the victim’s identity, a dangerous threat to Laughton and her daughter emerges, as well as painful memories of her past related to the man she has always blamed for her mother’s death: John Rees, Laughton’s father, the current Metropolitan Chief Commissioner and a man she has not spoken to in twenty years.

Laughton’s family was destroyed once and she built herself a new one. Now, she has to face her darkest fears and help catch a killer before this one is destroyed too.