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The Black Highway, July 2026
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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
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Dark Objects, May 2022
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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
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The Tower, June 2013
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The Key, June 2012
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Sanctus, September 2011
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THE BLACK HIGHWAY
By: Simon Toyne

A Gripping Summer Thriller of Family Secrets, International Drug Trafficking, and a Mother's Fight to Protect Her Daughter Amidst a ... for Summer ReadingA Gripping Summer Thriller of Family Secrets, International Drug Trafficking, and a Mother's Fight to

Laughton Rees #3
William Morrow
July 2025
On Sale: June 24, 2025
Featuring: Shelby Facer; Laughton Rees
368 pages
ISBN: 0062329855
EAN: 9780062329851
Kindle: B0DHV39917
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Laughton Rees is back in the latest novel from the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy—this time, with a case that hits uncomfortably close to home and threatens the thing Laughton values most: her daughter.

Forensic specialist Laughton Rees is not ashamed of her checkered past—after all, her youthful indiscretions led to the birth of her daughter Gracie, the person she loves most in the world—but when Gracie’s father unexpectedly turns up in their lives again, Laughton is automatically wary.

Shelby Facer is a dangerous man, formerly imprisoned for his involvement in an international drug trafficking ring, and no matter what Laughton once felt for him, she doesn’t want him anywhere near Gracie. But when Shelby claims that he has information about an especially difficult murder case she is working, she can’t turn him down.

A body with no head or hands has recently turned up in the river Thames, and the police are at a loss until Shelby identifies the man. The victim was part of a highly secretive smuggling ring Shelby was involved with during his and Laughton’s youth—which Laughton’s father, former commissioner for the Metropolitan police, was investigating before he died.

Laughton throws herself into her father’s old files to try to trace the connections between past and present, but as she and DCI Tannahill Khan circle closer to the truth, the case becomes dangerously personal. When another body turns up, mutilated just like the first, the victim is no stranger to Laughton. She’ll have to face the darkest parts of her past to find the man behind the murders—before he takes away everything she loves.