The Number One bestselling crime thriller from the
award-winning Stuart MacBride. A bloody, brilliant and
brutal story of murder, kidnap and revenge. Detective
Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret! Five years ago
his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her
thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived:
home-made, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front --
Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every
year another card: each one worse than the last. The
tabloids call him 'The Birthday Boy'. He's been snatching
girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their
thirteenth birthday, sending the families his home-made
cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to
death. But Ash hasn't told anyone about Rebecca's birthday
cards -- they all think she's just run away from home --
because if anyone finds out, he'll be taken off the
investigation. And he's sacrificed too much to give up
before his daughter's killer gets what he deserves!