My hand goes around his neck as I pull him close. Then I push. The splash resonates around the silent canal, but he never makes a sound. There isn't a serial killer stalking the canals of Detective Sergeant Carrie Flynn's hometown of Manchester. That's what the police tell the local community, but Carrie knows that isn't true. Six years, a dozen victims...Carrie spends every night alone in her flat, going back over the hundreds of files, looking for...

When the body of pregnant, fifteen-year-old Hope Lacey is discovered in a churchyard on Christmas morning, the community is shocked, but unsurprised. For Hope lived in The Home, the residence of three young girls, whose violent and disturbing pasts have seen them cloistered away. As a police investigation gets underway, the lives of Hope, Lara and Annie are examined, and the staff who work at the home are interviewed, leading to shocking and distressing...

For Sara Keane, it was supposed to be a second chance. A new country. A new house. A new beginning with her husband Damien. Then came the knock on the door. Elderly Mary Jackson can't understand why Sara and her husband are living in her home. She remembers the fire, and the house burning down. But she also remembers the children. The children who need her, who she must protect. 'The children will find you,' she tells Sara, because Mary knows she...