Paper Girls

THE NUMBER ONE AMAZON BESTSELLER!The one case he couldn't crack was the one that finally broke him.Haunted by his inability to track down and save his missing wife, DCI Robert Kett leaves the Metropolitan Police behind and moves to Norwich with his three young children, hoping to heal their broken family.But his newfound peace doesn’t last. Two newspaper delivery girls have gone missing in the city, and the clues point to a serial kidnapper.Kett is dragged into the centre of one of the darkest cases of his career—a case that pits him head to head against a horrifying evil.And a case that might uncover the terrible truth of what happened to his wife.The first book in the internationally bestselling DCI Kett crime thriller series, with over a million copies sold to date. Terrifying and unputdownable, Paper Girls is officially “a gripping debut!” (JD Kirk), and "the most exciting crime fiction debut we've read this year!" (Thrilling Fiction).Binge the series now:PAPER GIRLSBAD DOGTHREE LITTLE PIGSWHIP CRACKRUN RABBIT RUNSTONE COLD DEADEVERY MOTHER'S SONSWEET BRIAR ROSEJAW BREAKERKNOCK KNOCKKING RATKNUCKLE BONESLUCKY NUMBER SEVENUNHOLY SAINTSTRULY MADLY DEADLYEVERY LAST DEVILRED LINEAlex Smith wrote his first book when he was six. It wasn’t particularly good, but it did have some supernatural monsters in it. His latest books, the DCI Robert Kett thrillers, have monsters in them too, although these monsters are very human, and all the more terrifying for it. In between, he has published fourteen novels for children and teenagers under his full name, Alexander Gordon Smith—including the number one bestselling series Escape From Furnace, which is loved by millions of readers worldwide and which is soon to become a motion picture. He lives in Norwich with his wife and three young daughters.