Cath Staincliffe is an award winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV's hit series Blue Murder. Cath's books have been shortlisted for the CWA Best First Novel award. She was joint winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2012. Letters To My Daughter's Killer was selected for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club on ITV3 in 2014. Cath also writes the Scott & Bailey books based on the popular ITV series. She lives with her family in Manchester.

She's a single parent. A private eye. And liking it. Until, that is, Mrs Hobbs turns up asking Sal Kilkenny to find her missing son. Sal's search takes her through the Manchester underworld, a wasteland of deprivation and petty theft, of well-heeled organised crime and, ultimately, murder. Would she have taken the job on if she had known what she was getting herself into?
Actually, yes. Sal is on fire with a desire to see justice done and to avenge the death of a young lad whose only crime was knowing too much . . .
This is the first Sal Kilkenny mystery, serialised on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
Praise for Cath Staincliffe:
'A book about courage and compromise, about how sometimes it's kinder and braver to lie.Stunning.'
Anne Cleeves
'Modest, compassionate... a solid ingenious plotter with a sharp eye for domestic detail'Literary Review
'Complex and satisfying' The Sunday Times
'about as good as the British private eye novel gets' Time Out
'It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better, and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that'Val McDermid
'an engrossing read'Sunday Telegraph