A mother on the run.
It’s been three years since Daphne Monroe’s family were brutally murdered in a home invasion. Her once perfect life is in ruins: no husband, no children – and no respite from the police who suspect her of committing the crime herself. Only one thing keeps her alive: the transplanted heart beating in her chest. But when an intruder breaks into her home, Daphne realises the killer is back to finish what he started.
A killer on the move.
Years of unsolved murders across America have left law enforcement baffled. The victims lived different lives and died in different ways. There was nothing to connect them to a serial killer. Until Daphne discovers a chilling link…
Nowhere to turn.
The police blame Daphne for the death of her children: she can’t ask the authorities for help. If she wants to clear her name, she must do it alone – and find the killer before he finds her. What she uncovers draws her into the hidden world of organ donation, medical obsession, and a beautiful girl’s tragic death that made Daphne’s own survival possible.
Can Daphne uncover the truth before the killer hunts her down? And can the truth ever mend a broken heart?
Gripping, intelligent and emotionally charged, Heartbreaker is a compelling new crime thriller for readers who love Harlan Coben, Sam Holland and M. J. Arlidge.
Jude O’Reilly is the author of three action thrillers. Her latest book Sleep When You’re Dead was an FT Best Book of the Year. Lee Child has described her writing as ‘terrific’and David Baldacci as ‘a sheer delight’. Her thrillers, which also include Killing State and Curse the Day, track the adventures of all action hero Michael North, a young, sexy, reckless British government agent who has been dubbed the modern Bond.
Using the pen name Judith O'Reilly (see what she did there), Jude has also written two memoirs, Wife in the North and A Year of Doing Good. Wife in the North reached number three in the UK bestsellers’ chart and was a top ten bestseller in Germany. It was serialised by The Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and was based on Jude’s eponymous blog which, at the time, was named as one of the top 100 blogs in the world by The Sunday Times.
Jude is an award winning short story writer whose latest book is an anthology of crime short stories called In Our Crime. She is also a former political producer with BBC 2’s Newsnight and ITN’s Channel 4 News. She’s a former education correspondent with The Sunday Times where she also covered politics, undercover reporting and general news. She lives in Durham with her family and a miniature poodle called Joey.
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