Beck Lewis — Books

On a rainy night in rural Leicestershire, Nina breaks down on her way to support her sister at a women’s twilight safety walk.

When a man from a nearby house offers shelter, tea, and help, Nina accepts. He’s polite, educated, and appears invested in women’s safety. But as the evening drags on, an unsettling conversation begins — centred on the viral question: would a woman rather meet a man or a bear alone in the woods?

What starts as debate becomes control. And Nina realises she may no longer be free to leave.

One question. No safe choice.

When Esther Butler sees a man with a gun following a woman in the dark city streets, she doesn’t hesitate to call the police.

Minutes later in an empty building site, the man is dead. The police fired the shot. But when the smoke clears, there’s no weapon to be found.

Esther knows what she saw. Yet as her story begins to unravel, she’s forced to question not just her memory, but her own safety.

DC Josie Kaminski – assigned to the police team with the worst reputation in Leicester – is put on the case. But the deeper they dig, the more they find evidence linking Esther to the dead man and compelling reasons why she would want him dead.

As truth and lies blur, the team must decide who to believe.
And Esther stands to lose more than she ever bargained for.

PR consultant Hannah Douglas-Jones makes her living managing other people’s reputations. But she finds herself involved in a story like no other when she stops at the scene of a house fire and pulls a young woman from the flames.

Fire victim Natasha – calm, capable and self-assured – is now homeless. Hannah offers her a place to stay and a job. Natasha is exactly the person Hannah needs to rebuild her struggling business and help with a hectic home life. But as Hannah’s fortunes rise, she starts to doubt who this woman really is – and what she wants.

DC ‘Walker’ Smith is part of the investigation into the fire. Six people died, locked in the cellar. As the investigation grows, Walker realises that this crime has links to shameful secrets in his own past – and that Natasha is the key to unlocking everything.

One fire. No accident. Everyone’s playing with fire.

A year after a carbon monoxide accident left five people dead, Cassie O’Donnell wakes from a coma to find her life erased. She’s homeless, unemployed, and her mind is filled with shadowy memories she can’t trust.

Desperate for answers, Cassie joins a support group run by the survivors - a safe space where they can grieve and heal together. But then one member of the group dies of an apparent drugs overdose…

An ex-girlfriend begs DS Rob Joseph to investigate this latest death and he secretly joins the support group. But he soon discovers that the survivors are all carrying secrets.

Both Cassie and Rob begin to suspect that someone inside the group knows what really happened in that house on the night of the accident - and is willing to kill to keep the truth buried.

One tragedy. Five survivors. No one is safe.