The child didn’t make a sound. He wasn’t even afraid.
On a cold, wet morning in Middleton, seven-year-old Tommy Priestley is found dead in his bed. No forced door. No struggle. No terror on his small face, only the trust of a boy who let someone he knew lead him gently into the dark.
For DCI George Beaumont, that trust is the most chilling clue of all. Because if Tommy wasn’t afraid of his killer, then neither, most likely, is anyone else in this quiet corner of Leeds.
As George and his team hunt a murderer who leaves almost nothing behind, a thirty-year-old case stirs back to life: another child, another bed, another life stolen and never answered for. The two are bound together, and the closer George
looks, the closer to home it leads.
Because whoever is moving through Middleton in the dead hours doesn’t believe they’re a monster. They think they’re being kind. They think they’re saving something precious before the world can spoil it.
And with a terrible anniversary only days away, they’ve already chosen who’s next.
Some things, once taken, are kept forever.
Set within the suburbs of Leeds, West Yorkshire, this fast-paced British detective novel is a crime thriller that will keep you guessing until the end.
Forever Seven is the twenty-sixth book in the Detective George Beaumont thriller series.
