Shelter Me completes the trilogy begun by tense thrillers Gimme Shelter and Secret Shelter, revealing the dramatic conclusion to the gripping story of Ros Gilet.
Her family having been suddenly propelled into witness protection after violent events when she was a child, now in her 20s Ros is herself a Witness Protection Officer. However, the organisation her family testified against two decades earlier has succeeded in tracking down and killing her father, a message left in his blood also promising her own imminent death.
Shelter Me picks up the story, with a new case of familicide uncovering links to one of the key figures in the original murder case that sent Ros into witness protection – a man long presumed dead. Ros finally discovers the truth behind what happened to her family and a reveals a treacherous case of deception and corruption in the very police force she now works for. As the story draws inexorably towards its bloody end, Ros is driven to contemplate a final, deadly
revenge.
‘Terrifying and suspenseful, non-stop jeopardy. Just be glad you’re only reading it and not in it.’ Tony Garnett, Producer: Kes, Cathy Come Home, Cops, This Life ‘A powerful and dynamic piece of writing. Uncomfortable, taut, brutal, it will shock you out of complacency and hold you gripped right to the end. A wonderful piece of writing.’ Cambria Ros Gilet is a cop who doesn’t catch criminals. She’s not even supposed to investigate crimes. As a Witness Protection Officer, she’s always been a protector rather than a prosecutor. But all that’s about to change. Since the brutal gunning down of her sister 20 years earlier, Ros has lived her whole life in the Protection system. Those behind that killing have now tracked down and killed her father too. A message left in his blood at the scene promises her own imminent death. Determined to finally discover the truth behind what’s happened to her family, she uncovers a treacherous case of deception and corruption across the globe. As the story draws inexorably towards its bloody conclusion, Ros is driven to contemplate a final and deadly revenge. Shelter Me completes the trilogy begun by tense thrillers Gimme Shelter and Secret Shelter. Visceral, packed full of hypnotic characters and set in a world in which nothing should ever be taken at face value, Shelter Me is the dramatic conclusion to the gripping story of Ros Gilet. -- Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 9781912631223
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 789g
368 pages