Books by Simon Lelic

'Find what you were looking for, Inspector?' Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she was looking for - she had found what she had been sent to discover - but she had found out more besides. The question was what to do about it. The question was whether to do anything at all. In the depths of a sweltering summer, teacher Samuel Szajkowski walks into his school assembly and opens fire. He kills three pupils and a colleague before turning the gun on himself. Lucia May, the young policewoman who is assigned the case, is expected to wrap up things quickly and without fuss. The incident is a tragedy that could not have been predicted and Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Soon, however, Lucia becomes preoccupied with the question no one else seems to want to ask: what drove a mild-mannered, diffident school teacher to commit such a despicable crime? Piecing together the testimonies of the teachers and children at the school, Lucia discovers an uglier, more complex picture of the months leading up to the shooting. She realises too that she has more in common with Szajkowski than she could have imagined. As the pressure to bury the case builds, she becomes determined to tell the truth about what happened, whatever the consequences . . .

You don't know it exists, but when you have nowhere else to turn, the Haven will find you ... An adrenaline-fuelled adventure, third in the Haven series, by top thriller writer Simon Lelic.

You don't know it exists, but when you have nowhere else to turn, the Haven will find you ... An adrenaline-fuelled adventure, second in the Haven series, by top thriller writer Simon Lelic.

Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings. Tasked with managing a government facility hidden deep in the countryside, Henry finds himself tested as never before: by the confused and frightened prisoners, by the sinister Dr Silk and, above all, by his conscience. Tom Clarke, a precocious but naive journalist, has his own problems meanwhile. His career - and his life - is turned upside down by the arrival of Julia Priestley, who seeks his help in finding her estranged husband, Arthur, an innocent dentist who has been arrested under severe new anti-terrorism legislation. The authorities admit they have taken him but will not say where he is being held - or why. Discovering a trail that implicates those at the very top of government, Tom and Julia begin a quest to find Arthur, and the truth about his incarceration. But some people will stop at nothing to keep the facility's secret hidden, and soon the couple find themselves fighting for their lives . . .

You don't know it exists, but when you have nowhere else to turn, the Haven will find you ... An adrenaline-fuelled adventure in a new series by top thriller writer Simon Lelic.

Beboerne i en lille engelsk by chokeres da det bliver afsløret, at den tolvårige dreng Daniel Blake brutalt har myrdet sin skolekammerat Felicity Forbes.For den provinsielle advokat Leo Curtice tegner sagen til at blive den største og mest moralsk udfordrende sag i hele hans karriere. Leo påtager sig forsvaret af Daniel, men er slet ikke forberedt på folks voldsomme reaktion og hvor stor en indflydelse det vil have på hans familie – især hans teenagedatter Ellie.Mens Leo kæmper med at få Daniel til at åbne op, i et forsøg på at klargøre årsagen til drengens forfærdelige forbrydelse, forøges presset på Leos familie. Sagen nærmer sig sin afslutning, da den pludselig tager en dyster drejning. For Leo vil intet nogensinde blive det samme igen …“Netop som man tror Lelic har sagt alt hvad han har at sige om samfundets hysteriske frygt for voldelige børn, giver han emnet et sidste grusomt tvist.” - The New York Times“En behændig, indsigtsfuld forfatter... Kunne dette være Lelics gennembrud? Den fortjener det.” - Guardian“... en gribende psykologisk thriller ... Plottet udspiller sig på en måde, som kun få vil forvente.” - Publishers Weekly.'psykologisk thriller, mord, landsbyen, seksualforbrydere, drenge, England