Severed: One night Stand-one dead Girl-one bad Day [Mass Market Paperback]

Praise for Simon Kernick:
"Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!"
-Harlan Coben
"Great plots, great characters, great action and some spectacular violence. Simon Kernick might just be the best of Britain's new-wave crime writers."
-Lee Child

"From the Hardcover edition."

One night stand. One dead body. One bad day. A terrifying read-in-one-gulp thriller with a killer premise from the author of Relentless.

You wake up in a strange room on a bed covered in blood.

You have no idea how you got there.

Beside you is a dead girl. Your girlfriend.

The phone rings, and a voice tells you to press play on the room’s DVD machine.

The film shows you killing your girlfriend. Then you’re told to go to an address in East London where you’re to deliver a briefcase and await further instructions.

There’s no way out.

If you’re to survive the next 24 hours, you must find out who killed your girlfriend, and why. Before they come for you too…

When formersoldier Dan Tyler wakes up in a strange room on a bed covered in blood, with no idea how he got there, he thinks he’s stepped into someone else’s nightmare. But he’s wrong. This is reality. The corpse beside him is Leah, a girl he’s met recently. And it gets worse. As he staggers from the bed the phone rings, and a voice tells him to press play on the room’s DVD machine.The film shows Tyler killing Leah. Then he’s told to go to an address in East London where he’s to deliver a briefcase and await further instructions. There’s no way out. The evidence against him looks rock-solid. Tyler’s heading into terrible danger. If he’s to survive the next 12 hours, he must find out who really murdered Leah and why. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

You wake up in a strange room on a bed covered in blood.

You have no idea how you got there.

Beside you is a dead girl. Your girlfriend.

The phone rings, and a voice tells you to press play on the room’s DVD machine.

The film shows you killing your girlfriend. Then you’re told to go to an address in East London where you’re to deliver a briefcase and await further instructions.

There’s no way out.

If you’re to survive the next 24 hours, you must find out who killed your girlfriend, and why. Before they come for you too…

‘Simon Kernick writes with his foot pressed hard on the pedal. Hang on tight!’

Harlan Coben

‘Great plots, great characters, great action’

Lee Child

'The next time I see Simon Kernick’s name on a book, I will pick it up. Brilliant!’

Richard Madeley

Simon Kernick is forty, lives near London and has two young children. His previous novels, The Business of Dying, The Murder Exchange, The Crime Trade, A Good Day to Die and Relentless are published as Corgi paperbacks.

The research for Simon Kernick’s novels is what makes them so authentic. His extensive list of contacts in the police force has been built up over more than a decade. It includes long serving officers in Special Branch, the National Crime Squad (now SOCA), and the Anti-Terrorist Branch, all of whom have plenty of tales to tell.

For more information on Simon Kernick and his books, see his website at www.simonkernick.com