Detective Janine Lewis

Discover One of the Most Electrifying Crime Series Ever Written. Meet Janine Lewis. A single mum of three and Manchester's newest detective chief inspector. Her cheating husband walked out the day she got promoted. Now she's six months pregnant with his baby and in charge of her first murder case. The body of a deputy head teacher is found on a lonely allotment. Gutted, his stomach sliced open, and left for dead. The only witnesses are a dying elderly man and a seven-year-old girl. And now the prime suspect has disappeared... Discover the books behind the hit ITV detective drama, starring Caroline Quentin.

Second day back at work. Detective Chief Inspector Janine Lewis drops off her seven-year-old son at school. As she drives off, a car breaks fiercely with a squealing sound. Janine sees the child flung to one side, the small body flying limp like a puppet, then landing hard. With a sickening feeling, Janine recognizes her as Tom's classmate-Ann-Marie Chinley. Janine gives chase, but the hit-and-run driver gets away. When she finally gets to work, she hears a body has been fished out of the river. The victim is in her early twenties, newly pregnant, malnourished as a child. Cause of death is strangulation. Time within the last 24 hours. Second day back. Two murders on her hands. An ex-husband who's completely unreliable. How is DCI Janine Lewis going to cope? Discover the books behind the hit ITV detective drama, starring Caroline Quentin.