The Secret: Book 2

Katerina Diamond

Oct 2016 · Sold by HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

‘Diamond is the master of gripping literature’ EVENING STANDARD

‘The Queen of Grip-lit is back... All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ HEAT

‘A web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat’ SUN

Can you keep a secret? Your life depends on it...

When Bridget Reid wakes up in a locked room, terrifying memories come flooding back – of blood, pain, and desperate fear. Her captor knows things she’s never told anyone. How can she escape someone who knows all of her secrets?

As DS Imogen Grey and DS Adrian Miles search for Bridget, they uncover a horrifying web of abuse, betrayal and murder right under their noses in Exeter.

And as the past comes back to haunt her, Grey must confront her own demons. Because she knows that it can be those closest to us who hurt us the most...

Perfect for fans of Cara Hunter and Angela Marsons. If you love The Secret, don’t miss Katerina Diamond’s twisty new thriller The Heatwave – coming June 2020.

Ratings and reviews

I want to give this book 3.25 stars, not 3. Adrien and Imogen work well as main characters together. I like that neither of them are functionally perfect, they are flawed but they strive to do the right thing. It's a good story with pretty good pacing but the twist wasn't sufficiently built up and and the book ended so abruptly that it took away from my enjoyment. I suspect that was done deliberately so that one is forced to buy the next book to see how the story and the characters lives progress. I detest that way of telling stories. If the writer is talented, I am always willing to buy the next book.

The main character Detective Grey is at that center of bizarre and gruesome dealings with twist and turns; which she finds she is linked to those responsible./ Interesting story and method; I can see the future of Ms Diamond's sharpening of the "writing"/literary skills with experience....and evolving plots. Thank you

After reading The Teacher I fell in love with this author and looked for more books by her. I was sad to see only 1 more which was a pre order. As soon as The Secret became available I bought it. It's great, I love the graphic gory details and deaths. I wish more crime writers would take that risk. I don't normally like the back and forth past present chapters but it just works with her books. I just wish it didn't end so abrupt. Can't wait to read the next one to find out what happens.

About the author

Katerina Diamond was born in Weston in the seventies. She moved to Thessaloniki in Greece and attended Greek school where she learnt Greek in just 6 months. After her parents’ divorce, they relocated to Devon. After school, and working in her uncle’s fish and chip shop, she went (briefly) to university at Derby, where she met her husband and had two children. Katerina now lives in the East Kent Coast with her husband and children.

Her debut novel, The Teacher, was a No.1 bestseller in ebook, and a Sunday Times bestseller in paperback.