SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I loved it … Persons Unknown is like walking on quicksand, for reader and detective alike' VAL MCDERMID Second literary thriller from bestselling author of MISSING, PRESUMED. A brutal murder. A detective with no one left to trust. As dusk falls a young man staggers through a park, far from home, bleeding from a stab wound. He dies where he falls; cradled by a stranger, a woman’s name on his lips in his last seconds of life. DI Manon Bradshaw can’t help taking an interest – these days she only handles cold cases, but the man died just yards from the police station where she works. She’s horrified to discover that both victim and prime suspect are more closely linked to her than she could have imagined. And as the Cambridgeshire police force closes ranks against her, she is forced to contemplate the unthinkable. How well does she know her loved ones, and are they capable of murder?