Little Sister (Detective Pieter Vos, Band 3)

People on the island understood there was some kind of psychiatric institution on their doorstep.

Only a few knew it housed a handful of the most disturbed female juvenile criminals in the Netherlands.

The Timmers sisters, Kim and Mia, were just eleven years old when they were accused of murdering the lead singer of a world-famous pop band in the Dutch fishing village of Volendam. They believed he was responsible for the death of their family, including their sister known as Little Jo.

Ten years have passed and it is now time for their release from Marken, the local psychiatric institution.

Pieter Vos, a detective with the Amsterdam police, is given cause to re-open the case when the girls disappear along with the nurse responsible for escorting them to a halfway house. The investigation uncovers a shocking cover-up which leaves one of Vos's closest colleagues under scrutiny.

Praise for David Hewson

'Dark and atmospheric with breathless pacing'
Linwood Barclay

'A novel in the hugely experienced hands of David Hewson that defies expectation . . . Tight, lean, almost like a film script'
Daily Express