SAY HER NAME

If a female member of your family went missing, would the police put significant resources into looking for her? Would she receive coverage in the local and national news? Would there be appeals for her? At the heart of this chilling novel is the disappearance of black women, whose names have been forgotten and stories remain untold.

It's twenty years since Eva, a biracial woman, was adopted as an eight-year-old, and Cherry and Carlton 'Sugar' McNeil have always been the only parents she's wanted or needed. But when she's dealt the double blow of Cherry's death and her own suspension from work, Eva decides it's time to discover who she was before she was theirs.

Against Sugar's advice, Eva joins a DNA database, desperate for a match that will unlock her identity. And when a positive hit comes, she's excited to learn there are relations out there who might hold the key. But the closer Eva gets to uncovering her past, the more it appears someone is trying to stop her finally finding the truth...

As she continues to dig, Eva is drawn into a dark and merciless underside to society, where black women disappear without a word. Names erased from history, no search parties, no desperate pleas for their return. Once, someone tried to save Eva from all this. Someone wanted a better life for her. But now that she's torn down the facade of her life, has she come too far to be spared again?

SAY HER NAME is a tense, dark contemporary psychological thriller from a voice demanding to be heard, demanding action, demanding change.

Dreda Say Mitchell, alongside her husband Ryan Carter, has published thirteen novels, including Spare Room, their first psychological thriller which became a #1 UK and US Amazon bestseller. As well as crime and mystery novels, Dreda has written and performed a specially commissioned monologue on the ground-breaking Art 50 on Sky Arts, appeared on television - including BBC Breakfast, Sunday Morning Live, Newsnight and The Review Show, as well as celebrity Pointless and celebrity Eggheads. She has presented BBC Radio 4's flagship books programme, Open Book, and been a guest on numerous radio programmes. She has written for newspapers, including the Guardian, and was thrilled to be named one of Britain's 50 Remarkable Women by Lady Geek in association with Nokia.
Dreda's parents are from the beautiful Caribbean Island of Grenada. In 2004, she scooped the CWA's John Creasey Dagger Award for best first-time crime novel, the first time a Black British author had been awarded this honour. She is a passionate campaigner and speaker on social issues and the arts and is a trustee of the Royal Literary Fund and an ambassador for The Reading Agency. Her Majesty the Queen awarded Dreda an MBE on her New Year's Honours' List, 2020.