Scared to Death (Detective Kay Hunter, 1)

"If you want to see your daughter alive again, listen carefully."

When the body of a snatched schoolgirl is found in an abandoned biosciences building, the case is first treated as a kidnapping gone wrong. 

But Detective Kay Hunter isn’t convinced, especially when a man is found dead with the ransom money still in his possession.

When a second schoolgirl is taken, Kay’s worst fears are realised.

With her career in jeopardy and desperate to conceal a disturbing secret, Kay’s hunt for the killer becomes a race against time before he claims another life.

For the killer, the game has only just begun…

Scared to Death is a gripping fast paced crime thriller from author Rachel Amphlett, in a series introducing Kay Hunter – a detective with a hidden past and an uncertain future.

Praise for Scared to Death:

“Thrilling start to a new series. Scared to Death is a stylish, smart and gripping crime thriller” Robert Bryndza, USA Today bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice and Nine Elms

"Moves along at breakneck speed with twists and turns!" Angela Marsons, bestselling author of the Kim Stone series

"Amphlett has written an intriguing plot-driven police procedural, with Hunter a complicated heroine." The West Australian