SWEET AFTER DEATH

In the dead of winter Homicide Detective Alice Madison is sent to the remote town of Ludlow to investigate an unspeakable crime. Together with her partner Detective Sergeant Kevin Brown and crime scene investigator Amy Sorensen she must first understand the killer's motives but the dark mountains that surround Ludlow know how to keep secrets and that the human heart is wilder than any beast's. As the killer strikes again Madison and her team are under siege and cut off from the rest of the county. They race to catch a murderer hiding in plain sight but the truth may be in the hands of a boy who has been a prisoner inside the boundaries of his farm – and within the rules of a dangerous game. As they all become targets, Madison realizes that in the freezing woods around the pretty town a cunning evil has been waiting for her.

Valentina Giambanco read English & Drama at Goldsmiths and started the day after finals as a film cutting room apprentice. She has worked in film editing for many years and will forever prefer 35mm to the wonders of digital software. Valentina fell in love with Seattle the first time she visited twenty-years ago and found a way of living there and walking by the silver waters and deep green forests, at least in her mind.
The novels have been optioned for TV by The Company, the people who made Wolf Hall.