Dark Tales.
Celebrating crime fiction that's anything but cosy...
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I'm Wayne Silver and I write crime fiction. If you're here, hopefully you share my love of stories from the darker side of the tracks.
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ORIGINAL SIN
A secret, hidden inside a lie, concealed behind a deception.
Twin eight-year-old brothers Devin and Archie Milner are beyond excited. They are staying with their grandmother for the weekend on the remote West Pennine Moors and this time they’ve been allowed to camp out in the garden. After all, they’re big boys now, miles from anywhere, far from danger, perfectly safe…
So, when Devin is taken in the middle of night, the family and the local community are left stunned and too terrified to even contemplate the abductor’s motives.
It’s the first case for newly qualified detective Riley Strickland. Affected by the rare form of magical thinking OCD, and with the investigation raking up his own personal demons, Riley senses that there is something else going on at the dark heart of the abduction.
To get to a truth that has been hidden away for decades, Riley must face down prejudice, challenge police negligence and overcome deception at every turn.
But someone out there is determined to keep all the secrets buried.
And time is running out for Devin Milner.
