[Detective Natalie Ward 03] • The Dare · an Absolutely Gripping Crime Thriller

**Jane’s daughter is a good girl. What is she hiding?**

When thirteen-year-old **Savannah Hopkins** doesn’t come straight home from school, as she always does, her mother Jane immediately raises the alarm.

Leading the investigation is **Detective Natalie Ward** whose daughter Leigh is the same age as Savannah. Soon Natalie’s worst fears are confirmed when the teenager’s broken body is found in nearby shrubland.

Evidence points towards a local recluse, but just as the net is closing around him, one of Savannah’s friends, **Harriet** , is reported missing.

As Natalie delves into the lives of both girls, she soon discovers a sinister video on their phones, daring the girls to disappear from their families for 48 hours.

But Natalie isn’t quick enough for this killer, and she is devastated to find Harriet’s body on a fly tip a day later.

Caught up in the case, she takes her eye off her own daughter and when Leigh goes missing after school she knows she must be in terrible danger. The clock is ticking for Natalie. Can she catch this killer before her little girl becomes the next victim?