Bøker av Rob Gittins

Axel Petersen's life imploded when his teenage daughter disappeared. Manyyears later, no one knows where she is or what happened to her. On the twentieth anniversary of his daughter's disappearance, Axel meets a girl ona train. She's almost exactly the same age as his daughter was when she vanished. When they both leave the train at the final stop of a small rural line, he offers her a lift to her holiday cottage. That girl disappears too. With suspicion about his role in the two disappearances now at fever pitch, Axel plunges into the search for this second missing girl, becoming increasingly convinced there's a strong connection between the present-day disappearance and the twenty-year-old mystery.And he's right, although in ways he can hardly begin to imagine...

Morrissey Jarrett is fresh out of prison and back on the streets of his hometown Cardiff.During his enforced absence the city has been re-developed to within an inch of its life and a disoriented Morrissey falls back into old habits as he scams, schemes, and steals whatever he needs to survive.Morrissey has big dreams though. Dreams of making one last huge score, dreams of leaving his life of crime behind, dreams of reuniting with the love of his life and dreams of walking off into the sunset with her. Happy. Ever. After.All he needs is a plan.Luckily, the circles Morrissey frequents provide ample opportunities for ill-gotten gains and soon the perfect job literally falls into his hands.And so, along with a hastily assembled crew of misfits, Morrissey embarks on planning the perfect heist. With all their eyes fixed steadily on a payday that could change their stars forever - all they have to do is keep their heads down, play it cool, and follow the plan to the letter. What could possibly go wrong?Cash Rules Everything Around Me is an a masterclass of character invention, dialogue and plotting which isn't too surprising when you consider Rob Gittins is an award-winning screenwriter who has written for numerous top-rated UK television drama series, including EastEnders (where he's the longest serving scriptwriter with over 300 episodes to his credit) as well as Casualty and The Bill. He has also written over twenty original radio plays for BBC Radio 4 and his drama series, Losing Paradise, won the Gold Drama Medal at the New York International Radio Festival.He was Executive Producer on Crash, a drama series for BBC Wales and he was also Script Executive and writer on Stella, created by and featuring Ruth Jones (Gavin & Stacey). Rob's work in TV and radio drama has been watched and listened to by millions in the UK & abroad, somehow he has also found the time to publish 5 novels.

Devil's Bridge, Mid WalesA thousand years ago, the devil built the town a bridge.But there was a price - he would return at different times and in different guises and each time there'd be the direst consequences for those living in its shadow. Darkness descendsTo most in the town, it's just a colourful local legend; a flight of fancy. Dark deeds have happened in Devil's Bridge from time to time, but dark deeds can happen anywhere - and there's no such thing as the devil anyway. A community in conflictBut then a massive scandal, involving a schoolboy and his English teacher, hits the town. It drags to the surface an equally toxic scandal from years before.And soon, even the most die-hard of sceptics begin to wonder if a devil-like figure is walking in their midst...

Two sisters abandonedIt was a treat, she said. An adventure. A train journey to the mainland. Six-year-old Lara Arden and her older sister Georgia happily fill in their colouring books as their mum pops to the buffet in search of crisps. She never returns. Two little girls abandoned. Alone.Present day Twenty years later, and Lara is now a detective inspector on her native Isle of Wight, still searching for answers to her mother's disappearance.A call comes in. A small child, a boy, has been left abandoned on a train. Like Lara, he has no relatives to look after him. It feels as if history is being repeated - but surely this is a coincidence?A series of murdersBefore Lara can focus on the boy's plight, she's faced with a series of murders. They feature different victims in very different circumstances, but they all have one thing in common: they all leave children - alone - behind.So who is targeting Lara? What do these abandoned souls have in common? And how does this connect to the mystery of Lara's missing mother?

Gimme Shelter pits a young, female, witness protection officer against one of the deadliest psychopaths imaginable as she fights to keep her witness safe; but is that witness all she claims to be? And, in a world in which nothing can be taken on trust, is the protection officer all she seems?

A psychological thriller which studies the male desire to possess, control and watch his beloved in the most intimate of spaces.