By the time Holly Henshaw is declared officially dead, her mother has already lost something else — her credibility.
She drinks too much. She imagines things. She is lucky to have a husband as patient as Graham.
So when his phone lights up at their daughter’s memorial — a message he covers too quickly, a kiss at the end — no one would believe her anyway.
She starts looking.
Receipts that do not add up. A phone bill with calls at midnight. A property in his name she has never heard of. Patterns stretching back years.
Everyone tells her to move on. To heal. To trust the man who has controlled her money, her movements, and her reputation since the day their daughter disappeared.
She is done being managed.
What she finds is not what she expected.
It is worse.
Because some men do not need to raise their voices to be dangerous. They just need everyone else to trust them.
Officially Dead is a chilling psychological thriller set on the Lancashire coast — about grief, coercive control, and the devastating cost of being dismissed.
What Readers are Saying About J. Cronshaw★★★★★ – ‘Domestic Noir At Its Best.’
★★★★★ – ‘Cronshaw is a master storyteller.’
★★★★★ – ‘Off the scale rating! This was absolutely brilliant, riveting and captivating. I could not stop reading.’
★★★★★ – ‘I don’t think this psychological thriller will leave me for quite some time.’
★���★★★ –’Wow, this guy knows how to write psychological domestic noir.’
★★★★★ – ‘Unputdownable. Loved it! Great storyline and strong characters.’
★★★★★ – ‘This novel is so intense. I never began to think I had it all figured out and the ending wraps up everything so completely. A terrific read with a storyline and characters that quickly grab you and keep you reading way too late.’
★★★★★ – ‘This isn’t just a twist it’s a whole corkscrew of one.’
★★★★★ – ‘Terrific book that has so many unexpected twists and ending that totally blew me away. Nothing is as it seems until the very end when it cleverly comes together.’
★★★★★ – ''Wow!! What did I just read!! J Cronshaw has done it again.’
Genre: Mystery
She drinks too much. She imagines things. She is lucky to have a husband as patient as Graham.
So when his phone lights up at their daughter’s memorial — a message he covers too quickly, a kiss at the end — no one would believe her anyway.
She starts looking.
Receipts that do not add up. A phone bill with calls at midnight. A property in his name she has never heard of. Patterns stretching back years.
Everyone tells her to move on. To heal. To trust the man who has controlled her money, her movements, and her reputation since the day their daughter disappeared.
She is done being managed.
What she finds is not what she expected.
It is worse.
Because some men do not need to raise their voices to be dangerous. They just need everyone else to trust them.
Officially Dead is a chilling psychological thriller set on the Lancashire coast — about grief, coercive control, and the devastating cost of being dismissed.
What Readers are Saying About J. Cronshaw★★★★★ – ‘Domestic Noir At Its Best.’
★★★★★ – ‘Cronshaw is a master storyteller.’
★★★★★ – ‘Off the scale rating! This was absolutely brilliant, riveting and captivating. I could not stop reading.’
★★★★★ – ‘I don’t think this psychological thriller will leave me for quite some time.’
★���★★★ –’Wow, this guy knows how to write psychological domestic noir.’
★★★★★ – ‘Unputdownable. Loved it! Great storyline and strong characters.’
★★★★★ – ‘This novel is so intense. I never began to think I had it all figured out and the ending wraps up everything so completely. A terrific read with a storyline and characters that quickly grab you and keep you reading way too late.’
★★★★★ – ‘This isn’t just a twist it’s a whole corkscrew of one.’
★★★★★ – ‘Terrific book that has so many unexpected twists and ending that totally blew me away. Nothing is as it seems until the very end when it cleverly comes together.’
★★★★★ – ''Wow!! What did I just read!! J Cronshaw has done it again.’
Genre: Mystery
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