EIGHTY-FIVE STEPS AND THEN DARKNESS... She's gone. Vanished. Not from my memory but within these walls where water sings in metal pipes and soot-stained bricks crumble at the edges. How can a child disappear in a building with only five floors and eleven flats?

By the author of the bestselling The Suspect, The Drowning Man is an award-winning thriller that combines breakneck pace with gripping human drama.

Everyone knows that Mickey Carlyle is dead and a man is in prison for her murder. Everyone, that is, except DI Vincent Ruiz who cannot stop searching and hoping. He is discovered one night clinging to a buoy in the River Thames with a bullet in his leg and a bigger hole in his memory. Under investigation by his colleagues and accused of faking amnesia, Ruiz's only hope of unravelling the puzzle is to retrace his steps and relive that night. But there are further dangers lying in wait and other ways for a man to drown ...