A Price To Pay - a thrilling kidnap plot featuring a tenacious female detective

The death of a teenage runaway, killed when she leaps from a motorway bridge into the speeding traffic below, leads Detective Constable Iona Khan into the most disturbing case of her new career. The dead girl’s identity remains a mystery – until the discovery of her details along with profiles of three other girls, all recently reported missing. A further, shocking, discovery causes the whole file to be handed over to Greater Manchester Police’s Counter Terrorism Unit. Iona Khan – still struggling for acceptance in the male-dominated CTU – investigates, little realising that, because of her close resemblance to the girl who leapt from the bridge, she is now in the sights of a sinister figure. Someone whose reputation for ruthlessness has attracted notoriety, even among those who trade in the most depraved of human markets … Some Amazon reader reviews for the paperback edition of A Price To Pay ‘It kept me up well past midnight a few times because I just couldn't put it down. I love the new character.’ ‘I have purchased a copy of all Chris Simms's books and this one is right up as one of his best.’ ‘I like Iona as a character, she seems gutsy yet vulnerable, doubting herself at times like real people do.’