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To Die For
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  • Published: 6 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405930789
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

To Die For



A brand new short story from the mind behind Detective Erica Martin.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of To Die For by Alice Clark-Platts, read by Rachel Bavidge.

In an empty car park, Ryan James sits in his car contemplating death. He has set up a hose pipe that is pouring carbon monoxide into the car, and his deciding whether or not to close the last window and end it all. Finally, he gets a text and decides to end his life.

Detective Martin is called to the scene the next day. At first she is convinced it is a simple suicide but as she looks deeper into the boy's life and his relationships she begins to wonder if someone else was involved.

  • Published: 6 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405930789
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

About the author

Alice Clark-Platts

Alice Clark-Platts is a former human rights lawyer who has worked at the UN International Criminal Tribunal in connection with the Rwandan genocide, and on cases involving Winnie Mandela and the rapper Snoop Dogg. A graduate of the Curtis Brown creative writing course, her novel Warchild has been shortlisted for the Impress Prize 2013, and this first DI Erica Martin novel, Bitter Fruits, won the Furniss Lawton Crime and Thriller Prize for unpublished crime writers.

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