Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Fiction
  3. Contemporary fiction

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
0.0(0)
Dan Grant and Jayne Brett

The Darkness Around Her

One freezing December night, the body of young, vulnerable Lizzie Barnsley is found on the side of an isolated canal. When blood from her stiletto heel matches that on a wound on the head of Peter Box, police swiftly declare him the prime suspect in her murder.

Criminal lawyer Dan Grant is called in to provide Peter Box’s legal defense, along with investigator Jayne Brett. They need answers from Box—but he’s not talking.

As they dig deeper into the case, they discover that this brutal slaying is just the latest in a series of deaths in the northern town of Highford, starting with the murder of teenager Rosie Smith a decade ago. Blood spatter linked her stepfather Sean Martin to the crime—so why did Peter Box try to claim he’d killed young Rosie?

As the investigation deepens and more murders along the towpaths come to light—murders that can’t be linked to Peter Box—Jayne and Dan realize that they have stumbled onto a dark conspiracy in their little town.

It’s clear Peter has something to hide, but is he a killer? Grant and Brett are plunged into a race against time to uncover the truth...before a twisted psychopath claims another victim.


Author:

  • Neil White

Narrator:

  • Johnny Heller

Series:

  • Volume 2 in Dan Grant and Jayne Brett

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 9 h 36 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Contemporary fiction

More by Neil White

Skip the list
  1. Wen die Rache treibt : Thriller: Lancashire Killings 4 | Zwei junge Frauen, zwei brutale Morde, ein gnadenloser Mörder …

    Neil White

    book
  2. Wenn der Hass entbrennt : Thriller: Lancashire Killings 3 | Ein Cold Case, der plötzlich zur tödlichen Gefahr wird

    Neil White

    book
  3. Wer in den Schatten lebt : Thriller: Lancashire Killings 1 | Eine englische Kleinstadt, ein grausamer Mord, ein dunkles Geheimnis

    Neil White

    book
  4. Wo die Angst regiert : Thriller: Lancashire Killings 2 | Eine Kleinstadt in Angst und Schrecken

    Neil White

    book
  5. Ein tödlicher Verdacht : Thriller

    Neil White

    book
  6. Die Stimme des Verrats : Thriller – »Ein grandioser Pageturner!«, urteilt das Choice Magazine – für Fans von Michael Robotham

    Neil White

    book
  7. The Innocent Ones

    Neil White

    audiobook
  8. From the Shadows

    Neil White

    audiobook
  9. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts : A Memoir

    Neil White

    audiobook
  10. Beyond Evil

    Neil White

    audiobook

Dan Grant and Jayne Brett Series

Skip the list
  1. From the Shadows

    Neil White

    audiobook
  2. The Innocent Ones

    Neil White

    audiobook

  • 11 books

    Neil White

    Born above a shoe shop in the mid-1960’s, Neil spent most of his childhood in Wakefield in West Yorkshire as his father pursued a career in the shoe trade. This took Neil to Bridlington in his teens, where he failed all his exams and discovered that doing nothing soon turns into long-term unemployment. Re-inventing himself, Neil returned to education in his 20’s, qualified as a solicitor when he was 30, and now spends his days in the courtroom and his evenings writing crime fiction.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms · Imprint ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5