The Crime Writers’ Association

Debut Dagger 2023

Highly Commended


Chris Griffiths

Male, Unknown

Young doctor Edie Carter has traumatic amnesia; large parts of her childhood are blank spaces. But when an unidentified patient arrives in her ICU with a cryptic message carved on his body, she realises that the past can refuse to stay buried.

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