Nicolás Obregón

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'Doesn’t get any darker or more twisted than this’ Sunday Times Crime Club

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'In the heady tradition of Raymond Chandler and Michael Connelly' A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

Sins As Scarlet

Blue Light Yokohama

The Sugar Man

Praise for Nicolás Obregón

Dakota’s world broke in two the day her best friend Flora was murdered – and Dakota has never been able to confess her own dark secret about that day. 
 
Years later, and now a detective, Dakota is struggling to hide her trauma. At a crossroads, she is taken aback to be assigned a case back in her home town. A case that has uncanny echoes of Flora – and a connection to the same nearby Amish-like community, whose faithful flock might just be hiding a murderer. 
 
Dakota’s job needs her to unmask a serial killer. But her heart just needs to finally find out what happened to her best friend…

A serial killer in a small religious cult. A detective who has waited decades for justice. The gripping and heart-breaking new mystery from an exciting breakthrough crime talent - available for pre-order now... 
 Dakota Finch never really recovered from the day her best friend was murdered. Dakota and Flora were best friends – and Dakota has never confessed her own dark secret about what she did that day. 
 
 Years later, Dakota has become a detective, hiding her broken heart behind a rock-hard shell. When her latest misdemeanour sees her re-assigned back to her small home town, she can’t help but think it could be her chance to finally catch Flora’s killer – a man who’s only ever be known as “the Sugar Man”. 
 
 When another body is found, stirring up memories of her last summer with Flora, Dakota realises the truth may be hiding in the secretive Amish-like cult based in the nearby woodland. 
 
 But this is a killer who has stayed hidden for decades, and they won’t hesitate to kill again to protect their darkest secret… 
Praise for Nicolás Obregón 
'A masterpiece' Jeffery Deaver 
'I'm awestruck' A. J. Finn 
'A dark, brutal ride' Anthony Horowitz 
'Truly heart-rending' Daily Express

Dakota Finch never really recovered from the day her best friend was murdered. But she has also never confessed her own dark secret about what she did that day. 
 
 Years later, Dakota has become a detective, hiding her broken heart behind a rock-hard shell. When her latest misdemeanour sees her re-assigned back to her small home town, Nectar, she can’t help but think it could be her chance to finally catch Flora’s killer – a man who’s only ever been known as “the Sugar Man”. 
 
 When another body is found, stirring up memories of her last summer with Flora, Dakota realises the truth may be hiding in the secretive religious cult based in the nearby woodland. 
 
 But this is a killer who has stayed hidden for decades, and they won’t hesitate to kill again …

Nicolás Obregón grew up between London and Madrid. While in Japan for his job, he learned of the unsolved Miyazawa Family Murders, which informed his first novel, Blue Light Yokohama. It is also the focus of his Universal Audio true crime podcast, FACELESS. His short story, Colibrí, features in the anthology, Both Sides: Stories From the Border, nominated for an Anthony Award, while Blue Light Yokohama was nominated for the T. Jefferson Parker Award.

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