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When I Was Ten is the stay-up-all-night thriller by acclaimed crime author Fiona Cummins. ''Grips like a vice'' - Val McDermid , author of the Karen Pirie series '' Absorbing, tense and beautifully paced '' - Daily Mail Twenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and his wife Pamela were killed in what has become the most infamous double murder of the modern age. Their ten year-old daughter - nicknamed the Angel of Death - spent eight years in a children''s secure unit and is living quietly under an assumed name with a family of her own. Now, on the anniversary of the trial, a documentary team has tracked down her older sister, compelling her to break two decades of silence. Her explosive interview sparks national headlines and journalist Brinley Booth, a childhood friend of the Carter sisters, is tasked with covering the news story. For the first time, the three women are forced to confront what really happened that night - with devastating consequences for them all. ''I finished it with my heart in my mouth. Highly recommended'' - Louise Candlish , author of Our House ''Dark, creepy and ultimately compassionate'' - JP Delaney , author of The Girl Before ''Utterly compelling; a true just-one-more-chapter thriller'' - Clare Mackintosh , author of The Last Party
About the author
Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course. Rattle, her debut novel, was the subject of a huge international auction and has been translated into several languages. It received widespread critical acclaim from authors and reviewers. She has since written bestsellers The Collector, The Neighbour, When I Was Ten and Into the Dark in which she introduces DC Saul Anguish, a brilliant young detective with a dark past. Fiona lives with her family in Essex.
