Love Can Be Murder… It’s Valentine’s Day, and DCI Robert Kett and the Extreme Crime Task Force are preparing to join in the romantic celebrations when a shocking confession throws the city into chaos. A man walks into the police station and admits to brutally murdering his wife, and he claims somebody else forced him to do it. Nobody believes his story, but when two more innocent victims vanish, the blood-drenched evidence starts pointing to a killer who gets his kicks by putting devoted couples through an unimaginable trial of terror and torture—turning them against each other in the name of an unsettling local tradition. Love may be in the air, but on this Valentine's Day it is death that stalks the streets. Truly Madly Deadly is the fifteenth instalment in the internationally bestselling DCI Kett series, which has sold over a million books to date. Relentless action, compulsive mystery and dark humour combine perfectly in the series that Thrilling Fiction calls "Heart-stoppingly gripping!" from the author that James Patterson describes as "fresh and ferocious!" Binge the series now: PAPER GIRLS BAD DOG THREE LITTLE PIGS WHIP CRACK RUN RABBIT RUN STONE COLD DEAD EVERY MOTHER'S SON SWEET BRIAR ROSE JAW BREAKER KNOCK KNOCK KING RAT KNUCKLE BONES LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN UNHOLY SAINTS TRULY MADLY DEADLY EVERY LAST DEVIL RED LINE Alex Smith wrote his first book when he was six. It wasn’t particularly good, but it did have some supernatural monsters in it. His latest books, the DCI Robert Kett thrillers, have monsters in it too, although these monsters are very human, and all the more terrifying for it. In between these two books he has published fourteen other novels for children and teenagers under his full name, Alexander Gordon Smith—including the number one bestselling series Escape From Furnace, which is loved by millions of readers worldwide and which is soon to become a motion picture. He lives in Norwich with his wife and three young daughters.