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A dark domestic thriller featuring a corporate forensics investigator, hidden identity, IRA revenge, witness protection secrets, marital breakdown, and a killer returning to silence the past.
You can change your name, but you can’t outrun your past forever.
Corporate forensics investigator and spiritual medium, Cydney Granger, has built her career uncovering truths others cannot see, often with the guidance of her spiritual mentor, Ray Gordon. But when a secret belonging to someone she loves begins to surface, the danger turns personal.
Her close friend’s husband, James Carrington QC, is not the man he claims to be.
Thirty-six years ago, James was the sole survivor of an IRA bombing that killed his parents. Given a new name and placed under witness protection, his past was sealed away.
Now the man responsible has resurfaced.
As small, deliberate threats begin to appear, Cydney feels the pattern forming. With Ray’s insight and her own unerring instincts, she uncovers a truth no one wants exposed. This is not revenge.
It is an attempt to erase the last living witness.
With events spiralling around her she cannot control, and her husband battling trauma, Cydney must stop a man who has waited decades to finish what he started.
Because some crimes do not fade with time.
They wait.
Gillian Flynn meets Paula Hawkins in this dark, character-driven thriller where marriage, trauma, and long-buried political violence collide. Blending the domestic tension of Gone Girl with the emotional instability of The Girl on the Train, A Thousand Silent Cries layers psychological suspense with historical conspiracy and moral reckoning.
Karen Millie-James was born in North London to a father who had escaped Germany with the kindertransport in 1939 and a mother who was a talented window dresser and designer in London's West End. Inspired to do well, Karen studied business and languages at the University of Westminster which led to her joining the legal department of Levi Strauss, quickly being promoted to European Group Company Secretary where she remained until the company closed down its UK headquarters.
For the following ten years, Karen worked for a multi-discipline organisation in Central London but it was always Karen's dream to set up her own consultancy which she did twenty-three years ago. Now Karen is widely recognised internationally as an expert in the corporate field and sits on many boards of directors worldwide in an advisory capacity. A couple of years ago she was asked to mentor MBA students at the University of Westminster in London on a voluntary basis to which she agreed with much pleasure.
Karen never intended to write a book but what started as a hobby in her spare time away from the office, working in the evenings until late into the night and at weekends, has now become a new and exciting part of her life. Writing The Shadows Behind Her Smile has become her passion made easier due to her background in business, literature and linguistics and having a vivid imagination.
Karen now lives in the Buckinghamshire countryside with her husband of three years and their three dogs. She still works full-time in her business but the remainder is spent writing, playing tennis, going to the theatre and travelling, and having quality time with her daughter who is a professional performer.