The Reluctant Witness

Trust no one and keep running, or they will find you...

In the weeks leading to Christmas, Liam McArvey, lead singer of The Fury, falls for enigmatic Bella, a waitress at his local café. However, little does he know that she is hiding a dangerous secret. After a photograph of the couple, taken outside a London recording studio, surfaces on the internet, Bella panics and prepares to move on.

But Liam enlists his friend and sometimes sleuth, Stephanie Cooper, to help Bella unravel events in her past. Together, they uncover a crime within a crime, and Bella must decide where her loyalties lie.

SL Beaumont is an award-winning mystery and crime writer who loves travel and history.

She lives in beautiful New Zealand, which is only problematic when the travel bug bites (which it does fairly often)! Her passion for travel has led her to take many long-haul flights to various parts of the world. Her enjoyment of history helps determine the destination and the places she visits are a constant source of inspiration for her.

Before becoming an author, SL Beaumont worked in banking in London and New York and is now a partner in a chartered accountancy firm in Auckland.

The War Photographers is the 2024 IRDA Historical Fiction Award winner; Shadow of Doubt won the 2020 Indie Reader Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Award and was long-listed for the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel. Death Count was a semi-finalist for the Publisher's Weekly BookLife Prize.