The Queue by Florence Hemmings — front cover featuring a Co-op Post Office queue
Florence Hemmings · Psychological crime thriller

The Queue

Forthcoming

A killer is turning Abingdon's queues into a killing ground.

An ordinary frustration. A town full of familiar faces. And a growing fear that anyone who gets in the way could be next.

Set in Abingdon, OxfordshirePaperback & ebook planned
The story

Everyone has their breaking point.

Abingdon is a town of routines — school runs, coffee stops and familiar queues. But when a string of brutal killings begins, it becomes clear the victims all shared one thing in common: they got in the way.

As fear grows across the town, DI Mercer and her team race to uncover a killer who is closer to home than anyone imagines, driven by a chilling obsession with order, control … and being first.

The Queue is a psychological thriller that turns an everyday frustration into something far more sinister.

Inside the book

Sometimes being ahead isn't worth the wait.

A dark story rooted in familiar Oxfordshire streets, where the smallest daily indignities can have the most devastating consequences.

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