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"Leur maison avait été recouverte d'insultes, leur boîte aux lettres recouverte d'excréments. On avait envoyé un cocktail Molotov contre leur porte d'entrée. Les lettres de menaces s'étaient multipliées. Une fois le procès terminé, la police leur avait conseillé de déménager et de changer d'identité. Si elles venaient à être démasquées, on leur ferait du mal."

It's been 19 years since ten-year-old Laurel was given a life sentence and six-year-old Rosie was given a new identity. The sisters were the very picture of innocence: two little girls who loved to listen to their mother's bedtime stories and play make-believe in the garden. But then an act of unparalleled horror tears their family apart, leaving Laurel behind bars. Neither sister has laid eyes on the other since then, during which time their lives have followed very different paths.

There's the lost. There's the missing. And there's the taken. She asked me once if we had any secrets, and I shook my head. 'No secrets between us', she said. 'No' I answered. 'Never ever.' In a Durham hotel at dawn, celebrated preacher Tristan Snow is murdered as he prays. None of the other guests - not even his daughter, his wife, or her sister - saw or heard anything. But then again, they each had a motive for murder.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Bitter Fruits by Alice Clark-Pitt, read by Kristin Atherton, Rachel Bavidge, Stefan Booth, Roy McMillian and Tania Rodrigues. The murder of a first-year student at Durham University shocks the city. But the very last thing anyone expects is an instant confession... As Detective Inspector Erica Martin investigates Joyce College, a cradle for the country's future elite, she finds a close-knit community of secrets, jealousy and obsession.

Author Alice Clark Platts joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest novel, The Taken. Alice is a former human rights lawyer, and in this interview she discusses her author journey and the books that have inspired her.