The Perfect Victim

Charlie Gallagher was a serving UK police officer for 13 years. During that time he had many roles – starting as a front-line response officer, he became a member of a specialist tactical team and finally a detective investigating serious offences. Gallagher left to concentrate on writing full-time. His bestselling crime and mysteries include the Maddie Ives series, the Joel Norris series and the George Elms series.

Heather Long is a RADA-trained English actor and narrator based in London who has voiced over 100 audiobooks and was recently nominated for a 2025 Speakies Award for Caroline Darian’s memoir I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again. Her credits span contemporary fiction (Holly Bourne, Abigail Bergstrom), classics (the complete works of Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf), and children’s literature (Enid Blyton). Heather’s voice work has featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Sounds, Channel 4, and The Discovery Channel, with commercial campaigns for Tesco, British Airways, and Virgin.