Betrayed Trust

In post-industrial Sunderland, trust is a dangerous currency and betrayal can cost you everything. Simon Cohen's camera shop move was meant to save the business. Instead, it invites a brutal robbery that sets off a chain reaction of violence, addiction and vengeance.

As ex-con Karl Wrathall re-emerges from prison, he wastes no time reclaiming his domination, dragging everyone in his path - willing or not - into his orbit of intimidation and crime.

Detective Constable Dan Kilford juggles the relentless pull of the job with a crumbling home life and mounting pressures from above. As the lines blur between his professional responsibilities and personal regrets, Dan is drawn deeper into a volatile underworld where one wrong move could cost him everything.

​​​​​​​From dogged police work to the desolate stairwells of the Sulgrave estate, Betrayed Trust exposes a gritty landscape of moral compromise, damaged lives, and the fragile hope of redemption. Unflinching real, darkly comic, and deeply human, this is a gripping thriller that doesn't let go.