William Shaw
1) Salt lane
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
No-one knew their names, the bodies found in the water. There are people here, in plain sight, that no-one ever notices at all. DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Even murder looks different in this landscape of fens, ditches and stark beaches, shadowed by the towers of Dungeness...
2) Grave's end
Author
Series
DS Alexandra Cupidi investigations volume 3
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An unidentified cadaver is found in a freezer in an unoccupied luxury house. No-one seems to know or care who it is or who placed it there. When DS Alexandra Cupidi is handed the case, she can have no idea it will lead her to a series of murderous cover-ups and buried secrets. Namely the discovery of the skeleton of public-school boy, Trevor Grey, beneath a housing development.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
While investigating a gas explosion in London, Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen and young policewoman Helen Tozer find psychedelic paintings by Bridget Riley and Peter Blake, along with the body of a playboy art collector.
5) Deadland
Author
Series
Publisher
Riverrun
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The two boys never fitted in. Seventeen, the worst age, nothing to do but smoke weed; at least they have each other. The day they speed off on a moped with a stolen mobile, they're ready to celebrate their luck at last. Until their victim comes looking for what's his - and ready to kill for it. On the other side of Kent's wealth divide, DS Alexandra Cupidi faces the strangest murder investigation of her career. A severed limb, hidden inside a modern...
Author
Series
DS Alexandra Cupidi investigations volume 4
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A DOUBLE MURDER : The naked corpses of Aylmer and Mary Younis are discovered in their home. The only clues are a note written in blood and an eerie report of two spectral figures departing the crime scene. Officer Jill Ferriter is charged with investigating the murders while her colleague Alex Cupidi is on leave, recovering from post-traumatic stress. AN ELABORATE SCAM: The dead couple had made investments in a green reforestry scheme in Guatemala,...
Author
Series
Breen and Tozer novels volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In London, 1968, the body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio. The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an inexplicable act of cowardice, this is Breen's last chance...
Author
Series
DS Alexandra Cupidi investigations volume 5
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
If only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, it would have been her who had discovered the dead woman. Convinced the report of a body on the beach is a false alarm, DS Cupidi darts to Folkstone with her daughter Zoe in toe to scan the area. But this time her instincts are off and it is Zoe who discovers Mimi Greene's body on the shoreline. A regular wild swimmer with her friends, it is perplexing that she would have been out swimming...