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Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of a town and the ordinary grievances that have slowly simmered for years before boiling over in an unthinkable crime, tells the story of a shattered family, a reeling town, and the two imperfect detectives trying to bring them answers.
Author
Series
Detective Kat Ballantyne volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Her career on the line and an innocent woman charged with murder. Can she save them both? As bogus corruption charges loom over her, DS Kat Ballantyne finds herself deskbound and stuck with cold cases. Her hated boss, DI Carver, has given her just one week to explain how £50,000 found its way into her bank account. If she can’t, she’ll be lucky to have a desk at all. Then a close friend calls her from a murder scene, claiming to have strangled...
3) Dark rooms
Author
Series
Jane Tennison mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jane Tennison is leading a murder investigation into the recent brutal death of a young girl, her decomposed starved body discovered in an old air raid shelter in the garden of the Lanark's now derelict house. Initially the focus is on identifying the victim, until another body is found, hidden in the walls of the shelter.
4) China roses
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
No one ever said: "See Norbold and die." So why would a man from DC Hazel Best's past cross England in order to get himself beaten senseless in this uninspiring Midlands town? Everyone assumes he was looking for Hazel. She can't think why he would; and when David Sperrin wakes up, he can't think why he would either. Amnesia - or something to hide? Flashbacks as Sperrin's battered brain recovers only make the case more troubling. His sharpest memory...
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When does a secret admirer become a stalker? When chocolates on the doorstep give way to the sound of an intruder on the stairs? When the victim's friends are waylaid in the dark and beaten bloody? When she receives photographs memorializing these events? Or when people start dying? For Constable Hazel Best, the pivot point is the attack on her friend Gabriel Ash. That's when she focuses all her ingenuity on finding the man responsible. Her police...
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As moorland fires sweep across the Peak District national park, hundreds of firefighters and park rangers battle to prevent flames reaching a remote inn, once a famous landmark but now abandoned and boarded up. The blaze is just one of a series of random acts of arson which have destroyed miles of heather moorland--and once the flames have died, a grim surprise awaits DS Ben Cooper and DI Diane Fry: a body--dead for years.
Author
Series
Detective Kat Ballantyne volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
DS Kat Ballantyne is still reeling from a revelation that turned life as she knew it upside down. But when a dog walker discovers the body of a woman among the standing stones known locally as the Three Sisters, there's no time to focus on her own troubles. Kat is drawn back to work to investigate. At first, the death appears to be an accident. But then Kat discovers an infinity symbol branded onto the dead woman's abdomen. She's convinced there's...
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