Girl Gone Missing

Chepstow Castle, Gloucestershire.

A woman makes a gruesome discovery whilst out walking her dog.

The body of a teenage girl has been washed up on the banks of the River Wye, after weeks spent decomposing in the water.

But this is no suicide.

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Memory Lane

Jack Willows and Claire Parker are on the case again…

This time a local police officer has been murdered.

Was his unusual sexual appetite the cause of his demise?

Or is this case deeper than it first appears?

Is it a jilted lover? A con...Read more

Hijack

The incarceration of an innocent, young Afghan man provokes his radicalised brother to hijack a Yorkshire commuter train in order to negotiate his release with the President of Afghanistan.

Oblivious to the event that is about to occur, Sergeant Billy Williams is talking on the...Read more

A Turbulent Priest

After five weeks of dry weather, the fields and roads of Lancashire are suddenly flooded by heavy Bank Holiday rain.

Roads are blocked, streams become impassable, and debris that has lain stagnant in the summer weeks is uprooted.

Among that debris - a body.

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Better Dead

In one of the loveliest bays on the Costa Brava, Ferdy, the charismatic yet mightily unpopular host of Bar Xerxes is found dead.

Out of the many foreigners who had settled in the bay, there were some who missed his light-hearted approach to life yet most were relieved....Read more

Dead Letter Day

Detectives Johnny Inch and Humphrey Nicodemus have resigned from the force and set up business together as Private Investigators.

When they were still in the force two brothers, Martin and Joseph Slade, had attacked a security van outside a City goldsmith’s, knocking out the...Read more

Death by Diamonds

Former British secret agent Bromo Perkins’ bid for a quiet life as a one-man travel agency in Melbourne is about to explode… 

Bromo survives mainly on coffee and malt whisky and blends street-wise hardness with a soft touch with the ladies. 

But before...Read more

Feeling Bad

Anna McColl has been telling lies…

She told her patient, Luke Jesty, that his violent fantasies were nothing to worry about.

She told her boss that Luke was stable.

And when the police called her, telling her that one of Luke’s friends had been killed, Anna...Read more

Dying to Help

Anna McColl became a psychologist because she wanted to help…

Struggling with her own anxieties and silly rituals, she delves into other people’s problems to try and avoid facing things happening much closer to home.

However, not everyone is willing to accept help, and...Read more

Hell Is Empty

On a lonely island in a Scottish loch, Donald Grant and his wife Kay are staying with his aunt and uncle, and their daughter Janet.

Three desperate men, looking for a hide-out have also come to the island.

Bull, Fred and Joe are gunmen on the run from a robbery, and...Read more

Miscarriage of Murder

Max Friteau stands to inherit a fortune one day from his late father — but only if he abides by the terms in his will.

Robert Friteau, a rich Belgian merchant living in the Friteau family home of Château Granbois, was violently anti-British.

Many years ago during the...Read more

Dancing with Death

Havana in 1925 thrills to the heartbeat of the sensuous rumba but it is also a place of corruption, state oppression, and rum...

Gangs of racketeers smuggling liquor into Prohibition America protect their operations with sprays of Tommy Gun bullets, providing political militants...Read more

Murder at The Open

Sometimes you really need a break…

Angus MacVicar and Aidan Campbell are both keen golfers, taking a much-needed break at the legendary St. Andrews during the Open Championship.

But their hopes of enjoy a relaxing week of playing and watching golf are disrupted when...Read more