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Meet Janine Lewis. A single mum of three and Manchester's newest detective chief inspector. Her cheating husband walked out the day she got promoted. Now she's six months pregnant with his baby and in charge of her first murder case.The body of a deputy head teacher is found on a lonely allotment. Gutted - his stomach sliced open - and left for dead.The only witnesses are a dying elderly man and a seven-year-old girl.And now the prime suspect ...

Respected Manchester GP Dr Don Halliwell is discovered brutally murdered one cloudy Autumn morning. Shot dead on the front door of his own practice, his shirt soaked in blood. Then his colleague Dr Fraser McKee goes missing. McKee's car is found at his home, violently smashed up. There's blood inside. That night McKee walks into the police station. 'Somebody's trying to kill me.' But just as Detective Janine Lewis is following McKee's trail...

The sun comes out on a Saturday afternoon in Manchester. Proud young mum Claire is watching her three-year-old son Sammy in the local playground. A little girl falls. Claire bends down to help. When she turns round Sammy is gone.As each day passes, the chances of finding Sammy alive get slimmer. DCI Janine Lewis understands his mum's agony - she has four kids of her own.Day nine. A little boy's body is found in a sewer. Wrapped in a sheet.But ...

Second day back at work. Detective Chief Inspector Janine Lewis drops off her seven-year-old son at school.As she drives off, a car breaks fiercely with a squealing sound. Janine sees the child flung to one side, the small body flying limp like a puppet, then landing hard. With a sickening feeling, Janine recognizes her as Tom's classmate - Ann-Marie Chinley.Janine gives chase, but the hit-and-run driver gets away.When she finally gets to work...

A community on the brink.An abandoned chapel burns. In this part of Manchester, destruction is not unusual. But this time, the body of a man lies inside.And it's down to Scott and Bailey to save them all...Detective Constable Rachel Bailey is struggling to come to terms with huge change, just as her partner, DC Janet Scott grapples with a horrifying tragedy. But they must put aside their own troubles if they are to solve this murder investigat...

A missing schoolgirl, a middle-aged recluse, an exploited teenager. Lives thrown into chaos and set on collision course. With the police in hot pursuit.Scarlett is dancing in the school talent competition tomorrow. Except Scarlett doesn't make it home from school. She's abducted by a man she never imagined she'd see again. A man on the police's most wanted list. Her dad.A race against time, played out in the brooding wilderness, the limestone ...

A missing schoolgirl, a middle-aged recluse, an exploited teenager. Lives thrown into chaos and set on collision course. With the police in hot pursuit. Scarlett is dancing in the school talent show tomorrow. Except Scarlett doesn't make it home from school. She's abducted by a man she never imagined she'd see again. A man on the police's most wanted list. Her dad. Ron has made a living as a house sitter since quitting his career on the front ...

A missing schoolgirl, a middle-aged recluse, an exploited teenager. Lives thrown into chaos and set on collision course. With the police in hot pursuit. Scarlett is dancing in the school talent show tomorrow. Nana, who Scarlett lives with since Mum died, reckons Scarlett will be on Strictly at this rate. Except Scarlett doesn't make it home from school. She's abducted by a man she never imagined she'd see again. A man on the police's most want...

A dead baby. A missing mother. A cradle of secrets.From the author of the Scott and Bailey series, Quiet Acts of Violence is a novel about family and betrayal, injustice and poverty, the ties that bind and those that break us.__________Has the woman killed her child? Is she at risk to herself? Someone in the neighbourhood of old terraced streets has the answers. But detectives Donna Bell and Jade Bradshaw find lies and obstruction at every tur...

Manchester today. A dead baby. A missing mother. A cradle of secrets.Has the woman killed her child? Is she at risk to herself? Someone in the neighbourhood of old terraced streets has the answers. But detectives Donna Bell and Jade Bradshaw find lies and obstruction at every turn, in a community living on the edge, ground down by austerity and no hope. A place of broken dreams. Of desperation. And murder.When a stranger crashes into Jade's li...

Manchester private eye Sal Kilkenny has a new client - elegant hotel receptionist Lucy Barker has been receiving offensive poison pen letters, and the strain is starting to show. Meanwhile, Mr and Mrs Ecclestone ask Sal to get some background information to help their house purchase. As she prepares to stake out the streets, a bitter cold snap brings arctic conditions. On the home front, why is Sal's daughter Maddy reluctant to go to school? A...

A moment of madness leads to a lifetime of regret, as two old friends reunite with a toxic combination of events spilling over into violence and murder. Staincliffe is a CWA Dagger in the Library winner.

This a wonderful novel, powerful, humane and moving. It's also one of the best police procedurals I've read this year' Ann CleevesHow far would you go to protect your child? Can you really keep them safe? What if who they are puts them at risk? And what if they have blood on their hands?Teenager Allie Kennaway heads off for prom night, cheered on by her dad Steve and little sister Teagan. But Allie never comes home, beaten to death in an appar...

No peace and goodwill to all men in Manchester . . .It's the countdown to Christmas and Private Investigator Sal Kilkenny is exhausted even thinking about the festive season - her life as a single mother is hectic at the best of times. So when she is asked to investigate a suicide that a grieving family cannot come to terms with, she turns the case down.Eventually, and against her better judgement, Sal is persuaded to look into the woman's las...

Can Sal break the conspiracy of silence that surrounds her latest case?Sal Kilkenny is asked to discover the whereabouts of Jennifer Pickering, disinherited twenty years ago. But it seems that now Jennifer does not want to be found. And as she spends her days tracing Jennifer, Sal's nights are shattered by a dangerous stint with the Neighbour Nuisance Unit on one of Manchester's toughest housing estates. In this highly charged atmosphere it's ...

Against the backdrop of Euro '96 and the soundtrack of Oasis, a summer of terror begins Private Investigator Sal Kilkenny has two very frightened clients on her hands. Debbie Gosforth is the victim of a deranged stalker, while teenager Luke Wallace is afraid he might be a murderer as he has, allegedly, stabbed his best friend Ahktar Khan to death. And then the IRA bomb Manchester's Arndale Centre and the city goes up in smoke . . .Praise for C...

A threatening situation, a fraction of a second is all it takes to make a decision - but what if it's the wrong one? Perfect for fans of suspenseful and psychological crime in the same vein as Sophie Hannah and Rosamund Lupton.

Discover every parent's worst gap year nightmareNewly graduated photography student Lori Maddox spends the year after university travelling and ends up in China where she finds work as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her parents Jo and Tom, who separated when Lori was a toddler, follow her adventures on her blog, 'Lori In The Orient'. But then all communication stops and when the silence persists a frantic Jo and Tom report her mi...

Passengers boarding the 10.35 train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston are bound for work, assignations, reunions, holidays or new starts, with no idea that their journey is about to be brutally curtailed. Holly has just landed her dream job, which should make life a lot easier than it has been, and Jeff is heading for his first ever work interview after months of unemployment. They end up sitting next to each other. Onboard customer ...