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A physician fuels political uproar when she sticks to her findings When bodies of immigrants begin to wash up on a Hastings beach, no one would envy police doctor Callie Hughes' sad job of checking for vital signs or pronouncing death. Hughes works alongside detectives DI Miller and DS Jeffries, slowly cataloguing some dozen deaths from a boat suspected to have capsized during an illegal crossing from France to England. But one victim st...

Curiosity about a strangled lawyer leads police doctor Callie Hughes along a bumpy road to the truth. When a lawyer is found dead in his home, the circumstances are indeed strange, if not wholly suspicious. An act of auto-eroticisation has gone terribly wrong, leading to an unintended climax to his life. It is only after another lawyer is found dead in his former boss's pool that Dr Callie Hughes begins to suspect there is more to the deat...

An intrepid medic tracks a killer looking for the ultimate thrill. Police doctor Callie Hughes is having doubts about her life on the south coast after her boyfriend's move to Belfast, when a mysterious death draws her once again into a criminal investigation. A woman is found dead in a holiday let. There are no signs of sexual assault but her bruised neck and protruding tongue suggest foul play. Callie notes a small mark on the woman's pa...

A wily doctor goes out on a limb to find a killer Two elderly people passing is an unremarkable occurrence in the British seaside town of Hastings, and certainly not unusual for police doctor and medical examiner Callie Hughes. But what bothers her inquisitive nature is that both individuals had recently packed a suitcase. Not the obvious actions of those with one foot in the grave. Exploring further, Callie's colleagues find irregulari...

A police doctor tries to extricate herself from a tricky situation in this gripping medical thriller When human remains are discovered in the garden of a house in the seaside town of Hastings, Dr Callie Hughes can't resist trying to dig up the truth. However, her amateur sleuthing is put on the backburner when her car is vandalised. She seems to have a stalker, and they are becoming increasingly intent on terrorising her. DI Steve Miller...

A fugitive from justice, an impossible mission, and a taste for murder Nail-biting? You'll chew your fingers off! Hiding away in a remote corner of Papua New Guinea, odd jobbing as a photographer and trek guide, ex-mountaineer Peter Blake stays under the radar. A wise move, given he's wanted by the FBI. But when a shady character who "deals in information" approaches him, flanked by a couple of heavies, Peter's luck begins to wane. Amos ...

A totally gripping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat Max Donovan, a man who uses his knowledge of far-flung corners of the earth and a fair bit of muscle to 'fix things', is relaxing by the sea in Senegal. But his much-needed holiday after a botched operation in Malaysia, where he broke more than he fixed, is abruptly interrupted when a man is knifed on the beach. When Donovan makes chase, the killer steals his car. No...

An amateur sleuth is tasked with clearing the name of an accused man... Julia Ford's dream of running a bookshop in the small Somerset town of Biddle Rhyne is fast becoming a nightmare, with the lack of traffic and high running costs. So when the door opens, she hopes it will be a wealthy customer. Rather it is a desperate man - a local accountant whom the police have fingered for murder. Having gained a reputation for solving crimes, Ju...

A spellbinding mystery from a huge talent! Jason has put his past life behind him and is living and working in Nairn, way up in the Scottish Highlands, when he becomes fascinated by a group of his peers who party at the seafront. Isla, a bolshy and attractive member of the circle, sees that they are the object of Jason's attention, and invites him to join them later that evening. It will be a decision Jason will come to regret when, afte...

AN UTTERLY GRIPPING MYSTERY THAT YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN After a devastating house fire, a blame game starts to tear a family apart... When Alex Ross receives a phone call telling him that his house is on fire, he immediately drives home from work at full pelt. Noticeably distressed that his wife, Heather, may have been caught inside, his fears are apparently allayed when she soon joins him at the scene and explains that she had be...

The best light-hearted mystery fiction you'll read all year! New to the private investigator game, Edie Fox is delighted when a handsome American client with disconcertingly dazzling teeth asks her to find his missing cousin, Isabella. Especially when he leaves her a bundle of cash to get started. However, the case quickly gets complicated, and so does her life when a one-night stand from her Oxford university days gets in touch and asks i...

An unmarked grave, an old promise and a maverick detective... When an archaeological investigation of an old prisoner of war camp turns up several bodies in unmarked graves, it should be an open and shut case for DCI John Blizzard. But, on a foggy November morning, his instinct that something is not quite right is confirmed when forensics show that while most of the victims died during a flu epidemic after the Second World War, one of the ...

Detective Meadows investigates a bizarre death in a small Welsh town When the manager of a residential home for adults with learning difficulties is found dead in the freezer, the police investigation must tread carefully. Many of the residents are vulnerable. But could one of them be the killer? Wonderfully named Detective Inspector Winter Meadows - hippie parents have a lot to answer for - leads the inquiry. He begins to uncover some irr...

A woman's memory about a fatal attack starts to return. But what she knows could endanger her life. One morning Gwen Thomas takes a short walk with her Siberian husky in the outskirts of the Welsh town she calls home. She is drawn to a desolate area where, some twenty years ago as a teenager, she was brutally attacked and her friend killed. Disorientated by a sudden rush of memories, she has a fall. Later, recovering in hospital, she beg...

A gripping DI Winter Meadows mystery set in the heart of Wales When Natalie Benyon's eighteen-month-old daughter Ella disappears from a housing estate, the police and local community act quickly to organise a search. Given the age of the child, once the local area is scoured, DI Winter Meadows draws the frightening conclusion that Ella has been abducted. The attention of the police focuses on the family itself: the lifestyle of the mothe...

The search for a missing detective brings simmering rivalries to boiling point... Some five years since parting ways, Detective Eleanor Rose receives a message from Daniel, her ex-boyfriend and former colleague. He is in danger. He needs her help. Eleanor is compelled to return to Liverpool, but dreads what she'll find there. Her parents are dead. She has no friends. She doesn't trust her old colleagues. And her half-sister... well... enou...

Private investigator Edie Fox gets a very novel assignment... Concerned that the live-in carers are stealing from his eccentric older sister, Dylan McCrimmon asks Edie Fox to keep an eye on her affairs. Given that Suzie led a colourful and eventful life, the plan is for Edie to masquerade as a ghostwriter helping to write her memoirs. Edie enters the bohemian Oxford household, wins Suzie's confidence, and soon warms to her study. But c...

More side-splitting amateur sleuthing in Oxford... Private eye Edie Fox wishes she could be half as glamorous and successful as her new client, Jessica Relish, who comes into her floundering detective agency in search of her missing husband Hugh. However, what starts off as a missing person case quickly takes a turn for the worse. When the handsome, charming, and much younger Hugh turns up dead in a wood, murdered, Edie is determined to di...

Few tears are shed when an ex-boxer and local hard man is found dead in a disused railway signal box. When DCI John Blizzard is called in to investigate, he discovers no shortage of people who would want the bully dead. But getting any of them to come forward proves difficult. Having interrupted the opening day of the public display of a steam engine that DCI Blizzard lovingly helped restore, few are keener than he to see the perpetrator u...

A desecrated grave, an unforgotten crime, and a no-nonsense detective on the case When detective John Blizzard is called to Hafton city cemetery to inspect a recently desecrated grave, he quickly suspects it is something to do with a girl who went missing years before. The grave belongs to the victims of an unsolved murder case, involving members of the family to which the girl belonged. DCI Blizzard is sure that the father was the culpr...