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A DARKER PLACE
The frozen body of a man is discovered in a used car yard on the hottest day of the year, his face contorted by fear and pain.
Detective Kay Hunter and her team are assigned the case, but when they find out who their victim is, their worst fears are realised. There is another man missing – but is he a victim, or a killer?
A LETHAL DECEPTION
When a brutal attack on a business owner is followed by a suspicious death, the police first suspect the beginning of a new underworld drugs war.
Then a second victim is found dead, and the truth starts to look like something much worse.
A SILENT TRUTH
When the body of a young woman is found by the side of a quiet country road, police first suspect a hit and run.
Then a darker side to the victim is uncovered – a dangerous addiction that led to her violent death. With little sympathy from a local population, Detective Mark Turpin faces a daunting task to track down her killer.
ASSASSINS HUNTED
Eva Delacourt has been in hiding for three years after her fiancé was assassinated in cold blood outside the British embassy in Prague. She thought she was safe.
But someone in the mysterious Section has betrayed her, and now she’s on the run for her life. Her enemies are closing in, and the odds are not in Eva’s favour. For Eva, the nightmare is just beginning…
ASSASSINS ROGUE
An injured pilot discovers Eva Delacourt’s safe house moments before dying from her wounds, thrusting the female assassin into a global conspiracy.
Within days, a new war will begin in the Middle East, and Eva is the only person who can prevent it.
BEFORE NIGHTFALL
When Kate Foster secures a lucrative new job, her boss insists that she undertake a pre-deployment security and hostage survival course – a course that’s not meant to be easy, and one that Kate almost fails.
Six months later, Kate is working in Istanbul when a simple day’s task goes horribly wrong. Kidnapped and held hostage by a group of violent criminals, Kate must recall the lessons she learned during her security training in order to stay alive while she hopes for rescue.
BEHIND THE WIRE
Dan Taylor is trying to keep a low profile when an old friend contacts the Energy Protection Group seeking his help. The man’s daughter is alone in North Africa, and her life is in grave danger.
With a group of militants in pursuit and willing to do anything to stop Anna exposing their secrets, Dan must draw on old survival skills and luck to make his way across the desert landscape and ensure Anna and the evidence she has in her possession reach safety.
BRIDGE TO BURN
When a mummified body is discovered in a renovated building, the gruesome discovery leads Detective Kay Hunter and her team into a complex murder investigation.
The subsequent police inquiry exposes corruption, lies and organised crime within the tight-knit community – and Kay’s determination to seek justice for the young murder victim could ruin the reputations of men who will do anything to protect their business interests.
CALL TO ARMS
Returning to work after an enforced absence, Detective Kay Hunter discovers she wasn’t the only victim of her previous investigation.
But, as she gets closer to the truth, she realises her enquiries could do more harm than good. Torn between protecting her mentor and finding out the truth, the consequences of Kay’s enquiries will reach far beyond her new role…
CRADLE TO GRAVE
When a faceless body is found floating in the river on a summer’s morning, Detective Kay Hunter and her team are tasked with finding out the man’s identity – and where he came from.
The investigation takes a sinister turn when an abandoned boat is found, covered in blood stains and containing a child’s belongings...
GONE TO GROUND
While attending a crime scene on the outskirts of Maidstone, DI Kay Hunter makes a shocking discovery. The victim has been brutally cut to pieces, his identity unknown.
When more body parts start turning up in the Kentish countryside, Kay realises the disturbing truth – a serial killer is at large and must be stopped at all costs.
HELL TO PAY
When a road traffic accident on a dark autumn night uncovers a disturbing conspiracy, Detective Sergeant Kay Hunter’s investigation exposes a ruthless serial killer exploiting vulnerable young women.
With her enemies unmasked and her career spiraling out of control, Kay’s determination to seek vengeance for the victims brings her dangerously close to those who want to silence her.
HER FINAL HOUR
When a championship jockey discovers the body of a young woman during a cold morning’s training ride, the local racing community is shocked to its core. Everyone says she was the perfect friend, the perfect daughter and the perfect fiancée.
However as Detective Mark Turpin delves into the girl’s fateful last hours, he discovers a past full of lies and mystery.
LOOK CLOSER
Will Fletcher seems to have it all – perfect job, perfect life. Then in one act of extreme violence, his world turns upside down.
A bungled assassination attempt on a London street uncovers a disturbing conspiracy fueled by organised crime and political ambition. Then Will finds himself on the run, pursued by a dangerous enemy who will stop at nothing to protect his employer’s past.
MISTAKE CREEK
Nina O'Brien's life changes forever when a stranger appears at the door to her father's truck stop, bloodied and incoherent.
With nowhere to run, and no means to raise the alarm, Nina must decide who to trust if she is to survive the night.
NONE THE WISER
When a parish priest is brutally murdered in cold blood, a rural community is left in shock – and fear. New to the Vale of the White Horse, Detective Sergeant Mark Turpin discovers the murder bears the hallmark of a vicious killer.
After a second priest is killed, his broken body bearing similar ritualistic abuse, Mark realises there is a serial killer at large with a disturbing vendetta.
ONE TO WATCH
Detective Kay Hunter and her colleagues are shocked by the vicious murder of a teenage girl at a private party in the Kentish countryside.
A tangled web of dark secrets is exposed as twisted motives point to a history of greed and corruption within the tight-knit community. Confronted by a growing number of suspects and her own enemies who are waging a vendetta against her, Kay makes a shocking discovery that will make her question her trust in everyone she knows.
SCARED TO DEATH
When the body of a snatched schoolgirl is found in an abandoned biosciences building, the case is first treated as a kidnapping gone wrong.
But Detective Kay Hunter isn’t convinced, especially when a man is found dead with the ransom money still in his possession.
THE DYING SEASON
When a man is shot at point blank range outside an isolated country pub, Kay Hunter is thrust into one of the most dangerous cases of her career.
Uncovering a covert trade in outlawed weapons and faced with witnesses too scared to talk, Kay will have to do everything in her power to stop the killer and prevent another tragedy. Except this time, one of her team is in the direct line of fire…
THE FRIEND WHO LIED
Lisa Ashton is given a last-minute reprieve from death two weeks before her birthday. When she regains consciousness, she is horrified to learn one of her friends has been killed – and saved her life.
As she pieces together the events leading up to her life-saving transplant, she uncovers a trail of carefully guarded reputations, disturbing rumours, and lies. Soon, Lisa begins to wonder if one of her friends is hiding a terrible secret.
THE LOST BOY
When a young teenager is stabbed to death at a busy fairground, Detective Mark Turpin is assigned the task of finding the boy’s killer.
But this was no random murder. Mark knows the victim, and the man who ordered his death. Then tragedy strikes, and suddenly Mark isn’t just trying to solve a murder – he’s fighting for his own survival.
THREE LIVES DOWN
Dan Taylor survives two attempts on his life, and discovers the rest of his team missing. Now a terrorist group has stolen a radioactive isotope from a top secret government project.
Can Dan stay on the run long enough to prevent a nuclear disaster on British soil?
TURN TO DUST
When the body of a naked man is found in the middle of a barren field, a rural community is left in shock – and fear.
Discovering that someone is offering money in return for information about the dead man and anyone connected to him, Detective Kay Hunter realises there is a dark side to the victim’s past.
UNDER FIRE
An explosion rocks a Qatari natural gas facility… a luxury cruise liner capsizes in the Mediterranean… and someone has stolen a submarine…
Dan Taylor doesn’t believe in coincidences – but can he convince his superiors they are next in the terrorists’ line of fire?
WHITE GOLD
Plunged into a global conspiracy, Dan Taylor must locate an explosive device being smuggled towards London by a secretive organisation hell-bent on protecting its assets – and time is running out.
White Gold is the first book in an action-packed adventure thriller series that fans of Vince Flynn, Robert Ludlum and Lee Child are calling "a blast!"
WILL TO LIVE
When a packed commuter train runs over a body on a stretch of track known to locals as ‘Suicide Mile’, it soon transpires that the man was a victim of a calculated murder.
As the investigation evolves and a pattern of murders is uncovered, Detective Sergeant Kay Hunter realises the railway’s recent reputation may be the work of a brutal serial killer.
