I don't know how I'm going to win … I just know I'm not going to lose…Max Dauntless – The Fight Back Begins plunges readers into the perilous town of Arlingston, nestled in the north of England. It's the early nineties, and for Luke Sanders and Tessa Winters, the teenagers who are living through it, survival is a daily fight. Luke, a tenacious orphan with a rebellious streak, was driven by a desperate need to uncover who had murdered his father. Tessa, embodying the quintessential ...

Tough times make tough people.Max Dauntless – Some Kinda Hero, is the second instalment of the series. Luke Sanders and Tessa Winters return. The armies of the night had unleashed their nightmare, their barbaric riots having torn through the beleaguered town of Arlingston, leaving devastation in their wake. Lives have been lost, leaving behind a desolate landscape of shattered dreams and broken hearts. Nonetheless, the survivors persevere, resolved to rebuild.Despite uncove...

If you can't change the cards you're dealt, change how you play your hand!Max Dauntless – Us Against the World, is the third instalment of the series. Luke Sanders and Tessa Winters return. Following the Duke's death and his clan's downfall at the hands of the vigilante, as the town's gangs battle fiercely, the sinister crime lord, Mr Big, and his ruthless gang, Chaos Dawn, rapidly seize the town of Arlingston. Dominating the criminal underworld, the crime lord governs Arlingston w...

Damaged people are dangerous; they know how to survive and make hell feel like home.Max Dauntless – The Midnight Assassin, is the fourth instalment of the series. Luke Sanders and Tessa Winters return. The sinister crime lord, Mr Big, grows more powerful, his wicked influence on Arlingston intensifying as the courageous teenagers, Luke, and Tessa, fight his malevolent operations, from Chaos Dawn to the corrupt police officers.The mission to track down a bomb-making terroris...

Civility cracks under true chaos.Max Dauntless – Destroyer of the Underworld, is the fifth and final instalment of the series. Luke Sanders and Tessa Winters return. Doggedly, Luke vows to bring Tessa home. With Luke wrestling with his affections, he and Tessa are close to finally uncovering the truths they've always desperately sought.All the while, the ruthless crime lord, Mr Big, alongside his barbaric thugs, Chaos Dawn, and loyal followers, unleash their devastating pla...

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A deadbeat dad. A curious boy. A journo drowning in the past ... and a town full of secrets. Can the truth ever be found in a town called Treachery?***'***One of the Australian crime novels of the year ... A new Australian talent' The Australian'One of a kind' Malcolm Knox'The best journo-noir debut since Scrublands ... Mesmerising authenticity' Jack Heath...

It was the case that shocked the nation.On the evening of 20 April 2011, Tina Nash's life changed forever. After suffering months of beatings and domestic abuse at the hands of boyfriend Shane Jenkin, she was subjected to a barbaric and prolonged attack during which Jenkin beat her unconscious and gouged out both her eyes. When he was jailed in May 2012, people struggled to comprehend the scale of the violence endured by this attractive mother of two at her home in Cornwall.

A case so shocking it will push DI Kelly Porter to her very limitsOn a peaceful summer's morning in the Lake District, a woman's body is discovered outside a church. Left naked and exposed to the elements, her fingertips have been removed and her mouth stuffed with soil. A methodical but unhinged killer has arranged symbolic clues in the most brutal ways.DI Kelly Porter must decode this motive and bring the perpetrator to justice. But as more deaths occur, ...

Love drew them together – grief divided them. Take Me Home is a romance about second chances in life and marriage and about family found.Almost forty, Abby Taylor has built a new life for herself in the small country town of Bindarra Creek. When an old friend convinces her to give two adolescent boys a temporary home, she is torn between a growing love for these orphans and the grief in her past.After his marriage fell apart, Roman Taylor has focused on his...

A family destroyed by a legacy of liesWhen the elderly Earl of Lowesdale is found hanging from the rafters at Wasdale Hall, it's assumed he ended his own life. But the coroner finds signs of foul play and DI Kelly Porter unpicks a tangled story of privilege and deceit.Meanwhile, two young female hikers go missing around the Lakes and an urgent search begins. As links appear to other unsolved disappearances, Kelly and her team are in a race against time. Soo...

Prepare to be enthralled by the Lake District's greatest detective. Includes all three books in the unputdownable Detective Kelly Porter series; Dark Game, Deep Fear and Dead End.Dark Game: After a scandal forces DI Kelly Porter out of the Met, she returns home to the Lake District. Crimes in the Cumbrian constabulary tend to be minor, but Kelly begins work on a cold case that shocked the local community the abduction and...