Run.Moonlight slants through the trees on the ancestral Dunlow estate, where a young woman runs for her life. Gunshots break the silence.The next morning, the body of seventeen-year-old student Melanie Pirt is found.DS Gabe Martin is more than ready to take the lead on her first murder case. Determined to prove herself to the cold and mysterious DI Juliet Stern, Gabe can't afford any distractions especially...

The brightest stars burn the fastest. The most twisted killers linger the longest.A derelict building in the New Forest burns down with someone inside it. Believed to be arson, DI Juliet Stern and DS Gabe Martin are called onto the scene to investigate. No one knows who the victim is or how they came to be there.When they discover the body belonged to Zara, a young influencer who solo-hiked in her free time, Stern and Martin delve into the circumstances surrounding her de...

Two detectives under fire. One missing student. No answers.Chaos breaks out as DS Gabe Martin leaves Southampton Crown Court. Gunshots ring out. She and DI Juliet Stern are hit. The culprit disappears without a trace.Despite her injuries, Gabe is determined to work. She's assigned to the search for missing art student Henry Garside. As she delves into his case, it becomes clear nothing about the investigation is as it seems.Is Henry's disappearance an isolated inc...

Run.When the body of seventeen-year-old student Melanie Pirt is found, DS Gabe Martin is more than ready to take the lead on her first murder case.Determined to prove herself to the cold and mysterious DI Juliet Stern, Gabe can't afford any distractions – especially not ones that wake her in the night, reminding her of a past she'd rather forget.Because while Gabe and Juliet have few leads, there are plenty of suspects. And every one of them is lying…The fir...

Two detectives under fire. One missing student. No answers.When gunfire erupts outside Southampton Crown Court, DS Gabe Martin and DI Juliet Stern are caught in the crossfire, narrowly escaping the assailant who disappears without a trace.Injured but unyielding, Gabe takes on the case of missing art student Henry Garside. But as she probes deeper, the lines between a simple vanishing and a complex conspiracy blur.Pressured by Juliet to track down their assailant, Ga...

Jealousy. Arson. Murder.When a fire claims the life of young influencer Zara in the New Forest, DI Juliet Stern and DS Gabe Martin face a web of suspects: her cold and distant boyfriend, her jealous best friend, an old acquaintance bent on revenge and a stranger with a history of criminal activity.As they investigate, Gabe's past resurfaces when The Barrel Man, the serial killer who kidnapped her and her brother as a child, abducts someone close to her.Detectives Ma...

One murder. Two bodies. A chilling island secret . . .Detective Fraser Brodie is at a grisly crime scene on the Isle of Harris. Local aristocrat Lord Edward Devlin has been brutally murdered, his skull bashed in. The violent and bloody scene is all the more shocking for the fact that the victim was eighty.As forensics comb for evidence they uncover a second body - but this crime is not recent. Why are these remains...

Every family's worst nightmareThree-year-old Rosie Logan is missing. Her mother, Maria, turned away for just one moment and now her life is changed forever. It falls to PC Lucy Halliday and her police dogs, Moss and Iggy, to find the girl, under the direction of Lucy's boss and friend, DCI Jack Ellis.The case brings up old trauma for Jack. His childhood best friend, Theo, went missing when he was eleven and was never found. This is Jack's...

The truth never stays buried.Lauren Shaw went missing ten years ago, her house left to rot. But new evidence shows that she didn't start a new life someone ended it.PC Lucy Halliday and her police dog Moss are called in as part of the search and it doesn't take Moss long to track down human remains. DCI Jack Ellis leads the case, but their friendship is on a knife edge after he kept a huge secret from her. A secret about Lucy's own past. And one she can't ignore any longer...

'Sean Watkin brings Liverpool to life in all its rich dark colours' VAL McDERMIDTime is running out to catch a killerTeenage girls are going missing across Liverpool. When the body of the third victim is discovered on the banks of the Mersey, the search for the culprit intensifies, and DCI de Silva is called back to work.Still reeling from the recent suicide of her husband and dragged down by the undertow of PTSD, de Silva has been struggling in self-imposed exile...

'Fantastic read!! The storyline was very interesting and kept me glued to my kindle! Packed with twists and tension, this is a crime thriller that demands to be read in one sitting!' Reader review, 5 starsCut. Slashed. Sliced.When Detective Fraser Brodie arrives on the scene of his latest case in the rugged outer Hebrides, he finds Simon Carver's body brutally carved up. In an even more sick twist, the man's tongue...

A detective searches for the missing - his ex-wife is nextWhen DI Sebastian Locke gets a call about his ex-wife, Charlie, he fears the worst.Charlie has been a drug addict for years, so Seb has anticipated discovering her death and wonders how he will tell Tilly, their teenaged daughter. But it's Charlie's boyfriend whose body he finds at the squalid flat and Charlie is nowhere to be found.But the case soon ramps up as more addicts go missing from t...