It's difficult to have any sympathy for a prisoner like Louis Trent – no matter how much the other inmates abuse him. For Trent is a child-molester, one of the nastiest kind. Just how nasty, the authorities and his tormentors are about to find out...Not much is going right for DC Danielle Furness. Chasing eleven–year-old runaway Claire Lilton along a wave-battered Blackpool seafront is only the beginning. Tonight Danny must end the affair with her married lover, which is bound to ma...

It's the world's brashest, trashiest seaside resort, alive with daytime fun and night-time thrills ... Blackpool, city of dreams. And for some, like Detective Inspector Henry Christie, a city of nightmares.Match day is never enjoyable for the police, their hands are full of petty crime and the cells full of yobs. So it's a good time for serious villains to pull a stroke. But a shooting at a newsagents and killing a police officer demands priority action. Even though the local polic...

Sometimes the old way is the only way… When a retired East End villain is murdered by a feral street gang, his brother Ritchie Archer returns to London from Spain to investigate.  With the police thwarted at every turn, Ritchie decides to take the law into his own hands and bring old school justice back to the streets of East London. Rounding up his old firm, he leads a vigilante crusade against the vicious young criminals, using every grisly method at his disposal to...

A TIME FOR JUSTICE is the first in Nick Oldham's fast paced, highly acclaimed crime thrillers featuring Henry Christie and is now available for the first time in e-format...As far as mafia hitman Jimmy Hinksman is concerned, working in Britain is a piece of cake. In his opinion, the police are unarmed amateurs and security is nowhere – at least that's what he tells his boss, Mr Corelli. Which is how Hinksman can clamp a Semtex bomb to a Daimler in a Lancaster hotel car park unobserv...

Blackburn on a Friday night at the beginning of summer is always a policing headache. But for the officers of Blackburn police station it's about to become a nightmare.When three police cars explode in quick succession in the station car park, it seems as if a spectacular terrorist campaign is underway. But as Blackburn's finest get ready to do battle with the IRA, the real action is going down elsewhere – a building society heist that is about to go badly wrong and which will have ...

George never meant to kill the thief – he was just defending his shop from the jacked up kids trying to rob him. Break the kid's jaw maybe, but not kill him. Later the doorbell rings and in revenge the gang swarm into George's house, beat him senseless, rape his wife, tie them up and set fire to them.It isn't long before Jimmy Vickers, George's son, is on the trail of the gang who murdered his parents, exacting his own kind of chillingly brutal justice. Jimmy is an interrogation sp...

George never meant to kill the thief – he was just defending his shop from the jacked up kids trying to rob him. Break the kid’s jaw maybe, but not kill him. Later the doorbell rings and in revenge the gang swarm into George’s house, beat him senseless, rape his wife, tie them up and set fire to them.It isn’t long before Jimmy Vickers, George’s son, is on the trail of the gang who murdered his parents, exacting his own kind of chillingly brutal justice. Jimmy is an interrogation spe...

A split-second decision has life-changing consequences for Metropolitan Police firearms officer Jessica Raker when she fatally wounds the son of a notorious organized crime chief during a robbery in Greenwich - and discovers her husband has been having an affair. With her career, her marriage and her life in danger, Jess is sent back to her home town of Clitheroe in the Ribble Valley to take up a sergeant role in Lancashire police. But as she throws herself into dealing with a hostage situ...

'A masterclass in thrillers' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'One hell of a treat' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Blown away, almost literally' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Wow, wow, wow!!' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Proper edge-of-your-seat stuff' Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Alex and Pip are in desperate need of an escape. Their stressful roles as hostage negotiators are eased on...

'I was hooked!' Meet your new favourite detective DCI Liz Field in this dark and twisty crime thrillerYou can't hide from the past…Fifteen years ago, five vulnerable teenagers took part in a life-changing study of OCD. Now, their psychologist has been brutally stabbed and left for dead.DCI Liz Field and her team have barely started their investigation when there is another frenzied attack. This time, the victim is one of the former ...

READERS LOVE BAD BLOOD:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Great read!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I was not ready for the end'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Kept me on my toes the whole time!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Loved it! So much suspense and lots of twists and turns'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Please, please, please can I have Sarah's next book?''An intricate, clever thriller that delves beautifully into family dynamics and small-tow...

'All the makings of a classic series.' - Mick Herron----------St Andrews, Scotland: When a woman's eviscerated body is found on the golf course close to the Fairmont Hotel, DCI Andy Gilchrist and his associate DS Jessie Janes are assigned the investigation. But the post-mortem examination uncovers a shocking detail that must be kept from the public...Who could carry out such a brutal murder? And what is the significance of the grues...