An addictive traditional British murder mystery featuring an unlikely investigator, and a carefully concealed crime.How far would you go to uncover the truth?When environmental health officer Kent Fisher investigates a workplace accident, the details raise awkward questions.Kent's determined inquiries uncover small but troubling inconsistencies that hint at past indiscretions better left unexplored.As resistance grows and old loyalties come under strain, Ken...

Royal Bargemasters have been serving their monarchs for over 800 years, yet their story has never been told. Always working in close proximity to their sovereigns, they have witnessed and played their part in many of the important events in our country's history. They have been close witnesses to rebellions and coronations, to initial courting and grand royal weddings, and added their colourful presence to the splendour of celebrations and pagean...

Imagine a perfect murder, an investigation where there are no bodies, and a killer whose crimes were perpetrated so long ago there’s no trace of them.You don’t need to imagine when you can read all about them in the first three Downland Murder Mysteries, brought together in this collection.Neither a police officer nor a private investigator, Kent Fisher is an environmental health officer, called out to investigate a fatal work accident at a flagship theme p...

A gripping British cold case mystery featuring an unconventional amateur sleuth, a lethal conspiracy, and a killer who leaves no trace.How do you catch a killer who leaves no clues?An old family friend asks environmental health officer Kent Fisher to look into the disappearance of his wife, who went missing more than a year ago.With few leads and no evidence of a crime, Kent makes little progress until he uncovers unsettling similarities that sugges...

A baffling British puzzle-box mystery featuring a cryptic deathbed clue, a luxury retirement home setting, and a relentless amateur sleuth.When silence hides the truth, who will speak out?At a luxury retirement home, where appearances matter more than honesty, resident Anthony Trimble unsettles those around him by predicting his own murder. Environmental health officer Kent Fisher finds no reason to take the claim seriously until Trimble dies. The sequence ...

A gripping British Christmas cold case mystery featuring exhumed skeletal remains, long-buried family secrets, and a retired detective forced to make a devastating choice.Would you confront a past that could be deadly?As Christmas approaches, murder is the last thing on Kent Fisher's mind.When contractors uncover the remains of a woman on the site of Kent's original animal sanctuary, long-buried family secrets surface. Secrets that threaten those cl...

A dark and gripping British cold case mystery featuring a thirty-year-old historic cover-up, a desperate race against time, and a family secret that threatens to destroy everything.Can the wounds left by the past ever heal?The decomposed remains of a murdered woman are discovered in a bedsit. Forced to confront a past he has tried to forget, Kent Fisher uncovers crimes that were brushed aside and concealed almost thirty years ago. Crimes that could destroy ...

A heart-breaking British suspense mystery featuring a missing honeymooner, the disturbing discovery of a burned-out car, and a devastating past secret that threatens to destroy everything.How can one reckless moment cost so many lives?As her honeymoon ends, Gemma Dean goes missing one chilly October morning, leaving behind her phone. Texts hint at secrets darker than Kent Fisher could imagine.When authorities find a body in a burned-out car more tha...

A gripping British investigative mystery featuring a targeted conspiracy against journalists, a cryptic digital trail, and an amateur detective defying police orders.When the truth puts everything at risk, who can you trust?When rescuers pull journalist Harry Lawson from a private swimming pool, his death looks like a tragic accident. Except for one troubling detail. Harry knew someone was going to kill him.The three text messages he sent to an old ...

A gripping British cold case mystery featuring a decade-old skeleton, a shocking family secret, and an underdog investigator torn between loyalty and duty.Who do you trust when everyone has something to hide?When the police discover the body of a murder victim, killed ten years earlier, on land once owned by Miles Birchill, Downland's wealthiest and most divisive resident, Detective Inspector Ashley Goodman is determined to make an arrest.Unfortunat...

A gripping British coastal murder mystery featuring a framed investigator, a trail of suspicious suicides, and a ruthless killer with a dark agenda.How far would you go to correct a past injustice?Did highway inspector Derek Forster take his own life after the death of his wife? If so, why had he booked his dog for grooming the following week?Was restaurateur Samson Capote, brutally attacked and left to die in his deep freezer, the victim of too man...

A gripping 20-year British cold case mystery featuring a vanished mother, a dark family secret, and an amateur detective who becomes the target.Are family secrets best left unspoken?One Friday afternoon, twenty years ago, Helen Cassidy left her office and never returned. Did she escape an abusive husband, or was she abducted and murdered?Now Mandy Paige wants environmental health officer Kent Fisher to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby. Wi...