L’Inspecteur en Chef Jeff Barton est de retour pour enquêter sur une série de sauvages assassinats de jeunes hommes le soir de leur enterrement de vie de garçon à Manchester. Est-ce le fait d’un psychopathe ou, comme le soupçonne bientôt Jeff, l'oeuvre angoissante d’une personne agissant pour le compte d’une autre et prête à tout pour se sentir exister ?Durant l’enquête, Jeff est confronté à un vieil ennemi qui n’est autre qu’un célèbre gangster de Manchester. Mais ce maître du crim...

In un quartiere nella periferia est di Manchester diversi membri di una gang criminale vengono uccisi in maniera raccapricciante. Si tratta di una vendetta? La lista dei potenziali sospettati è lunga, e il sovrintendente con funzioni investigative Jeff Barton e il suo team devono convincere gli abitanti di un quartiere storicamente ostile verso la polizia a collaborare. Come se non bastasse, una donna anziana è morta sull'ambulanza che la stava trasportando d'urgenza in ospedale. Una ragaz...

When the father of British writer Peter Cross dies, a devastating family secret is revealed that puts Peter at odds with his two brothers. He's also executor of his father's Will and the stress of everything makes him want to get right away.He decides to take a train up to the Fylde coast and checks into a guest house in Lytham.And that's where his real troubles begin.On his first day there he meets Vicky, the owner of the guest house, and her son Cameron. He's a gr...

Patrick and Rhys fall for each other against the backdrop of the miners strike back in 1984. It is almost an impossible time for a striking Derbyshire miner to let his feelings wrap around those of a serving police officer but neither of them can help it, and they somehow manage to find themselves the time and the space to be together and share the joy that's exploded into the hearts of them both.But the strike isn't the only problem they have to face and one of them has to break t...

In una vecchia clinica nei pressi dell’Università di Manchester emergono i resti di tre esseri umani. La struttura, un tempo, era una casa di cura per ragazzi, ma il detective sovrintendente Jeff Barton e la sua squadra scoprono che, per un certo periodo, in essa si sono verificati violenze e abusi terribili. Le indagini conducono all’ex-direttore della casa di cura e a sua moglie, i Griffin, ora residenti in una villa in Spagna. Quando i segreti e le menzogne della famiglia Griffin vengon...

Los restos de tres cuerpos son descubiertos en una vieja casa cerca de la Universidad de Manchester. La casa solía ser un orfanato para chicos adolescentes y el Detective Superintendente Jeff Barton y su equipo descubren un periodo horrendo de brutalidad y abusos que tuvo lugar allí. Sus investigaciones les llevan al anterior director del orfanato y a su esposa, quienes son rastreados hasta una villa en España. Los secretos y mentiras de la familia son expuestos y la línea de víctimas empi...

El Detective Superintendente Jeff Barton ha vuelto y está investigando una serie de brutales asesinatos de hombres que están en sus despedidas de soltero en el centro de Manchester. ¿Pero es el trabajo de un psicópata o, como Jeff llega a esperar, es una historia aún más escalofriante de alguien que hará todo lo que sea por cualquiera sólo por encajar?Durante el desarrollo de la investigación, Jeff tiene que enfrentarse a un viejo enemigo, en la forma de uno de los gánsteres más fa...

Trois cadavres sont retrouvés dans une vieille maison à côté de l'Université de Manchester. La maison était autrefois un pensionnat de garçons et l'Inspecteur en Chef Jeff Barton et son équipe mettent à jour la terrifiante époque de brutalité et d'abus qui s'y déroula. Leur enquête les mène sur les traces de l'ancien directeur et de sa femme, à présent installés dans une villa en Espagne. Des secrets et mensonges familiaux remontent à la surface et avec eux leur liste de victimes. Mais Jef...

When LIAM TOWNSEND disappeared after abandoning his car a year ago, the police put it down to suicide. Then a year later the body of a woman is found in a shallow grave nearby and her DNA matches that which was found on the passenger seat of LIAM's because.VALERIE GARDNER was a close friend of LIAM's and walks into the Lytham office of PI STEPHANIE MARSHALL asking if she can find LIAM. STEPHANIE agrees but has no idea about the ulterior motive VALERIE has for finding LIAM and just ...

MICK just wants to meet the right woman and be happy. DOMINIC has always said that he doesn't want children because of the darkness that seems to be passed through the male members of his family. RICHARD just wants to be a father to his beloved daughters and can't understand why he has to fight for that right when he isn't the one in the wrong. TYLER needs to escape from having been controlled all of his life by someone who says she needed to 'protect' him and is urged by his cousin BRANDO...

Carl and Gina are both thirty. They've been together since the test was positive when they were both just fifteen. They now have three kids. They live in Newcastle. Carl has never been out of work. He's never been on the dole. He works as a labourer on construction sites. Gina has never had a job. Her mother, who Carl calls the mother-in-law from Hell because of her constant criticism and interference, told her at the beginning that it was Carl's job to provide.But when Carl takes ...

Canon Brendan O Farrell of Holy Saints Catholic Church, Salford, is nearing retirement when a series of gruesome murders takes place among his congregation. In this the second of David Menon's DCI Sara Hoyland mysteries, the detective finds that the trail of clues leads to questions that may be a little too close to home.