A young woman's body is discovered on a deserted footpath . . .It seems like a simple crime for DCI Sophie Allen and her team to solve. But not when the victim's mother is found strangled the next morning. The case grows more complex as DCI Sophie Allen discovers that the victims had secret histories, involving violence and intimidation. There's an obvious suspect but Detective Allen isn't convinced. Could someone else be lurking in the shadows, someone savagely violent, looking fo...

Looking for a gripping mystery by a bestselling author? Packed full of twists, this crime thriller will keep you listening until the satisfying conclusion.Twelve-year-old Amy Birkbeck is checking her bat boxes late one cold January evening in the woods by her house.She witnesses something no child should ever see—a group of men rolling a body into the deep pool of the disused old clay pit.Meanwhile, DCI Sophie Allen's team is falling apart.O...

AN INTRICATE MYSTERY FULL OF BURIED SECRETSDetective Sophie Allen's daughter discovers the body of a reclusive tramp in remote woodland in Dorset. He's been dead for a week.Sophie and her team try to piece together something about his life, but progress is slow.NO ONE IS QUITE WHAT THEY SEEM.Then a hidden package is discovered near his rudimentary shelter. The police also find out that someone has been in the area asking abo...

DETECTIVE SOPHIE ALLEN IS BACK TO SOLVE HER TOUGHEST CASEAn undercover detective disappears. A retired prison guard is found dead.Drugs and contraband phones are out of control in the local prisons. How are they getting in?Can Detective Sophie Allen discover the links between these crimes?AND WILL SHE FIND THE MISSING DETECTIVE BEFORE TIME RUNS OUT?A shadowy group with more influence than anyone susp...

A young man's body is spotted in the stormy sea off Dancing Ledge in Dorset.Did he lose his footing in the gale force winds and fall in? Or is there a more sinister cause of death?Detective Sophie Allen's team discover some curious links to a suicide that happened six months earlier.A strikingly attractive female student connects the cases. Alarming facts slowly come to light as the team probes more...

TWO VICTIMS WITH NO PASTSA man is found stabbed to death on the Southampton morning commuter train.But why can't Detective Sophie Allen's team find out anything about his history? And why was he staying in a house that seems to be owned by a government security unit?Then there is another stabbing, this time in a refuge for abused women. And again, Sophie can find very little about the victim's life.HOW DOES ALL THIS CONNECT TO DESPER...

A COUPLE IS FOUND DEAD IN THEIR CAR ON A REMOTE NATURE RESERVE. WHAT DID THEY KNOW THAT WOULD MAKE SOMEONE KILL TO KEEP THEM SILENT?Full of twists and turns, this crime thriller will keep you turning the pages until the stunning conclusion.Sylvia and Ted Armitage, a retired couple, attend the wrong funeral service by mistake. A month later their daughter returns from holiday to find them missing. The police make little headway in tracing their whereabouts u...

A young man's mutilated body is found on top of the Agglestone...It seems that he was involved in a human trafficking and prostitution gang. But why is DCI Sophie Allen keeping something back from her team? Is it linked to the extraordinary discovery of her own father's body at the bottom of a disused mineshaft, more than forty years after he disappeared?Deadly Crimes is the second in a new series of police detective thrillers featuring DCI Sophie Allen, head of th...

Two women go away for the weekend, but only one comes back alive.Was it just the music they were into? And who was the man the victim met at the festival?DCI Sophie Allen is back in charge after the emotional upheavals she suffered in Deadly Crimes, but is she really in control? And Detective Constable Rae Gregson joins the team and immediately faces challenges that put her life in peril.Discover a gripping and detailed mystery that will have you hooked fro...

Devastating family secrets from the past. Sisters with a murderous rivalry . . .A family move into their dream home in Dorchester: it seems perfect, particularly for their two children, but when Philip and Jill Freeman move a buddleia bush, what they find buried beneath its roots will haunt them forever.DCI Sophie Allen is forced to probe crimes that occurred many years before, crimes that cause emotional upheavals within the local community. In a complex investigation, Sop...

The Hugo Award–winning author's "most memorable short stories . . . a tribute from those who best knew his work—his friends, fellow writers, and editors" (SFRevu).George Alec Effinger was a true master of satirical Science Fiction. Before his death in 2002, he gained the highest esteem amongst his peers for his pitch-perfect stylistic mimicry and his great insight into the human condition. Despite a life filled with chronic illness and pain, Effinger was a prolific...

A dark and gritty trip into the imagination of one of science fiction's most gifted authors, this collection presents all nine tales of the Budayeen gathered together in one must-listen volume. Here is the Budayeen: a gritty fusion of Bogart's Casablanca, New Orleans' notoriously seedy French Quarter, and a futuristic Muslim city, all welded together and serving as the perfect backdrop for Marid, a drug-addled policeman and anti-hero of world-class proportion. This is a collection to get l...