Someone is murdering people and leaving their bodies at sacred burial sites.Victims are poisoned with an obscure, but lethal substance - and there is no antidote.Detectives Jack Drummond and Nick Rougvie are being tested to their limits.They must catch this killer – and fast - before the body count escalates out of control.

A Loveday Mystery short story.Magazine editor, Loveday Ross, clashes with her policeman boyfriend, Detective Inspector Sam Kitto, when he warns her not to get involved in his high profile murder case.But Loveday is already involved. The dead man's widow has asked for her help.How can she possibly refuse?The body of wealthy Cornish boat-builder, Silas Venning, is found hanged in a remote wood. Gossip about how he met his demise is rife amongst the county's pa...

Escape to Cornwall and unravel captivating mysteries! Immerse yourself in the first four atmospheric Loveday novels, set amidst secret coves and charming fishing villages. Meet unforgettable characters and prepare for twists that will keep you guessing until the very last page.

When magazine editor, Loveday, inherits the ruins of a remote cliff top cottage her delight is marred by the mysterious disappearance of a young man from his narrowboat on a Cornish creek. Since he's a chum of her friends, Keri and Ben, she naturally wants to help. But things quickly escalate into a far more serious affair and it becomes clear that her involvement could be doing more harm than good. Despite Loveday's best intentions to steer clear of her detective boyfriend, Sam's, investi...

Murderous revenge. A killer at loose on the streets of Cornwall. Who will be next to die?An exciting, pacey police procedural with a difference. Start the series now!A bleak Cornish clifftop scattered with the derelict remains of old tin mines.It seems to magazine editor Loveday Ross that it is an odd place for an art class, but then her artist friend Lawrence Kemp has been behaving strangely.As they all arrive at Borlase Cliffs Lov...

Believing the remote Black Swan Inn, with its idyllic waterside location, could provide a romantic feature for her Cornish magazine, editor Loveday Ross, accepts an invitation to interview Marika Sweet. But the inn is not the idyllic creak-side hostelry Loveday had imagined.It's a dirty, derelict, boarded up building - and there is no sign of Marika. A friendly neighbour, Millicent Sproat, reveals the inn is now in the hands of notorious local criminals, the Clemo brothers....

Loveday's boss, magazine publisher Merrick Tremayne, has married his housekeeper, Connie Bishop, in Truro Cathedral. But celebrations in an exclusive country house hotel come to an abrupt end when a woman is found murdered in one of the upstairs bedrooms.Loveday's partner, Detective Inspector Sam Kitto, takes charge of the investigation. No one is allowed to leave the hotel. The situation is sensitive, but until his officers must interview everyone…even his friends are suspects.

When Silas Venning, boss of luxury yacht building company, Venning Marine, is found hanged in a remote wood, it shocks the whole of Cornwall.Gossip about how he met his demise is rife amongst the county's smart set.It looks like suicide, but his widow, celebrated artist Laura Anstey, tells Loveday he would never take his own life, and she pleads for her help.But Loveday has troubles of her own. News that a former employee of Silas's has been mown down by a hit and r...

It's a snowy December night and Jago Tilley is making an unsteady way home from the village pub. He doesn't know that by morning he will be dead!It falls to DI Sam Kitto, of Devon and Cornwall Police, to investigate the old fisherman's brutal murder, and once again magazine editor, Loveday Ross, finds herself involved in her policeman boyfriend's case.Suspicion falls on the dead man's disreputable nephew, Billy Travis. But what is his relationship with St Ives gallery owner...

Determined to dispel fears that her friend Hannah's caravan home is haunted, Loveday ignores the warnings of her policeman partner, Sam, not to get involved.But as she settles in to spend the night alone in the caravan things start to happen and her jewellery disappears.Confused, Loveday checks the windows - and shrinks back in shock. An apparition - filmy and white - is moving outside the caravan.Her heart is hammering. There are no ghosts! So what's that pounding ...

A man's body is pulled from the river in Inverness as the cathedral bells ring in a new year.The last thing Loveday and Sam want is for a murder to spoil their holiday in Scotland. But fate takes a hand. The man is Cornish, and events pursue them back to Cornwall where a major search is taking place to find a prominent missing businessman.When Sam realises the two could be connected, he and Loveday are plunged into a mystery that grows more complicated by the hour.The ...

A killer on the loose. The body count is mounting. Time is running out for him to be the good guy.A strangler is stalking Glasgow's red light district targeting prostitutes. The body count continues to rise as pressure mounts on Detective Inspector Jack Drummond to catch the killer.But the murderer is playing them...luring them into the shadows where they will find no clue - only another body.No woman is safe as the tense game of cat and mouse escalates. Drummond ca...