Gordie MacLean, a 53-year-old bachelor detective, is content minding his own patch of Cape Breton Island with its rugged coastal landscape and low crime rate. When the remains of a missing person are discovered, though, he’s in the right place at the right time to be lead on the case. MacLean battles his Sergeant’s scorn and his own demons to prove that he can hunt down the killer, a killer who will stop at nothing to protect their long-buried secrets.For fans of P.D. James, this b...

As a new crime unfolds, Detective Gordie MacLean finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue that will test his skills and change his life forever.A local horticulturist has created a new rose variety that everyone is talking about. On the day of his big reveal, though, Detective MacLean is shocked to find Tommy MacNeil’s body amongst decapitated roses in the garden center.MacLean assumes he and his partner, Roxanne Albright, can approach the case as they have before. He doe...

Leaving her past in Germany, Gretha Braun’s new life on Cape Breton Island Canada is cut short when she is brutally murdered.With international and local pressures urgently demanding they find the killer, Detectives Gordie MacLean and Roxanne Albright sort through a suspect list that ranges from overseas to Maclean’s own backyard. Frustrated when he is relegated to a backseat role on the case, MacLean finds himself in a dispute with his partner as their priorities diverge.I...

Caught up in an investigation that threatens the lives of those he loves, Detective Gordie MacLean and his partner are drawn into a dark world far removed from the seemingly simple life of a lobster fisherman.In book two of the Cape Breton Mystery series, MacLean and Albright must untangle a web of treachery to solve the mystery behind an unexplained death before innocent victims pay the price.For fans of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell, Sea Child brings the classic police proc...

In Book Two of the cozy Canadian Cottage Country Mystery series, Real Estate Agent Shannon Coyne loves to explore the beautiful lake houses in her corner of Southern Ontario, Canada, never knowing what secrets a property may reveal.Her quiet life is ruptured when she and her cocker spaniel, Dusty, find a man’s overcoat in Rice Lake. The discovery sends her on a puzzling journey through the area’s intriguing history. Her investigation is complicated when Shannon realizes the lake pr...

Deep in a forest on Cape Breton Island, an eccentric woman lives alone, tending to her crops and secrets. When she is brutally murdered, detectives are puzzled about a motive until they delve into her past to uncover what she had hidden for many years.Acting Sergeant Gordie MacLean realizes his team members are in over their heads. Torn between empowering them and taking over the investigation, MacLean must ensure they stop the killer before they strike again, even if it means sacr...

Two little children are missing from the same seaside town, and only Kim Stone can find out why… With the investigation into the boys’ disappearance going nowhere, Detective Kim Stone and her team have been sent halfway across the country to help. But they have a second secret mission: to find out if the dark rumours about the local cops are justified, and if that’s why the children are still lost. Far from home, they must get close to their targets by pretending...

A broken city.Joe was a soldier in the British army. Now he's part of the underworld in London's east end.A hunted man.Joe is on the run from Hackney's most vicious gang. He doesn't know why, but they want him dead.A ray of hope.A twelve-year-old girl, a runaway, needs Joe's protection. She'll save his life. But can he save hers?

Murder. Secret organizations. Experimental technology. Horrific crimes...Detective Andrea Nox is investigating a bizarre and violent murder-suicide with far-reaching consequences, both for Beacon City and the people who run it. But all she has to show for her efforts so far are nonsensical clues and dead ends.Then, there's another murder.Journalist Robert Duncan is visiting home after a personal crisis when the unthinkable happens and he unearths lo...

A dark and dirty horror novel from the author of HATER and AUTUMN. 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION – now includes a bonus original STRANGERS short story EPISODE 5.A spate of brutal murders rocks a small Scottish town. The bodies of the dead are savagely mutilated and unspeakably defiled. There are no apparent motives and no obvious connections between the victims.Thussock is a close-knit community...

They thought they were safe. They were wrong.The murder of a young prostitute and a baby found abandoned on the same winter night signals the start of a disturbing investigation for Detective Kim Stone – one which brings her face to face with someone from her own horrific childhood.As three more sex workers in the Black Country are murdered in quick succession, each death more violent than the last, Kim and her team realise that the initial killing was no one-off f...

The truth was dead and buried… until now.When a collection of human bones is unearthed during a routine archaeological dig, a Black Country field suddenly becomes a complex crime scene for Detective Kim Stone.As the bones are sorted, it becomes clear that the grave contains more than one victim. The bodies hint at unimaginable horror, bearing the markings of bullet holes and animal traps.Forced to work alongside Detective Travis, with wh...