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Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Peter Robinson, and Elly Griffiths A body preserved in a burning barn using Iron Age bog burial techniques. A second victim smoke-cured inside a hollow oak. And a killer recreating a controversial art exhibition from twenty years ago—one victim at a time. When DI Tobias Stone is called to a barn fire near Coniston Water, he discovers something the flames couldn't destroy: the preserved body of environmental activist Miles Cartwright, with a copper-bound shepherd's crook placed beside him. The preservation method—ancient bog burial—matches one element ...

When a retired teacher is strangled with headphone cables at a small-town radio station, the broadcast reveals more than dead air—it exposes decades of calculated revenge. Detective Maya Thorne arrives at Warragulla's community radio station to find Eliza Mitchell dead in the broadcast booth, headphone cables wrapped around her neck. The station has been broadcasting silence all night—but the digital recording system captured everything. Eliza, 63, was planning to leave town with her boyfriend Michael, 26. Their thirty-seven-year age gap had divided the community, with some calling it ...

Three Powerful Stories. Three Edge of Your Seat Thrillers. Three Books at a Discounted Price. Death at Coombe Farm (Book 4) - An idyllic setting. A violent death! If it hadn’t been for the circumstances, Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne would have said the view was outstanding. Up high, overlooking the farmhouse in the valley below, the panoramic vista of Salisbury Plain stretching out beyond. The only problem was that near where he stood with his sergeant, Clare Yarwood, there was a body, and it wasn’t a pleasant sight. Death by a Dead Man’s Hand (Book 5) - Dead Men don't commit ...

Angus Simmons had it made—until he fell from a London skyscraper. The television host and celebrated mountaineer was admired for his daring climbs and loved for his charisma. When he fell while scaling a building, it initially seemed like a tragic accident. Simmons was a meticulous planner who measured every risk. This climb wasn't even difficult for him. Then the autopsy revealed the bullet. Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook and his team at Challis Street become interested immediately. This wasn't an accident—someone shot Simmons mid-climb. But who could shoot a man scaling a ...

Perfect for fans of Jane Harper, Ann Cleeves, and Chris Hammer When local fisherman Richard Harlow is found dead at the base of Wirramurra Bay's limestone cliffs, Detective Jodi Brennan initially suspects a tragic accident. The evidence tells a different story: Richard was not alone when he fell. The investigation reveals Richard's new relationship with café waitress Lisa Templeton—and the dangerous obsession it triggered in Elaine Widcombe, the hardware store owner's wife. Behind Elaine's perfect community image lies a pattern of stalking, harassment, and escalating threats. As Jodi ...

He calls it education. Kate Hayes calls it murder. Detective Kate Hayes has spent eighteen months rebuilding her career after the Protocol Seven scandal. Now, leading her first major task force, she faces a killer who poses his victims like art—strangled, positioned facing east, left in South Australia's remote salt lakes to mummify in the harsh desert air. All solo female travellers. All independent women who refused to be afraid. All murdered by a man who believes he's teaching them—and society—a necessary lesson about the dangers of freedom. When the killer contacts Kate directly, ...

For fans of Jane Harper's THE DRY, Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad, and C.J. Box's conspiracy thrillers. Three years after exposing Protocol Seven destroyed her career, Detective Inspector Kate Hayes thought the conspiracy was buried. She was wrong. When Dr Robert Ashford is found dead in his Adelaide Hills home, the staged suicide fools everyone except Kate. Ashford was a Protocol Seven witness—one of the few who testified and survived. Or so Kate believed. The USB drive Ashford left behind reveals the devastating truth: Protocol Seven wasn't the crime. It was the cover-up. For fifteen...

In Warragulla, the powerful don't just bury their secrets—they kill to keep them that way. Detective Maya Thorne has made her peace with the town that broke her. She's back for good, navigating the treacherous currents of a community where founding families control everything from council chambers to morning tea gossip. But when corruption runs this deep, every investigation becomes personal. From race-fixing schemes that fund entire operations to historical land fraud that shaped the district, from medical negligence protected by desperate officials to wool industry deceptions spanning ...

Someone had once told Detective Inspector Keith Tremayne that some people were lucky and some weren't. Tremayne knew only one thing: the man lying dead in a pool of blood had qualified on the lucky after winning sixty-eight million pounds on a lottery ticket, but now his luck had run out. Tremayne knew the victim, Alan Winters; even knew his family. The man with all his new wealth had not hidden behind closed doors, fending off the scrounging relatives, the newly-found friends. That wasn't Winters's style. He had been out and about, driving expensive cars, living well.

Perfect for fans of Peter James, Ian Rankin, and Lynda La Plante Gary Harders confessed to murder two years ago. His fingerprints were on the weapon. Case closed. Now forensics has discovered a second set of prints on that same weapon—and Harders is recanting his confession. Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook reopens what should have been a straightforward conviction. The evidence that once seemed irrefutable now raises disturbing questions: Was Harders coerced into confessing? Whose prints are on the murder weapon? And why is everyone connected to the original investigation suddenly ...

Three bodies. Thirty-five years buried. One cop's signature on all three cases. Detroit detective Jordan Cross thought she'd seen the worst the city could offer. Then construction workers found three skeletons in a condemned basement—teenage girls, locked in and left to die in 1989. The department called them runaways. Closed the cases in days. Moved on. But Jordan finds the pattern. Same neighborhood. Same six-month window. Same investigating officer on all three reports: Patrol Officer Edward Brennan. Now he's Deputy Chief Brennan. Thirty-five years of climbing ranks. Seven ...

Two young lovers take a shortcut through a cemetery. They witness a murder. No struggle. Just a knife to the heart—all the hallmarks of an assassination. But who is the woman standing beside the grave at night, and why was she killed? Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook and his team face a case that appears straightforward until other deaths follow—seemingly unconnected, but tied to the family of one of the young witnesses. What started as a chance encounter in a graveyard becomes something far more sinister. The victim wasn't a random target. The location wasn't coincidental. And the ...

He destroyed careers. She exposed him. Now he wants revenge. Six months after exposing DCI Duncan Reid's corruption, Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lynch thought the case was closed. Reid disappeared before arrest, but his criminal network was dismantled. Justice was served. She was wrong. Reid emerges from hiding with an ultimatum: help him escape Scotland, or he'll destroy everything Sarah has built. He has evidence of her "illegal" investigative methods—boundary-crossing that technically violates Police Scotland regulations, but brought down murderers and conspiracies. He'll use it to...

In the scorching heat of Alice Springs, where temperatures regularly exceed 40°C, Detective Senior Constable Sarah Reeves is called to investigate when gallery owner Maxwell Reid is found dead among his prized Aboriginal artworks. What begins as an apparent poisoning soon reveals a sophisticated art forgery operation exploiting indigenous artists and their cultural heritage. When evidence points to multiple suspects—from rival gallery owners to exploited Aboriginal artists with legitimate grievances—Sarah must navigate both the brutal summer heat and the closed ranks of a town where ...

They came to heal. They never left. The Hillview Wellness Institute offers desperate people a second chance — exclusive treatments, remote luxury, and the promise of transformation. When drought exposes a body preserved in the cracked clay near the property, Detective Maya Thorne discovers that some clients got more transformation than they paid for. The dead woman wasn't the first. The excavation reveals another body beneath her. Both were guests who checked in and never checked out — their disappearances explained away, their families told they'd "moved on." Director Dr Martin Hayes ...

In the drought-stricken Kimberley, where water means the difference between survival and ruin, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is called to a sacred waterhole where the body of water project engineer Michael Crawford lies half-submerged, surrounded by poorly staged traditional elements. What begins as a murder investigation evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between ancient underground water systems and generations of deliberate deception. When a second victim—environmental consultant Rebecca Palmer—is found at another sacred site, Odie must ...

Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Peter Robinson, and Elly Griffiths A village drowned in 1935. A body hidden for fifty years. And a celebrated author whose career was built on murder. Unprecedented drought exposes the ruins of Mardale Green, a Lake District village submerged when Haweswater Reservoir was created. When human remains are discovered wrapped in plastic on the floor of the old smithy, DI Tobias Stone faces a race against time—rising waters will soon reclaim the crime scene and all its evidence. The victim: Elaine Carlton, a librarian who disappeared in 1972 while researching ...

Three Powerful Stories. Three Edge of Your Seat Thrillers. Three Books at a Discounted Price. Death Unholy (Book 1) - All that remained were the man’s two legs and a chair full of greasy and fetid ash. Little did DI Keith Tremayne know that it was the beginning of a trip into the murky world of paganism and its ancient rituals. And it was going to get very dangerous ‘Do you believe in spontaneous human combustion?’ Detective Inspector Tremayne asked. ‘I haven’t,’ Tremayne replied which did not surprise his young sergeant. In the months they had been together, she had come to ...

A mass shooting. An amoral Romanian gangster. A Russian oligarch who claims to be an honest businessman, but isn't. No one knows who was the target or why, but there are eight dead. The men seem the most likely, or could have it been one of the two women, the attractive Gillian Dickenson, or even the celebrity-obsessed Sal Maynard?

In the unforgiving heat of Central Australia, where the red earth harbours ancient secrets, Detective Sarah Reeves is called to investigate when the body of Ruby Tilmouth is found wrapped in a canvas swag and bound with wire on a remote access track. What begins as a murder investigation quickly becomes something more complex when a faded photograph found with the body connects Ruby's death to the twenty-year-old disappearance of Aboriginal teenager Jessie Coolwell. As Sarah digs deeper, she discovers Ruby was investigating Jessie's cold case, following leads that powerful local figures had...