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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.

He protected wildlife. They protected criminals. Only one survived.** Andrew Mackintosh was a conservation officer investigating wildlife crime in the Cairngorms. Poisoned raptors. Illegal trapping. Protected species are systematically destroyed to benefit shooting estates. He documented everything, built cases against powerful landowners, and refused bribes and threats. They shot him in a remote forest and left him for the ravens. Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lynch—recently promoted but still fighting for respect—takes the case. What starts as investigating a murdered conservation ...

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 ...

She testified. She hid. They found her anyway. A morning walk. A remote Highland glen. A woman's body, still clutching her mobile with a final desperate message: "He found me." Emma Sutherland was a yoga instructor in Fort William—quiet, private, harmless. But Emma Sutherland wasn't her real name. She was Angela Morrison, a protected witness who testified against an organised crime network three years ago. The government promised her safety. They promised her a new life. They promised no one would find her. They lied. Now Detective Inspector Sarah Lynch must solve not just a murder, but a...

For fans of Tana French's complex conspiracies, C.J. Box's institutional thrillers, and Jane Harper's Australian crime fiction. Dr Sarah Thompson discovered the truth about Project Architect—the conspiracy beneath the conspiracy. A systematic programme that spent thirty years corrupting government officials, building networks of complicity, enabling crimes from weapons testing to elimination operations. Then someone murdered her to keep that truth buried. Former Superintendent Kate Hayes knows institutional corruption when she sees it. She exposed Protocol Seven. She revealed the weapons ...

An early-morning jogger is murdered in Hyde Park. It's the center of London, but no one saw him enter the park, no one saw him die. He carries no identification, only a water-logged phone. As the pieces unravel, it's clear that the dead man had a history of deception. Is the murderer one of those that loved him? Or was it someone with a vengeance? It's proving difficult for DCI Isaac Cook and his team at Challis Street Homicide to find the guilty person—not that they'll cease to search for the truth, not even after one suspect confesses.

Historians will wrestle with the echoes of the cataclysmic events, psychoanalysts will engage in perpetual discourse, and scientists, in their ceaseless pursuit of understanding, will grapple with the enigma that unfolded. Yet, none will definitively fathom the depths of what transpired. In the realm of lesser wisdom, amidst the clamour of social media enthusiasts, resounding declarations arise, branding Benedict Verrall as a madman. Some assert that the events in the quaint southern hamlet were nothing more than a concocted tale, a sinister government conspiracy. They dismiss Samuel ...

A deadly dive. A buried truth. A killer who knows the ropes. When marine archaeologist Dr Thomas Mitchell dies during a dive at a colonial shipwreck in Sydney Harbour, it's ruled an accident — faulty equipment, poor conditions. Detective Sergeant Natalie Campbell doesn't buy it. The gear was sabotaged. The dive log was altered. Someone wanted Mitchell dead before he surfaced. Mitchell had been documenting anomalies in the wreck — artefacts that didn't match the historical record, evidence that the site had been tampered with long before his discovery. His findings threatened to expose ...

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 ...

Perfect for fans of Brad Thor, Kyle Mills, and Tom Clancy It started in the Appalachian Mountains thirty years ago. It ends there now. FBI profiler Alex Harlan arrives in Seattle hunting Westfield, a Trust Council member whose quantum computing facility is days from implementing the Ascension Protocol—total control of global financial systems. But the investigation uncovers something Alex never expected: connections to his mother's murder three decades ago. Caroline Harlan's research partner, William Hayes, didn't just steal her environmental methodology—he used it to build the Trust's ...

The town needed a doctor. They got one who killed patients. They protected him anyway. When Dr Henry Lawson is found murdered, Warragulla loses the only physician within a two-hour drive. Detective Maya Thorne is supposed to find his killer. Instead, she finds a town that's been burying secrets along with bodies. Lawson was an addict. His hands shook. His judgment failed. Patients died — deaths ruled natural, signed off by a doctor too impaired to know the difference. And the town's leadership knew. They protected him because the alternative was no doctor at all. Now, Councillor James ...

Wool is currency. Silence is tradition. And a man lies dead with his own blades in his chest. In a Warragulla shearing shed, a body is found splayed across the board — a wool classer who knew too much about how fleeces get graded and whose pockets they fill. Detective Maya Thorne arrives expecting a rural homicide. What she finds is an industry rotten to the core. Fraudulent classifications. Rigged auctions. Land siphoned from desperate farmers into the hands of two people who've controlled the district's wool trade for decades: Sarah Kingsley, a landowner with a legacy to protect, and ...

In Broome's tourist-perfect marina, where million-dollar boats promise wilderness adventures to wealthy visitors, Special Investigator Odysseus "Odie" Kalaris is called to examine what appears to be a robbery gone wrong. What begins as a straightforward marina murder evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between luxury tourism and a sophisticated fraud network targeting elderly investors. When Odie's tracking skills expose crime scene staging, he must navigate both the predatory undercurrents of seasonal tourism and the complex relationships that bind Broome's ...

He poured their drinks. He heard their secrets. He wrote them all down. Albert Whitcombe had run the Warragulla pub for thirty years. He knew which marriages were failing, which deals were dirty, and which families had blood on their hands. He was weeks away from publishing a memoir that would expose it all. Then someone poisoned him. Detective Maya Thorne finds a manuscript with chapters missing and a town full of people with reason to want Albert silent. But one secret stands out — a hit-and-run fifteen years ago that killed a teenage boy. The driver was never found. Albert knew who it ...

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 ...

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?

On the bed, the naked bodies of a man and a woman. "Bullet in the head's not the way to go," Larry Hill, Isaac Cook's detective inspector, said. "Do you recognize him?" Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook said. "James Holden, from what I can see." "Rent by the hour?" "Not according to her handbag. There's a business card. She worked for the man." "You know this will be all over the media within the hour," Isaac said. "James Holden, a proponent of the sanctity of the marital bed, man and wife. It's bound to be."

One murderer, two bodies, two locations, and the murders have been committed within an hour of the other. There's a connection, but what is it? They're separated by a couple of miles, and neither woman has anything in common with the other. Isaac Cook and his team at Challis Street Police Station are baffled as to why. One of the women is young and wealthy, the daughter of a famous man; the other is poor and hardworking and unknown.

A dismembered corpse floats in a canal in London. Isaac Cook is baffled as to why it's there. Is it gang-related, or is it something more? Whatever the reason, it's clearly a warning, and Isaac and his team are sure it's not the last body that they'll have to deal with.

He was thought to be dead, until he returns to exact revenge against those who had blighted his life. His only concern is to protect his wife and daughter. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim.