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From hayrides, corn mazes, Jekyll n Hyde, warped games, witches, demons, and death personified, Autumn Nights: 13 Spooky Fall Reads brings together the very best in chilling tales to hear under a harvest moon. This audiobook is for those who get excited about Halloween and crisp fall weather (and yes, even pumpkin spice lattes). Are you the type to dream of windy nights and tumbling leaves even while summer days stretch on? Do you want scary bonfire stories with doses of humor and twists on classical tales? This collection is perfect for you.

John Meredith & Patsy Hodge are a detective duo who are excellent in their jobs but often secretive and conflicted in both their working and personal relationship. However, nothing gets in the way of them solving a case. Discover them and their world in this three book box set, full of murder, mystery, twists and turns and find out why over 60,000 readers have downloaded M K Turner’s popular series.

Detective Patsy Hodge has left her old life behind to start a new job with Bristol CID. She attends a suspicious death with her new boss: straight-talking, no nonsense Detective Inspector John Meredith. Within days the body count begins to rise, as victims, old and new, are discovered to have died by lethal injection. Assisted suicide or euthanasia? Meredith calls it murder.

Hotelier Stephen Sanderson is dead. Stabbed after hosting a police officer’s wedding. Chief Superintendent David Ashworth is a family friend of the victim and assigns the case to Meredith. Sanderson had a past that the family would rather keep quiet if it’s not related to his murder, but Sanderson’s life style provides the police with many suspects, including some in his own family.

Respected and successful barrister Bernadette Wiseman is dead, hanged in the hall of her home. With no sign of foul play and no note, the question raised is why? The police believe it was suicide, but Bernie’s partner, Annie, won’t accept that and instructs JJ Jenson to investigate. As JJ and his sidekick, Davie, dig around in Bernie’s apparently perfect life, they discover professional jealousies, sinister threats and dangerous enemies, but can they establish what actually happened? And more importantly, to honour Bernie’s own dedication to justice, can they prove it?

Meredith finds himself stuck between the Russian Mafia and the Secret Intelligence Service. But whose side has he chosen? His team are investigating a series of horrific murders involving the Russians, and are beginning to question where his loyalties lie. Even Patsy Hodge has her doubts. Hodge is working on an assignment that appears to be safe and boring. When she discovers there is a connection to the Russians, her relationship with Meredith places her in danger. Has Meredith overplayed his hand? The secrets and lies are mounting up and not everyone will get out alive.

When the body of a young woman is discovered in a field near Reading, it is linked to a similar discovery five years earlier. Both women had lived in or near Bristol, both had boarded a train at Temple Meads bound for London, but never reached their destination, and both were found murdered within a few miles of each other. The cold case review team in Bristol, headed by DCI John Meredith, takes on the case. With few leads to go on, and the passage of time, it was always going to be a tough case to solve.

Tom Large is an accountant, Liz Thorne, is his cleaner, and when Tom stumbles across the body of volunteer librarian, Denise Knight, the unlikely sleuthing duo find themselves hunting a murderer, and thereafter dragged into investigating other local crimes.

Meredith's team are horrified when the daughter of one of their own is taken from the park by a stranger. Her disappearance is only the beginning of a series of abductions of young girls in the area. To catch the abductor, the team must first work out what motivates him, but time is running out, and he might just slip their net. Hodge begins to question her new career as a private investigator. But a seemingly mundane case soon finds Patsy, herself, being interrogated and hand-picked for a very different assignment.

Meredith is keeping secrets from Hodge which can only lead to trouble and raise questions as to whether their relationship can survive. But their personal issues must take a back seat as Meredith investigates a series of mysterious and motiveless murders. His interest in proving the innocence of the main suspect is raising eyebrows. Patsy Hodge takes her first major case as a private investigator. She needs to find out if a successful business woman was raped by a colleague. Both cases need to be solved before Meredith and Hodge join the murder victims.

On the surface, John Meredith appears to have it all. He’s blessed with good looks and a successful police career, and he’s never short of female attention. But is everything as it seems? What lies beneath the smooth, confident exterior? Is he a man who has simply plastered over the cracks of a dysfunctional childhood, betrayals, and heartbreak? Can he allow anyone close or will they see the joins and the damaged person that he really is?

A self-confessed murderer has kidnapped one of Meredith’s officers. They want Meredith to prove an apparent suicide was, in fact, murder. He’s working against the clock, as the kidnapped officer has been locked away with limited food and water. Hodge is searching for the ex-husband of a prison inmate. She needs to establish he’s still alive, or her client could be charged with his murder.

Maggie Carter has had enough. Enough of working with politicians, enough of her husband, and enough of keeping secrets. The trouble is if she tells her secrets, dangerous people will be angry, and the one person she loves might end up hating her even more. A risk worth taking? Maggie lets her conscience guide her and Meredith and Hodge find themselves on the hunt of a serial killer.

Meredith and Hodge are stranded up a mountain with two dead bodies and a murderer on the loose, Christmas is put on hold until they can catch the killer. John Meredith has been coerced into joining a group of friends, in a castle on top of a mountain, for the Christmas holiday. His irritation at being dragged away from home soon dissipates, as he relaxes in the picturesque surroundings, enjoying the company of good friends. Even the sudden snowstorm is accepted without complaint; it will be a white Christmas. But then Patsy Hodge discovers a dead body in the salt box.

An unexpected gift is usually a good thing, but this particular gift will cause havoc, destroy lives, and eventually lead to murder. Teenager Teresa Walsh has problems. Feeling lost and alone, and unable to speak to her mother, she seeks help from a trusted source, but that makes matters worse...and then she disappears. Bridget Bearing is on a mission, she wants to find out what happened to Teresa, and contrives a plan to enlist the assistance of her daughter and granddaughter.

Ex-police officer, JJ Jenson, is a good man who has led a colourful but turbulent life. He’s seen death and destruction in its many forms. When personal tragedy strikes, JJ turns his back on his former life, and returns to his childhood home in search of peace, preferring to view life through the lens of his camera.

His dying mother, Sandra, is desperate to know what happened to her son. Believing the police have let her down, Sandra hires Patsy Hodge and the Bearing Witness team to find out the truth behind Jason’s disappearance, however devastating. When Meredith meets the Bearing women at a Christmas do, he introduces them to Patsy. The women begin working together to solve the mystery. But as they dig deeper into Jason’s last days, they put other lives in jeopardy. Can Meredith help them solve the mystery of what happened to Jason before the murderer strikes again?

Meredith is impatient to get back to work following his illness, but has a few matters to sort out, and a wedding to attend before that happens. The wedding is ruined when Meredith is arrested and his half brother turns up with a body in the boot of his car. The investigation reveals that Patsy and Amanda are being stalked and are in the sights of a sadistic killer. It seems an old adversary is trying to ruin Meredith’s life before he wipes out everyone Meredith cares about.

A missing actress. A bored writer. A matter of life and death when their stories collide…… Actress Wendy Knight thought her life was finally turning around. But when her ex came back into the picture, he wanted to take all of that away from her and more…and then she disappeared.

Cast out by his father, Jeremy Rossiter drove away from his friends and into a wall. Some 40 years later, half of those friends are dead, and Amy Cleaver, who was present on that fateful night, predicts her own death. In her will, she instructs her solicitor to appoint someone to find out who is killing her friends. He appoints Patsy Hodge. Meredith is investigating a gruesome murder. Wealthy jeweler Christopher Kentish has been leading a double life, which was brought to an end in the most violent manner. As their cases collide, Meredith and Hodge join forces to find a killer.