British Serial Killers

7 gripping books! Not for the fainthearted. They are gritty and violent. The Child Taker Slow Burn Criminally Insane Frozen Betrayal Desolate Sands Concrete Evidence Three★★★★★ Gritty and gripping. An amazing thriller series, it's up there with the UK's best offerings. Free on Kindle Unlimited! ★★★★★ "Couldn't put this down. Fast-paced from the beginning." ★★★★★ "An impressive series. This author writes such gripping stories, I couldn't put them down." This author has 35 best-selling novels. This shows the depths of his storytelling. One of the best series you ...

The first novel in the addictive USA Today million-selling CSI police procedural series. 'Be warned - you won’t put it down ... ' -- LOVEREADING Forensic investigator Reilly Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghosts to rest and start anew. But a serial killer soon puts paid to that idea. A young man and woman are found dead in a hotel room, the evidence initially suggesting a suicide pact. But as Reilly and the investigative team dig deeper and more bodies are ...

Sherlock Holmes is sent to America to negotiate on behalf of Mycroft while a serial killer has Scotland Yard in a twist. The clock is ticking, and only Holmes can piece together the clues to stop the killing spree. With an ocean span away, Holmes's return is critical. He must make it back, but is there enough time?

She slept with the devil. She killed with the devil. She never stopped loving the devil. July 1963: All of England is rocking to the music of Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, and Elvis. It’s also the month when Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, two of England’s most prolific serial killers, would claim their first victim. He was a child they buried in the muddy, swampy moors near Manchester. Sleeping With The Devil: A Shocking True Crime Story of the Most Hated Woman in Britain is the tale of two bloody years in the 1960s. It was a time when British parents hugged their children a little tighter to ...

SERIAL KILLER MURDER MAP: UK EDITION - BOOK 1 Where the tourist trail ends, the murder map begins..! Behind Britain’s postcard streets lies a darker map - traced in blood and fear Take a chilling journey through the real-life crime scenes of Britain’s most notorious - and in some cases almost forgotten - killers. From the fog of Whitechapel where Jack the Ripper carved his legend, to the quiet terraces of Hyde where Harold Shipman betrayed his patients’ trust and killed around 250 of them, from the backstreets of Bradford haunted by the Crossbow Cannibal to the canals of Birmingham ...

The Hangman's third victim twists in the wind outside Inspector Hilary Casgrain’s new home. It's not the ‘Welcome To Elk Ridge’ message she was expecting. Hilary Casgrain just moved halfway across the country for a fresh start. She’s desperate to trade the shootings, corruption, and gangs of the city for small-town law enforcement. And she’s convinced that a steady diet of nothing more serious than drunken tourists and fender benders is just what she needs to get her life back on track. But a serial killer spoils Hilary’s dreams of a low-key career change. Her arrival in Elk ...

He’s already murdered eight women. Now, he’s coming for me. We find her on a grey November day on Dartmoor, England. I’m excavating a Bronze-Age cairn, expecting to find a burial urn and maybe some bronze tools if I’m really lucky. And then I see her fingers poking through the soil as if she’s trying to claw her way out of her grave. I’m an osteoarchaeologist, used to dealing with bones, and I know immediately she’s been in the ground for months rather than thousands of years. Then I find a message in the grave that’s clearly meant for me. It turns out the girl is the eighth...

REVENGE IS ONLY HALF THE STORY… An unreported disappearance. A crime hidden in plain sight. A temptation that threatens to corrupt even the incorruptible. When a corpse is finally uncovered, the dark secrets behind the crime are laid bare. But the dead cannot speak, cannot accuse, and cannot demand justice. It falls to DCI David Garrick and his team to piece together the clues and unravel a most peculiar and chilling case. Yet even as the investigation intensifies, Garrick is under pressure closer to home. Budget cuts, a wedding, and mounting personal crises force him to question ...

DCI David Garrick is haunted by the past—and it’s about to cost more lives. Still scarred by his sister’s brutal murder and tormented by visions he can’t explain, Garrick is barely holding his team together when mutilated bodies begin appearing in Kent’s picture-perfect villages. Each corpse carries the same grotesque signature: a trophy carved from the victim’s flesh. As Garrick digs deeper, he uncovers a hidden world of human trafficking and organised crime festering beneath the county’s idyllic surface. But with the death toll rising and no clear link between the victims, ...

A yearning to be free... Katherine was just nineteen when she met Basil Duckworth. He was charismatic, worldly, and impossible to resist as he spoke of freedom, adventure, and a life lived beyond the ordinary. With no hesitation, young and somewhat naive Katherine left everything behind and ran off with Basil, believing she had found the man of her dreams. For a while, it felt like the right choice. As they travelled from place to place chasing Basil's musical career, there were nights filled with laughter, stolen kisses under starlit skies, and promises whispered like prayers. But slowly, ...

What could be worse than being abducted, tormented, tortured? Finding out that the man you thought was sweet and kind is in fact a sadistic psycho? Who not only wants to make you suffer unendurable agony, but the ultimate goal is to eat you. This is the situation facing Amy. Her kind, caring nature leads to her downfall as she attempts to help someone she perceives as in need. Her world descends into a black pit of despair as she finds herself trapped in a cellar with four other young women. Each of them has a tale of unrelenting agony and torture to tell, a story so horrific it is the ...

How far would you go to save your child? This is the impossible question facing Lacey. Would you sacrifice your lover, your mother, your husband? Three families are torn apart, their lives shattered, everything they know turned upside down. when their children are kidnapped, the only communication they receive is a request from the abductor to sacrifice a loved one to be tortured to death. failing to follow the instructions will result in their child suffering that fate instead. Delving into the depths of a damaged mind, this novel contains some graphic scenes of torture and explores some ...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #11 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."WHEN BEAUTIFUL YOUNG SOCIALITE Scarlett Liddell apparently commits suicide during a ‘Murder Mystery Weekend’, extravagantly staged at a Lakeland castle, the coroner calls in DI Skelgill to tie up the loose ends. Post mortem results, however, cast doubt upon the provisional verdict – and circumstantial evidence begins to point to one obvious suspect – the woman’s multi-millionaire husband, Will Liddell. And when Will Liddell is accused of a separate ...

Some crimes refuse to stay buried… Taking leave from Kent Police, DCI David Garrick travels to the USA determined to finally close the chapter on his sister’s brutal murder—a case linked to a grotesque club of serial killers. Accompanied by journalist Molly Meyers, Garrick quickly learns that hunting killers across the Atlantic is far more dangerous than he imagined. And the last surviving killer has no intention of letting him find closure—they’ve only just begun. As the line between justice and vengeance blurs, Garrick is forced to confront his darkest instincts. Every decision ...

A body on the beach. A new life in jeopardy. And a darkness even Garrick has never faced. Recovering from past trauma and preparing for impending fatherhood, DCI David Garrick hopes for a fresh start. But the discovery of a body on a quiet beach threatens to shatter his fragile sense of normalcy. What begins as a seemingly routine investigation soon spirals into a grim web of criminal activity—so ruthless that even hardened gangs avoid it. Garrick and his team are pushed to the limits of their skills, facing danger, deception, and brutality like never before. With his unit under strain ...

A killer thought dead… is very much alive. DCI David Garrick’s worst fears come true when a gruesome discovery in his own home signals the return of a deranged serial killer he believed was gone forever. But this isn’t the end—it’s the beginning of a terrifying new chapter that threatens everything he holds dear: his career, his love, and his sanity. As the dark secrets surrounding his murdered sister resurface, Garrick is forced onto a case he never wanted—the kidnapping of a prominent businessman’s daughter. Racing against the clock, he and his team must unravel a web of ...

Reverend Charles Hepworth walks into the police station and places a blood-soaked knife on Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook's desk. "I killed the man," he says calmly. The vicar is a good Samaritan, friend to the downtrodden, almost a saint to those who know him. The dead man, Andreas Maybury, was not a man to mourn—but why would a self-professed pacifist commit such a brutal murder? Cook knows something doesn't add up. The confession is too neat, too willing. A man of God doesn't just suddenly kill someone, especially not with a knife. What drove a peaceful man to violence? Before ...

From the author of The Bestselling Bully Me - I Dare You: new horrors born in the mind of a child. On the surface, Anthony is a normal eleven-year-old boy. He likes books, riding his bike and true crime stories. However, his fascination with murderers takes a sinister turn when he secretly reaches out to an imprisoned, infamous serial killer and gets a cryptic reply. Concealing his macabre pen pal from his unsuspecting single mother, Anthony’s obsession grows stronger. The lines begin to blur between curiosity and malevolence. Can anyone unveil the truth and halt this budding monster ...

Who is willing to fully face up to their past? A group of teenagers promise to never tell. Ten years later one of them feels compelled to reveal their closely guarded secret. DI Fiona Williams is pursuing an unusual house burglar who takes personal trinkets while leaving valuable items behind when she is asked to review a case ruled as suicide. She's reluctant to choose between the cases, but there's a second unexplained suicide and she's forced to make a harder decision between making an arrest and saving a colleague. As she digs deeper into the deaths, seemingly unrelated current events ...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #13 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."MURDER ON THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS? When the exclusive London-to-Edinburgh sleeper plunges into a snowdrift deep in the Cumbrian fells, DI Skelgill awakes to discover one fellow passenger dead and another missing. Through a blinding blizzard Skelgill leads a daring evacuation – but even before they reach the sanctuary of an isolated coaching inn, a third traveller suffers a life-threatening mishap. As suspicion pervades the elite group of apparent strangers, ...