L.J Ross

When a man is found dead at the remote church of Heavenfield, DCI Ryan is the only other person for miles around. The police have no weapon, no motive and no other suspects. Already suspended from Northumbria CID, Ryan must fight to clear his name. But soon more than his career is at stake when prominent members of the mysterious Circle begin to die. Somebody wants Ryan's name to be next on the coroner's list, and to survive he must unmask the devil...

The circus is in town ... When a 10-year-old girl turns up on DCI Ryan's doorstep to tell him she's witnessed a murder, he has no idea he's about to step into his most spellbinding case yet. The circus has rolled into Newcastle upon Tyne, bringing with it a troupe of daring acrobats, magicians and jugglers - and one of them is a killer. Ryan and his team must break through their closed ranks to uncover a secret which has lain buried for eight years,...

The perfect escape ... Gabrielle Adams has it all - brains, beauty, a handsome fianc� and a dream job in publishing. Until, one day, everything changes. The ?Underground Killer? takes his victims when they least expect it: standing on the edge of a busy Tube platform, as they wait for a train to arrive through the murky underground tunnels of London. Gabrielle soon learns that being a survivor is harder than being a victim, and she struggles to...

There's something in the water ... When the ancient waters of Lady?s Well in the rural village of Holystone begin to run red, it seems to be a nasty Halloween prank and nothing more. But things take a sinister turn when the entire village suffers severe poisoning, and one old man turns up dead. Accusations abound in the small close-knit community, and ?old? religions spar against ?new? while fear runs like wildfire through the streets. With so many...

Kate Irving arrives at her grandfather?s cottage at Frenchman?s Creek in the dead of night with her young son, a small suitcase and little else. Its scattered community of fishermen, farmers, artists and jetsetters barely bat an eyelid, because theirs is a rarefied world, tucked beneath the lush forest that lines the banks of the Helford Estuary, deep in the heart of Cornwall, where life is slow and people generally mind their own business. Unless,...

A secret kept for a thousand years ... After the dramatic theft of a priceless artefact from Durham Cathedral, the rest of the world believes that DCI Ryan and his team were able to recover and return St Cuthbert's cross to its rightful home. But Ryan knows the cross he recovered was a fake - far from being over, their problems are only just beginning ... Just as Ryan and his team begin to unravel the truth behind the spate of mysterious thefts, something...

He thought he was invincible, but he was wrong ... When an old man is found dead inside the ancient hermitage at Warkworth Castle, Northumbria CID are called in to investigate. With no apparent motive, it?s their job to unravel why he was murdered - and this time they?re forced to do it without their star detective ... DCI Ryan is thousands of miles away. He?s tracked a killer across Europe and has sworn not to return until he has his man in custody....

After his climactic battle with notorious serial killer THE HACKER, DCI Ryan is spending the summer with his fiancee within the grounds of Cragside, a spectacular Bavarian-style mansion surrounded by acres of woodland. When they are invited to attend the staff summer party - a Victorian murder mystery evening - it's all a joke until the lights go out and an elderly man is found dead. It looks like an unfortunate accident but, as the dead man's life...