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1) No name lane
Author
Series
DC Ian Bradshaw volume 1
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Young girls are being abducted and murdered in the North-East. Out of favour Detective Constable Ian Bradshaw struggles to find any leads - and fears that the only thing this investigation will unravel is himself. Journalist Tom Carney is suspended by his London tabloid and returns to his home village in County Durham. Helen Norton is the reporter who replaced Tom on the local newspaper. Together, they are drawn into a case that will change their...
2) The child
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When a paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy, most readers barely give it a glance. But for three strangers it?s impossible to ignore. For one woman, it?s a reminder of the worst thing that ever happened to her. For another, it reveals the dangerous possibility that her darkest secret is about to be discovered. And for the third, a journalist, it?s the first clue in a hunt to uncover the truth. The Child?s story will be told....
Author
Series
Lotte Meerman volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Set in Amsterdam, the novel introduces Lotte Meerman, a cold-case detective still recovering from the emotional devastation of her previous investigation. A tip-off leads Lotte to an unresolved 10-year-old murder case in which her father was the lead detective. When she discovers irregularities surrounding the original investigation that make him a suspect, she decides to cover for him. She doesn't tell her boss about the family connection and jeopardises...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
It's been 10 years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared without trace. Then a letter from her father arrives - 'I need to talk to you. That girl. I saw that girl.' Has her father's dementia worsened, or has he really seen Corinne? Returning home, Nicolette must finally face what happened on that terrible night all those years ago. Then, another young woman goes missing, almost to the day of the...
5) The it girl
Author
Language
English
Description
April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. During their first term, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends: Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily. By the end of their second term, April was dead. Now, a decade later, the man convicted of killing April - former Oxford porter John Neville - has died...
6) Buried
Author
Series
Department Q volume 5
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Over three years ago, a civil servant vanished after returning from a work trip to Africa. Missing, presumed dead, the man's family still want answers. It is one of the many unsolved crimes facing Department Q, Denmark's specialist cold case unit headed up by Detective Carl Morck. But what Carl doesn't know is that the key to the investigation can be found right here in Copenhagen... Fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson is tough, smart and very suspicious...
7) Joyland
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, 'Joyland' tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Author
Series
Far South volume 2
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Aurora
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At the bottom of New Zealand's South Island, near the tiny harbour town of Riverton, Finn Bell moves into the isolated Smuggler's Cottage. He's running away from his old life and broken marriage, and still hasn't decided whether or not he's come here to die. At first, Finn dares to believe that he's building a new life with the help of new friends, counselling, a place in the local Murderball team. But chance encounters and odd occurrences convince...
Author
Series
Lotte Meerman volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Having been shot in the shoulder in the line of duty, Dutch police detective Lotte Meerman returns to work after four months of painful recovery - yet not all her colleagues are happy to see her. But department politics take a backseat when Lotte is called to investigate a worker's fall from the roof on a building site in the centre of Amsterdam. Frank Stempel's tragic accident becomes suspicious when Tessa, his widow, discovers human bones in her...
10) The good turn
Author
Series
DI Cormac Reilly volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When Peter Fisher is called to the scene of a supposed prank call, irritation turns to terror when he realises this is no joke. A young boy says he witnessed a little girl being bundled into the boot of a car, and Peter believes him. DI Cormac Reilly and Peter search frantically for answers, but find obstacles put in their way by the one person who should be helping them: Superintendent Bryan Murphy. Frustrated and severely short-staffed, Peter and...
11) One step too far
Author
Series
A Frankie Elkin Novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Timothy O'Day disappeared during his bachelor party campout in Shoshone National Forest. Five years later, he's still missing. But his father Martin has been searching constantly for him, even though it's now a hunt for a body. Tim's mother Patrice, is dying of cancer, and wants to be buried next to her son. Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman - not a detective, or private investigator. But finding missing people is what she does. When the...
12) When I was ten
Author
Language
English
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Description
Twenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and his wife Pamela were murdered in what has become the most infamous double murder of the modern age. Ten-year-old Sara Carter - nicknamed the Angel of Death - spent eight years in a children's secure unit and is living quietly under an assumed name with a family of her own. Now, on the anniversary of the trial, a documentary team has tracked down her older sister Shannon Carter, compelling her to break two...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex Dale is lost. Destructive habits have cost her a marriage and a journalism career. All she has left is her routine: a morning run until her body aches, then a few hours of forgettable work before the past grabs hold and drags her down. Every day is treading water, every night is drowning. Until Alex discovers Amy Stevenson. Amy Stevenson, who was just another girl from a nearby town until the day she was found unconscious after a merciless assault....
14) No man's land
Author
Series
John Puller volume 4
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
John Puller's mother disappeared nearly 30 years ago. Despite an intensive search and investigation, she was never seen again. But new allegations have come to light suggesting that Puller's father - now suffering from dementia and living in a VA hospital - may have murdered his wife. Puller is officially barred from working on the case - and faces a potential court martial if he disobeys orders - but he knows he can't sit this investigation out....
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