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Sally Spencer
First in a new private investigator mystery series, an Oxford secret society is exposed after the murder of a seventeen-year-old girl.
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Tensions are running high in the small mining village of Bellingsworth. There has been a call for further strikes, and retired miner Len Hopkins, who was known to be against…
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Before she can even begin to track down the killer of the old woman dumped on the lonely canalside, Monika Paniatowski needs to find out who she is - and…
Nobody does seem interested in bringing the killer of sixteen-year-old Pearl Jones to justice. Not DCI Bentley, Woodend’s immediate boss. Not Deputy Commissioner Naylor, whose word is law in Scotland…
When a recently released prisoner claims in a deathbed confession that he is innocent of the rape and murder of a young girl for which he was convicted 22 years…
With the help of Paco Ruiz - a former policeman, living in disgrace since the Spanish Civil War - Woodend embarks on an unofficial investigation which provides more questions than…
When Captain Robert Kineally went missing from Haverton American Army base in Devon in 1944, it was generally assumed he had lost his nerve and deserted. But now, twenty years…
A man is found hanging from a bridge. A second is found hanged from a crane. DCI Charlie Woodend soon discovers that the men had served in the military together…
A charred body is discovered in an abandoned cotton mill, and the crime scene presents DCI Woodend and his team with many questions, but very few answers. As Woodend attempts…
Inspector Blackstone thought he was done with the army, but when a general he served with requests he investigate the brutal murder of his grandson–a young British officer in the…
The colliery village of Bellingsworth is already divided over an impending strike, so the last thing it needs is a murder, but that’s exactly what it gets when a retired…
When a body is discovered on a local allotment after lying buried for years, Monica Paniatowski has no real leads - until she sees possible links with a case she…
Bristol, 1991. On his way to a meeting with several members of Conroy Enterprises, Rob Conroy - black sheep of the family - is the only one to walk away…
Set-up and on the run for his life, Inspector Sam Blackstone must uncover the truth before he is convicted for murder.
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The discovery of Bradley Pine’s body in a lay-by off a busy road clearly signals the end of his bid to win the local bye-election. But what is even clearer…
Sam Blackstone has only gone to New York to pick up a prisoner, but he soon finds himself drafted in to investigate the murder of Inspector O'Brien, a man famed…
Oxford, 1975. Three years ago, world-renowned anthropologist Grace Stockton was slain in a brutal, unprovoked attack which left the police baffled. But Grace’s daughter refuses to accept that the trail…
A charred body is discovered in a cotton mill, and the crime scene presents DCI Woodend and his team with many questions, but very few answers. Who would want to…
A man and a young woman are found blasted away by a rifle in a remote farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. But where is the farmer and who on earth…
The theft of the fabulous Faberge golden egg from a Russian country estate goes far beyond the bounds of mere robbery. The victim is the Prince of Wales, the egg…
It is a worried letter for Tom Yardley, an old army comrade who once saved his life, that takes Inspector Sam Blackstone to the salt mining village of Marston. But…
Angela Jackson has been missing for more than 24 hours and, in the opinion of Dr. Stevenson, the psychiatrist who DCI Charlie Woodend turns to for advice, her kidnapper will…
When a young girl, Jill Harris, is murdered, the case soon becomes personal for Monika Paniatowski. She saw the victim looking distressed only hours before she was killed, and Jill…
Blackstone is still reluctantly seconded to the NYPD, and, to make matters worse, he finds himself in charge of an investigation no one else wants - the kidnapping of Big…
If the Fire Bug’s true purpose is to make the government hand over 100000 pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to apply the necessary pressure? And why firebomb a…
When Eddie Barnes, of popular group The Seagulls, is electrocuted on stage in front of 300 adoring fans, Chief Inspector Charlie Woodend can’t understand why Eddie’s mother says he had…
Blackstone and the Rendezvous with Death is an expertly plotted Victorian mystery that will keep readers guessing to the last page.
The last thing Inspector Blackstone wants to do is investigate the murder of a young lieutenant on the Western Front, but he owes a debt to the soldier’s grandfather. When…
Never before has DCI Woodend had to work under such terrible and terrifying pressure. He has just a few days, at the most, to find a flaw in the weighty…
Despite being retired from the Force, ex-DCI Monika Paniatowski doesn't hesitate to help when her former sergeant, Kate Meadows, gets mixed up in a crime she didn't commit. But as…
When criminal-turned-club-owner, Robbie, is murdered, Woodend and Rutter investigate. Why was Robbie’s office broken into? What caused Robbie’s son-in-law to attack his own brother? Woodend uncovers several crimes, but he…
Despite being retired from the Force, ex-DCI Monika Paniatowski doesn’t hesitate to help when her former sergeant, Kate Meadows, gets mixed up in a crime she didn’t commit. But as…
When human bones are discovered in the cellars beneath St Luke’s College, two bodies, buried thirty years apart, the bursar, Charlie Swift, hires Jennie Redhead to investigate. As she uncovers…
When human bones are discovered in the cellars beneath St Luke?s College ? two bodies, buried thirty years apart ? the bursar, Charlie Swift, hires Jennie Redhead to investigate. As…
DCI Monika Paniatowski has never forgotten her first, difficult encounter with Whitebridge businessman Jordan Gough. Nor, she thinks, has he. So when he claims he’s been receiving death threats and…
It will be no easy task to fill DCI Charlie Woodend’s shoes, the newly-promoted Monika Paniatowski tells herself, but, given a little time, she thinks she can grow into them…
Nothing could have prepared DCI Monika Paniatowski for this. It’s not that the man’s throat has been cut but, rather, the way his corpse has been so carefully posed. Is…
The fourth book in the acclaimed new series. Monika, a detective, determines to spend time finding a young prostitute, but when a heavily mutilated body is discovered on the moors…
When the body of an American woman is found in the Prince Alfred Suite at the Royal Victoria Hotel, DCI Paniatowski is faced with one of the most baffling cases…
