Something about the case disturbs seasoned DCI Gil Mayo from the start. If freelance journalist Rupert Fleming's death was a suicide, why were his briefcase and portable typewriter missing from the Porsche where the body was found? Then there is the post-mortem examination with i...
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When the quiet community of Ellington Close in the English country town of Lavenstock is disrupted by murder, DI Abigail Moon is assigned to probe into the mysterious death. The victim, a man fond lying face down in the dirt in a town allotment, has nothing in his possession to i...
Jack Lilburne has spent a long and distinguished career in the Prison Service, highly thought of as the just and humane Governor of Conyhall Young Offenders' Institution. But not everyone believes he deserves the honour and respect universally given to him. Someone believes he de...
For one terrible moment it seems that the house fire on Bessemer Street has taken the lives of two young Polish children. But the search turns up the body of a man.
The Reverend Cecil Willard was not one of those born to be loved. A scholarly and austere man, former headmaster of the local boys' school, his stern moral principles and die-hard opinions never endeared him either to those close to him or to his neighbours in the village of Cast...
Detective Sergeant Gil Mayo has a problem on his hands. Even Lavenstock isn't immune, these days, from the threat of drugs infiltrating into what was hitherto a town noted only for nice, ordinary crime. In the fight against drugs, his team seems to be getting nowhere. But when a ...
When local antique jeweller Nigel Fontenoy's body is found at his cousin's building site, DCI Gil Mayo and DI Abigail Moon think they have a simple case on their hands. Both detectives suspect that this murder is a family matter and they needn't search far down the family tree. A...
When the half-dressed body of Angie Robinson is found strangled in the lay-by on a lonely moorland road, it seems that her murder is the result of a random attack, for Angie has led a blameless life, with no interests other than her untiring support for the local women's hospital...