Kate Pearson is just coming to terms with the unsolved murder of her daughter Melanie when a message appears on her computer: " Why did you let him hurt me, Mummy? " Only Melanie`s murderer could be doing this - Kate turns his menace back on itsel...
Could the disappearances of social workers Dorothy Hardy and Ann Lee have anything to do with the child abuse scandal centred around the Calderbank children's home? There is also another possible link between the two women - their former colleague, C...
British barrister Clara Pascal stars in Darkness Falls and she has everything. A high-flying attorney and devoted mother, she was envied and admired by her peers. Now, robbed of everything that gave her life meaning, she lies chained to the stone wal...
Bled to death and left in a bin, the teenage prostitute is just the first victim. DI Jeff Rickman's investigation into the Afghan refugee's death leads first to the heart of a community who can't - or won't - talk to him. Then the investigation comes...
Attorney Clara Pascal thought she was taking on a simple child custody case.... Traumatized by her own recent experience as a kidnap victim in Darkness Falls, Clara is trying hard to keep the shadows of the past at bay. Her husband and young daught...
False Light, a short story by the crime novelist, Margaret Murphy, was first published in 'Liverpool Stories' (Comma Press, 2004). It then appeared in 'Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine' (Dell Magazines, 2005), and was featured in 'The Best British Myste...
A beautiful African princess is kidnapped and sold into slavery. With the spirits of her homeland beside her, she makes the best of life in the New World.
A handsome French plantation-owner's son is sent away from France in disgrace. With innocent...
A serial predator is on the prowl in Liverpool—seven victims so far—and he’s already chosen his next one. The police can’t catch him. He leaves no trace. No one has been able to provide a reliable description. Detective Cassie...
A woman’s body is found stuffed inside a wheelie bin, stripped of her clothes, drained of her blood, thrown out with the rubbish. Detective Jeff Rickman is on the case. Within hours, the police have their prime suspect. And it’s Rickman h...
Megan Ward goes missing, and suspicion falls on the stalker seen outside her house. Detective Jeff Rickman is brought in to investigate—it should be a simple missing person case. But the closer he looks the more mysterious Megan herself becomes...
Two women are missing already, snatched by a prowler in the night. Brilliant psychologist Christine Radcliffe fears she may be next—or at least that’s what she tells Detective Alan Jameson. But Jameson already has the prime suspect in his...
A body swinging in the trees. A mysterious hit and run. Detective Cassie Rowan tackles the most disturbing case of her career.Just before dawn on a clear October morning. Detective Cassie Rowan is driving home, exhausted, after a gruelling night on d...