Modern Detectives

The first three crime thrillers in the Detective Sebastian Clifford series together in a single collection for the first time. Web of Lies, Book 1 A trail of secrets. A dangerous discovery. A deadly turn. Police officer Sebastian Clifford never planned on becoming a private investigator. But...

A rekindled friendship. A web of deceit. A father's worst nightmare. Private investigators Sebastian Clifford and Lucinda 'Birdie' Bird are tracking a sophisticated theft ring targeting Leicestershire's wealthiest estates. Priceless, valuable antiques and collectables vanish without a trace, and...

Contains books 4-6 of the bestselling, fast-paced Detective Sebastian Clifford series. Hidden from Sight, book four: A million-pound heist. A man on the run. A gang hellbent on seeking revenge. When private investigator Detective Sebastian Clifford is asked by his former society girlfriend to...

A mother's murder. A daughter's quest for truth. A killer ready to strike again. When Daryl Brackstone approaches private investigators Sebastian Clifford and Lucinda "Birdie" Bird about her mother's decades-old murder, she's hoping to finally uncover the truth. Her father died in prison for...

Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish. Deadly Games A killer's playing cat and mouse - and winning. DCI Whitney Walker’s in trouble. She’s threatened with demotion if she screws up another case. So, when a killer...

The next BRAND NEW instalment in Wes Markin's gripping, gritty, Yorkshire Murders series. To expose the truth, she must risk everything she has left. DCI Emma Gardner has retreated to Salisbury, leaving North Yorkshire – and her complicated relationship with DI Paul Riddick – behind her. But...

Meet Detective Inspector Zoe Finch. She's ambitious, determined, and damaged. And she's about to uncover evidence that could make her career... or get her sacked.

Detective Jack Warr is haunted by the gruesome legacy of serial killer Rodney Middleton and reeling from a series of events that has left him deep in depression. Refusing the Met-offered counselling service, Jack instead finds solace instead through renewing a dangerous friendship with the...

The higher you climb, the further you fall. On her way home after an overnight shift, DI Jan Talantire hears the control room relaying an emergency. Someone has fallen to their death from one of the highest cliffs in Devon. Jan is nearby so she agrees to hold the fort until uniformed cops arrive...

The darkest secrets lie right beneath the surface. On Boxing Day a mystery woman’s body is found washed up under Teignmouth Pier. She has no ID but is wearing a wetsuit. When the post-mortem shows heavy metal poisoning, DI Jan Talantire is called in. Talantire herself is caught in an ongoing...

Forty years ago, on a sweltering summer evening in southern Ohio, seven-year-old Michael Adkins vanished into thin air. Two years later, in the dead of winter, his case long gone cold, Michael's remains were found in a well-searched area, just one hundred yards from where he disappeared.

Australian jewel thief Wyatt has a bounty of stolen jewels and a yacht, but nothing can stop him from returning to his life of crime. He drugs his lover, police officer Liz Redding, and escapes into the night only to discover the gems he lifted are fakes. With his luck and his resources rapidly...

How do you find a missing girl who doesn't exist?

In a deadly game of cat and mouse, Detective Erika Foster confronts her greatest nemesis—where the lines of justice blur and secrets unravel.

What happens when someone's too scared to speak? Ex-police officer Sebastian Clifford had decided to limit his work as a private investigator, until Detective Constable Bird, aka Birdie, asks for his help. Twelve months ago a young girl was abandoned on the streets of Market Harborough in...

A local businessman is found tortured to death at the foot of Ohio's infamous Red Sky Hill. No one heard his screams. No one came to help....

A cryptic letter from a prison inmate pulls Detective Jake Cashen back into one of the darkest chapters in the history of Blackhand Hills.

The historical city of Chester has been rocked by the brutal murders of several young men close to the canal. DI Ruth Hunter is called in to track down the murderer – who the papers have dubbed the Towpath Ripper – before they strike again.

Tom Keeler finds himself in the town of Promise, Indiana. He just needs to drop off a package, then he can get back to the Florida sunshine. But nothing’s ever that simple. The package gets stolen, things get complicated. Linda Cartwright’s a happily married woman, and then someone tried to...

A vicious attack. A dirty secret...and a chance for justice. Ex-police officer Sebastian Clifford is quickly finding that life as a private investigator is never quiet. His doors have only been open a few weeks when DCI Whitney Walker approaches him to investigate the brutal attack that left her...

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway has excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle, once a prison. The body may be that of Victorian murderess Jemima Green. Called Mother Hook for her claw-like hand, Jemima was hanged for the murder of five children. DCI Harry Nelson has no time for...

Jan Nyman, the ace detective of the covert operations unit of the National Central Police, is sent to a sleepy seaside town to investigate a mysterious death....

Careful, exacting and ruthless, Wyatt is a consummate criminal and a solitary giant in Australian crime writing. This time it’s a payroll and bank run in the north of South Australia, an outpost town suddenly transformed by a pipeline construction project that brings petty crime...

When the body of a snatched schoolgirl is found in an abandoned biosciences building, the case is first treated as a kidnapping gone wrong. But Detective Kay Hunter isn’t convinced, especially when a man is found dead with the ransom money still in his possession.

In the hallowed city of Tours, the death of a sixteen-year-old dressed as an 'Immortal Knight' appears to be a tragic overdose. Juge d'instruction Matthieu Lombard is called in to investigate.

Meet Detective Inspector Amber Kash — she’s sharp, she’s stubborn, and after twelve years of policing she’s running out of reasons to stay on the force. But as Detective Kash is writing her resignation letter, she’s unexpectedly called to Summerfield Police Station’s interview room. Inside is celebrity psychologist Joanna Merrick, infamous for her role in viral true-crime documentary The Portrait Maker. The woman is nothing like she appears on screen. She’s dirty. She’s terrified. And she’s making an impossible claim.

One survivor. Two detectives. Twenty-four hours to catch a killer. Detective Sergeant Theo Wilde is out of second chances. After a five-month suspension that nearly ended his career, he's been given one last assignment: to guard Rachel Raines, the sole survivor and witness to a terrifying serial killer. Dubbed the ‘sleeping beauty’ by the press, Rachel lies in a coma in hospital, fighting for her life. But as Theo obeys his orders to watch over her, another victim is strangled in broad daylight.

A rekindled friendship. A web of deceit. A father's worst nightmare. Private investigators Sebastian Clifford and Lucinda 'Birdie' Bird are tracking a sophisticated theft ring targeting Leicestershire's wealthiest estates. Priceless, valuable antiques and collectables vanish without a trace, and...

Identity theft is their business. They picked the wrong life to steal. Her private jet exploded and sank into the Pacific without a trace. Instantly, every record that proved her alive vanished. Now she's a dead woman with a pulse, surviving by her wits alone. Until the hunters find her. How many times does a woman need to die before she can live in peace? Twice is enough. Her third life just became Michael Flint's new case.

A brutal murder. A missing athlete. A detective with everything to prove… Working his first homicide case since relocating from the United Kingdom, Detective Sergeant Jack Lisbon must prove he’s got what it takes to perform in the heat of tropical Northern Australia. A mutilated body washes...

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time. Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing...

Carter McCoy is on borrowed time. The only thing that could get him to hit the road is a call for help from a friend. When that call comes in, he doesn't hesitate. Loading his dog Chester and his best friend, Ivana, into his truck, they head for California to help in a way only Carter can. Bree...

A missing girl. A terrified neighborhood. And a killer who's getting bolder. When a desperate family hires Logan Walsh to find their missing daughter, Lo steps into a community living under the shadow of fear. A serial killer is stalking the neighborhood, and the longer Shiloh Brooks stays missing, the more her family fears the worst.

A High-stakes Game of Dominoes Turns into a Deadly Who Dunnit. Lo Walsh is back in the PI game! And not a moment too soon. When a lawyer asks him for help, he's not sure he what he can do. TPD has his client cold for a deadly robbery. But all is not as it seems.

Cancel the wedding—the groom is dead. When a tycoon's son is murdered the night before his wedding, the enraged and grief–stricken father offers private detective Dan Reno a life–changing bounty to find the killer. Reno, nearly broke, figures he's finally landed in the right place at the...

Death is stalking the streets of Newcastle. An anonymous killer is offering the terminally ill a dignified escape. Mercy to some. Murder to others. DCI Jack Parker doesn't want the case. He has a secret of his own – an early-onset dementia diagnosis he's desperate to conceal. But the signs are becoming impossible to ignore. As his mind begins to betray him, the city faces its own moral reckoning.

One dead coach. Countless secrets. Zero suspects. Can Detective Lisbon find the killer? A hit-and-run victim lies shattered on a sunlit street. The victim: Dale Collins, legendary coach of the Yorkville Scorpions. After decades of heartbreak, his team was finally on the verge of their first...

One drifter. One kidnapped girl. One fight against the machine. John Sole never planned to stop in Turnbridge, Nevada. But when a local girl is snatched in a violent corporate power play, the haunted ex-cop makes a promise he can't walk away from. Caught between desperate small-time miners and a...

Introduction by George Easter, Editor and Publisher of Deadly Pleasures Magazine Legendary LA sleuth Jack Liffey is back, and facing down a changing world, when his brazen daughter Maeve enlists him to help find Benjy—a gay social justice activist gone missing. Meanwhile, a needless act of...

A county road crew finds an unidentified man in a drainage ditch on Millford County's western edge. Detective Sergeant Garrett Hale of the Millford County Sheriff's Department begins working the case with almost nothing—no name, no record, no obvious crime. The medical examiner rules the death exposure, hypothermia. But the investigation that follows pulls at a quiet, carefully constructed sequence of institutional decisions that stripped a man named Warren Pruett of his job, his housing, and his access to the systems that might have helped him.