Algarve Crime Thrillers

Michael Turner, a successful young crime writer, living in the Algarve on the southern coast of Portugal, discovers his friend has been brutally murdered and suddenly finds himself being asked to solve a real-life murder. He recruits his best friend, Doctor Samantha Clark, and working with Interpol and both the British and Portuguese police, they go undercover together and set about solving what becomes a complex case, taking them from Portugal to the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, South Africa and the Bahamas.

Michael Turner is a successful crime and travel writer, and a part-time police consultant, who lives in the Algarve region of southern Portugal with his fiancée, Dr. Samantha Clark, an ex-police surgeon who now runs her own private medical practice.

Michael Turner is a successful crime writer and part-time police consultant who lives in the Algarve with his wife, Samantha, an ex-police surgeon who now runs her own private medical practice.

The UK government in London is, to say the least, worried.They suspect a conspiracy of some sort is being planned by terrorists from three Middle Eastern countries, with the suspected aim of wreaking total havoc in numerous European and US cities.

While on a long weekend break in Paris, Michael and Samantha Turner go for a nice meal at an up-market restaurant, where seven of the other diners are poisoned and die in front of them. It is the first of many atrocities by "The Paris Poisoner". Michael and Sam decide to stay in Paris and with the help of their Interpol colleagues they set about trying to find "The Paris Poisoner".