When the manager of Brockham's department store, Malcolm Graham, fails to turn up for work one Monday morning, his deputy manager calls the police. Malcolm is a workaholic, he lives alone and his colleague fears that he may have been taken ill over the weekend. When his body is found, DCI Roper and his team are confronted with a crime scene unlike any other they have witnessed.
Questioning the neighbours reveals little about this private man, but it appears that there are unpleasant undercurrents among the staff at Brockham's. Gradually the double life of Malcolm Graham comes to light and, with it, reasons for his ritualistic murder, a murder DCI Roper is not sure he wants to solve.

For one terrible moment it seems that the house in Bessemer Street has burned to the ground with two children trapped inside it. But close examationn of the charred wreckage reveals only one body, a Polish man, believed to be the children's father. Early signs point convincingly to arson and Gil Mayo sets his young colleague Abigial Moon to work on a murder enquiry.
Meanwhile, Inspector Martin Kite, recently returned to Lavenstock, looks into a brutal attack on the vicar's elderly wife. The two seemingly unrelated incidents suddenly converge as the CID team delve into the past and uncover a trail of events which lead from Poland to wartime England and on to present-day tragedy.

The new Chief Inspector Pel novel sees the quirky French detective desperate to catch a group of violent terrorists and devastated by the loss of one of his team.

Commissarie Pel hasn't been promoted which is disappointing, until he meets the new Chief, when it becomes disastrous. And that isn't the only thing he has to worry about. The supermarket at Talant has been broken into again; the night watchman attacked, his dog killed, and all that's missing are a couple of bags of groceries. Then someone leaves a letter bomb at the bank. While Pel and his team close in on the baguette burglar, another bomb explodes in the Post Office claiming the lives of six innocent citizens. Then a dangerous exercise by the antiterrorist squad leaves one of Pel's team dead. In sadness and anger, Pel knows he has to find the bombers before any more lives are lost.

It might have been just another unfortunate road accident, although the dead man had a criminal record. But a few little drops of blood point to murder and plunge Chief Inspector Colin Thane and Inspector Phil Moss of Glasgow CID into a full-blown investigation.
A check through police files identifies the victim as Sammy Bell, part-time mechanic and petty thief. Exploring his murky past and dubious connections, the two officers are catapulted into the shady world of stolen car racketeering. From motor showrooms and back street garages, the trail leads to a race circuit, and a second man has to die before the two Scots policemen head north to the grim Grampians where lives are staked on the high slopes of Ben Macdhui...

It has been a year since undercover officer Daniel Boyd, ex Metropolitan Police CID, was behind the wheel in a car crash that killed his family. With one undercover job under his belt, Boyd jumps at the chance of another assignment - and the chance to forget the life he once had.
The headmaster of St Clouds boarding school is found on the floor of his study, his throat has been slit and his colleagues can offer no reason why someone would want to kill the old man. However, it soon becomes clear that the behind the facade of this conservative boys school there is great unhappiness and a sinister connection with Dorset Army Base.
The Head of English at St Clouds asks Swanage CID for help. To investigate the boy's shocking allegation and the murder of the school's headmaster, Daniel Boyd assumes the identity of history teacher, Alan Soames.

When Veronica Harvey, a nervous woman prone to bouts of depression was found dead in the hospital grounds, her second husband, Philip Harvey, inherited the family business and the family home.
A careful businessman he has contributed greatly to the success of Workwear, he has a comfortable relationship with young Rhoda Jarrett and gets on well with his stepdaughter, Lorraine. However, his ordered life is turned on its head when he meets and falls in love with a young married mother.
As the pair become more deeply involved it is only a matter of time before they are discovered. Then Philip fails to turn up for a crucial business meeting. DCI Kelsey and DS Lambert begin their investigation with a double murder that has its roots in the past, but there is more tragedy to come.

When a TV chat show hostess phones Stella Naylor, PR queen, to find out why she's late on a lunch date, the man who answers demands a ransom for her release. Assistant Chief Constable Phil 'Sweeney' Todd, already highly sceptical about public relations, spin doctoring and image creating, takes charge.
Stella was on her way to see an old college chum when she vanished. Was it a publicity stunt, or has she been snatched to stop some sleazy scandal - her speciality - from coming out? How Todd handles his own public relations will determine whether, or not, he lands a post as chief constable - a job that he covets. Will he come through the media minefield unscathed?