Introducing the must-read, heart-pounding crime thriller of this year. The police receive a call. ‘ Please help. He’s coming. ’ The small voice is barely a whisper. ‘Who’s coming? Are you in danger?’ ‘ He has a knife. He killed her. ’ The line goes dead. Nine-year-old Anya crawls into a cupboard in her bedroom and calls the police again. The line connects as the bedroom door creaks open. ‘ He’s here . . . ’ A blood-curdling scream barrels down the phone, filling the earpiece of the operator. For the second time, the lines goes dead. Detectives Tanzy and Byrd are called to Anya’s home, a small, semi-detached property. They’re hit by the familiar smell of death. Something terrible happened here — and it’s up to Tanzy and Byrd to pull together the pieces of this terrifying puzzle. This propulsive, unputdownable novel is perfect for fans of D.S. Butler, Charlie Gallagher, Rachel McLean, Emmy Ellis, Alex Smith and Joy Ellis. READERS LOVE THE LITTLE GIRL IN THE WARDROBE : ????? ‘ The story line is so good and I don’t think I’ve read anything like it before.’ Laura S. ????? ‘Thrilling until the end. I couldn’t put it down. It was a spine-tingling roller-coaster ride that keeps you awake at night, and I loved every minute of it .’ Bitsy M. ????? ‘Great read!!! Wow what a chilling thriller . . . some wild twists and turns!’ Debbie B. ????? ‘ This book is stunning and Grayson is quickly becoming an author whose books I don’t want to miss.’ Laura S. ????? ‘Everything I expect from a five-star crime thriller and so much more. This book had me constantly holding my breath.’ Peggy B. ????? ‘I got this book yesterday and I couldn’t put it down ! I really enjoyed it.’ Amber O. MEET THE DETECTIVES With his square jaw and light South African lilt, Detective Orion Tanzy is considered quite the catch in Darlington. But Tanzy is devoted to his wife Pip. She’s had her struggles, but together they’re raising their two beautiful young children. Tanzy studied forensic science at university, and after joining the force moved up the ranks to join Max as a detective inspector. The dream of working in forensics may have faded, but Tanzy still watches Silent Witness and wonders how his career could have been. Detective Max Byrd joined the police force as soon as he turned eighteen. His father was an army man, but he encouraged a reluctant Byrd to try the police instead. Twenty-three years later, he’s not once regretted the decision. A love of takeaways means Byrd doesn’t have the same washboard stomach as Tanzy, but an even greater love of five-a-side football — and his new partner Claire — keep him in good nick. THE SETTING Darlington, in the far north-east of England, is a small market town where everyone knows everyone. It’s a proper northern town with a proud industrial heritage thanks to the old wool manufacturing industry. The bustling centre is the heart of the town, with the river Tees running around the outskirts, and, while it’s a busy little place during the day, at night, there are plenty of dark, quiet alleyways you’d do well to stay away from.

The old farmhouse on Little Wye Creek is creepy enough to be a murder scene, and there's even a dead man on the lawn, but Grace Reagan hopes the infamous Garret Bishop is just pulling another lame publicity stunt. Wealthy, eccentric Bishop has survived an avalanche, a hijacking, and a kidnapping plot. Did he die for real this time in a tragic accident, or was he helped along to his last headline? Bishop's death shocks everyone, especially Grace, who's so close to escaping the village of Mallard Bay she can nearly taste the lime in a Key West daiquiri. She has a few things to do before she goes, though, and selling the old Morgan farm is on the list. Even though the purchase contract in Bishop's coat pocket has a bullet hole in it, Grace isn't giving up. She's leaving Mallard Bay for good, and nothing's going to stop her, not even a murder. Book 2 in the Eastern Shore Mystery series. Can be read as a standalone or series entry point. A traditional mystery set on Maryland's Eastern Shore with dry humor, real stakes, and an amateur sleuth with backbone. For fans of Midsomer Murders and traditional small town mysteries.

Jane Delaney does things her paying customers can’t do, don’t want to do, don’t want to be seen doing, can’t bring themselves to do, and/or don’t want it to be known they’d paid someone to do. To dead people. Life gets complicated for Jane and her Death Diva business when she’s hired to liberate a gaudy mermaid brooch from the corpse during a wake—on behalf of the rightful owner, supposedly. Well, a girl’s got to make a living, and this assignment pays better than scattering ashes, placing flowers on graves, or bawling her eyes out as a hired mourner. Unfortunately for Jane, someone else is just as eager to get his hands on that brooch, and he’s even sneakier than she is, not to mention dangerously sexy. Just when she thinks her biggest problem is grand theft mermaid, things take a murderous turn. But hey, when you’ve teamed up with a neurotic seven-pound poodle named Sexy Beast, how can you go wrong?

GET THE *COMPLETE SERIES* OF GRIPPING BRITISH DETECTIVE MYSTERIES FROM A FORMER SPECIAL BRANCH OFFICER. PRAISE FOR GRAHAM ISON’S GAFFNEY AND TIPPER SERIES: ‘His story is plotted elaborately but convincingly and the settings are well-visualised.’ Financial Times ‘[The] author’s personal top-cop experience adds realistic tang.’ The Times ‘Altogether a police procedural to put beside McBain. In other words, top of the class.’ The Independent ‘Real old-fashioned policing at its best.’ Barry Scott This set of British detective mysteries is perfect for readers of Mick Heron, Ian Rankin, Jeffrey Archer, Peter Robinson, Stuart MacBride, Stephen Booth and J.M. Dalgliesh. IN THIS FOUR-BOOK BOX SET: BOOK 1: THE COLD LIGHT OF DAWN The body of a pretty young redhead is washed up on a French beach. Identified as British, her case lands with DCI Harry Tipper at Scotland Yard. Investigations reveal the young woman led a complicated life that touched the very highest offices of British political life. What secrets did she harbour and who among her many acquaintances would have the motive for murder? BOOK 2: CONFIRM OR DENY A traitor hides in MI5. The Director General brings in an outside team from special branch to investigate. DCI John Gaffney sets an elaborate trap to catch the defector. But an unexpected death leads him down another path. He must use his new advantage to sniff out the spy among a group of highly trained suspects. BOOK 3: THE HOME SECRETARY WILL SEE YOU NOW The Home Secretary’s wife and former actress, Elizabeth Lavery, is found strangled in her bedroom. This is no ordinary murder and there is no shortage of suspects. Lavery had connections with politicians, a peer of the realm and members of the criminal underground and threatened their reputations. As DCI Gaffney discovers more about Lavery, a devastating truth that threatens his own career looms into view . . . BOOK 4: A DAMNED SERIOUS BUSINESS London: a drunk diplomat is found slumped in a car by the police. His minor traffic offence leads to the involvement of security services and police forces at home and abroad, and eventually takes Gaffney and Tipper to Islamabad. There they are drawn into investigating the suspicious death of a British embassy employee which lays the whole network bare. GET THE COMPLETE SET OF POLICE PROCEDURALS IN THIS SUPERB VALUE BOX SET. MEET THE DETECTIVES Detective Chief Inspector Harry Tippper and Detective Chief Inspector John Gaffney are dogged investigators in Special Branch. They’ve each gained plenty of experience at Scotland Yard, which has given them just the right amount of cynicism to see through criminals with something to hide. READERS LOVE GRAHAM ISON’S GAFFNEY AND TIPPER SERIES ????? ‘ Positively awesome . If you like detective stories, this book is must read.’ Kindle Customer ????? ‘Excellent start to a terrific series. Enough twists and turns to throw you off the track up to the end .’ A.D. Adams ????? ‘ First rate . Obviously written by a professional police expert.’ Catherine70

Discover the BRAND NEW gripping Scottish crime series, from the author of the bestselling DCI James Craig series, John Carson. An absolute must-read for fans of Andrew Raymond and JD Kirk! 'A twisty, tartan-clad cracker laced with dark humour.' Bestselling crime author Ross Greenwood Some bodies just won't stay buried... After putting a stop to one of Edinburgh’s most notorious serial killers 3 years ago, DCI Liam Brodie is known as a man who can handle - and solve - the hardest of cases. But when he’s assigned to Fife’s Major Investigations Team, he soon realises that he’s walking into a minefield. The previous DCI is missing, presumed dead, and the case he’s been called in to lead becomes dangerously close to home. When a child’s bones are unearthed beneath the floorboards of an old house in Fife - the same house where his girlfriend, psychologist Ruth Campbell, grew up as a foster daughter - Brodie uncovers a tangled web of lies and jealousy. Ruth’s foster mother, now gripped by dementia, holds fragments of the truth but in a community haunted by its history, Brodie must navigate betrayal and buried guilt to bring a decades-old secret to light. But at what cost to those he loves most? ?? Don't miss this explosive start to a brand new series from Scottish crime writer John Carson! Praise John Carson... 'Broken Bones is a cracking start to a brand new series. Flawed characters, twists and turns galore and a brutal mystery that had me guessing until the end.' Bestselling crime author Wes Markin 'Always a five star for John Carson. His books just keep getting better and better.' ????? Reader Review 'Another great book from this highly recommended author. Hard to put down any of his books they keep you gripped from the beginning to the end.' ????? Reader Review 'OUTSTANDING!' ????? Reader Review 'A brilliant new series from one of my favourite authors!' ????? Reader Review 'Lots of humour and normality as well as intrigue and right at the end, the final, and most stunning twist.' ????? Reader Review

Everything a detective novel should be--gripping, clever, and filled with deep characters . Ninety-nine shovels of dirt on the grave, ninety-nine shovels of dirt… Brilliant but troubled Detective Kacy Lang and her partner, Dave Capello, aren’t the perfect detectives, but they are the perfect team. When the body of Kacy’s twin brother washes up from the icy depths of the Chicago River she’s positive she knows who did it. The same man who buried her alive two years earlier. A killer more ghost than man as no one had ever seen his face and lived to tell about it. Kyle had been a druggie and small time thug. He’d taken something, and someone out there was desperate to get it back. Bodies were piling up and her adoptive parents were at the top of Kacy’s list of suspects. The killer wasn’t finished, and the only thing she knew for sure… he was coming for her. A multilayered, fast-paced archaeological dig of a mystery.