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Fans of Happy Valley will be gripped by this exceptional crime fiction series.

‘Ian Rankin...Val McDermid...Emma has joined an elite club of authors.’
Sunday Mail

An emotional rollercoaster charting the psychological meltdown of a mother with a deadly secret.

What was Tracey Kavanagh so frightened of she thought wiping out her family was the answer?...

How far would you go to make sure justice was done?

Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham and Angela Marsons.

A young woman is killed in a drive-by shooting. Key witness Abby Marlowe is in fear for her life. At first the case looks like a local turf war gone wrong, but someone in power is doing everything they can to cover the killer’s tracks. What...

A serial killer is on the loose…

No sooner has Detective Sergeant Kevin Coupland stepped off the plane from a family holiday than he gets the call that a woman’s body has been found on a path beside a recreation park in a smart suburb in Salford. Account Manager Sharon Mathers suffered a brutal blow to the head following a night out with friends...

The worst things happen in plain sight.

When he stopped a serial killer in his tracks earlier in the year he thought that would be the end of it, but for DS Kevin Coupland his nightmare has just begun.

A child’s body is discovered hidden in a bag, kicking off a major investigation for Salford Precinct’s murder squad. Soon the National Crime...

An accusation of police brutality

An unsolved hit and run

A social media minefield...

The murder squad’s resources at Salford Precinct Station are stretched to the limit. DS Kevin Coupland is called out to a fatal fire at a local residential home for vulnerable people, and immediately suspects arson. One of the victims is the sister of local...

A consultant is accused of killing his patients…

A local MP has murdered a call girl…

A teacher ploughs a minibus into a group of pupils…

It’s as though Salford is under a permanent full moon, not helped by the fact DS Kevin Coupland is fighting to hold onto his career.

Following an allegation that he was behind a prisoner’s murder in HMP...

Winter is approaching

A world gone mad

Two murdered girls

The body of a teenage girl is found two days after being reported missing. A discussion with the pathologist reveals that another girl was found in similar circumstances only her murder never made it into the press. When DS Kevin Coupland looks into the earlier case he finds out-dated...

To love, honour, cherish, kill...

The investigation into the murder of an investment banker reveals a hidden side to sharp-suited victim Adam Sinclair - and a cast-iron reason why someone would want him dead. The problem is DS Kevin Coupland knows the chief suspect. Not a friend in the conventional sense, but certainly the closest he’s had to...

BLOOD SWEAT AND FEARS

There is one predator who has eluded DS Kevin Coupland for the past five years. One predator who recruits like-minded sickos to do his bidding. One predator, with rich and powerful allies willing to do anything to protect his identity: The Dutchman.

Coupland, seconded to a specialist taskforce to track him down, doesn’t know...

‘Emma has joined an elite club of authors.’
Sunday Mail

FRAGILE CORD

An emotional rollercoaster charting the psychological meltdown of a mother with a deadly secret.

What was Tracey Kavanagh so frightened of she thought wiping out her family was the answer?

Introducing Salford detectives Kevin Coupland and Alex Moreton as they investigate what...

A gritty psychological thriller perfect for fans of JD Kirk, Stuart MacBride and Denise Mina.

Imagine you’ve just witnessed a murder.
And you’re now being framed for it.
Only the person framing you is a cop...

Davy Johnson is a young man from the wrong side of the tracks with a target on his back. After a spell in prison he is trying to make a life...

The Silence before the Scream
When the daughter of Edinburgh’s most powerful crime lord is kidnapped all hell breaks loose in the city. Determined to find her without the hindrance of the police Gus McEwan summons his most reliable men to track her down. Davy Johnson, still reeling from witnessing an horrific suicide is in no position to refuse....

Is It possible to change fate once the cards have been dealt?

1970

Thirteen-year-old Jack discovers his twin sister Stacey’s body in a disused barn near to the family home. Holding her close, her breath is warm on his cheek as he hears her whisper: ‘I knew you would come.’ Later, doctors try to explain he is mistaken, he couldn’t have heard her,...

A double murder. A divided city. A detective who won’t walk away.

When teenagers Jamal Deng and Aisha Saforo are shot dead on the edge of a notorious estate, DS Chris Ashcroft knows why he’s been assigned the case—and he doesn’t like it one little bit. Refusing to write the murders off as gang violence, Ashcroft insists on digging deeper–...