DS Coupland series

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.’
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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 views...

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...

A missing woman
A ticking clock
A cop who trusts no-one.

Coupland has played hooky from the murder squad for too long. Superintendent Curtis has got his tailfeathers in a spin signing off a detective sergeant’s pay for a constable’s work. It doesn’t matter that Coupland’s wife was the target of a wannabee gangster; she’s on the mend now and the...