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  • A Share in Death

    Synopsis of A Share in Death

    A week’s holiday in a luxurious Yorkshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard’s Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But the discovery of a body floating in the whirlpool bath ends Kincaid’s vacation before it’s begun.

    One of his new acquaintances at Followdale House is dead; another is a killer.

    With a distinct lack of cooperation from the local constabulary, Kincaid sends for his enthusiastic young assistant, Sergeant Gemma James.

    But the stakes are raised dramatically when a second murder occurs, and Kincaid and James find themselves in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse, as a ruthless killer stalks Followdale’s next victim…

    Synopsis of A Share in Death taken from Amazon

  • All Shall Be Well

    Synopsis of All Shall Be Well

    Perhaps is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At long last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease.

    It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inveitable. But small inconsistencies lead her heighbour, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard, to a startling conclusion: Jasmine Dent was murdered.

    But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already so fragile and doomed?

    As Kincaid and his capable partner Seargeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman’s strange history, from her childhood in India to the final months of her illness, they discover a hauntingly beautiful young woman, secretive and ambitious.

    A troubling puzzle begins to take shape -a bizarre amalgam of good and evil, of harity and crime… and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts.

    Synopsis of All Shall Be Well taken from Amazon

  • Leave the Grave Green

    Synopsis of Leave the Grave Green

    When a body is found floating in the Thames river lock one damp and dreary morning, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to the Chiltern Hills outside London.

    The dead man is Connor Swann, son-in-law of London’s most renowned opera personalities. And prints on his neck suggest that his death was no accident.

    As Duncan and Gemma explore the quiet woods above the Thames and the flamboyant world of London opera in search of answers, they discover a tangled web of family secrets and hidden emotions.

    For twenty years earlier, another young man connected to the family also drowned. Could it be the seeds of Connor’s murder had been planted all those years ago…?

    Synopsis of Leave the Grave Green taken from Amazon

  • In a Dark House

    Synopsis of In a Dark House

    Superintendent Kincaid is torn away from a bitter family custody battle to an arson scene at a vacant warehouse in Southwark. Inside, the police discover a corpse burned beyond recognition.

    Meanwhile Kincaid’s lover and former partner, DI Gemma James, is trying to cope with private concerns of her own, while concentrating on the disappearance of a young, beautiful hospital administrator who has vanished without a trace.

    Across the city, inside an old, dark, rambling house, a nameless woman is holding ten-year-old Harriet hostage.

    Fearful of her rigidly controlling captor and desperately worried about her feuding mother and father back at home, Harriet tries to escape…

    While the clock tricks, Kincaid and Gemma must call upon every resource as they work together on their most menacing case yet.

    Synopsis of In a Dark House taken from Amazon

  • Water Like a Stone

    Synopsis of Water Like a Stone

    When Superintendent Duncan Kincaid takes his partner, Inspector Gemma James, and their sons Kit and Toby to his childhood home in Cheshire for Christmas, he hopes that they’ll be able to spend time together, as a family.

    While Kincaid encounters old family troubles and tensions, Gemma is entranced with Nantwich’s pretty buildings and historic winding canal.

    But when the mummified body of an infant is discovered interred in the wall of a local barn, Kincaid realizes that life in the lovely town of his childhood is far from idyllic.

    Drawn into the investigation, Kincaid discovers that the dreaming reaches of the Shrophshire Union Canal hold dark and deadly secretes… secrets that may threaten those he holds most dear.

    Synopsis of Water Like a Stone taken from Amazon

  • Mourn Not Your Dead

    Synopsis of Mourn Not Your Dead

    The murder at Holmbury St Mary was not one that Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard would relish investigating.

    A man has been beaten to death in his own home. A man who just happened to be Commander Alastair Gilbert of the Metropolitan Police…

    The only clues on offer are a few missing items from Caire Gilbert’s jewellery collection and a string of local burglaries.

    Did the senior policeman merely interrupt a thief at work? Or does the sleepy suburban village hide someone with far more sinister and deadly motives…

    Duncan and Gemma must call on their reserves of courage and compassion to solve the most troubling case either of them has ever encountered.

    Synopsis of Mourn Not Your Dead taken from Amazon

  • Borderlands

    The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone- Donegal border, between the North and South of Ireland, in an area known as the borderlands. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin heads the investigation: the only clues are a gold ring placed on the girl’s finger and an old photograph, left where she died. Then another teenager is murdered, and things become further complicated when Devlin unearths a link between the recent killings and the disappearance of a prostitute twenty-five years earlier – a case in which he believes one of his own colleagues is implicated. As a thickening snow storm blurs the border between North and South, Devlin finds the distinction between right and wrong, vengeance and justice, and even police-officer and criminal becoming equally unclear. A dazzling and lyrical debut crime novel, Borderlands marks the beginning of a compelling new series featuring Inspector Benedict Devlin.

  • Gallows Lane

    It’s summertime in the Irish borderlands, and as temperatures rise, a series o gruesome murders takes place. Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin’s enquiries point to a local body-builder, but when born-again ex-con James Kelly appears on the scene Devlin realizes that the case is mor complex, and more sinister, than he had imagined. Torn between his young family adn his job, Devlin is determined to apprehend the killer – or killers – before they strike again, even as the carnage starts to jeopardize those he cares about most.