Martin Edwards
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2020
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1930. A chilling encounter on London's Necropolis Railway leads to murder. At the Old Bailey, a man accused of a 'blazing car' killing escapes the gallows after a surprise witness gives sensational evidence. And journalist Jacob Flint finds himself framed for murder. To save himself, Jacob needs to discover what links these strange events to a remote estate on a northern coast, Mortmain Hall. At Mortmain Hall, an eccentric female criminologist hosts...
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Harry Devlin volume 1
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Harry Devlin finds himself number one suspect in a murder case that is far too close to home. The victim is his estranged wife, Liz, who is found murdered in a dingy alleyway. Determined to find her killer and prove his innocence, Harry begins a journey that takes him into the city's underworld and shatters forever his illusions about the woman he loved. Now beautifully presented in eBook format, avid readers of crime will love reading this gripping,...
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Harry Devlin volume 7
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AUK Authors
Pub. Date
2014
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Harry Devlin is playing a dangerous game when he gets involved with the wife of Liverpool's most ruthless villain. But he has another reason to look over his shoulder after two lawyers are brutally killed and Harry discovers he is being stalked by a stranger with a secret obsession...
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Harry Devlin volume 2
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AUK Authors
Pub. Date
2014
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Harry Devlin finds himself in a spot of bother. The wife of his best client, Jack Stirrup, has vanished and the police suspect foul play. Stirrup claims she's still alive, but Harry wonders if he has something to hide. When Stirrup's daughter and her boyfriend go missing, Harry finds himself hunting a brutal murderer... This special eBook edition contains a range of extras, including: - An Introduction by Val McDermid - The Making of Suspicious Minds...
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Allison & Busby
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Warren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor whilst working in a garden in Old Sawrey. Soon he is dead - murdered with his own scythe. As the years pass, the culprit has yet to be found. However, after an anonymous tip-off, DCI Hannah Scarlett is soon on the case. Then there is yet another horrifying death.
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Years ago a solitary woman called Emma Bestwick left her cottage and never came back. Her disappearance went unaccounted for, and the unresolved case always irked DCI Hannah Scarlett. But someone knows something, someone who will preserve the secrets of the past, whatever the cost.
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Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2008
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No one expects to read their own obituary. Someone wants Liverpool lawyer Harry Devlin dead and he has only seven days to find out who. Who can he trust when Liverpool becomes increasingly unfamiliar amidst the preparations for the Capital of Culture celebrations?
15) The hanging wood
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When Orla Payne was seven years old, her brother, Callum, mysteriously vanished from the Hanging Wood in the Lake District. Shrouded in complicated family matters and with no clear leads, the case was eventually dismissed. His body was never found.
16) Gallows Court
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018
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London, 1930. A headless corpse; a suicide in a locked room; a shocking death during an illusionist's show. Scotland Yard is baffled by the sequence of ghastly murders unfolding across the city.
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Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2015
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20 years ago, Malcolm Whiteley discovers his attractive wife Lysette is having an affair. The Whiteleys are wealthy, and live with their 16-year-old daughter Amer in the magnificent Dungeon House, overlooking Cumbria's remote western coast. But Malcolm is under financial and emotional pressure, and he begins to disintegrate psychologically, suspecting the men in their circle of being Lysette's lover. When Lysette tells Malcolm their marriage is over,...
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Hannah Scarlett is investigating the disappearance of a young woman from Bowness more than 20 years ago. Hannah's former boss, Ben Kind, thought he knew what happened to Ramona Smith. The prime suspect was charged, but found not guilty. Now the case comes back into the public eye as the result of a shocking tragedy on the Crooked Shore, on the south coast of the county.
19) Sepulchre Street
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2023
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London, 1930s: Rachel Savernake has been invited to a private view of an art exhibition at a fashionable gallery. The artist, Damaris Gethin, known as 'the Queen of Surrealism', is debuting a show featuring live models pretending to be waxworks of famous killers. Before her welcoming speech, Damaris asks a haunting favour of the amateur sleuth: she wants Rachel to solve her murder. As Damaris takes to a stage set with a guillotine, the lights go out....
20) Blackstone Fell
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022
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Yorkshire, 1606. A man vanishes from a locked gatehouse in a remote village. 300 years later, it happens again. Rachel Savernake investigates a locked-room puzzle in this Gothic mystery.