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There's a bad vibe. A professor of psychoacoustics is found dead in his office. A suspected heart attack, until a second acoustician dies under similar circumstances. Meanwhile, an outbreak of mysterious illnesses on a council estate, outbursts of unexplained violence in a city centre nightclub, and strange noises coming from the tunnels underneath Liverpool. Can it really be a coincidence that death metal band Total Depravity are back in th...

What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen... Liverpool is in the grip of an intense heatwave, and strange things are happening. A woman dies in an apparent case of Spontaneous Human Combustion, a truck explodes on the dock road, the charred corpses of pets litter the city, forest fires ravage the pinewoods...and there are birds everywhere, silent flocks drawing in ominously. Detective Inspector Darren Swift thinks there are connections, and his ...

Are You One Of The Elect? Dr. Helen Hope is a lecturer in eschatology - the study of death, judgement, and the destiny of humankind. She is also a Calvinist nun, her life devoted to atoning for a secret crime. When a body is found crucified on a Liverpool beach, she forms an unlikely alliance with suspect Mikko Kristensen, lead guitarist in death metal band Total Depravity. Together, they go on the trail of a rogue geneticist who they beli...

Are You One Of The Elect? When a body is found crucified on a Liverpool beach, Calvinist nun and eschatology lecturer Dr. Helen Hope forms an unlikely alliance with suspect Mikko Kristensen, lead guitarist in death metal band Total Depravity. Together, they go on the trail of a rogue geneticist who could be the key - not just to the murder, but to something much darker. Cynical detective Darren Swift must confront his own lack of faith a...

Aiden Hughes is a wanted man for a murder he didn't commit and, of course, Manchester's most ruthless gangster still wants him dead. Fresh from his confrontation with The Honey Talker, Aiden seeks a new life and anonymity in Ireland, settling into a cosy existence with girlfriend Roisin. But then an old colleague, Suzie Regen, reaches out, desperate to get to the bottom of a new mystery. Rumours of a chemist with a penchant for poison and ...

It Takes a Special Kind of Team to Hunt a Special Kind of Killer Time is about to run out for Joseph Miller. The ex-marine is being stalked in his retirement by a twisted serial killer with a flair for the theatrical: The Holy Ghost. When the spectre strikes again, Miller becomes the sixth in a chain of grisly murders going back decades. Detective Tom McHale is brought in to lead the investigation, having already put away a multiple murder...

The Scouse Stand By Me." YOUTHFUL PROMISES SHAPE LETHAL OUTCOMES Historian Vinny Connolly tries to escape the bitter memories of his childhood in a tough neighbourhood. But a secret from the past, involving a pocket watch, an old man's death, and childhood friends, threatens to unravel his present. When one of those friends, Sammo, dies in mysterious circumstances, Vinny, his wife Helen, and his ex-partner Anne McCarthy race against time...

Bill O'Jack's, Saddleworth, 1832. She bent over it. Him. Bent over him, her grandfather's body, his nose and brow beaten into his face, a soft, bloodied mess. She stepped back, saw her grandfather's shirt ripped open at the collarbone. She thought of the bright blood in the eggs she had cracked against the side of a bowl that morning and how she needed yeast. And teeth, teeth caught in the soup like tiny nuggets of stale bread. A faint whist...

May 1997. Election night. Blair's New Labour is predicted to win with a landslide. It feels like a new start for everyone, the grey days of sleaze are over. There's a new hope that things really are about to get better. But not for Aidan. He's a reporter whose life and career are going nowhere, relegated to a backwater job within the paper, existing on a diet of fast food and with virtually every day starting with a stinking hangover. He's c...

When his beloved little brother is stolen away, five-year-old Tommy Farrier is left alone with his alcoholic mam, his violent step-dad and his guilt. Too young to understand what has really happened, Tommy is sure of only one thing. He is to blame. Tommy tries to be good, to live-up to his brother's increasingly hazy memory, but trapped in a world of shame and degradation he grows up with just two options, poverty or crime. And crime pays. O...

Aspiring musician, Billy, grows up in the glamour of sixties Liverpool dreaming of stardom. Hopes fade when he gets a girl pregnant and is hastily married. Seeking honest work at sea, his ship sinks with Billy presumed dead. When he returns, he finds his wife with another man but finds himself in jail after the ensuing quarrel. Encouraged by his glamorous small-time gangster cousin, Duke, Billy resumes his entertainment career and travels to...

A collection of curiously crafted short stories from author Susan Willis. Each tale combines cosy crime, mystery and a dash of romance. Perfect reads to thrill and keep you guessing. Meet Rupert Robbins, the author who goes missing and scarily lives out his own novel in real life. A lonely dentist, Gareth can see his wife is in danger on a Skype session - but will he get to her? Happen across our Sherlock lover, Christine, who sleuths at a ...

By day, Ida is a quiet, standoffish maid in the employ of spoiled Lucinda Belmonte. By night, she is the infamous sneak thief known as the Rat Prince, terrorising the wealthy inhabitants of Loxport, especially Lucinda's lecherous suitor, Lord Devon Casterbury. Soon the boundaries between her dual lives begin to blur, as her mask begins to drop around a delightful waitress and a charming jeweller who both insist on befriending Ida. All the wh...

RETURN OF A NATIVE SON Following the events of Under the Bridge, Vinny and Anne travel to Ireland in search of Vinny's father, Paddy, who mysteriously disappeared not long after returning to his homeland in 1974. We piece Paddy's story together as he returns to Wicklow to lie low after a killing in Liverpool. DI Barlow of Special Branch wants to use him to disrupt an IRA gun route. Facing danger on every side he struggles to fit in. A devast...

Child killer Gary Brunswick has just been imprisoned for life for the murder of ten-year-old David Foster, but for DCI Kay Harris of Greater Manchester Police, it's cold comfort.As Senior Investigating Officer Kay has agonised over the case for months, could she have saved the boy? The Foster case, and the death of her sister, Helen, by suicide a year ago, weigh heavily on her.She finds her sister's diary, believing that Helen meant it for som...

An obsessed analyst's race against time to prove the unbelievablePolice Analyst Haz Edmundson arrives at a crime scene in one of the abandoned warehouses of a megacity now covering West Yorkshire. Riots are rolling across the city and the police engage in street warfare against protestors. Haz discovers the body of an activist who has crashed through the warehouse roof, cocooned in a wingsuit used in a daredevil sport, her head shattered by a ...

A love letter to Liverpool, with a touch of Peaky Blinders.' S.E. Moorhead, Author of Witness X 'A thoroughly enjoyable debut.' Catherine Fearns, Author of the Reprobation Series WHEN SECRETS RESURFACE THE PAST REACHES OUT... 2004 The discovery of a body in the Liverpool docklands unearths long forgotten secrets. Reporter Anne McCarthy is keen to prove herself and dives into the case with abandon. There she finds Michael, an old Irish ...