Death Ship
Book 7First published 2016 The blissful happiness of a summer’s beach on the north Norfolk coast is shattered when a bomb detonates in the sand. Everyone assumes it is an unexploded shell from the war – but is it? Locals are peacefully demonstrating against the construction of a new pier—a multi-million pound project they say will…
Death on Demand
Book 6First published 2015 When the newspaper from King’s Lynn turns up to cover Ruby Bright’s 100th birthday, they find her seaside care home is a murder scene. Someone spirited Ruby away by wheelchair down to the water’s edge on the idyllic north Norfolk coast and strangled her. But why kill a harmless centurion? As Shaw…
At Death’s Window
Book 5First published 2014 When a body is discovered beneath the waves off Scolt Head Island, the contents of the dead man’s pockets lead Shaw to suspect an outbreak of ‘samphire wars’: a turf battle for control of the prized sea asparagus which sells for a small fortune along the affluent north Norfolk coast. Or does…
Death’s Door
Book 4First published 2012 On a hot summer’s day in 1994 75 holidaymakers are ferried to an uninhabited island off the north Norfolk coast. Only 74 return alive. A young man has been stabbed and left to bleed to death in the island’s surf. The case is never solved. Now a new chief constable believes the…
Death Toll
Book 3First published 2011 Bodies are being exhumed at King’s Lynn’s cemetery, the bones moved to higher ground to avoid flooding. But when the coffin of murdered pub landlady Nora Tilden is hauled up into the light there’s a grim discovery: the twisted corpse of a young black man, killed by a billhook blow to the…
Death Watch
Book 2First published 2010 In 1992 fifteen-year-old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home never to be seen again. Exactly eighteen years later, Bryan Judd, Norma Jean’s twin, is pulled from the searing heat of a hospital incinerator. When his charred remains are examined, the murder squad confirms that his death was no accident. Could it…
Death Wore White
Book 1First published 2010 At 5.15 p.m. Harvey Ellis was trapped – stranded in a line of eight cars by a blizzard on a Norfolk coast road. At 8.15 p.m. Harvey Ellis was dead – viciously stabbed at the wheel of his truck. And his killer has achieved the impossible: striking without being seen, and without…