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When a man is found dead in the wetlands of rural Lancashire, DCI Jonathan Walker is called to what appears to be a tragic accident. It isn’t. As more bodies surface, Walker and DC Shelly Briggs uncover a chilling possibility: someone is using the landscape itself — the floods, the isolation, the treacherous terrain — to conceal murder.

Book 1: The Icehouse A Murderer on the Loose. A Detective Haunted by the Past. A Race Against Time. DCI Jonathan Walker is a senior detective for the Lancashire Constabulary in North West England. He’s haunted by events of the past and hell bent on redemption.

DCI Jonathan Walker thought he’d seen it all—until a case in Lancaster forces him to read old crimes anew. When baffling clues surface in the city’s oldest institutions, Walker must navigate a web of secrets, public fury, and a riddle that won’t stay solved. Every answer seems to raise more questions, and the closer he gets, the more the stakes tighten.

When a young woman’s body is discovered in the windswept sand dunes of Lytham St Annes, Detective Walker is assigned to the cold case. The victim’s connection to a former Chief Constable puts the investigation under intense scrutiny from Walker’s current boss, the formidable Chief Constable Sarah Harriet.

DCI Jonathan Walker is a senior detective with the Lancashire Constabulary, driven by a need for redemption and shadowed by a past he cannot escape. When a body is discovered in the quiet village of Rufford, Walker cuts short his leave of absence to lead the investigation. But as the details emerge, the case begins to echo a decades-old murder — the unsolved killing of his own sister.

A young girl is found dead at the Pike Tower on Winter Hill near Chorley and DCI Walker and the newly promoted DC Briggs are drafted in to investigate. But what they find extends far beyond the Rivington Pike. What seems like a party gone wrong, or a sickening group attack, transpires to be much more, and threatens not only the local community, but Walker and his team too.

A seaside town on its knees. A group hell bent on making it a better place, by KILLING. Can DCI Walker stop whoever it is before things get completely out of hand? When the Head Clown at Blackpool Tower Circus turns up dead in suspicious circumstances, a criminal investigation ensues, headed by DCI Walker. But when another body turns up just days later, with the same modus operandi, the double homicide becomes the talk of the town. The murderer, calling himself The Defender, wants people to be kinder to each other, and he’s prepared to kill to make it happen.

A misguided attempt at redemption by a former hitman. A vengeful anti-hero. A dead man’s second chance at love — in the future. A regretful prisoner. A sleepwalker convinced he’s a killer.