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When Devon and Cornwall Police begin to investigate the strangulation and skinning of a young man, they discover the remains of a missing child nearby. Having recently arrived from London, DCI Peter Moone is put in charge of the case alongside the tough talking local DS Mandy Butler. They soon find themselves sinking deep into a dark world of child abuse and murder.

SPIDER MOUTHDI FRED FAIRSERVICE has just returned from holiday when he’s confronted with several mysterious deaths; the mutilated dead body of a junkie, the apparent suicide of a housewife, and the murder of a cannibal, kicks off the strangest investigation of his dark and brutal career. But the strangest element of the case is the connection to the deaths of several old men and women who are found with spiders placed in their mouths.

Influential businessmen are being slaughtered across London. Each victim is given a local anesthetic before witnessing his own body being cut to pieces. The decapitated head is stuck on a pole as warning that revenge is being reaped. But revenge for what? And who will be next?

A terrorist attack on the city of London. The murder of a media baron during a business cruise to the Bahamas. One man is sent by a mysterious organisation, known only as THE COMPANY, to investigate both incidents and find the culprits. Smith, the head of THE COMPANY, dispatches ex-SAS man Sean Faint to discover what the connection is between the terrorist attack and a billionaire businessman called Marcus Fier who seems to have a vendetta against the British government.

DCI Jairus returns for his darkest outing yet, as he finds himself pursuing a deranged serial killer with a taste for strangling his female victims and dressing in their clothes. But when Scotland Yard start digging into Jairus’ last case and threatens to hold him guilty of murder, the DCI needs help. He finds a friend and alibi in feisty forensic expert Cathy Durbridge, however it soon becomes clear that she’s just as volatile and explosive as Jairus himself.

Can a serial killer be cured? The second book in the Edmonton Police Station thriller series is a gruesome, dark, and twisted journey into a serial killer’s mind. The London streets are the hunting ground of a killer nicknamed "The Clock". At each crime scene the killer leaves his male victims dismembered in the shape of a clock face. DCI Paul Webb, a detective recovering from a broken heart and stalking his ex-lover, is put in charge of the case. But he needs help to get inside the killer's mind.

When 34 bodies, many of them faceless, are dug up at a holiday cottage near Enfield, it means the Edmonton Special Murder Group face its darkest, most twisted, and most dangerous investigation yet. Without an experienced SIO to take the lead, the Yard sends the obsessive misanthrope DCI Philip Radford to take charge of the mass murder case. Radford and the team soon come to realize that the killer is stealing identities and appearing to the victims' families before he executes his prey.

When a young white girl and black boy are found sexually tortured and murdered side by side on the notorious HOLMWOOD estate, racial tensions reach an all time high. With the top brass putting the pressure on the Edmonton Special Crime Group to up their game, everyone knows the SIO of this latest case will have their work cut out. It falls to DI Peter Moone to step up and take the lead on a case muddied by local racist groups and drug dealers, and one that could lead to the end of the Edmonton Special Crime Group forever.

Influential businessmen are being slaughtered across London; each victim is given a local anaesthetic before witnessing his own body being cut to pieces. The decapitated head is then stuck on a pole as warning that revenge is being reaped. But, revenge for what? And, who will be next? DCI Jairus is put in charge of the case. He's a resourceful detective, living with guilt after killing a suspect in self-defence.

Jairus isn’t a policeman anymore, and it’s killing him. His whole world has collapsed after being investigated for murder, twice. Cleared, but off the force, he spends his days drinking and trying to fathom what went wrong. Then he gets offered a deal from the devil. Douglas Burdock, son of a much despised media baron, asks Jairus to look into the closed brutal murder of a journalist, suspecting a cover-up. If Jairus solves the case, then Burdock will use his father’s influence to get him back on the force. But nothing’s that simple.

DI Fred Fairservice has just returned from holiday when he’s confronted with several mysterious deaths; the mutilated dead body of a junkie, the apparent suicide of a housewife, and the murder of a cannibal...But the strangest element of the case is the connection to the deaths of several old men and women who are found with spiders placed in their mouths. Slowly it dawns on Fred that it’s all too familiar and echoes something strange and macabre that happened to him when he was a boy. It can’t be just a coincidence.

In North London, families are being slaughtered by a merciless serial killer, with only one female relative left alive each time. There are no clues, just the sinister text messages sent to each surviving victim. Ex-Detective Sergeant Terence Marsland is trying to forget his former life as a policeman and husband, when he's begged by the Family Killer's original victim to privately re-investigate the case.

On a cold winter’s morning, DCI Jairus finds himself in a forgotten house with only the dead for company. Two pensioners have been brutally slaughtered in a ritualistic manner, which seems to link back to a cold case. Now sober and back on the force, Jairus finds himself facing a cold case from five years earlier that everybody thought was closed. After the massacre of a family, Rebecca Barclay-Cole was arrested and sent to prison for the murders; now she’s out, exonerated, and DCI Jairus must solve the mystery and find out who really murdered her family and the two latest victims.