When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request: the first is to have an MP owing him a favour, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time. So he assigns Havers to...

This taut, atmospheric thriller is perfect for fans of Patricia Cornwell and Peter James. A death in the family from hell brings detectives Fry and Cooper to a remote and unfriendly rural community in their fourth psychological thriller. "And as it grew dark, Withens became almost entirely silent. Except for the screaming." A small village in the Peak District, Withens is troubled by theft and vandalism, mostly generated by a family of local delinquents,...

How do you investigate the murder of a woman without a life? That is the challenge facing Cooper and Fry when a reclusive agoraphobic is found shot to death in her home. With no friends, no family, and virtually no contact with the outside world, the dead woman may simply have been the unlucky victim of a random homicide. At virtually the same time, a raging house fire claims the lives of a young mother and two of her children. But as the debris...