RUTHLESS

BLEED LIKE ME

The bodies of a man, woman and child are found, and the owner of the inn where they are discovered has fled, taking his two young sons with him. Finding the desperate man is the top priority for DC Janet Scott and DC Rachel Bailey. But no one knows where he is going or what he intends to do next. Or what will they have to do to stop him...

BLUE MURDER

Janine Lewis is Manchester's first female Detective Chief Inspector. She's also a single mother to three demanding children, and pregnant with a fourth and she has her first murder to investigate. An elderly dying man and a seven-year-old child are the only witnesses. This isn't going to be an easy case to crack for the new DCI...

DEAD TO ME

DC Rachel Bailey’s boss thinks her new recruit has bags of raw talent but straight-laced DC Janet Scott, her reluctant partner in Manchester's Murder Squad, has her doubts. Together Scott and Bailey must hunt a killer, but a life fighting crime can be no life at all...

GO NOT GENTLY

Juggling the school run with private investigating, Sal Kilkenny's life is a strange mix of the dramatic with the domestic. Sal has two new clients: Jimmy Achebe wants her to confirm his suspicions of his wife's infidelity and Agnes Donlan fears for her friend Lily, who has undergone a swift decline in her new nursing home. Sal soon finds herself in treacherous territory which threatens to impinge on her private life.

HIT AND RUN

Back at work after maternity leave, DCI Janine Lewis finds herself in the thick of two major investigations. The battered body of a young woman is recovered from the River Mersey and a schoolgirl is killed in a hit and run. As Janine and her team fight to unravel the story behind each death, she struggles with equally demanding dramas at home.

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

She's a single parent. A private eye. And liking it. Until, that is, Mrs Hobbs turns up asking Sal Kilkenny to find her missing son. Sal's search takes her through the Manchester underworld, a wasteland of deprivation and petty theft, of well-heeled organised crime and, ultimately, murder. Would she have taken the job on if she had known what she was getting herself into? The first Sal Kilkenny mystery.