DARKSIDE

THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD

An obsessed killer craves an audience for his crimes - even advertising them beforehand. As London is gripped by the fear that there is no safety in numbers, ambitious TV reporter Eve Singer is keen to be first with the news from every gory scene - until she starts to suspect that the killer has two obsessions. One is public murder. And the other one is her...

BLACKLANDS

Steven Lamb is 12 when he writes his first letter . . .to a serial killer. His uncle disappeared on Exmoor, aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery - but his body has never been found. And there begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game between a desperate child and a bored psychopath . . .

THE FACTS OF LIFE AND DEATH

Lone women are terrorized and their helpless mothers forced to watch, in a sick game where only one player knows the rules. And when those rules change, the new game is murder. Living with her parents in the beach community of Limeburn, ten-year-old Ruby Trick has her own fears, with the looming threat of her parents divorce. Helping her daddy to catch the killer might be the key to keeping him close. As long as the killer doesn't catch her first...

FINDERS KEEPERS

Across Exmoor, children are being stolen from cars. There are no explanations, no ransom demands... and no hope. Policeman Jonas Holly faces a precarious journey into the warped mind of the kidnapper if he's to stand any chance of catching him.

RUBBERNECKER

Life is strange for Patrick Fort - being a medical student with Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t come without its challenges. And that’s before he is faced with solving a possible murder. Because the body Patrick is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. And now he must stay out of danger long enough to unravel the mystery – while he dissects his own evidence . . .

THE SHUT EYE

Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here. And now they are all his mother has left, and every day, Anna guards the little prints in the cement. When a psychic offers hope, Anna grasps it. Maybe he can tell her what happened to her son... But is this man what he claims to be? Is he a visionary? A shut eye? Or a cruel fake, preying on the vulnerable? Or is he something far, far worse?

SNAP

On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said. I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever....