Jo Bannister
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When Gabrielle Ash's wife and kids were kidnapped four years ago by Somali pirates, his life spiraled out of control. He left his job working for the British government and moved to a small town where he descended into near madness. But with the help of his dog, Patience, and his friendship with young police officer Hazel Best, his focus returned. So when he discovers that his wife is still alive, Ash is once again filled with hope and fear. Hope...
Author
Pub. Date
c2020.
Formats
Description
Rachel Somers, running ... Something appalling happened in the wood. When Gabriel Ash and his dog come to her aid, she thinks she's safe. But this is Norbold, where things aren't always as they seem. Detective Chief Inspector Gorman thinks this is his worst nightmare: a predatory paedophile who's prepared to kill rather than be taken. Constable Hazel Best thinks she's helping both the Somers family and her friend Ash, but her tendency to follow her...
Author
Series
Brodie Farrell novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
When she called her business "Looking for Something?" Brodie Farrell hoped to receive challenging commissions from interesting clients. Even by her standards, though, demon rock musician Jared Fry is hard to please. Fortunately his manager, the charismatic Eric Chandos, is easier to like, and it's with him that Brodie works to find a new home for the rock star.
An old coaching inn on the Downs seems the perfect choice. Though the locals are appalled---and...
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When an inmate who knew he was about to be killed gives him a cryptic message before being beaten to death, Ash, a man from an English town where the low crime rate is linked to a chief's zero-tolerance policy, shares his knowledge with police recruit Hazel Best, who risks her career to uncover the truth.
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Four years ago, Gabriel Ash was working with the British government investigating hijackings in Somalia. But when his wife and sons disappeared, presumably taken--and probably killed--by pirates, his life fell apart. He has sudden reason to hope when a senior policeman suggests that his sons might still be alive--until that policeman is murdered. Still, there seems to be some link to a local operation, and Ash, no longer a government agent, is determined...
7) China roses
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
No one ever said: 'See Norbold and die.' So why would a man from DC Hazel Best's past cross England in order to get himself beaten senseless in this uninspiring Midlands town? Everyone assumes he was looking for Hazel. She can't think why he would; and when David Sperrin wakes up, he can't think why he would either. Amnesia--or something to hide? Flashbacks as Sperrin's battered brain recovers only make the case more troubling. His sharpest memory...
8) True witness
Author
Series
Brodie Farrell novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Witnessing the death of a young man at Dimmock pier, Daniel Hood believes that the police are looking for the wrong suspect and is assisted by investigator Brodie Farrell, who wants to save Daniel from his own dangerous impulses.
Author
Series
Brodie Farrell novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Fearing for Daniel's safety when he leaves town after an argument, Brodie uncovers disturbing secrets from her friend's earlier years that culminate in a dangerous chain of events.
10) Silent Footsteps
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
20190501
Description
Constable Hazel Best attracts a sinister new admirer in this absorbing police procedural.
When does a secret admirer become a stalker? When chocolates on the doorstep give way to the sound of an intruder on the stairs? When the victim's friends are waylaid in the dark and beaten bloody? When she receives photographs memorializing these events? Or when people start dying?
For Constable Hazel Best, the pivot point is the attack on her friend Gabriel...
11) Liars all
Author
Series
Brodie Farrell novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Detective Brodie Farrell is enlisted to investigate a brutal attack on a young couple, all while engaged in a hunt across the globe in search of a cure for her son's brain tumor.
12) Other countries
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Detective Constable Hazel Best's latest assignment takes an unexpected turn in the compelling new Gabriel Ash mystery.
13) Flawed
Author
Series
Brodie Farrell novels volume 7
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Pregnant with the child of her estranged partner, Superintendent Jack Deacon, private detective and single mother Brodie Farrell becomes caught up in a complicated conspiracy involving child abuse, cover-ups, and organized crime.
14) Kindred spirits
Author
Series
Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"A kidnap attempt outside the school gates in broad daylight convinces Gabriel Ash that his renegade wife is trying to steal their sons from him. Only the intervention of his friend Constable Hazel Best kept them safe. It's a simple if alarming explanation, but is it the truth? Hazel uncovers disturbing information about another crime, the repercussions of which are still threatening innocent lives seventeen years later. Once again Hazel finds herself...
15) Echoes of lies
Author
Series
Brodie Farrell novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Hired to find a young teacher named Daniel Hood, Brodie Farrell learns that the people who hired her had deadly intentions when she discovers Daniel tortured and left for dead, and feeling responsible, she agrees to help him find his attackers.
Author
Series
Rosie Holland mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
A funny, smart and charmingly tactless advice columnist turns amateur sleuth to locate a missing birdwatcher in Scotland.
Author
Pub. Date
20200702
Description
Something appalling happened in the wood. When Gabriel Ash comes to a young woman's aid, she thinks she's safe. But things aren't always as they seem. DCI Gorman thinks this is his worst nightmare: a predatory paedophile who's prepared to kill. And people have noticed that descriptions of the attacker fit Ash better than they fit anyone else.
20) The Tinderbox
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Laurence Schofield's world was torn apart when his teenage daughter vanished. No trace was ever found. But six years later, a TV crew filming in London records a few seconds' footage of a girl who just could be her. Schofield heads for the capital. But this isn't the London of the tourist brochures: it's the Tinderbox, an area of dangerous dereliction where the homeless have created an alternative society with its own rules . . .