When Sloane is released from prison after taking part in an art scam, he finds a letter from a woman with whom he had an affair in his youth. On her death bed, she confesses that they have a daughter, Connie, from whom she has become estranged. She begs Sloane to track her down.[...]
A savage assault with a scalpel leaves Dr Tim Fletcher's body lying badly slashed in a deserted walkway. He is the first victim in a series of assaults on hospital staff and, as panic grips the city, Charlie Resnick is faced with a mass of clues that seem to lead nowhere.[...]
When two crooks breaks into TV director Harold Roy's mansion, they hardly expect to find a kilo of cocaine. Nor did Harold's frustrated wife expect to fall in love with one of them. But the powder belongs to someone else and he wants it back. Detective Inspector, Resnick investigation makes it obvio[...]
A story featuring Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick. It takes him back ten years, to a time when a rash of very similar incidents left him face-to-face with a frenzied sociopath, and to a time when his wife ran off with her lover.[...]
Gloria's body has been found. Somewhere in the city, a child killer is on the loose, free to stike again. Then Emily vanishes, and a week later there are still no clues. D.I. Resnick is as appalled as the media, but they just have to be patient.[...]
Forty-eight hours, that's what they reckon, isn't it? Forty-eight hours. If you don't find them in that, likely they're sodding dead...' A cabbie's just been beaten up, there's a drunk and disorderly in the interview room and a possible child abuser on the way in. Nothing unusual there, then, just a[...]
The naked body of a young woman is found floating in the still waters of an inner city canal. Not the first, nor the last. Resnick's girlfriend Hannah knew the victim well - and the fact that her husband's controlling passion for his wife could, and frequently did, result in violence. Is this an iso[...]
Lorraine Preston's brother, Michael, was sent down for life for the murder of their father - and now he's being allowed out for their mother's funeral. A hardened criminal, Michael Preston is the last person Resnick wants back on his patch, even is it's only for a matter of hours. Heartsore and worl[...]
Fifteen years ago, Susan Blacklock disappeared. Although Detective Inspector Frank Elder has taken early retirement, the case still plagues his mind. Prime suspects, Shane Donald and Alan McKeirnan, were convicted a year later of the rape and murder of a girl, and now that Shane has been granted par[...]
When the take-down of a violent criminal goes badly wrong, something doesn't feel right to Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch, and her uneasiness is compounded by her belief that someone is following her home...Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's daughter, Katherine, is running wild. Elder's fears[...]
A phone call intrudes on retired Detective Inspective Frank Elder's solitary life in Cornwall. It's his estranged wife and she needs a favour. A friend's sister, Claire Meecham, an unassuming widow in her fifties, has gone missing. Elder agrees to return to Nottingham to try and track her down. Then[...]
Stephen Bryan is found murdered in his bathroom. Will Grayson and Helen Walker, police detectives investigating the case assume that his death is the result of an ill-judged sexual encounter. But doubts are soon raised. Could the murder be connected to a biography he was writing on the life and myst[...]
Ruth and Simon Pierce's rare romantic break is shattered by devastating news: their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall with a friend's family, has disappeared...The loss is more than they - or their marriage - can bear. But time does heal and slowly Ruth builds a new life for herself with a n[...]
Two teenage girls are victims of a bloody Valentine's Day shooting; one survives, the other is less fortunate...It's one of a rising number of violent incidents in the city, and DI Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout. But when the dead [...]
Why would a fifteen-year-old boy commit suicide? Mind you, who cares when he's a no-good kid on trial for bludgeoning an elderly couple to death? But when the senior investigating officer is then found brutally murdered, DI Charlie Resnick is put on the case, and uncovers some sinister and startling[...]
Lorraine Preston's brother, Michael, was sent down for life for the murder of their father - and now he's being allowed out for their mother's funeral. A hardened criminal, Michael Preston is the last person Resnick wants back on his patch, even if it's only for a matter of hours.[...]
A woman is beaten; a charred body is found in a warehouse: another 4am call for Charlie Resnick. This title reunites Resnick with the troubled and beautiful Eileen, former stripper and mistress of a gangland boss, and now on the run and in fear for her life.[...]
When a seventeen-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime team. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied to a much larger web of gang warfare and organised crim[...]
Sloane walks free from prison after taking the rap for a high-profile art scam. A failed painter, he is now a failed forger. Awaiting him are two policemen anxious to remind him of his sins, and a letter from a woman with whom he had a passionate affair in his youth. Now dying, she summons him to te[...]
When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their first thoughts are off an ill-judged sexual encounter, of rough trade gone wrong.[...]
When the takedown of a violent criminal goes badly wrong, something doesn't feel right to Detective Sergeant Maddy Birch. And her uneasiness is compounded by her belief that someone is following her home. Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder's daughter, Katherine, is running wild.[...]
Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he's just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody.[...]
A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was Harold's frustrated wife expecting to fall in love with one of the intruders. Now she's going to make a deal with him for both her husband and drugs. [...]
A savage assault with a scalpel leaves Dr Tim Fletcher's body badly slashed in a deserted walkway - the first victim in a series of brutal assaults on hospital staff. As panic grips the city, it's up to Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick to find the killer. Faced with a mass of clues that lead nowh[...]
A series of brutal robberies takes Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick back ten years. To a time when a rash of similar incidents left him face to face with a frenzied sociopath who brought his life to a premature end - and to a time when his wife ran off with her lover, and leaving him with a psych[...]