By Jack Curtis writing as David Lawrence The naked body of a young woman is found hanging from a tree on a London roadside. Scrawled across her back, the words DIRTY GIRL. Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney and the AMIP 5 squad are faced with a murder as baffling as it is chilling. With no means to identify the victim and no apparent motive, the case is blocked, until... A man is found on a bench by the river, his throat cut back to the vertebrae. And, as before, the killer has left a trademark comment: FILTHY COWARD. Stella and her team can see there's a connection: but what? One victim is a...

By Jack Curtis writing as David Lawrence Once she had been beautiful. Now she was eight days dead, her body slashed with more than fifty cuts. Janis Parker - young, successful and glamorous - had shared her modern Notting Hill apartment with flatmate Stephanie James. But now Janis is dead - and Stephanie has disappeared. Heading up the investigation, DS Stella Mooney soon has her first suspect, in the shape of Mark Ross - Stephanie's boyfriend and Janis's secret lover... But then another body is discovered - slashed fifty times. Clearly these are no domestic killings. It seems Stella and her...

By Jack Curtis writing as David Lawrence Jimmy Stone died of a broken heart. Literally - someone put a sharp object between his ribs and pushed, hard. He was found sitting in a circle with three other corpses in the living room of a Notting Hill flat. Notting Hill - with its million-pound houses a hundred yards away from sink estates - is DS Stella Mooney's patch, so it's up to her to discover who broke this heart of Stone's. But when Mooney's private life gets caught up in the quest to find Stone's murderer, what will it cost her - and those that she loves? A Detective Stella Mooney novel

By Jack Curtis writing as David Lawrence It is winter. The crime scene: a London park at dusk. DS Stella Mooney stares down at the brutalised body of a young woman. From the shelter of nearby trees Martin Kimber is watching events ...watching Stella. Next morning he walks into a Notting Hill police station and confesses to the murder. It's a fast clear-up - just what the AMIP 5 squad wants this close to Christmas. But Stella has her doubts about Kimber's guilt. So if Kimber didn't commit the murder, who did? Someone without conscience or pity. Someone who will tap into Kimber's disturbed...

At a wedding in New England an uninvited guest takes out a gun and leaves behind him enough corpses for a feast of funerals.Simultaneously, in France, the same man appears to make an equally unwelcome(and fatal for some)visit to a funeral. Tom Bullen has worked for the intelligence service, but now gets his kicks pushing his mental and physical skills to the limit by indulging in the dangerous sport of caving.Knowing his uncle to have been a victim of the French atrocity Tom'serstwhile superiors in Intelligence persuade him to take on the investigation ofboth incidents.The trail moves from...

One by one a group of friends are summoned to a remote Cornish village to meet the enigmatic Zeno, a magician. The meetings begin with magic and end in death, all watched with cruel detachment by the scheming, manipulative Wallace Ellwood, a man whose delight in pain seems limitless.

The caller has killed many times and now he wants to talk about it, and he'll only confess to DI Joe Morgan. And once he's started talking to Joe he can't stop...nor can he stop the killings. Every waif and stray is potential bait for The Confessor, and even an unwary journalist who thinks she can join in the game. As the calls become lengthier, and the net around him closes, The Confessor begins to think of himself as Joe's pal and as such that there is something Joe really needs to know about his disenchanted wife. It's something only your best friend would tell you and when The Confessor...

Detective-Inspector Culley investigates a spate of apparently random murders and becomes as obsessed with the case as he is with patching up his failed marriage.