Series file · 7 series · 14 titles

The Hanging Ground

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The past has a way of turning up where you least want to find it.

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The
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A Cold Ground thriller

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Cold Ground

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A new crime series about the weight of memory, the cost of silence, and the people who know exactly where the bodies are buried.

1 Book

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The Hanging Ground

A body hangs from Belfast's Lagan Bridge, meticulously staged to resemble an execution buried deep in Northern Ireland's darkest history. The victim carries a looping video from decades ago, a recording that should not exist. Retired detective Eamon Fallon has spent thirty years burying the past. Living alone on a remote sheep farm in the Mourne Mountains, he thought the secrets of the Troubles had died with those who kept them. But when an anonymous message arrives, "We know you were there. We have the photograph," his carefully built life begins to unravel. As Detective Chief Inspector Aoife O'Kane investigates a series of ritualistic murders, every clue points back to classified files, forgotten atrocities, and powerful people determined to keep history buried. Someone is recreating crimes from the past with chilling precision, leaving a trail that only Fallon can understand. Forced back into a world he swore he would never revisit, Fallon must confront the truth about a decades old conspiracy before more bodies appear. But every answer brings him closer to exposing secrets that could shake Northern Ireland to its core. The Hanging Ground is the gripping first installment in the Cold Ground series, a dark, atmospheric crime thriller blending murder investigation, historical conspiracy, and psychological suspense. Perfect for readers who enjoy complex detectives, morally conflicted heroes, and haunting mysteries where the past refuses to stay buried.

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Docklands Noir

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A Dublin noir series about missing people, erased records, and the secrets that survive in the shadows.

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The Vanishing Rider

A delivery rider vanishes. Then someone begins erasing the evidence that he ever existed. When twenty-three-year-old Andrei Ionescu disappears after a late-night delivery in Dublin's Docklands, his aunt turns to private investigator Eamon "Mack" McAuley. Andrei's accounts have been deleted across multiple platforms, and his final message contains a mysterious photograph, and a warning to keep it safe. Mack knows missing people. His walls are covered with the cases official systems have quietly abandoned. But Andrei's disappearance leads somewhere darker: through gleaming data centres, Dublin Port, private security firms and a trail of records someone powerful wants destroyed. As witnesses are silenced and old secrets surface, Mack discovers this case may connect to a disappearance that has haunted him for years. In Dublin's shadows, people don't simply vanish. Sometimes they are deliberately erased. Who will be next?

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The Woman in Apartment 9B

She saw something she was never meant to see. By morning, someone had begun erasing her existence. Cleaner Olena Shevchenko knows Apartment 9B is different. Nobody appears to live there. One bedroom locks from the outside. And she has learned not to ask questions. Then one morning she finds blood on the floor. Hours later, Olena is missing, and the company employing her claims her records have been archived. Private investigator Eamon “Mack” McAuley takes the case and discovers that Olena isn’t the first person to vanish into Dublin’s hidden machinery. Behind the gleaming Docklands towers lies a network capable of manipulating records, manufacturing identities, and making inconvenient people legally disappear. The deeper Mack digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because Apartment 9B isn’t where the mystery ends. It’s where people disappear. Who will be next?

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The Atlanta Noir Novels

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An Atlanta noir series about art, legacy, and the debts that refuse to stay buried.

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A Murder of Crows

Some crimes are staged. Some are art. When Harrison Whitfield III, one of Atlanta's most prominent philanthropists, is found dead in Piedmont Park—his body arranged with unsettling precision beneath a scatter of crows—Sergeant Nolan Anderson knows immediately this isn't a random killing. Somebody posed him. Somebody composed him. Somebody wanted him seen. With the Whitfield Foundation's legal team already applying pressure and Deputy Chief Ashton demanding a quick, quiet resolution, Nolan gets partnered with Detective Maeve Mitchell, his former partner and ex-lover, who left Homicide two years ago after an ultimatum that drove them apart. Neither wants the pairing; neither has a choice. As they dig into Whitfield's carefully curated legacy, they uncover a fifty-year-old secret buried in the city's art world: a suite of paintings by a self-taught artist named Josiah Calloway, acquired for a fraction of its value, erased from history, and protected by a circle of Atlanta's most influential families. A second staged murder confirms the pattern, and Nolan and Maeve realize they're not chasing a killer with a grudge—they're chasing someone who sees their crimes as a tribute, a restoration, a debt finally coming due. With a third target identified, a gala looming, and a partnership on the verge of either healing or breaking forever, they have seventy-two hours to stop a man who's spent twenty-three years studying his family's stolen legacy, waiting for the moment to reclaim it—one body at a time. The first book in the Atlanta Noir Series.

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The Devil's Choir

Some confessions are made to be heard. When Pastor Elias Judson is found drowned in his own baptismal font—the water replaced by two hundred gallons of communion wine, a verse about false witnesses carved into his chest, and a recording device still running—Sergeant Nolan Anderson knows immediately this isn't a simple murder. This is a sermon. A message. A confession staged for an audience no one's identified yet. Partnered again with Detective Maeve Mitchell, Nolan uncovers a pattern hidden beneath the megachurch's gleaming surface: a secret network called "The Choir," four churches, fifteen years of settlements, and a girl named Lydia Ward whose fourteen-year-old testimony was bought and buried so thoroughly that no one bothered to remember her name. When Bishop Reginald Coates is found scourged and blinded in his own study, the pattern becomes unmistakable—someone is working through the list of men who protected the abuser, one movement at a time. The killer is patient, precise, and fluent in the exact liturgical language the church used to silence its victims. And he's building toward something far more public than either detective anticipates. With a live broadcast serving as the final stage, a partner's life on the line, and a countdown measured in hours, Nolan and Maeve race to identify a man they've been looking at the entire time—someone who spent nine years perfecting the only form of confession this network could never settle quietly. The second book in the Atlanta Noir Series.

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The Habit

Some habits are buried with the dead. Some outlive them. When retired officer Harlan Vance is found dead on an unopened stretch of the BeltLine—a fifty-year-old form tucked under his arm marked RECLASSIFIED, CLOSED, NO FURTHER ACTION—Sergeant Nolan Anderson and Detective Maeve Mitchell know this isn't a random killing. Someone is methodically removing men who spent their retirements digging into the department's own forgotten history. As they chase the pattern, they uncover a two-decade administrative habit that quietly buried nearly two hundred cases from 1968 to 1989. No conspiracy. No monsters. Just ordinary men reaching for a form that made difficult files disappear, one checkbox at a time. When the killer is revealed to be a records clerk named Cora Reddick—whose father was destroyed by the same practice she's now punishing—the case becomes something far more dangerous than a simple murder investigation. It becomes a reckoning with the department's own institutional failure, and with the personal grief both detectives have spent years burying under professional composure. With a third victim dead, a fourth target identified, and a deputy chief whose sudden interest in protecting the archive's history becomes increasingly suspicious, Anderson and Mitchell must decide what justice truly means—and whether the habit that made these killings possible can ever actually be broken. The third book in the Atlanta Noir Series.

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The Belfast Deepfake Series

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A Belfast crime series for an age of AI manipulation, crypto blackmail, and murder made for an audience.

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The Deepfake Widow

A viral deepfake video rocks the world. The shockingly pornographic video appears to show a minor British royal in a naked encounter. Hours later, the woman at the centre of the scandal, a struggling actress from Paisley, is found drowned in the Clyde, a diamond-encrusted USB drive forced down her throat. DI "Midge" Rutherford is an old-school detective caught in a world that has gone terrifyingly digital. Armed with little more than a battered Nokia and a sharp instinct for deception, she is dragged into a nightmare of AI manipulation, crypto blackmail, and an underground streaming network where murder is entertainment and subscribers vote on the ending. With the help of a brilliant but deeply eccentric teenage hacker, Midge must stop a killer who isn't merely covering their tracks, they're producing the most shocking show on the internet. Ever. "Darkly brilliant, wickedly funny, and terrifyingly plausible, a crime thriller for the AI age. Highly recommended," The International Review of Books.

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The Larkin Files

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A Belfast techno-thriller series about artificial intelligence, political deception, and the fragile boundary between truth and fiction.

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The Seam

There are lies. Then there are the lies that rewrite history. Veteran investigative journalist Eithne Larkin has spent her career exposing deception. But when a respected Belfast politician appears in a viral video delivering a shocking confession, her instincts tell her something is wrong. The evidence looks flawless. Every frame, every movement, every heartbeat is real. Except it never happened. As Eithne digs deeper, she uncovers a powerful technology capable of generating perfectly convincing digital realities indistinguishable from the truth. What begins as a single fabricated video quickly reveals a coordinated campaign designed to manipulate public opinion, reignite decades-old divisions, and weaponize trust itself. With violence spreading across Belfast and powerful forces determined to keep the truth buried, Eithne must race against time to expose the architects behind the deception before an entire society loses its ability to distinguish fact from fiction. Set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland's fragile peace, The Seam is a gripping techno-thriller that blends investigative journalism, artificial intelligence, political intrigue, and psychological suspense into a chilling story that feels frighteningly possible. Perfect for readers of Michael Crichton, Daniel Silva, Mick Herron, and Blake Crouch, The Seam is the first novel in The Larkin Files series.

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The Lomax Files

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A Glasgow crime series about institutional failure, public anger, and the dangerous arithmetic of justice deferred.

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Just Stop Killing

A government minister is found at first light, naked and nailed to a motorway gantry above the M8, the words LANE CLOSED tattooed across his chest. He's the man who sold Scotland its smart motorways. He won't be the last to die for them. DCI Terry Lomax — thirty-two years on the job, a failing hip, and a weakness for plain digestives — has seen a lot. He's never seen a killer this patient. Each murder mirrors, with an engineer's precision, a documented failure in the smart motorway programme: the removed hard shoulders, the cost-cut barriers, the safety reports filed and forgotten while families died on the tarmac. Someone has read every buried document. Someone is settling every unpaid account, one name at a time. As the body count climbs and the killer's logic spreads — onto T-shirts, into the polls, across his ex-wife's wildly popular true-crime podcast — Lomax faces the question no detective wants. What do you do when the whole country is quietly cheering for the murderer? And how do you stop someone with the power to bring a live motorway to a lethal standstill, three hundred thousand strangers in the firing line? Justice failed them first. Now someone is enforcing it.

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The Ministry of Inconvenient Deaths

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A Whitehall noir series about institutional language, managed narratives, and the dangerous machinery behind inconvenient truths.

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A Minor Statistical Adjustment

Some deaths are inconvenient. Some are adjusted. When Dr. Helen Mercer, an NHS data analyst, dies in her hospital accommodation of an apparent overdose, the local force closes the file within forty-eight hours. That should be the end of it—except for one detail: Mercer had spent eight months documenting a pattern of patient reclassification across five hospital trusts that no one in the system wanted to acknowledge. Tom Arkwright is a policy analyst at the Ministry of Inconvenient Deaths, a shadowy Whitehall department so covert it doesn't appear on any building directory. His job is simple: coordinate language, manage narratives, and ensure that deaths which might destabilize public institutions never develop into stories that can't be controlled. When Mercer's case lands on his desk, he's expected to write the standard containment report. But as Arkwright digs deeper, he discovers that the pattern Mercer found wasn't a flaw in the system—it was the system working as designed. The mortality reporting framework he helped build has become the foundation for something far more insidious: a coordinated programme to shape not just how deaths are reported, but how reality itself is understood. With a tenacious detective closing in from one side and his own agency closing ranks around him, Arkwright must decide whether to preserve the institutional machinery he spent his career building—or to leave it loaded, waiting for a future he may never see.

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The Rwanda Roster

A young man drowns in a container over cold water. Detective Inspector Iona Khatri finds a card in his pocket with a joke printed in childish font. When she looks for his name in the system, she finds only a spreadsheet, and her own name on it, flagged for disposal. In the bureaucratic machinery of detention and removal, there are those who follow orders and those who give them, the hands and the heads, the functionaries and the architects. But there is a third thing: the spreadsheet that names no one, the dropdown that kills in a single click, the process that continues without persons. When Detective Inspector Iona Khatri pulls a body from the dock at King George V, she expects tragedy. What she finds instead is something systemic. A man in the wrong uniform. A laminated card with three words in a soft, jolly font. The beginning of a four-year spiral into the machinery of disposal, into safe houses and shipping containers, into the homes of frightened civil servants and the warm rooms of those who gave the orders, down to a sea loch where the count finally comes due. What she finds is that the machine does not make criminals. It makes bureaucrats. And that spreadsheets, properly configured, can disappear a person more completely than any crime, because a spreadsheet has no hands to catch, no name to blame, only a logic that is cold and complete and nearly impossible to stop. The Rwanda Roster is a novel about the cost of knowing, the arithmetic of death, and one woman's refusal to let the dead go uncounted. It is about what happens when a system designed to hide itself is suddenly, violently, seen. A work of fiction rooted in real immigration enforcement practices, systemic invisibility, and the resistance of those stubborn enough to say: somebody has to count them. No matter how the machine is rebuilt, no matter what version it ships as, somebody has to count them all.

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Eight Seconds

The alarm lasted eight seconds. Not long enough to react. Not long enough to think. Just long enough to know something was wrong. In a federally contracted lab in north Georgia, a containment seal fails and an engineered respiratory virus vents into a factory full of night-shift workers. The men in charge have a choice: report the breach—or bury it, and call whatever comes next an outbreak of unknown origin. They choose silence. Within days, the bodies begin to arrive. At a CDC hollowed out by budget cuts and political loyalty tests, Deputy Director Nora Phillips sees the cluster light up her screen: eight hospitalized, three dead, a thirty-seven percent fatality rate in working-age adults. Every instinct from twenty years of outbreak investigation tells her this is no natural illness. But the agency that once mobilized in hours now answers her emergency request with a single automated line—authorization denied—and her superiors want her to wait until next week. She doesn't have until next week. Neither do the people still breathing the same air. As the death toll climbs and the truth gets buried deeper, Nora is forced outside the lines of an institution built to protect Americans—and now engineered to look away. To stop a spreading catastrophe, she'll have to risk her career, her reputation, and her safety against the powerful men who decided that some truths are more dangerous than a body count. Eight Seconds is a razor-sharp, ripped-from-tomorrow's-headlines thriller about institutional collapse, moral courage, and the terrifying speed at which a preventable disaster becomes an unstoppable one. Because the truth doesn't wait for permission.

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Proof of Death

The hum gets into your teeth. That's what people say about the server farm HashRidge Mining runs out of the old Forgey textile mill in Larkin's Ford, North Carolina. A low, insistent frequency that lives in the amalgam fillings of anyone who grew up eating the wrong way. Deputy Cletus Jinks has four of them. He's used to it. He's not used to finding Luther Pugh dead on his own embalming table, mouth propped open, a live-linked Bitcoin wallet tattooed in precise black QR code across his tongue. And he's not used to what's in the basement. Below Pugh's Funeral Home, seven unclaimed bodies have been running as a heat exchange loop for a cryptocurrency mining operation. The dead, rendered as BTUs per hour. An efficiency gain. Jinks, three years sober and working to stay that way, has seen what happens when people decide accountability is for other people. He's been one of them. What he finds as he follows the evidence, through the server farm and the shell companies and the mountain county that buried the truth a decade ago, is a ledger someone has been building in secret for two years, encoded on an immutable blockchain, counting the names of the dead and the dollars they were worth. The killer isn't hiding. The killer is publishing. Proof of Death is Mountain Gothic crime fiction at its sharpest, set in the hollows of western North Carolina where the old ways of doing wrong meet the new ways of being caught.

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The Caracas Asset

She sent the intelligence that lit the fuse. Now she has to live with what burned. Elena Vásquez has spent her career as a CIA non-official cover operative learning one essential truth: the mission is everything. So when Langley tasks her with infiltrating Maduro's inner circle in a Venezuela on the brink of collapse, she does what she does best — she builds a network, recruits an asset, and delivers the intelligence that makes Operation Absolute Resolve possible. But the night the bombs fall over Caracas, Elena discovers that the mission was built on a lie she told herself. CARDINAL — his real name Héctor Maldonado, a disillusioned mid-level SEBIN officer with a wife, two daughters, and a desperate dream of getting them out — trusted Elena with his life. She promised him. And now Langley is telling her to shelter in place, maintain cover, and leave him behind. Elena has other plans. Set against the chaos of a targeted American military operation in Venezuela, The Caracas Asset is a tautly plotted espionage thriller that follows Elena's race through a burning Caracas — outwitting the regime's enforcers, assembling a ragtag extraction team, and confronting the moral weight of intelligence work stripped of its comfortable abstractions. The operation was sold as liberation. The reality is smoke, casualty numbers, and a man waiting in the dark, trusting a promise made in a church. Some debts can't be written off in a debrief. A morally charged, propulsive debut from Robert A. Clark — for readers of Daniel Silva, Vince Flynn, and Jason Matthews.

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