Author: dianajfebry
A stand-alone Chapman and Morris Mystery. Simon and Kate land the perfect house-sitting job in a quirky, old farmhouse. But, when the neighbours are murdered, they discover the house has a sinister past connected to an identical killing. Following another attack, Simon disappears, and the police uncover disturbing secrets about his past. Compelling evidence against Simon mounts, leaving Kate … alone, unsure what to believe or who to trust. Is Simon the killer? Or a pawn in somebody else’s game? As Kate closes in on the truth, she realises too late that the stakes are far higher than she ever…
Somebody wants Richard Fielding dead.Richard was looking forward to making a fresh start with his new wife, Alicia when they moved into Clenchers Mill. Then the attacks started.Detained in the hospital after an unusual accident, he dismisses the claim his new wife is trying to harm him. He’s convinced the property attacks are the childish pranks of locals annoyed by his plans for Clenchers Mill. … Clenchers Mill. As a successful property developer, he’s seen it all before. Mindful of Alicia’s reluctance to involve the police he instructs Kate and Simon to make discreet inquiries.Kate and Simon are keen to…
A stand-alone murder mystery featuring DCI Peter Hatherall.A young mother brutally stabbed in a busy park in front of her son.A paperboy shot in an isolated farmhouse twenty-four years previously.DI Fiona Williams is baffled when her senior officer, DCI Peter Hatherall makes a connection between the two cases. As details of Hatherall’s involvement in the old case emerge, her loyalty is tested to … loyalty is tested to breaking point and she starts to question his decisions.When the murdered woman’s son goes missing the time for hesitating is over.more
Vivien Morse, a young social worker is discovered battered to death in Silver Lady Woods. Everyone assumes she was attacked by her estranged husband until her supervisor disappears. The connection appears to be Vivien’s last client. A damaged and disturbed girl who believes a bundle of rags is her lost baby and never leaves the family farm while she awaits the return of her lover.The matter is … confused by the arrival of a stranger to the area clearly searching for something or someone and an escaped convict with connections to the area.DCI Hatherall has to separate fact from fantasy…
Malicious pranks or a deadly obsession? Everyone knew the significance of the noose left hanging in the tree outside James Palmer’s home. A young man hung himself from the tree two years earlier. Someone is determined this time the guilty ones will pay. DCI Hatherall must unmask a master of disguise before everyone connected to the suicide is slaughtered.
DCI Peter Hatherall is called in to investigate a shooting on the Earl of Ditchburn’s country estate. The Earl’s activities have angered animal rights and environmental groups but subsequent deaths suggest Elmsgrove Racehorse Yard is the target. There is more at stake than a horse race and time is running out for Hatherall to solve the case before the culprit kills again.
It’s hard to defend yourself when you have memory lapses, and everyone thinks you are crazy. Journalist, Megan Roach, is given a story by an old man in a nursing home that could make her famous. When her carefully constructed life starts to unravel, she is forced to confront her childhood demons and the possibility she could be a murderer.DCI Peter Hatherall uncovers a conspiracy that confronts … confronts his own beliefs and goes far deeper than Megan Roach imagined. But can he believe anything she says?more
When the body of a teenage girl is discovered in Birkbury, the villagers close ranks. Gossip turns to fear and suspicion as they realize the killer is one of them and is prepared to kill again.DCI Peter Hatherall must fight his past and class divisions to find the killer.All must decide which secrets are worth dying for.