Browsing: Police Procedurals

Was 16-year-old Erin Ellis’s death really just an ill-fated mugging? As DS Grace Allendale scours Erin’s Stoke community for a killer and a motive, her investigation brings up haunting memories of an old case… “I love all Mel Sherratt’s books” (Ian Rankin).

Two little boys went to play in the woods, but only one came back… Detective sergeant Tom Thorne hunts for a kidnapper in this “superb” procedural novel with “tantalizing red herrings” and a “masterly ending” (Publishers Weekly).

Swedish detective Embla Nyström has long been haunted by the disappearance of her best friend 14 years earlier. But one winter night, a phone call from an all-too-familiar voice sets in motion a chain of increasingly shocking events… A “stunning page-turner” with “a bombshell twist” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

A cleverly written and “intensely suspenseful” New York Times bestseller (Booklist): The investigation into the chilling murder of an author’s wife, found slain in a glamorous black evening gown, leads officer Jessica Niemi down a path marked by cults, witchcraft, and a perplexing string of victims. “One twist follows another, baffling the police and readers alike” (Publishers Weekly starred …

Months after a woman is murdered in London and her killer is sent to prison, another body is found with similar confounding evidence… In this tense series starter, detective Dan Lockhart and psychologist Lexi Green race to catch a serial killer before he strikes again.