The Perfect Murder

Also Buy the Script Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty years, but each barely recognises the person they wake up with every morning. Victor is so fed up with his job at the local egg-box factory –as well as distracted by his visits to his favourite prostitute, Kamila– that…

Dead Like You

“ Don’t imagine for one moment that I’m not watching you …   ” The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year’s Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims’ shoes are taken by the offender … Detective Superintendent Roy…

Dead Tomorrow

“ Lynn gripped the sides of the armchair, trying to put aside her own inner terror. ‘I can’t believe I’m thinking this, Ross. I’m not a violent person, even before Caitlin’s influence, I never even liked killing flies in my kitchen. Now I’m sitting here actually willing some stranger to die’.   ” The body…

Dead Man’s Footsteps

“Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else’s perfume, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around…

Not Dead Enough

“ Three murders. One suspect. No proof.   ” On the night Brian Bishop murdered his wife, he was sixty miles away, asleep in bed at the time. At least, that’s the way it looks to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace who is called in to investigate the kinky slaying of beautiful young Brighton socialite, Katie…

Looking Good Dead

“ They watch, they choose, they kill…   ” Tom Bryce did what any decent person would do. But within hours of picking up the CD that had been left behind on the train seat next to him, and attempting to return it to its owner, he is the sole witness to a vicious murder.…

Dead Simple

“ Four bodies, one suspect, no trace. The first case for Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.   ” It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank. A few hours later four of his best friends are dead and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace – a…

Faith

But when his wife falls ill she turns her back on conventional medicine and her arid marriage to Ross and seeks help from the world of alternative medicine and a charismatic therapist who promises not just medical salvation. For Ransome this is the ultimate betrayal. It defies logic and Ross Ransome is a profoundly logical…

Denial

When Thomas Lamark’s beloved mother takes an overdose rather than face the collapse of her acting career, Thomas decides that someone must be made accountable for what has happened. Something must be wrong with the world. How could the psychiatrist his mother was seeing have let this happen? Doctor Michael Tennent has a lesson to…

The Truth

John and Susan are happily married and successful professionals. John’s multimedia business is beginning to pay back handsomely on its initial investment, Susan is a respected editor at a London publishing house. It seems that life couldn’t be better. And then one day John’s new bank manager calls in their overdraft. They have thirty days…