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Without Fear or Favour and other stories

Discover ‘Without Fear or Favour,’ a short anthology of stories to kick off the new year.

Dive into the depths of human morality with my latest release. It is a thought-provoking collection exploring the complexities of breaking oaths and the consequences of living without fear or favour.

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If you embark on revenge - dig two graves!

Blind Murder (2nd Ed)

2022 Edition

In 1994 probationary PC’s Jim Kingsfield and Jake Jordan attend their first murder where Bingham Tyler’s step-mother is found in a house on a Northampton estate. Some think Tyler did it.

Eighteen years later, Detective Inspector Jim Kingsfield, now married to forensic pathologist, Kirsty, is unaware that he and his wife are being targeted by Tyler, who’s lust for revenge will have explosive and life changing consequences for them all.

Meanwhile Jake Jordan, now a traffic sergeant, is thrown into this revenge fuelled mix, putting his job to the test, and discovering his marriage is on the rocks.

Tyler is a psychopath. Tyler wants Kingsfield dead for his actions all those years ago.

Will he get his revenge?

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Book Cover for Crimson Dragon set in Hong Kong & Chinatown

MURDER. ABDUCTION. TWO CITIES. TWO COPS. ONE OBJECTIVE...

Crimson Dragon

Mandy Lee & Ed Roberts - Book 1

Book Cover for Crimson Dragon set in Hong Kong & Chinatown

Eighteen months ago. Chinatown, London. A police raid goes disastrously wrong. People die.  Today, those police officers involved in the swoop are dead. Serial, Purple One Five, are all dead, except the serial commander – Sergeant Brian Gibson.

In Hong Kong, a woman’s body is discovered in a seedy downtown Wan Chai hotel. Detective Inspector of Police MANDY LEE  must determine who she is and who killed her.  Lee identifies the woman as Andrea Ventress-Gibson. Her investigation leads her to the UK, but Andrea’s new husband, Sergeant Brian Gibson, is missing – whereabouts unknown.

Meanwhile, in the UK, Road Policing Officer PC ED ROBERTS discovers a cyber-attack on a police database committed by a Hong Kong underworld organisation – Crimson Dragon. Ordered to chaperone D. I. Lee, they soon find that their enquiries are linked.

Against orders, Roberts follows Lee to London’s Chinatown, where they come into direct conflict with CRIMSON DRAGON, Lee confirming her suspicions that her estranged step-brother is involved.

Can Lee and Roberts discover Gibson’s whereabouts and stop CRIMSON DRAGON?

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A gripping crime thriller for all fans of Stuart McBride, Peter James and Mark Billingham

Driving Dead

‘With horror, she felt all the muscles in her body cramp, as her body went into an uncontrollable spasm her right foot hit the accelerator pedal and lay there like a brick’

When a woman is killed and her family seriously injured in a road collision, Jake Jordan and his team of road policing officers are called in to investigate.

Discovering a water bottle laced with a substance which causes drivers to have seizures and die while driving, Jordan enlists the help of Kirsty Kingsfield and her long time microbiologist friend Dr Tanya Nicholls.

The police find themselves with an abduction of one of their own and a near fatal accident, following an aborted sting operation by new Detective Inspector, Fletcher Randall.

 

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In a Field of Bones – Coming Soon

The third outing for Sgt Jake Jordan and Dr Kirsty Kingsfield.

In a Field of Bones sees Jordan kicked out of Traffic, promoted, then dropped into the Major Incident Team, as a new detective Inspector, like a fish out of water.

But soon, when a number of human remains are found, dating back decades, Jordan with Kirsty’s help get launched into a cold case.

Detective Inspector Jack Pierce is hoping to retire, but on his last day he ends up going to just one last job.

But that one job could be the answer to his many outstanding questions, not least for his ward, Constable Amelia De-Sollowe.

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In a Field Full of Bones

A Jordan & Kingsfield Thriller (Book 3)

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Books by Ruth Martin