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It all starts with stealing from the cookie jar. Crime books of all shapes and sizes. One of them will be the culprit for a good evening’s read.

Morbid Thoughts by Michael McGovern

Aaron Walsh is a psychopath. For years he has kept that fact hidden, but one bad day is about to bring it all out into the open. When Jane Flannery walks into his computer repair store, he becomes obsessed. He wants to know every detail about her life. Unfortunately for Jane, Aaron has everything he needs. Her computer. Jane is in great danger and she doesn’t even know it yet.

 

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THE FAMILY MAN by Anna Willett

Utterly gripping crime fiction…

A householder who is clearing out the loft comes across a carefully concealed box containing a video camera.

When he plugs it in, unsure due to its age that it will even play, what he sees there has him immediately calling the police.

Senior Sergeant Veronika Pope and her team in the Special Crime Squad study the footage of the torture of four individuals held captive, all physically and mentally abused.

Assured this is no hoax, although all indications are that this happened long in the past, the team races to trace the identity of the victims.

Someone got away with murder once, will Sergeant Pope permit them to do so again?

THE FAMILY MAN is a gripping suspense thriller with a creepy edge.

Anna Willett is the bestselling author of DEAR NEIGHBOUR, UNWELCOME GUESTS, PEST and many other gripping thrillers. Her books are set in South Western Australia.

 

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Terminus by Pete Brassett

Detective Munro is on the back foot when a dangerous killer always seems to be one step ahead.

Having been the victim of a hit and run accident, and despite being black and blue, DI Munro wastes no time in trying to find out the identity of the perpetrator.

In the meantime, a junior detective receives a call from a concerned member of the public, worried that a recently deceased friend’s will had been unlawfully changed.

What connects these two events will be crucial to the detective’s investigation. But when prime witnesses turn up dead, they’ll discover they have a more serious case on their hands. With attempted murder upgraded to a full-scale murder investigation, can the police close in on a mysterious killer or will Munro be finally outwitted?

TERMINUS is the fifth book by Pete Brassett to feature detectives James Munro and Charlotte West. The full list of books, in order of appearance, is:

1. SHE
2. AVARICE
3. ENMITY
4. DUPLICITY
5. TERMINUS
6. TALION
7. PERDITION
8. RANCOUR
9. PENITENT
10. TURPITUDE
11. HUBRIS
12. PENURY

All of these books are available on Kindle Unlimited and in paperback from Amazon.

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Murder On The Saanich Peninsula by Kathy Garthwaite

A cruel murder has terrible, irreversible consequences for the detectives who work the case.

When a woman is found murdered by the Bevan fishing pier on Vancouver Island, Inspector William Gibson becomes convinced that her abusive husband is responsible.

But is his conviction more down to his own sense of guilt than hard evidence? With interviews of the suspect revealing nothing firm, the investigation centres on Ryder Simpson, a young drop-out witnessed near the scene. But he too is proving elusive.

Gibson and his sergeant, Ann “Scottie” Cruickshank, are at loggerheads over the direction of the inquiry. Furthermore, Gibson is distracted by his son recently having come back into his life and his latest wife expecting her first baby.

When Gibson increases the pressure on the victim’s family, signs of infidelity begin to emerge. But not everything is quite how it seems. And when the truth finally emerges it has devastating consequences for all concerned – the detectives included.

A captivating read set in an absolutely stunning location, written in an evocative and dreamy style that reflects the tempo of the place.

MURDER ON THE SAANICH PENINSULA is the third book by Kathy Garthwaite to feature DI William Gibson, commander of the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit. It can be enjoyed on its own or alongside the other books, MURDER ON VANCOUVER ISLAND and MURDER AT LAKE ONTARIO. All of these books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback.

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