Detective Inspector Jack MacIntosh Mysteries

A twisted killer. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Detective Jack MacIntosh has seven days to find the truth. A young woman is discovered strangled in Hyde Park. Wearing only one shoe. Close to the body, Detective Jack MacIntosh finds a black stiletto, diamante buckle glinting in the early morning sun. But it doesn't belong to the victim. Two days later, another young woman is found strangled to death in nearby Green Park. Wearing just one shoe-the matching stiletto. Hidden in the long grass beside the body, the police uncover a low-heeled court shoe. Detective Jack and his team are in a race against time to find the owner of the court shoe before it's too late. At the same time, Jack is fighting demons of his own. Demons which rise up from the past and threaten to cloud his judgement just when he needs it most. Detective Jack is hunting a brutal killer. A killer who delights in playing twisted games. Who will win this deadly battle of wits?

An absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist. Eighty-one-year-old Eddie Wakefield is found brutally murdered at the nursing home where he lives. Crudely carved into his flesh-while he was still alive-is the number fifteen. Detective Jack MacIntosh and his team are determined to track down the ruthless killer of this frail elderly man. But the investigation is leading nowhere. Then the second body is discovered. The victim was stabbed to death in their own home. Again, the number fifteen is etched into the dead man's flesh. A single clue leads to St Bartholomew's School for Boys, a grim and forbidding institution on England's south coast-and a series of shocking secrets stretching back more than forty years. What is the significance of the number fifteen . . . and is Jack prepared for the horrifying truth?

An absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist Billie-Rose's bloodstained body is found in the kitchen of her ground-floor flat. She's been strangled to death, there's a deep laceration to her upper thigh, and a wooden chess-piece grasped tightly in her hand. Daubed on the wall in Billie-Rose's own blood is a strange symbol: a bishop's mitre. All Detective Jack MacIntosh can think is: He's back. Four years earlier, four young women were also strangled to death in their own homes, the same deep wound to the thigh, the same weird symbol scrawled on the wall. The work of the killer they call the Bishop. Is he back to kill again? Jack and his team are in a race against time to pull the pieces together and uncover the truth before more young women die. Perfect for fans of Helen H. Durrant, Biba Pearce, Lynda La Plante, Angela Marsons, and Rachel McLean.

MEET DETECTIVE JACK MACINTOSH IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW CRIME SERIES. An absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist. The call comes in the early hours. Human remains have been discovered in a suitcase, dumped on the muddy banks of the River Thames. Detective Jack MacIntosh races to the scene. The suitcase contains a human torso, two arms and two legs. It's the body of a young girl. But where is her head? Then a skull is found embedded in the silt of the riverbed. But it doesn't belong to the body in the case. As the river offers up more of its gruesome secrets, Jack uncovers a tangled web of shocking secrets stretching back twenty years.