'Fast paced gripping thriller. Bonus points for being set in the Hastings area. So well written that you can hear the waves dragging across the shingle and smell the sea!' Amazon Reviewer, 5 starsThe coastguard found the boat drifting a few miles off the south coast.What they discovered onboard was the last thing they expected to see.DCI Bill Boyd - recently relocated from London to Hastings - is now with the East Sussex CID and his...

When old bones are discovered buried beside an A-road it becomes clear that Leon Martin - dubbed the Ken Doll Killer by the tabloid press - may not have taken his life 21 years ago.As Boyd investigates the old case file it becomes clear there may be new bodies buried at lay-bys around the country - all of them marked by roadside flowers and the same unique message.Readers CANNOT get enough of Old Bones New Bones!'Another great hook ...

When a fire destroys a landmark home in Hastings and 'national treasure' Sir Jeffrey Sutton's body is found in the debris, it seems that arson may be to blame. But who would want the old man dead?Could it be his children - both with strong motives? Or his ex-wife? His live-in carer? Or perhaps its one of those 'Westminster chums' he got to know during his short spell in cabinet?DCI Boyd had better find out before he becomes another detail t...

With Boyd starting his phased return to the CID department, DS Samantha Okeke is once again in the driving seat. When Okeke takes a call from a child psychiatrist about one of his patients, a troubled thirteen year old girl, it's a mystery as to whether she has witnessed a monstrous crime or whether her story is just a figment of her imagination. Little does DC Okeke know that the girl's story is going to lead her down a rabbit hole that will bring a monst...

When Jay Turner - a nightclub doorman accidentally overhears a murder being planned he suddenly becomes Hastings' MOST WANTED man! Not only is he wanted by East Sussex Police for a violent crime that he's been framed for, but, by a desperate psychopath with limitless resources who simply can't afford for Jay to live... and for the truth to come out.With Jay on the run and DCI Boyd doing his best to keep him alive, the noose is tightening and his on...

Audrey Hincher, a middle-aged woman, with a mundane job and an unremarkable home life suddenly vanishes in the middle of the day on a busy street in the centre of Hastings.Boyd and his team are not immediately concerned for her welfare, but as the days pass and questions start to surface about her husband ... Boyd and Okeke begin to suspect foul-play.As evidence builds, both begin to suspect they may now be looking for a bo...

When a couple of storage auction bidders win the contents of unit 37 at 'Best Price Storage', they discover the mummified remains of three dismembered bodies inside. Thus begins a new murder case for Boyd and his team.While East Sussex police force are concerned they may have another serial killer operating along the South Coast, Boyd suspects there may be a very different explanation.Readers CANNOT get enough of The Lock Up!

Argyle House, the most hated home on Cottle Street. A place where the town's unwanted and despised are housed. Given the local hostility, it's no surprise to anyone when a body is discovered in one of its flats. Boyd wastes no time despatching Minter and Okeke to investigate.But it's not long before the team realise that any one of the residents could have been the target for a trolling that went too far.Readers CAN...

A fire amid the historical 'net huts' of Hastings' fishing village, Rock A' Nore - a local tourist attraction - exposes the mummified remains of a small and unidentifiable body that may well have been concealed inside for quite some time.Is this the body of an unfortunate rough sleeper? An overdosed drug addict? A desperate and nameless immigrant... or, an unresolved misper sitting on East Sussex Police Force's LEDS database?Boyd takes on the case, determin...

With Boyd convalescing at home after his operation, and DS Minter preparing for his Inspector's exam, CID Hastings is woefully under-manned.So, when the body of a young man is found hanging from a tree - an apparent suicide, and a house is burned down killing a wheelchair-bound old woman, it's down to DC Okeke to handle the two cases. However, as she digs into both it soon becomes apparent that they are connected to a third death, ...

The restoration of an old coastal defence tower is halted when work starts on the flooded basement, leading to the grim discovery of a human bone.The Napoleonic-era ruin is known to the locals as 'Devil's Tower' for the many urban myths and ghost stories attributed to it. Far more terrifying is the story of its actual past.When Boyd and the team begin to investigate they discover more than they bargained for in the dark, waterlogged void below Martello Tower No. 79....

Boyd is recruited by DCI Yolanda Williams to work on a 'test case' for a new intelligence-gathering software tool. The test case - a serial killer who appears to have struck again after a lapse of twenty years.Boyd finds himself drawn up to Manchester to solve a brutal double murder, armed with his years of experience, and 'software' he's struggling to get to grips with... and a cold-blooded killer who's psychological profile just doesn't add up.