Questa autrice scrive romanzi gialli descritti come "gialli per persone pensanti". La sua scrittura approfondisce temi complessi come la disabilità, il matrimonio interrazziale e il lutto, spingendo i lettori non solo a risolvere il "chi è stato?" ma anche a contemplare problemi della vita reale. Il suo personaggio detective disabile, DCI Jonah Porter, è informato dalle intuizioni dell'autrice sul mondo della disabilità. Leggere il suo lavoro incoraggia una riflessione più profonda e sfida le supposizioni del lettore.
Father Damien is worried that the renovation of the organ in St Cyprian's church may not be finished in time for the important Easter services. That's even before the organ builders discover a corpse concealed beneath it and the police halt the work while they investigate. Who is the young man whose remains have been lying hidden for more than thirty years? And who killed him and then secreted his body in the church?
Six months on from the murders of Kenny Hughes and Harry Whittle, their families are still waiting to hear when the killers will be brought to trial. The end of the COVID-19 Lockdown and the re-opening of Crown Courts offers hope, but summer turns to Autumn and Christmas approaches with no end to their ordeal in sight. Everyone is searching for the elusive post-COVID "new normal", but how can the lives of Gavin and Chrissie Hughes or Yvonne and Trevor Whittle return to any kind of normality when their families have been ripped apart and those responsible are still walking free? This final part of the Kenny Hughes Memorial Trilogy traces their long weary path to justice, but does this bring closure? That's something else altogether! This is the Large Print Edition
Three young Muslim students are attacked in the street by an assailant on a motorbike who sprays them with acid. What is the motive for this unprovoked assault? Is it a religious hate crime or something more personal? Is the aggressor a lone wolf with a personality disorder or part of an extremist organisation?While doctors strive to save the women from death and disfigurement, the police mobilise to hunt down the perpetrator of this hideous crime. Will they succeed? And will the unknown villain strike again?
Veteran detective, DCI Jonah Porter, is frustrated at being sent home from work to sit out the COVID-19 lockdown at home. To occupy his mind – and give her some peace from his complaints – his friend, Bernie, suggests that he writes his memoirs. So Jonah delves deep into the past to re-visit his very first murder investigation: a case from 1982, when Margaret Thatcher was still fighting the unions and the Greenham Common women were campaigning to stop cruise missiles being based on UK soil.Scuffles break out as anti-nuclear demonstrators converge on the centre of Oxford. As the crowd starts to disperse, one of their number drops to the ground unconscious. All attempts to revive him fail. Medical examination suggests that he died of a drug overdose, but was it self-administered or was he murdered in the crush?
It's been more than four months since young PC Kenny Hughes was run down and killed while trying to arrest a suspect, but his parents, Gavin and Chrissie, are still reeling from the shock. To make things worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has closed down the crown courts and it's looking as if the trial of Kenny's killers will be delayed for months.Meanwhile, Gavin has an increasingly difficult job as a police officer with responsibilities for enforcing new social distancing regulations and Chrissie is stretched to the limit trying to provide an education to her special needs class while some are shielding at home and others are still in school.Then, to cap it all, a young boy goes missing from his home. As Gavin joins in the police search for eight-year-old Carl, he is haunted by memories of the day that Kenny went out and did not return.This is a sequel to Weed Killers: Christmas Mourning. Readers may find it easier to follow the plot if they read that book first.
When the bursar of Lichfield College is found strangled in an Oxford hotel, Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Porter rapidly concludes that the killer is one of the nine college staff attending a meeting there, but who is the most likely suspect? Is it mathematics fellow, Tom Carrington, who found the body? Or was it the Master, who was the last to see him alive? Was the bursar blackmailing one of his colleagues? Or could it be a crime of passion committed by his former mistress? As the investigation proceeds, Inspector Porter and Sergeant Andy Lepage learn more, not only about the college and its staff, but also about themselves. When the murderer is finally identified, Andy finds relief from a hang-up which has troubled him all his life and Jonah is brought closer to some old friends.