Crime In The Choir introduces Detective Inspector Gilbert Markham and his teacher girlfriend Olivia Mullen. After two skeletons are discovered in the grounds of St Mary's Choir School, rising star DI Gilbert Markham, assisted by veteran old-timer DS George Noakes, investigates.

​Crime In The School is the second in a series of contemporary crime novels which feature DI Gilbert Markham and his teacher girlfriend Olivia Mullen.  When a vicious murder occurs at Hope Academy, the local secondary school where Olivia teaches English, it seems impossible that there could be...

​Crime In The Convent is the third in a series of contemporary crime novels which feature DI Gilbert Markham and his teacher girlfriend Olivia Mullen.  When the serenity of St Cecilia’s church where Olivia regularly worships is shattered by a series of murders, some very ugly secrets are brought to light.

DI Gilbert Markham and DS Noakes are back, investigating a series of horrific murders connected with a local psychiatric facility in a case which comes uncomfortably close to home. When his team is tasked with solving the mystery of patients who have gone missing from the Newman Hospital...

DI Gilbert Markham and his team face one of their most baffling challenges when they are called upon to solve a series of murders within the local ballet company at the start of the Christmas season. The company is immersed in preparations for its production of The Nutcracker when a...

DI Markham’s team, aided by his teacher girlfriend Olivia Mullen, discover that the town’s apparently respectable façade conceals some very dangerous secrets. The latest story centres on a series of murders at the town’s art gallery. Troublingly for the local community, the killings..

A body is found stuffed in the refrigerator at a doctor’s office in a local community centre. The victim is twenty-something English teacher Rebecca ‘Bex’ Shawcross. The cause of death: strangulation. Detective Gil Markham and Detective George Noakes discover the victim..

Nothing ever happens in New College Close. Until one day a piercing scream shatters the calm. Two women are found asphyxiated beneath a luxury mattress. They are retired schoolteacher Marian Bussell and her ex-pupil Dawn. The only clue: a badge from the academy where the dead woman once taught..

Everyone adores ultra-glam Shirley Bastin, popular dance school owner. Then Shirley is found dead, drowned in a water butt, her dainty heels peeking out from the top. All the evidence suggests her death was a tragic accident. So why does Detective Markham think she was...

Wealthy, rakish Michael Dominguez is found battered to death in a vintage train carriage. Stuck to his lifeless body is a page from a book bearing the emblem of his local reading group. Dominguez was the literary golden boy of Calder Vale whose luck suddenly ran out. The gated community .

Detective Markham visits his alma mater, Sherwin College, hoping for a low-key weekend away in the city of dreaming spires. But his trip down memory lane takes an unexpected turn.
A builder unearths a human skeleton beneath a crumbling old staircase. The dead woman’s identity is revealed.

Jayne Padgett is a beloved teacher who’d do anything for her kids. So how does she end up dead, neatly posed at her kitchen counter? She was strangled and forced to drink bleach. And, stranger still, the killer tried to clear up the mess afterwards. Despite being a favourite with her students...

Dr Nariman is something of a celebrity. His weight-loss show is like Marmite — people either love it or hate it. Now he’s found murdered in his own clinic. Someone has caved in the back of his head. Between disgruntled patients, obsessive fans and fellow weight-loss specialists, it seems a lot of..

There’s no place like London’s elegant Theresian Club — part-members’ club, part-religious centre. Dowdy receptionist Julia Porter checked in years ago, and now she’ll never leave.
She is found strangled to death with her own tights in her room. The kicker? She welcomed her killer in like a friend.

Detective Markham visits the Reynolds Museum, Oxford, hoping to take in a little culture. Instead, he finds a grisly crime scene. Someone has been there after hours. And they’ve left their own addition to the exhibit. A battered body, posed in a glass case for all to see.

There’s something deadly in the air at grand old Carton Hall. The sweet scent of revenge? Early one morning, the cleaner makes a shocking find in the tapestry room. A dead body lying among the priceless artworks. His handsome features are a mask of agony, but the cleaner would recognize him anywhere.

Somewhere in the lush green grounds of a peaceful retirement home hides a serial killer.
Famous ex-ballet dancer and local celebrity Andrée Clark is found strangled in her bed at the genteel Rosemount Retirement Home. On the bedside table stands her favourite ballerina doll.

It’s a sleepy Sunday morning in the quaint English town of Bromgrove. The body of Gino Everard, the flamboyant owner of popular bridal boutique The Confetti Club, is discovered stuffed in one of the dress cupboards. Gino was a minor celebrity, adored by all who crossed his path.

Sheila Craven, the widow at number 12, is found dead in her armchair. Smothered with one of her Liberty cushions.
Detective Markham and the gang are on the case, following a twisty trail that leads straight to the high street — and Sheila’s favourite Italian restaurant.

A vegetable patch is the last place DI Markham ever expected to find a body.

But when local headteacher Catherine Leckie is found strangled in her potting shed at Beauclair Drive Allotments, he is forced to think again.

Markham and his team, aided by their old ally George Noakes, uncover a murky web of secrets and intrigue at the heart of the allotment.

It’s the final cut for Bromgrove’s best-loved stylist!
One sleepy Saturday morning, Becca Drew arrives at the Mane Event, the bijou salon where she works. To find nothing is as it should be. The door’s wide open. But inside the salon’s deserted . . .
Except for Becca’s boss, slumped in a barber’s chair.

The Tower of London is famous for ghosts, headless bodies and
grisly remains. Nobody ever imagines that murder still stalks its ancient portals until a curator researching the Princes in the Tower is found brutally murdered.
Can Markham and the gang find a way through a web of guilty secrets and jealous intrigues to uncover the truth?

Two brutal murders. One glass house with a sinister past. And a ruthless killer who's ready to throw the first stone . . .

To step into Hollingrove Palm House is to step into another world, filled with tropical blooms, lush foliage and six ancient stones. The house's owner, flash tycoon Tony Pardoe, doesn't believe the old wives' tales that swirl around...