TV reporter Dan Groves and Detective Adam Breen are reunited to try to save a young girl who’s been abducted by a psychopath, a once brilliant man tormented by war and the death of his best friend, and utterly bent on taking his revenge on society.

A masked attacker breaks into women’s homes, threatens them with a gun, but never speaks and steals nothing of value, only a document bearing their name. He leaves behind a note addressed to Dan, boasting of plans for a great crime, one which will shock the country.

A police marksman kills two men in separate but frighteningly simil... Read more

A dying artist creates a series of ten paintings - The Death Pictures - which contain a mysterious riddle, leading the way to a unique and highly valuable prize. Thousands attempt to solve it. But before the answer can be revealed, the painter is murdered.

A serial rapist is methodically working through a series of attacks. He isn't shy to make clear his hatred of women, and his taunting of the police. He leaves his calling card, a witch's hat at the houses he breaks into, each numbered from a pack of six.

The detectives face baffling questions. Why kill the artist when he... Read more

A TV reporter turns detective in a new thriller, a book which is a reflection of the career of the BBC Crime Correspondent who wrote it.

'A Popular Murder' is Simon Hall's first novel. Its catalyst was Simon's move from environment reporting, which he'd been doing for five years, into crime. It's a fate that also befalls the book's hero, Dan Groves, a punishment from his editor for paying two prostitutes for an interview and bringing a stinging complaint from a local MP.

Dan starts plotting revenge, but such sweet thoughts will have to wait. A man is found blasted to death with... Read more