Book 6
The Perfect Girl
PREORDER NOW - OUT MARCH 31, 2026
PREORDER NOW - OUT MARCH 31, 2026
Sometimes the hardest thing about friendships is communicating.
And sometimes it's disposing of the body.
Aziz would still be alive if he hadn't made that cheap crack about Kyle's nan's ... well ... her chest.
Kyle can't believe it happened. He just lashed out. A shove in the chest. Just to set some boundaries.
Now there's blood all over Nan's Nairn Cushionflor and Aziz is lying with his head blocking the fridge door. Which is also bad, because right now, Kyle could seriously do with a beer.
But a lack of beer is the least of Kyle's problems. Nan is away at the moment. An eighties weekender at Camber Sands. But she'll be back tomorrow morning at 9.00 a.m. No way can Aziz still be there.
Kyle needs a plan. He needs to get Aziz gone. But first he needs help.
He calls Harv. And that's when the trouble really starts...
Goodbye Aziz is a blackly comic novella about friendship, pig farms and the perils of bad habits.
A journalist’s final words lead Kat Ballantyne into a deadly game of power, corruption and terror.
A bomb threat at Middlehampton’s Powerhouse music venue sends DS Kat Ballantyne spiralling into a nightmare—her husband and son are inside. As the city reels in terror, Kat fights to keep her family safe while being pulled into another deadly case that may well be connected…
A journalist investigating a controversial football club takeover makes a chilling 999 call before collapsing. Hours later, he’s dead. His apparent murder marks the beginning of a dangerous trail of corruption leading to a foreign royal family. Or is the killer closer to home? With a murder to solve, a terrorist plot unfolding and rival agencies vying for supremacy, Kat must untangle the truth before it’s too late.
Justice always comes at a price—and this time, it could cost her everything.
Gabriel Wolfe is done with ops. Too much blood. Too many friends dead. His days, and nights, haunted by memories of those he has lost. Trying to heal, he spends his time at a gym in an unfashionable part of Paris, teaching martial arts to poor kids. But whether he likes it or not, the call of duty instilled in him as a child and reinforced by his military commanders has only been quieted, not deleted.
So when he hears a woman cry out that her sister’s been stabbed, he rushes to help. But his instincts, always so trustworthy, betray him. Now it’s his life in danger. A razor-sharp knife to his throat and seconds left to submit to robbery or have his blood spilled.
*‘Odette is missing!’*
Elsewhere in the ‘city of love’, a twelve-year-old girl has disappeared on her way home from school. Her parents are frantic with worry, but the local police don’t want to know. After his encounter with the wannabe muggers, Gabriel runs into the missing girl’s mother. And he promises to help her find her daughter.
What they don’t know is that Odette Diallo has been taken by people traffickers. They plan to auction her on the dark web: her body the prize for the highest bidder.
*The knife points the way*
Gabriel reunites the knife the muggers used with its rightful owner. And in return he offers to help Gabriel find Odette. Together with Gabriel’s sister, Tara, they begin a race against the clock to find Odette before the auction ends and her fate is sealed.
A famous victim. A locked room. Dark secrets. For DS Ballantyne, murder isn’t black and white.
DS Kat Ballantyne came to the crime-writing festival for an escape. Instead she’s walked straight into a murder scene.
Moments before he’s due on stage, a famous novelist is found dead in a locked room. It looks like natural causes, but Kat sees tiny clues that suggest murder. As she investigates, she uncovers literary rivalries, personal vendettas and hidden agendas. Is there anyone who didn’t have a motive to murder Mark Swift?
As the case takes a turn for the darker, Kat finds herself in a world where the line between right and wrong is blurred. Can she bring Swift’s killer to justice? And, if so, should she?
THEY'VE FAKED YOUR CHILD'S DEATH. AND IF YOU DON'T GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT, THEY'LL MAKE IT A REALITY.
Things have been difficult for Annie since her husband left; her teenage daughter, Isla, has become a ghost of her former self. Annie's terrified that Isla might do something desperate, and she'll lose her, too. So when Annie receives a video of herself crying at Isla's funeral, her blood runs cold.
Confused and horrified, Annie races upstairs to check on Isla, who is alive and well. The video has been faked. But who sent it and what do they want?
One dark truth soon becomes clear: Annie is the latest in a string of parents being blackmailed, and Isla will be killed if Annie goes to the police or if she fails to give the sender what they want. Annie has a deadly choice: comply with the demands, or try to unmask the dangerous criminal.
Sometimes a headache is just a headache. And sometimes it's much, much worse.
Christopher Goodenough is a very important man. A senior member of the Government, and responsible for taking an axe to long-cherished beliefs about the National Health Service. So the irony is not lost on him when he finds himself in an NHS waiting room.
His headache is fierce, taking up residence behind his eyeballs like a spiked mace and making rational thought impossible. Then he finds out he can't get seen by a doctor without taking a number.
And that's the last thing Christopher Goodenough experiences that makes any sense.
They said it would end war. They lied.
Far from his old life as an off-books government assassin, Gabriel Wolfe tends his farm. Until one night, armed men arrive in SUVs and attack without mercy. They have reckoned without Wolfe’s unique mix of skills, honed in his years in British Special Forces and as a member of The Department.
Wolfe knows the attack can’t be an isolated incident. A lawyer has been offering his neighbours immense sums of money to sell up and move inland, away from the coast. He follows the only survivor of the death squad to his employer. A shady fixer in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second, and most violent, city.
What he discovers there will take him into the heart of darkness. With the world’s peace and security at stake, Wolfe has no option. It’s time to go back to war.
Her career on the line and an innocent woman charged with murder. Can she save them both?
As bogus corruption charges loom over her, DS Kat Ballantyne finds herself deskbound and stuck with cold cases. Her hated boss, DI Carver, has given her just one week to explain how £50,000 found its way into her bank account. If she can’t, she’ll be lucky to have a desk at all.
Then a close friend calls her from a murder scene, claiming to have strangled a local gangster’s wife. Kat has no choice but to disobey orders and investigate. Despite overwhelming forensic evidence supporting her friend’s confession, something still doesn’t add up…
With the clock against her, can Kat unmask her unwelcome benefactor, save her career and find the real killer before an innocent woman pays the ultimate price?
For DS Kat Ballantyne, finding the murderer might mean looking closer to home.
DS Kat Ballantyne is still reeling from a revelation that turned life as she knew it upside down. But when a dog walker discovers the body of a woman among the standing stones known locally as the Three Sisters, there’s no time to focus on her own troubles. Kat is drawn back to work to investigate.
At first, the death appears to be an accident. But then Kat discovers an infinity symbol branded onto the dead woman’s abdomen. She’s convinced there’s a vicious killer at large. Still juggling her turbulent private life with her professional duty, she begins to dig into the victim’s past. There, she uncovers shocking secrets and several potential suspects.
When a second woman is found killed in similar circumstances, Kat needs answers fast. Does she have a serial killer on her hands? Or is the perpetrator motivated by something more personal? What connects the victims? And can she catch the killer before anyone else turns up dead?
Fifteen years ago, a serial killer was on a rampage murdering young women in Middlehampton. Then, suddenly, the killings stopped, and the murderer was never found…
So when the body of another young woman is found bearing the twisted killer’s unique hallmark—the overpowering stench of lavender and an origami heart—DS Kat Ballantyne knows this can only mean one thing: the killer is back.
Randall and Sturgis are a couple of lowlifes who've found a lucrative--and enjoyable--sideline as home invaders. But their crimes are getting more and more brutal.
After drunkenly promising his girlfriend, Tina, a Mercedes for her birthday, Randall figures he knows where to get one. The home of a yuppie he was queuing behind at an ATM.
Skylar and Bailey are sisters, fourteen and eleven, living with their Mom and Dad in a beautiful surburban home. But when two strangers pull up outside in a banged-up truck, their lives are about to change forever.
A dead man crucified on an oak tree used by pagans. A pentagram carved into his chest. Antlers adorning his lifeless body. A horrific discovery in the autopsy room. All hallmarks of infamous serial killer Ulrik Ahlgren - the 'Brain Surgeon'. It should be an open-and-shut case. Except Ahlgren is currently locked up in Kumla Bunker, Sweden's secure prison for its most deranged killers.
A ferocious, bloody firefight on a remote Scottish island scorched Gabriel Wolfe’s soul to cinders. It left him a broken man, consumed by rage against his unseen enemies. Now he holds two lives in his hands. His own. And that of the woman who betrayed everything he ever held dear. Everything he ever believed in. Everything he ever loved.
Detective Inspector Cole must catch a serial killer. But a dark figure from her past lurks close by
Now happily living in Sweden, Kriminalinspektör Stella Cole faces off against a psychopath who leaves no clues beyond the victims’ bizarrely altered corpses. As the death-toll mounts, Stella reaches into her own murderous past for clues to the killer’s motives. Because she knows exactly how serial killers evade capture…
It’s been over ten years since Stella went on a killing spree, wiping out every member of a brutal conspiracy that murdered her family. Something her new colleagues in the Swedish Police Authority know nothing about. And she wants to keep it that way. But Internal Affairs boss Nikodemus Olsson senses Stella is hiding something and he’ll stop at nothing to sniff it out.
To complicate matters, Stella’s old boyfriend, forensic psychiatrist Jamie Hooke, arrives unexpectedly from England. He says he wants her back and is willing to help her catch the killer to prove it.
Then someone she thought she’d safely put beyond reach comes calling once more. Little by little, Stella’s trust in Jamie, her colleagues, even herself, is eroded. When a shocking development points directly at someone close to Stella, she has just days to discover the killer’s identity. But is her loyalty blinding her to the truth?
"Andy Maslen has written a sharp, witty take on the hardboiled crime novels of the 1930s, set in a gritty, neon-lit, modern-day Chicago. Expect sex, betrayal, deceit, violence, corruption ... and a tricky relationship with a hatstand."
Welcome to P.I. Art Zeffer's Chicago. A town where the rats have concealed-carry licences. The mobsters act legit. And dirty cops are out for everything they can get. He's having a so-so day when an emerald-eyed redhead strolls into his office and sets his world on fire.
Almost out of ammunition, but not resolve, the Department operative is pinned down by Taliban fighters deep in the barren terrain outside Kandahar. He swears that if he escapes this firefight he will visit vengeance on the man who betrayed him ... at the top of his own organisation. Then a grenade lands at his feet...
Mel Porter is a successful psychotherapist. As well as a private practice, she treats patients at a nearby psychiatric hospital in West London. When she is appointed to treat a new patient, a young mother, everything goes well, at first.
But the young woman's story unsettles Mel, as she confesses to the worst crime a mother can commit. As she goes deeper into her new patient's background, a shocking truth emerges that leaves Mel frantically searching for answers about her own marriage.
As a baby, Tara Wolfe was kidnapped by Hong Kong triads. After a bungled ransom demand, she was taken secretly to the mainland. Now known as Wei Mei, she has known no other life but the rural village where ‘Mummy Rita’ raised her. When men with guns arrive in the village looking for her, she runs away to the Chinese megacity of Shenzhen, and a life on the streets.
Witnessed by a talent scout defending herself from an assault by three rich kids, Mei is recruited for a Communist Party school for assassins. The training is brutal, but Mei makes a couple of friends along the way: ‘Rats’ and ‘Sis’. Then, after an arduous training exercise, something happens that tears the tight-knit trio apart.
A young female soldier is found on Salisbury Plain, her throat cut and a bloody knife in her dead hand. Everyone assumes that she killed herself. But something doesn’t feel right to DI Ford; the whole scene seems staged. Convinced of foul play, and despite fierce opposition from the army brass and his own superiors, Ford launches a murder investigation.
Years on from his wife’s death, Ford is still struggling with guilt and whether or not to tell his son the truth about what really happened. When his CSI partner confronts him about the tragedy, he knows he has to confess sooner or later. But the living can wait; the dead are calling. With the victim’s regiment due to deploy to Somalia, taking any suspects and evidence with them, Ford has just days to apprehend the killer.
The priest in a snow-blanketed Swedish town opens her church and discovers a dead woman on the altar. The corpse is dressed in a wedding gown and clutches a fresh bunch of cornflowers. Fatima Engquist has no signs of violence on her body and the local cops soon call the Stockholm murder squad. Kriminalinspektör Stella Cole lands the case.
With pressure from her boss and the Swedish media to produce an early result before any more dead brides turn up, Stella Cole needs to be at her sharpest to catch a serial killer who doesn’t even believe he’s evil.
Gabriel Wolfe has seen many faces of evil, fought it, and won. On his latest mission, a stone-cold quest for vengeance, he’s flying solo. He's on administrative suspension after a car crash that almost cost a man his life.
That means no backup from his boss, no support if things turn nasty, just him, his wits and his resolve to see justice done. And what justice. Tracking down the corrupt cop who ripped Gabriel’s family apart, causing the deaths of his brother and his parents.
In this short story, a walk with his friend's terrier turns into a mission to exact retribution on a local bully when Gabriel finds one of his female neighbours crying at the wheel of her car. Lander Reeve is a mega-successful bond trader with a big mouth and an even bigger SUV. He's been running Gabriel's neighbour off the road and Gabriel decides it's time to put a stop to the man's behaviour. For good. A midnight mission to recce the bully's property gives Gabriel the idea for some poetic justice.
Immerse yourself in Gabriel’s first three adventures. This boxset is available at a 46% saving off the combined price. You get Trigger Point, Blind Impact and Condor , plus the short story, Reversal of Fortune.
Gabriel’s adventures continue in this boxset of three full-length novels. You get First Casualty, Fury and Rattlesnake. Travel with the SAS veteran across four continents as he fights evil wherever he encounters it, whatever the cost.
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After a dog walker discovers human remains in a badger sett in the idyllic Salisbury countryside, DI Ford is called in to lead the ensuing murder investigation. When a second victim turns up in a nearby pond, Ford is determined to find the connection. Still consumed by guilt over his part in his wife’s tragic accident and struggling to raise the teenage son he lied to, Ford now finds himself losing control of the investigation. Can he work with Hannah to solve the case while privately fighting off attempted blackmail? Or have his demons finally caught up with him?
A former Swedish ambassador lies dead in his swanky Mayfair flat. With his tongue torn out and placed on a Bible. Competing theories swirl. A religious maniac? A psychopath? The truth is far darker than either. DCI Stella Cole’s search for the killer takes her to Sweden. There, she discovers a horrific chapter in the country’s history that throws the case into turmoil. Meanwhile, Stella's personal life is about to take a significant turn as her boyfriend, Jamie, suggests a change in their relationship. But as Stella tries to process what it means, she makes a fateful decision.
Barely a month since his promotion to Inspector, DI Ford is called in to investigate the murder of a young nurse and her son in a small flat in Salisbury. Ford can sense that there’s a serial killer at work. After all, he knows from brutal personal experience how killers cover their tracks. When instinct leads him towards a high-profile suspect, his superiors’ warnings just make him more determined to connect impulse and fact. But can Ford hold it all together—the case, his life—long enough to stop the killer?
A troop of paras stumble on an elephant's butchered corpse. A sniper observes a glamorous Royal couple on their wedding day. A charismatic ultra-left politician sees his chance to strut on the world stage. What happens next sends ex-SAS member Gabriel Wolfe deep into the heart of a global web of intrigue, ivory poaching and political corruption. Gabriel and Eli find themselves caught in a complex and bloody maze of lies, evasions, criminal deals and power-hungry politicians who believe destiny counts for more than the truth.
In this sharp little horror story, a rich industrialist who collects Nazi memorabilia spots an odd-looking antiques shop on his drive home.
His insatiable desire for the most twisted artefacts of the camps sets him on collision course with powerful forces beyond this world.
What he is offered by Zadok, the thin, pale man behind the counter, will change him for ever.
A treat for fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker and Mylo Carbia.
Fang Jian runs the White Koi triad. And he does business with a senior Communist Party of China official. Now the official has a problem. A renegade Colonel ‘out west’ has set up a private kingdom centred on his missile base, He’s slaughtering the few remaining locals. Comrade Liu wants his problem dealt with through back-channels. And Fang knows just the man for the job.
Gabriel Wolfe is back in action in a three-way clash between a drug cartel, a triad and the Russian Mafiya. When he hired an assassin to kill Gabriel, Russian crime boss Max Novgorodsky made a big mistake. The assassin’s bullet missed Gabriel but took the life of one of his closest and dearest friends. Now the former SAS member has one thing on his mind. Vengeance. Halfway round the world, Colombian cartel boss Martin Ruiz sits down in a Japanese tea house to be served by his favourite geisha. But only one of them will leave in one piece.
The glamorous CEO of an anti-abortion charity has been found horribly mutilated and strangled to death in her own kitchen. Before long, the killer strikes again, and again. And now the pattern emerges. The victims are all high-profile Christians. Back from the brink of killing herself, and newly promoted to DCI, Stella Cole takes a call from her sergeant that puts her plans on hold. Stella and her team at the Special Investigations Unit are racing to stop the serial killer dubbed “Lucifer” by the media, before he can take another life.
Kill a hostile nuclear scientist and destroy his lab deep inside Iran? Evade a squad of battle-hardened mercenaries tasked with killing you? Face a sadistic torturer inside the Ministry of Intelligence and Security? Discover the identity of a traitor inside the British Secret Intelligence Service? It's all in a day's work for Gabriel Wolfe. Still haunted by the memories of loved ones and former comrades, the British Government agent faces his toughest mission yet.
Gabriel Wolfe and his partner, Eli Schochat have flown to Cambodia to assassinate an ex-Khmer Rouge warlord. By a freakish stroke of good fortune, Win Yah dodges the bullet that would have exploded his skull. Wounded by a mine, Eli is captured, brutally beaten and taken into the forest to be executed. Gabriel must find her, evade recapture by the warlord’s heavily-armed gang, and get her to safety. Only then can he return to finish what Eli started.
Detective Inspector Stella Cole has almost completed her bloody quest to avenge the hit and run killings of her husband and daughter. Only one member of the legal conspiracy who murdered them remains. But he happens to be her boss: Detective Chief Superintendent Adam Collier. And he’s not going to go down without a fight. Collier's first move is to have Stella sectioned. While she’s incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital, he hires a Maltese woman to kill her.
Caroline Murray thinks vampires are the stuff of fantasy. A successful lawyer, engaged to a brilliant, if erratic, scientist, she has no idea of the horror about to engulf her. Ariane Van Helsing knows all about vampires. Her family have been fighting the lamia, as they call them, for centuries. She tries to convince Caroline of the danger facing her and her fiancé. She fails. At first. In a series of journal entries, texts, emails, blog posts and "Hunt Books", we learn how Caroline discovers the truth about vampires. Their leader in the UK, Peta Velds. And what she has to sacrifice to defeat them.
When SAS veteran Gabriel Wolfe receives a five-word text, his self-imposed exile in Hong Kong comes to an abrupt end. Honouring a blood oath he swore with Vinnie Calder, Gabriel investigates how the ex-Delta Force sniper ended up dead in the middle of the Texan desert. What he discovers shocks the battle-hardened soldier to the depths of his soul. Assisted by biotechnology tycoon, Clark Orton, a deniable CIA team is planning to trial a new biological weapon on Cambodian orphans.
Detective Inspector Stella Cole only has one case. To find, and kill, the remaining members of a legal conspiracy who turned her world into ashes. But their leader, Adam Collier is her boss. And he’s pulling in friends from the underworld to take the fight to Stella. Chief among them, an Albanian drug lord nicknamed, 'The Shark'. Regrouping in Spain, Stella makes contact with an old adversary. A retired gangster named Ronnie 'The Razor' Wilks. He proposes a deal that tests Stella’s resolve to the limit.
Just when life deals SAS veteran Gabriel Wolfe a decent hand, his best friend is murdered. And Gabriel’s in the frame for the crime. Struggling to come to terms with her death, he finds his world collapsing around him. The woman calling herself Erin Ayers is rich, powerful, and very, very deadly. Erin is out for blood. Gabriel’s, mainly. But first she wants to destroy everything – and everyone – he loves. She’s hired an assassin Gabriel last met in Hong Kong to help her.
Stella Cole, Richard and baby Lola. A perfect family. Stella’s a high-flying cop and Richard’s legal work aims to expose corruption in high places. But powerful people want Richard dead, and they don’t care who gets in the way. In a calculated act of violence, the family is torn apart and Stella is plunged into a nightmare of grief, barely surviving on alcohol and pills. A year later, she starts to pick apart the original investigation. Her shocking discovery forces her into a dangerous world of lies and cover-ups where the only rule is kill or be killed.
Ex-SAS covert ops agent Gabriel Wolfe and his partner, Britta Falskog are in the middle of a firefight in Mozambique. They are under attack by bloodthirsty militia fighters commanded by the terrifying Mama Chissano. Gabriel flew to Mozambique in search of the mortal remains of his friend and former comrade Mickey “Smudge” Smith. As he begins to uncover the truth about Smudge's death, Gabriel sees that his adversaries have spun a web of betrayal that stretches right back to his last, fateful mission in the SAS.
A young girl detonates her suicide vest on a crowded London bus. Ex-SAS covert agent Gabriel Wolfe hunts the man who gave the order. His target is a psychopathic cult leader with a taste for classical music, fine wine and extreme violence. Gabriel must also face a sadistic Colombian cartel boss nicknamed “The Baptist”.
Lost and alone in the cult's compound in the Brazilian rainforest, Gabriel is tortured and brainwashed by “Père Christophe” and fitted with his own suicide bomb.
British pilots are using an experimental performance-enhancing drug. Gabriel Wolfe discovers that someone is fatally sabotaging the top-secret testing programme.
An unholy alliance of Chechen separatists and Russian gangsters want the test to fail. Then two British women are snatched by the separatists. With the Farnborough Airshow is fast approaching, Gabriel has to rescue the kidnap victims and prevent another pilot’s death.
Meet Gabriel Wolfe. His SAS career came to an end when a covert mission in Africa was betrayed. He lost a good friend in the firefight and suffers from PTSD as a result. Now he works for his old CO, Don Webster as a government troubleshooter in a covert ops outfit called The Department. As Don puts it, ‘The job’s pretty easy, Old Sport. You find trouble. And you shoot it.’
Trigger Point tells the story of his first mission for The Department. A billionaire English knight, Sir Toby Maitland, is using his vast wealth to raise a private army. His goal? Nothing less than 10 Downing Street.
Meet Stella Cole at the start of her career
An intruder has murdered the husband of a glamorous older lady who turns out to have an interesting past. As Stella investigates, pieces of the puzzle come together but then fly apart and she’s left wondering how she’s going to solve the case. Her boss is putting her under pressure to clear it ‘for the statistics’ and steering her towards the burglar-disturbed-in-the-act story. But then, as she grabs some time with her husband, a shocking revelation shows her what might have really happened.