When you feel that all is lost, who would you trust? Are you sure? Misplaced Loyalty can prove fatal.

When DC Patsy Hodge transfers to Bristol, she attends an apparent suicide with new boss DI John Meredith. Death was caused by a lethal injection. Could it be an assisted suicide or euthanasia? Meredith calls it murder.

As more victims are discovered, the investigation gathers pace, tension mounts within the team, and someone takes an unhealthy interest in Patsy, threatening her life. Now she doesn’t know who to trust.


Misplaced Loyalty is the first book in the Meredith & Hodge series. If you like great story telling, surprising plot twists and compelling characters, then you’re ready to meet Meredith & Hodge. Your new favourite detective duo.

A man is stabbed, and a young girl is arrested and charged with his seemingly motiveless murder. Why is DI Meredith raising eyebrows by trying to prove her innocence and not her guilt?
Meredith's actions concern Patsy Hodge, who is investigating the rape of a successful businesswoman. He's keeping secrets from her which can only lead to trouble, and both cases need to be solved before Meredith and Hodge join the murder victims.

Ill Conceived is the second book in the Meredith & Hodge series.

Murder . . . kidnapping . . . how far would you go to get attention?

A self-confessed murderer has kidnapped one of Meredith’s officers. They want Meredith to prove an apparent suicide was in fact murder. He’s working against the clock, as the kidnapped officer has been locked away with limited food and water.

Hodge is searching for the ex-husband of a prison inmate. She needs to establish he’s still alive or her client could be charged with his murder.
As their cases collide, they find that one man holds the key, and he might be dead.

The Wrong Shoes is the third book in the Meredith & Hodge series.

When a police officer’s daughter goes missing, it’s not a random abduction, but a carefully researched, planned operation.

Meredith’s team are horrified when the daughter of one of their own is taken from the park by a stranger. Her disappearance is only the beginning of a series of abductions of young girls in the area. To catch the abductor, the team must first work out what motivates him, but time is running out, and he might just slip their net.

Hodge begins to question her new career as a private investigator. But a seemingly mundane case soon finds Patsy, herself, being interrogated and hand-picked for a very different assignment.

In the midst of the tension, Meredith’s ex-wife drops a bombshell that may change their lives forever.

Tin Soldiers is the fourth book in the Meredith & Hodge series.

Tell me your secrets, I’ll tell you no lies – but not everyone will survive.

Meredith finds himself stuck between the Russian Mafia and the Secret Intelligence Service. But whose side has he chosen? His team are investigating a series of horrific murders involving the Russians, and are beginning to question where his loyalties lie. Even Patsy Hodge has her doubts.

Hodge is working on an assignment that appears to be safe and boring. When she discovers there is a connection to the Russians, her relationship with Meredith places her in danger.

Has Meredith overplayed his hand? The secrets and lies are mounting up and not everyone will get out alive.

One Secret Too Many is the fifth book

DCI John Meredith has one day left in the job when his friend, Ben Jacobs, is arrested for murder. According to the numerous witnesses in the nightclub where Jacobs works, Jacobs stabbed Aiden O’Brien in a motiveless attack.

Meredith believes all is not as it seems and is determined to prove his friend’s innocence, even if it means letting down Patsy Hodge, allowing the Secret Intelligence Service to call the shots, and ignoring his increasing ill health. Patsy Hodge is furious that Meredith has changed his plans without consulting her and is, once again keeping her in the dark. It soon becomes apparent, however, that their cases are intrinsically linked and Hodge’s search for two bodies might just be the key to unlocking the mystery as to why Aiden O’Brien was murdered.

Mistaken Beliefs is the sixth book in the Meredith & Hodge series

Meredith & Hodge are stranded up a mountain with two dead bodies and a murderer on the loose, Christmas is put on hold until they can catch the killer.

John Meredith has been coerced into joining a group of friends, in a castle on top of a mountain, for the Christmas holiday. His irritation at being dragged away from home soon dissipates, as he relaxes in the picturesque surroundings, enjoying the company of good friends. Even the sudden snow storm is accepted without complaint; it will be a white Christmas. But then Patsy Hodge discovers a dead body in the salt box.

The murderer must be a member of the family who own the castle or one of the staff. No one can get into the castle or leave until they discover who that is.

The shock discovery of a second body reveals that either someone has keys to the castle, or an intruder is one step ahead of them. A trap is set to catch the killer before anyone else is murdered, but will it succeed?

Meredith is impatient to get back to work following his illness, but has a few matters to sort out, and a wedding to attend before that happens. The wedding is ruined when Meredith is arrested and his half brother turns up with a body in the boot of his car.
The investigation reveals that Patsy and Amanda are being stalked and are in the sights of a sadistic killer. It seems an old adversary is trying to ruin Meredith’s life before he wipes out everyone Meredith cares about.
While Meredith tries to track down who's behind it, Hodge goes off on a mission of her own - straight into the clutches of the man who wants to ruin Meredith, step by painful step. He makes it clear she won't survive their meeting.

When a serial killer with a point to make begins to kill again, why does he focus his attention on Meredith?

Nigel Foxton was jailed for the murder of three women, not only was the evidence damning, but during the trial he changed his plea to guilty. Case closed . . . or was it?


It’s almost twenty years later, and Meredith is being taunted with more victims murdered in the same way. Foxton claims he is innocent and wants to appeal, and Meredith has to prove they jailed the right man.

Was Foxton innocent, or had there always been two killers? Was the original case closed too soon?

When the killer fixes his sights on Linda Callow, Hodge’s friend and colleague, the stakes are raised.


Not If You Paid Me is the ninth book in the Meredith & Hodge series.

Cast out by his father, Jeremy Rossiter drove away from his friends and into a wall. Some forty years later, half those friends are dead, and Amy Cleaver, who was present on that fateful night, predicts her own death. In her will she instructs her solicitor to appoint someone to find out who is killing her friends. He appoints Patsy Hodge.

Meredith is investigating a gruesome murder. Wealthy jeweller, Christopher Kentish has been leading a double life, which was brought to an end in the most violent manner. Did his double life lead to his murder? Or was it the wrong place, wrong time?

As their cases collide, Meredith & Hodge join forces to find a killer. When Meredith homes in on a vital clue, he thinks its case shut, but is he too late to prevent the last and most devastating tragedy?

A Measure of Guilt is the tenth book in the Meredith & Hodge series

Jason Wright has been missing, assumed dead, for six years.

His dying mother, Sandra, is desperate to know what happened to her son. Believing the police have let her down, Sandra hires Patsy Hodge and the Bearing Witness team to find out the truth behind Jason’s disappearance, however devastating.

When Meredith meets the Bearing women at a Christmas do, he introduces them to Patsy. The women begin working together to solve the mystery. But as they dig deeper into Jason’s last days, they put other lives in jeopardy. Can Meredith help them solve the mystery of what happened to Jason before the murderer strikes again?


This is the eleventh book in the Meredith & Hodge series.

Hotelier Stephen Sanderson is dead. Stabbed after hosting a police officer’s wedding. Chief Superintendent David Ashworth is a family friend of the victim and assigns the case to Meredith. Sanderson had a past that the family would rather keep quiet if it’s not related to his murder, but Sanderson’s life style provides the police with many suspects, including some in his own family.

Patsy Hodge is trying to track down a dangerous stalker with very little to go on, and is surprised when one of her suspects is required to supply an alibi for one of Meredith’s.

As their investigations gather pace, it is revealed that all their suspects are connected one to another in a web of deceit.

Who will untangle the web, and will it be in time to stop others being harmed?

Six-year-old Trixie Cole disappeared.

Trixie was within yards of her mother and other shoppers in a busy supermarket, yet no one witnessed her disappearance.

Trixie had died within hours of being taken, her body discovered two days later.

The original investigation team got nowhere, and they shelved the case as unsolved. Now it’s up to Meredith & Hodge, and the cold case review team (CCRT), to find out what happened to Trixie and catch her murderer.

Things go well until Meredith is told that funding for the CCRT is in question, and that could shut them down before they’ve really got started. Can Meredith solve what happened to Trixie? Will it be in time to save his department?

With Chief Constable Elizabeth Carrington looking over his shoulder, Meredith fears the worst, but is determined to get justice for Trixie. When Carrington turns up unexpectedly, the team hold their breath.

Cases for the cold case review team are coming in thick and fast, but they’re coping, and coping well.
With so much going on, Meredith & Hodge have more than enough to deal with. But when a fledgling journalist contacts Meredith, he jumps feet first into a miscarriage of justice. With so many plates spinning, will Meredith become a victim of his own success?

When a personal tragedy looms, Hodge makes a mercy dash, and Meredith is not convinced he has what it takes to cope.

A missing actress. A bored writer. A matter of life and death when their stories collide……Actress Wendy Knight thought her life was finally turning around. But when her ex came back into the picture, he wanted to take all of that away from her and more…and then she disappeared.Scriptwriter Angie Bearing longs to write something deeper than daytime soaps. When the plot for a new thriller comes to her, she doesn't question it. At least until she discovers an uncanny resemblance between her story and the unsolved disappearance of an actress named Wendy. Angie begins to investigate. As she retraces Wendy's footsteps, she doesn't realise that someone is watching her. Someone who would do anything to keep the awful truth buried for good…Witness for Wendy is the captivating first book in the Bearing Witness series, a collection of exciting thrillers.

An unexpected gift is usually a good thing, but this particular gift will cause havoc, destroy lives and eventually lead to murder.

Teenager Teresa Walsh has problems. Feeling lost and alone, and unable to speak to her mother, she seeks help from a trusted source, but that makes matters worse . . . and then she disappears.

Bridget Bearing is on a mission, she wants to find out what happened to Teresa, and contrives a plan to enlist the assistance of her daughter and granddaughter. What they discover takes them on quite a different investigation, and the three women find themselves in danger from an unexpected quarter.
An Unexpected Gift is the captivating second book in the Bearing Witness series

A teenager in love disappears for no reason. Decades later a betrayal is uncovered that could wreck the lives of everyone he loved.

Henry Cooksey was seventeen when he disappeared. No trace of him was ever found, apart from his treasured scarf, abandoned at a bus stop. When the Bearing women investigate his disappearance, they uncover not only betrayal and deceit, but a secret hidden for almost four decades, which could shatter the lives of the loved ones Henry left behind.

Tom Large is an accountant with issues, issues which are not helped when he stumbles across the body of Denise Knight. The police are treating Denise’s death as misadventure, but Tom’s cleaner, Liz Thorne, won’t accept that. She declares it to be murder, and little by little, she drags Tom out of his comfort zone as they try to establish the truth of what really happened to Denise.
The unconventional pair of sleuths are doing well until Tom’s daughter reveals an earth-shattering secret.
Can Liz pull Tom back from the brink to help her solve the case before the murderer walks away scot free?
Will Tom listen to reason and accept the news he has no power to change?

Rhianna Chow has been abducted, snatched from the street in front of her home, and in this second Little Compton Mystery, cleaner Liz Thorne, and accountant Tom Large team up once again to help find her. As they dig deeper into Rhianna’s life, they discover a maze of secrets and betrayals that threaten to muddy the waters, and obscure who is really responsible for Rhianna’s abduction. With no ransom demand, they race against time to uncover the truth.
Will this unlikely pair of sleuths solve this crime before it’s too late, or will Rhianna’s own secret get in the way?

When Liz arrives home to be confronted by a burglar, life begins to get complicated.
There seems to be a crime wave in Little Compton, and as always, Liz and Tom are dragged right into the middle of things. When things take a fatal turn, everyone in the village is looking over their shoulder.
Will Liz and Tom find out the identity of the dead burglar and therefore solve the case before anyone else gets hurt? The villagers certainly hope so.

On the surface, John Meredith appears to have it all. He’s blessed with good looks and a successful police career, and he’s never short of female attention.
But is everything as it seems? What lies beneath the smooth, confident exterior? Is he a man who has simply plastered over the cracks of a dysfunctional childhood, betrayals and heartbreak? Can he allow anyone close or will they see the joins and the damaged person that he really is?
The Making of Meredith explores not only what made the man but also how his past could destroy his future.
Although not a detective novel, this is a prequel to the Meredith & Hodge series, and a must read for all Meredith & Hodge fans.

A charismatic Cuban, Alberto Mistro, offers five middle-aged couples an all-expenses paid holiday. Too good to be true? Of course!
The Mistro family have a secret past, and the holiday makers find themselves in a race against time. They are required to solve a six-hundred-year-old puzzle. If they succeed, they get to go home. If they fail . . . well, let’s just say, failure isn’t an option.
“This has everything in it, laughs, drama, danger and a conundrum!”

Lucy James celebrates the end of her final exams at university. The next day she regrets those celebrations, as she has to attend an important interview, but she can’t remember why. Is it a meeting a prospective employer, or is it yet another member of the top recruitment agency she signed up with? Deciding to wing it, Lucy turns up and meets Gloria.

Gloria naturally expects Lucy to know why she is there, and almost immediately gives Lucy her first client. Lucy is horrified, but concerned she might blow her chance if she confesses her lack of knowledge, she sets off on her first assignment. Within days Lucy finds herself involved with blackmail, missing persons, and a possible murder.

Convinced she is working for a covert government agency, Lucy ploughs on with the job. Until the day comes when she is forced to make a decision that will affect everything she has ever known. And having made her choice, she is devastated when it is denied.


Nothing can ever be the same again.

Who Killed Charlie Birch?
Charlie Birch is dead. A knife, thrust into his chest, has effortlessly sliced through his right ventricle, quite literally breaking his heart, which given his past behaviour was perhaps a fitting end.
An unexpected chain of events had placed a desperate Charlie and many of the Middle Mound villagers in the White Hart pub that morning. Then Charlie decided to hold them all hostage. That was his last mistake.
DS Sally Carter had been sent to Middle Mound to investigate an abandoned bus and several missing villagers but instead finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. Having grown up in the village, she knows many of the suspects from her youth. All the clues are there but will she catch the killer?

Maggie Carter has had enough. Enough of working with politicians, enough of her husband, and enough of keeping secrets. The trouble is if she tells her secrets, dangerous people will be angry, and the one person she loves might end up hating her even more. A risk worth taking? Maggie lets her conscience guide her and Meredith and Hodge find themselves on the hunt of a serial killer.
With four murders and four prime suspects, all in the right place at the right time, it appears to be a straightforward case of elimination. But life is never that easy, and the killer doesn’t think he’s done enough. The question is, have Meredith and Hodge?
Another page-turning investigation, which will have you on the edge of your seat. Order your copy today.

When the body of a young woman is discovered in a field near Reading, it is linked to a similar discovery five years earlier. Both women had lived in or near Bristol, both had boarded a train at Temple Meads bound for London, but never reached their destination, and both were found murdered within a few miles of each other. The cold case review team in Bristol, headed by DCI John Meredith, takes on the case.

With few leads to go on, and the passage of time, it was always going to be a tough case to solve. But with the team shorthanded, and Meredith’s personal life in freefall, the team questions if Meredith will be around to see the case through, and if their department can survive.

Ex-police officer, JJ Jenson, is a good man who has led a colourful but turbulent life. He’s seen death and destruction in its many forms. When personal tragedy strikes, JJ turns his back on his former life, and returns to his childhood home in search of peace, preferring to view life through the lens of his camera.

But when his camera captures the death of local woman Amber Wilton, the world of murder and deceit drags JJ back into its fold. Working with an old adversary, JJ is determined to prove Amber was murdered and to catch her killer.

The investigation gives JJ a new lease on life, but moving forward means revisiting his past. He’s being taken back into a world which might destroy the peace he has found. Will JJ fend off his demons and catch the killer?

Armed only with his camera, JJ Jenson is determined to catch a dangerous and desperate murderer.

Seven-year-old Daniel Boyd was murdered, and DI JJ Jenson watched his killer, Bryn Jenkins, walk away from court a free man. The police had failed Daniel, and the already devastated Boyd family.
The murder of Daniel, and the destruction of the Boyd family, has haunted JJ. But now, ten years later, someone is sending JJ photographs.
Could the photographs hold the clue to putting Jenkins behind bars where he belongs? JJ knows he has to try, and sets off to get find Jenkins with his new partner, Davie George, determined that this time he will see Jenkins locked up, and get justice for Daniel and the Boyd family.
Jenkins has powerful and dangerous friends, and now armed, Jenkins knows they’re on to him and takes flight, determined to remain free – whatever it takes. But JJ isn't the only one who wants Jenkins.
Has JJ taken on too much? Is he putting Davie’s life at risk too?

Respected and successful barrister Bernadette Wiseman is dead, hanged in the hall of her home. With no sign of foul play and no note, the question raised is why?
The police believe it was suicide, but Bernie’s partner, Annie, won’t accept that and instructs JJ Jenson to investigate.
As JJ and his sidekick, Davie, dig around in Bernie’s apparently perfect life, they discover professional jealousies, sinister threats and dangerous enemies, but can they establish what actually happened? And more importantly, to honour Bernie’s own dedication to justice, can they prove it?
When JJ begins to question whether Bernie’s life was as perfect as she liked people to believe, he sets off a dangerous chain of events, putting his own life in danger. But who is he up against?