Rose Bennett isn’t your usual private investigator. Specializing in financial crime, she’s become case-hardened to dealing with those who deceive and embezzle in their pursuit of cold, hard cash, and pretty much accustomed to working alone. She’s had no choice really … because Rose is the investigator the East & Northern Bank calls in when the criminal is on the inside, and being the company mole isn’t much of a way to make friends.

The sleepy Yorkshire town of Market Melbourne is in the midst of a summer heatwave when bank clerk Pandora Mitchell disappears. The event shouldn’t be more to Rose than a headline in the local paper. Except that Rose has just arrived from London to investigate an internal bank fraud, and the missing girl held information that was vital to her inquiry.

Rose doesn’t believe in co-incidence. Someone at the bank wanted Pandora out of the way, and as word spreads that Rose is assisting DI George Mulligan to investigate the girl’s disappearance, her colleagues at the bank begin to close ranks against her. But Rose would value a young girl’s life above financial losses every day of the week. There’s more at stake now than a bank’s reputation, and Rose Bennett doesn’t scare that easily …

* Previously published under the title Collusion

Rose Bennett isn’t your usual private investigator. Specializing in financial crime, she’s become case-hardened to dealing with those who deceive and embezzle in their pursuit of cold, hard cash, and pretty much accustomed to working alone. She’s had no choice really … because Rose is the investigator the East & Northern Bank calls in when the criminal is on the inside, and being the company mole isn’t much of a way to make friends.

A cruel November sleet is blowing off the North Sea when Andy Miller’s body is found outside his Scarborough mansion flat, crushed under the wheels of his own BMW. There’s no question that Andy was murdered, and as the repercussions of his death ripple out across the bank where he worked, they hit those around him hard. His girlfriend is inconsolable, his best friend is bereft, and his best friend’s girlfriend … well, she used to be Andy’s girlfriend, so things are complicated.

It’s complicated for Rose Bennett, too. Dispatched north to Scarborough to resolve a harassment case against the ENB, Andy Miller’s death brings a most unwelcomed twist to her investigation. When it comes to murder, Rose doesn’t claim to be an expert. But she knows about human nature, and she knows when people are lying. And as she steps in to help DI George Mulligan bring Andy’s killer to justice, old crimes at the bank begin to surface, and it soon becomes pretty clear that not everyone who claimed to love Andy Miller was telling the truth.

Rose Bennett isn’t your usual private investigator. Specializing in financial crime, she’s become case-hardened to dealing with those who deceive and embezzle in their pursuit of cold, hard cash, and pretty much accustomed to working alone. She’s had no choice really … because Rose is the investigator the East & Northern Bank calls in when the criminal is on the inside, and being the company mole isn’t much of a way to make friends.

Alice Blacklaws thought she knew Nathan Kingsley. A talented sportsman, an honest businessman, and a doting fiancé, he’d loved and cherished both Alice and her daughter Olivia long before they decided to tie the knot. But when someone pays a contract killer to shoot Nathan dead on the day of their wedding, and his devious brother Luke tries to disinherit the grieving Alice of everything Nathan had ever done for her, Alice is forced to think again.

It’s no surprise to Rose Bennett that the ENB want an investigation into Nathan Kingsley’s affairs. The violent death of a high profile customer is bound to be bad for business, especially when his bank accounts show signs of financial irregularity. But as Rose attempts to untangle Nathan’s twisted financial affairs, and DI George Mulligan finds himself out of his depth in the hunt for the killer, a pattern begins to emerge.

Nathan Kingsley was keeping secrets, secrets someone wanted him to carry to the grave. And as those secrets are revealed, and danger comes ever closer to Alice, Olivia and Luke, Rose finds herself facing the very worst kind of killer, a killer without a conscience. For the man who killed Nathan Kingsley, compassion is nothing if the price is right. And duty is just a business obligation, to deliver death to order for whoever is paying the bill.

They say the love of money is the root of all evil. And doesn’t Rose Bennett know it …
Rose isn’t your usual private investigator. Specializing in financial crime, she’s become case-hardened to dealing with those who deceive and embezzle in their pursuit of cold, hard cash, and pretty much accustomed to working alone. She’s had no choice really … because Rose is the investigator the East & Northern Bank calls in when the criminal is on the inside, and being the company mole isn’t much of a way to make friends.

This boxed set features the first three Rose Bennett Mysteries - Dead on Account, Dead Ringer, and Death Duties

There have been Lancefields at Salvation Hall since wealthy sugar planter Thomas Moses Lancefield acquired the Cornish manor house and its estates in 1738. But the Lancefield family are a dying breed – in every sense of the word.

Invited to Penzance to curate the reclusive family’s dubious heritage, Kathryn Clifton thinks she has stumbled upon the academic opportunity of a lifetime. But within hours of her arrival at Salvation Hall, the heir to the family’s extensive fortunes is found dead in the ornamental lake, and Kathryn finds herself drawn into a police investigation.

Called in to find Lucy Lancefield’s killer, Detective Chief Inspector Ennor Price finds all the evidence – and the family – pointing to an obvious suspect. But Price has never been one to settle for low-hanging fruit, and the Lancefield family tree is hiding more than its fair share of secrets and lies.

Rose Bennett knows that the love of money can only lead to misery. When that money belongs to the East & Northern Bank, it might even lead to murder.

The storm clouds are already gathering for account manager Toby Dugdale when his cousin Leo Pearson disappears. Suspected of using the bank’s money to shore up Leo’s ailing business, Toby knows his job is on the line unless he can pull off a minor miracle and cover his tracks by the end of the week.

Rose Bennett doesn’t believe in miracles. Hired by the bank to investigate Toby’s obvious breach of trust, she soon discovers that Leo Pearson is nothing but a fraudster, and the evidence suggests that he hasn’t been acting alone.

Called to a bleak and lonely cliff top to investigate a cruel and suspicious death, DI George Mulligan finds himself staring into the smouldering remains of a burnt-out Jaguar saloon and wondering if the elusive Leo Pearson has turned up.

And as Rose attempts to uncover the extent of Leo and Toby’s deceptions, and Mulligan turns up the heat on the victim’s glamorous widow Verity, it soon becomes clear that they both need the answer to the same unfathomable question.

Who wanted Leo Pearson dead so badly they were prepared to resort to murder?

A brazen bank clerk, a poisoned pensioner, and a missing inheritance? It’s just business as usual for financial investigator Rose Bennett …

The Larches Residential Home is a haven of genteel respectability until bitter newcomer Gerald Flynn accuses the home’s most popular resident of being a liar, a crook and a fraud. Some personalities just never hit it off, but when Ramsey Sutherland dies in suspicious circumstances, even those who were fond of him can’t help wondering if Flynn’s accusation might contain a grain of truth.

Rose Bennett can’t help wondering about it, either. Engaged to look into an allegation that a shapely, gold-digging colleague at the East & Northern Bank is exploiting a vulnerable elderly customer, she looks at the evidence against young Emily Butterfield with a practiced eye, and begins to question just who is manipulating who.

Investigating the circumstances of Ramsey’s untimely death, DI George Mulligan can find only one obvious motive for murder. But as Rose begins to unravel the truth behind Emily’s relationship with Ramsey Sutherland, and Mulligan digs into the past to understand Gerald Flynn’s grudge against the dead man, events are set to take a devastating turn which neither of them could have seen coming …