Carl Sant Murder Mysteries

An off-duty detective gunned down. A dead woman. A missing student. And now, a former policeman in search of his past. Dead or alive, something connects these people, and it's up to D.I. Carl Sant to discover what it is. A series of cold-case inquiries leads D.I. Sant and his colleagues to investigate a botched assassination plot dating back to the 1980s. The deeper they dig, the more secrets are revealed, including shocking connections to the infamous National Front. Meanwhile, the memory of former P.C. Tanner, survivor of the assassination, is recovering. Sant must find Tanner and figure out who is behind it all, before his superiors lose their rag and more lives are lost.

A retired policeman takes a fall. A suspected sex attacker goes AWOL. His accuser is missing too. As violence and drug spiking rocket, the only legal brothel in England suffers the public's wrath and a motley crew of zealots campaign to shut it down.D.I. Carl Sant has his work cut out keeping the peace, and that's before a pair of corpses get dumped in a frosty field and the spring turns very chilly indeed.Sant and his fellow detectives go on the hunt for muggers, pimps, lost girls and ruthless killers. Business as usual for the police and their troubled lot. But is Inspector Sant still up to the job?A riveting crime thriller full of twists and turns, 'Chloe - Prime Victim' is the third book in Dan Laughey's Carl Sant Murder Mysteries series. Dan Laughey is a crime writer. First and foremost. In-between times, he's a lecturer at Leeds Beckett University where he teaches a course called 'Youth, Crime and Culture' among other things. He has written several books on the subject including Music and Youth Culture, based on his PhD in Sociology at Salford University. He also holds a BA in English from Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA in Communications Studies from the University of Leeds.Before entering academia he enjoyed a brief career in public relations, became a secondary school teacher, barman, waiter, trader, door-to-door salesman, car park attendant, film extra and convenience-store manager (not necessarily in that order). A series by Dan Laughey.