Detective Martha Munro Crime Mysteries

It was just an ordinary Wednesday lunchtime when Detective Martha Munro's life changed forever. Her sergeant is speaking, but she barely hears what he's telling her. Your mother has been shot dead. Your four-year-old daughter has been taken. There are no leads. Who would want to hurt her family? Martha realizes it's time to ask herself some hard questions about her late father. He led the anti-corruption squad at Scotland Yard. It's rumoured he kept a list of everyone who worked for him, from coppers to criminals. And just being on the list was a sure-fire way to lower your life expectancy. Her mother was killed by someone trying to get their hands on the list. Now time is running out for Martha to get her daughter back alive. Family is EVERYTHING. And she will do ANYTHING to keep them safe.

After the worst year of her life, Martha Munro is looking forward to getting back to the job she loves. She's one of the best and brightest young detectives in the Met, but she's immediately put on a seemingly pointless case . . . Martha is ordered to investigate a spate of cat abductions in leafy south London. Each time, the missing moggy turns up unharmed days later. But then one family receives a terrifying message: Next time it's the kids. And an ambulance is sent to the children's school. A sinister threat by someone playing a deadly game of cat and mouse. That same week, another Dulwich resident plunges to her death from an upstairs window. It looks like a tragic accident. Until Martha discovers she was pushed. Someone is setting a dangerous trap for Detective Martha Munro - and they have eyes and ears everywhere. Martha can't let her family get hurt again. Can she outsmart this devious killer without falling into the trap?

The exhilarating third installment in the Detective Martha Munro series. First comes the win. Then comes the catch . . . For years, Martha Munro dreamed of taking down her mother's killer. The charming, and rotten-to-the-core, DCI Tony Green. Martha exposed his corruption. The crimes he tried so hard to bury. Now he's back with a chilling new obsession: burying Martha. A string of threatening letters land on the doorstep of Martha's cozy Victorian terrace. Scrawled in red ink, the message is always the same: Die, bitch. Die. It's game on between Martha and her old adversary - and Tony's playing dirtier than ever. Before long, Martha realizes that someone is leaking secrets to Tony. Secrets that only those closest to Martha could possibly know. Can she shut Tony down - before he makes good on his threats? It's cat-and-mouse to hunt him down, before he catches her first . . . Fans of Happy Valley, Helen H. Durrant, Martina Cole, Angela Marsons and D.S. Butler will devour this electrifying new thriller, packed with pitch-dark wit and a heroine you'd follow into hell.