Voted Top 20 by readers in the BooksOffice.com search for the Next Killer TV Series, Val Penny's novel is the first in her DI Jane Renwick Series:
"When the team investigating a series of murders discover the killer is connected to DS Jane Renwick's past, she's side-lined from the enquiry - could one of her relatives reappear from her brutal past?"
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The First Cut
A vicious killer is on the loose, targeting academics and members of Edinburgh's high society.
When the Murder Investigation Team find out that the killer is connected to her past, DS Jane Renwick is banished to the side-lines and forced to look on as the manhunt ramps up at a ferocious pace.
Has someone from Jane's birth family returned to haunt her? Is one of her relatives involved?
Hunter's Chase
There is a new supply of cocaine flooding Edinburgh and DI Hunter Wilson needs to find the source, but his attention is transferred to murder when a corpse is discovered in the grounds of a golf course.
Shortly after the post-mortem, Hunter witnesses a second murder, but that is not the end of the slaughter. With a young woman's life also hanging in the balance, the last thing Hunter needs is a new man on his team: DC Tim Myerscough, the son of his nemesis, the former Chief Constable Sir Peter Myerscough
Hunter's Revenge
DI Hunter Wilson is called to the scene of a murder in Edinburgh where he's dismayed to find the victim is his friend and colleague, George Reinbold. Hunter must investigate Reinbold’s murky past in Germany to identify hiss killer.
At the same time, Hunter is tasked with looking into a previously undetected criminal gang supplying drugs from Peru. There seems to be no connection between the murder and the drug supply until Hunter unexpectedly secures help from inmates of the local jail.
Connemara Girl
DS Fiona Madden is back in Galway and living happily with her partner Ashling McGoldrick. Her quiet life is disrupted by the disappearance of a teenager and the arrival of a young man claiming to be the son she gave up for adoption. The disappearance of the girl brings Fiona back to her native village where she knows her past reputation still hangs like a shroud of shame. She must face her own guilt as she pursues the guilty...
Glass Arrows
A body is found during a bird-flu turkey cull. DCI Greg Geldard, newly promoted and transferred to Norfolk, is about to face the most challenging case of his career.
His investigation starts with one body found amongst dead fowl, but goes on to expose a range of crimes hiding in plain sight, from modern slavery to wildlife smuggling. The body count rises, a friend is threatened and justice seems a long way off.
The First Time Ever
You’ve never met a copper like Ted Darling. He’s small, quiet. He doesn’t smoke. He’s packed in the booze. But he’s a Specialist Firearms Officer. With black belts in four martial arts. A shift in circumstances makes him swap guns for the CID. His first case is the brutal murder of a teenage girl. Has he made the right choice in switching jobs? Or has he, as his boss warned him, committed career suicide?
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