Detective Jemima Huxley

Detective Jemima Huxley is called out to a gruesome scene in Rhymney Valley, two men have been hanged from an old iron structure. Then Jemima hears about unexplained deaths among young people in the area. Could it all be connected?

Evil lurks beneath the surface of the beautiful Welsh village of Leighton Meadow. DI Jemima Huxley thought it was a safe place to raise her adopted ten-year-old son. But this is a village with many hidden secrets . . .

A family brutally attacked in their own home. One survivor. A troubled female detective who must uncover the truth.The call comes through on DI Jemima Huxley's day off. A family of five brutally attacked in their own home. Bradley and Sally Rathbone and their teenage niece and nephew are dead. Only fourteen-year-old Millie survives, found in a broken heap at the bottom of the stairs.It's an unlikely crime scene: a comfortable five-bedroom property in one of Cardiff's most exclusive suburbs. Jemima quickly deduces this was no random burglary gone wrong. These killings were vicious, personal - and carefully planned. But why would someone target an ordinary family going about their everyday business?With Millie in a coma and unable to help with enquiries, it's up to Jemima and her team to unmask the killer.And could they be waiting to strike again . . . ?Readers of Simon McCleave, Rachel McLean, Ann Cleeves, Helen H. Durrant, Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons, L.J. Ross, J.M. Dalgliesh, Mark Edwards and Lynda La Plante will love Gaynor Torrance's feisty and flawed protagonist DI Jemima Huxley.

Detective Jemima Huxley faces her nemesis in this gripping murder mystery.

An isolated manor house. Shallow woodland graves. A troubled female detective facing the biggest case of her career.The call comes early in the morning. David and Helen Tremaine have discovered a body buried in the grounds of their large Victorian manor house, Llys Faen Hall, just north of Cardiff.DI Jemima Huxley and her partner, DS Dan Broadbent, race to the scene to discover that a second body has been unearthed in a shallow woodland grave. And the forensic team working the site believe this is just the start.Jemima knows this is the biggest case of her career. But it couldn't have come at a worse time. Struggling to get pregnant, she is a woman on the edge, a woman who self-harms just to make it through the day. And with no one reported missing, no apparent motive and no obvious suspect, the investigation is anything but straightforward.Eight graves. Eight dead women. All with pomegranate seeds placed inside their mouths.When Jemima makes an unexpected breakthrough, she enters a desperate race against time to prevent more women dying.Readers of Simon McCleave, Rachel McLean, Ann Cleeves, Helen H. Durrant, Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons, L.J. Ross, J.M. Dalgliesh, Mark Edwards and Lynda La Plante will love Gaynor Torrance's feisty and flawed protagonist DI Jemima Huxley.

It's Jemima's first day back at work after maternity leave. It was always going to be heart-wrenching leaving baby Finlay, but this is about to be one of the longest days of her life. Cardiff, early morning. Two men are abducted - not even ten miles apart. The first, high court judge Rory Lawson, is kidnapped on a quiet country road. From the blood in his car, it's clear he was taken by force. The second man isn't so lucky. His bound and gagged body is found in the middle of the motorway. In a case where nothing is as it seems, the one thing Jemima knows is that she must find the link between the two men. But the clock is ticking. Because time is about to run out for the missing judge . . .

A serial killer thriller which will appeal to fans of Val McDermid, Mark Billingham, and James Patterson. When mutilated corpses are discovered in an exclusive city suburb it falls to Detective Inspector Jemima Huxley to find the killer before they have a chance to kill again. On a personal level the case could not have come at a worse time as Huxley's world is falling apart, and she is at an all-time low, self-harming just to feel in control of things. In this, the biggest case of her career, she struggles to focus on the facts and keep her emotions in check. Exhausted, disillusioned and at odds with some of her team, she begins to question her own judgement, as she comes to believe the victims have been selected to implicate an innocent person. The investigation leads Huxley to uncover shocking secrets, so well hidden within middle-class suburbia that even those closest to the truth are unaware of the full extent of the deception or danger they face. When Huxley finally realises who is responsible for the deaths it becomes a race against time to save the next victim.

"Highly literate and entirely engrossing. One of the year's best literary thrillers." —The Washington Post It's twenty years since police detective Alan McAlpine has set foot in Patrickhill Station—and more than twenty years since he fell forever in love with the mute, faceless woman he called Anna as she lay dying in Glasgow's Western Infirmary. Daily he'd watched over her, and they had begun to communicate with each other, she by moving her wounded fingers. Her fingers could not tell the sad, unseasoned police cadet her name, however, or name for him the father of her newborn baby girl or identify the assailants who had flung the acid in her once incomparably beautiful face. Or tell him how she'd smuggled a cache of uncut diamonds into Scotland. Now McAlpine is back in Patrickhill, where he's been summoned to head up the investigation of a disturbing murder case. Two women—their arms outstretched, their legs together and feet crossed at the ankle—have already died at the hands of a man the press has tagged the Crucifixion Killer. With crimes in the present continually detouring both McAlpine and the elusive killer he pursues into an unredeemed past, the mystery in this steely, piercing psychological thriller is as gripping as its twists are surprising. And absolution proves to be extreme. Praise for CARO RAMSAY "While fellow-Scot Ian Rankin's narrative is unruly, Ramsay's is stately. It works because the story she tells is highly literate and entirely engrossing. McAlpine's passion leads the novel to a conclusion as powerful as it is unexpected. Absolution is among the year's best literary thrillers.”—Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post "Let me recommend a first novel by Caro Ramsay, a Scottish author who is able to write scenes of heartbreaking tenderness nestled amid evocations of such grotesque violence that it is difficult to imagine that they can coexist as such sublime interlocking pieces of the whole. A noir police novel, like those by fellow Scottish author Ian Rankin, but with deeper psychological exploration, Absolution marks the beginning of what certainly will be a major career."—Otto Penzler, New York Sun