The Chale Bay Murders A Gripping Crime Thriller Full Of Twists

Suspicious lights at sea, decomposing bodies and an old flame send DI Andy Horton down a rabbit hole in this captivating crime thriller.

A man is found dead inside a log cabin nestled in Luccombe Bay on the Isle of Wight. Then a second body is revealed after a landslip. Detective Inspector Andy Horton may have two murders on his hands.

An abandoned motor cruiser is found stranded on South Binness Island in Langstone harbour. There's a large pool of blood on the deck and heavy crimson spatter up the side of the storage lockers. But no sign of a body on board. Detective Inspector Andy Horton is on the case. He discovers the boat owner's identity: Neil Spender, a Portsmouth binman. But he's nowhere to be found. It's not long before Horton's pulled into another investigation involving an unusual robbery at a local art gallery. Three paintings have been switched for forgeries. The gallery owner is adamant the originals have been stolen. But there's no evidence of a break-in. Now Horton and Cantelli have a murder investigation to solve and a cunning art fraudster to find. Time is ticking for our dogged detectives . . .

When a body is found floating in the sea off Portsmouth harbour, Detective Inspector Horton initially judges it to be an accidental death. Soon though, to his dismay, he discovers he's got it very wrong. Accused of being incompetent by his boss, and with the head of the Major Crime Team coming down heavily on him, Horton wonders if he's allowed his ongoing investigation into the disappearance of his mother over thirty years ago to cloud his judgement. With no clear motive for the murder, Horton is sucked into a baffling investigation that he is determined to resolve despite the odds. Not only does he need to find a brutal killer, but Horton now has to prove to himself, and others, that he is still up to the job.

Detective Inspector Andy Horton is called out to Oyster Quays Marina to examine a gruesome catch by two fishermen: a blackened human hand. The rest of the body is nowhere to be found.Meanwhile, a violent criminal is missing. Alfie Wright attacked David Jewson, a family man and bus driver in his forties, and was released on bail before going MIA. Could the blackened hand belong to Wright?Then Horton receives a surprising email from Dr Carolyn Grantham from the Centre for the Study of Missing Persons. Dr Grantham is looking into the disappearance of five adults and examining how they were reported in the media. She wants to meet Horton to talk about his missing mother.Assailed by doubts both in his personal and professional life, Horton desperately tries to keep his emotions under control and his focus on his work. His instincts tell him to trust no one and believe nothing.

Revenge is a dish best served ... sliced. The new cold meat option in the sandwich shop isn't chicken, and it isn't pork. It's Kevin Moyes, missing for two weeks, now presumed dead. The Serious Crime Unit are notified, and the hunt for the macabre butcher takes detectives Aliya Pereira and Marc Bain to the meat-processing factory where the human flesh entered the food chain. They are followed by a media frenzy, with Pereira's boss demanding immediate results. But while the factory is clean and no one is talking, some of the players have gone missing, people are still dying, and the butcher's work is not yet done. COLD CUTS introduces DI Pereira and DS Bain, Glasgow detectives on the trail of a killer through a sordid underworld of deceit, vengeance and murder. Tartan Noir never tasted so delicious.

A deputy head teacher is brutally murdered. The only witnesses are an elderly man and a seven-year-old girl. And now the prime suspect has disappeared.