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Fire & Ice

A tense and twisty thriller set in 2 eras, 1991 – 95 and 2021, 'Fire & Ice' takes us back to Charlotte and Emily’s teenage years at the private and historic girls’ school, Clayton House – where loyalties are tested, trust is broken, and danger lies around every corner.

Fast forward to 2021, and DCI Harry Longbridge uncovers far more than he expects when a skeleton is found in the grounds of the current day Clayton House, leading him to reopen three cold cases of two missing 90s students, a teacher, and a growing sense of unease at what is unfolding — both for his team and the wider constabulary. . . .

After being poisoned by a vengeful assassin enticed into completing her kill list, ex GP and high security patient Charlotte Peterson lies in a deeply troubled coma. Unconscious and vulnerable, her mind drifts back to her 90s senior school, Clayton House, where, with best friend Emily, a killing seed was sown – but by who?

As a boarder, for Charlotte there is no escaping the secrets that plague Clayton’s ancient corridors and dungeon dining room, no ignoring the nearby associated bleak and crumbling manor house – the abandoned Clayton Hall.

She was the daughter of affluent parents – her friend Emily Rowlands most certainly was not, but despite their different backgrounds, they were completely inseparable. However, it was at Clayton where their friendship became truly cemented. Cemented, inextricably linked, and totally unbreakable; because what happened at Clayton House left them no choice . . . until the betrayal.

But in May 2021 a skeleton is dug up in the grounds of the current school resulting in Harry reopening three cold cases from the 90s, and uncovering a great deal more than he bargained for. Secrets and lies can’t stay buried forever, and someone at that school planted a seed so evil it shaped Charlotte’s psychopathic personality — and someone with a link to the past knows exactly who that person is. . . .

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The Delegate

Two women – both serial killers are mentally circling each other in this tense psychological thriller. The professional is incarcerated behind the walls of a psychiatric hospital. The amateur, her delegate, is living free as a bird in the beautiful Lake District – a tense beginner, initially....

Ex Cumbrian G.P. Charlotte Peterson is a vicious serial killer simmering her way through a life sentence in Rampton High Security Hospital. A sycophantic inmate with Mafia family connections had aided her escape to a murderous New York rampage six months earlier, but Charlotte only managed to actually kill one of her remaining enemies on her list. She therefore needs someone on the outside to complete the job – A Delegate.

Recaptured by DCI Harry Longbridge and DI Fran Taylor after flying to the U.S., Charlotte pulls the strings of a vulnerable woman with serious historic mental health challenges of her own. The icing on the cake for Charlotte is that the woman concerned is none other than Harry’s wife, Annie. It feels good – very good.

However, despite initially falling into line believing it will help with her own ‘List,’ Annie develops a growing inner confidence and two powerful women begin mentally circling one another. As Annie covertly pushes forwards with her own plans, the Zandini’s increasingly come to the fore in more ways than one - and Charlotte starts to feel distinctly uneasy….

The Delegate

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dead girls don’t cry

The airports are snowbound, Harry's in turmoil and the murders have begun. She's back... and she's closing in.

Ex G.P. Charlotte Peterson is, in theory, almost a millionaire. She’s also a vicious serial killer who’s been simmering her way through two years of a life sentence at Rampton high security hospital.

There have been a few ups and downs, but suffering the sickeningly cloying hero worship from a relative of the Zandini mob was a good move, because now they were going to spring her during a day release for her mother’s funeral. Not only that, on the guarantee of a future exorbitant payoff, they were going to fund her identity change and New York trip to track down her arch nemeses, Jenny Flood and Emily Stone. Their three year plan to send Charlotte over the edge had worked that summer two years ago, now it was time to return the favour . . . by sending them both to the depths of hell.

Emily’s daughter Gina and fiancé Andrew Gale are staying with the Stone’s prior to their New York wedding. During their stay Gina thinks she’s being watched. There’s something about the woman that has similarities to Charlotte, and although she looks entirely different Andrew puts in a call to his old police friend Harry Longbridge.

D.I. Fran Taylor has transferred up from South London to Kirkdale in Cumbria, and with a tentative first lead to the Rampton escapee, is now assigned to the case. There’s only one person she wants to work it with her – the one person who knows Charlotte Peterson inside and out from that summer, retired D.C.I. Harry Longbridge – her very close ex partner from Canon Row.

But Harry finds it difficult to play second fiddle out in Manhattan, even to Fran, and when he gets a life or death call from the U.K., the airports are snowed in, Charlotte’s still at large and the murders have begun . . .

What’s a cop to do?

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Blood List

The clock is ticking and the Lakes are deep...

Think the Lake District is a lovely place to visit? Think again. A Psychological & Chilling Thriller set in and around the fictional town of Kirkdale in Cumbria. One by one the young women of Kirkdale are being found grotesquely murdered, with no clues as to why.

Lying between the great lake Kirkwater and the base of Kirkby Pike, although beautiful, Kirkdale isn't exactly the most exciting place on the planet. But after young reporter Jenny Flood moves into the relaxed Cumbrian town, it sets a catalogue of events in motion that brings this comfortable community to its knees.

When middle aged G.P. Charlotte Peterson discovers Jenny has followed her from Bradenthorpe, six years after a fling with her philandering doctor husband Miles, it stirs deeply buried mental health issues from her youth. In the run up to the Kirkdale country show, the arrival of this third and most recent adversary triggers the already edgy and emotionally scarred Charlotte into finally stepping over the edge. Her longing to destroy Jenny has been on a slow and very resentful burn for years, now the reality of achieving that presents itself as a genuine possibility.

Can journalist Andrew Gale protect new colleague Jenny, girlfriend Gina and her best friend Molly from the psychotic GP's insane agenda? How will sarcastic ex Met. Officer Harry Longbridge deal with Andrew's continued interference?

Then there's the unexpected arrival of an American mystery woman. And just who is on the Blood List?

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