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DCI Isaac Cook Thriller Series
Murder is a Tricky Business – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 1
A television actress is missing, and DCI Isaac Cook, the Senior Investigation Officer of the Murder Investigation Team at Challis Street Police Station in London, is searching for her.
Why has he been taken away from more important crimes to search for the woman? It’s not the first time she’s gone missing, so why does everyone assume she’s been murdered?
There’s a secret, that much is certain, but who knows it? The missing woman? The executive producer? His eavesdropping assistant? Or the actor who portrayed her fictional brother in the TV soap opera?
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Murder House – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 2
A corpse in the fireplace of an old house. It’s been there for thirty years, but who is it?
It’s murder, but who is the victim and what connection does the body have to the previous owners of the house. What is the motive? And why is the body in a fireplace? It was bound to be discovered eventually but was that what the murderer wanted? The main suspects are all old and dying, or already dead.
Isaac Cook and his team have their work cut out, trying to put the pieces together. Those who know are not talking because of an old-fashioned belief that a family’s dirty laundry should not be aired in public, and never to a policeman – even if that means the murderer is never brought to justice!
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Murder is Only a Number – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 3
Before she left, she carved a number in blood on his chest. But why the number 2, if this was her first murder?
The woman prowls the streets of London. Her targets are men who have wronged her. Or have they? And why is she keeping count?
DCI Cook and his team finally know who she is, but not before she’s murdered four men. The whole team are looking for her, but the woman keeps disappearing in plain sight. The pressure’s on to stop her, but she’s always one step ahead.
And this time, DCS Goddard can’t protect his protégé, Isaac Cook, from the wrath of the new commissioner at the Met.
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Murder in Little Venice – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 4
A dismembered corpse floats in the canal in Little Venice, an upmarket tourist haven in London. Its identity is unknown, but what is its significance?
DCI Isaac Cook is baffled about why it’s there. Is it gang-related, or is it something more?
Whatever the reason, it’s clearly a warning, and Isaac and his team are sure it’s not the last body that they’ll have to deal with.
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Murder is the Only Option – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 5
A man thought to be long dead returns to exact revenge against those who had blighted his life. His only concern is to protect his wife and daughter. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim.
‘Big Greg, I never expected to see you around here at this time of night.’
‘I’ve told you enough times.’
‘I’ve no idea what you’re talking about,’ Robertson replied. He looked up at the man, only to see a metal pole coming down at him. Robertson fell down, cracking his head against a concrete kerb.
Two vagrants, no more than twenty feet away, did not stir and did not even look in the direction of the noise. If they had, they would have seen a dead body, another man walking away.
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Murder in Notting Hill – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 6
One murderer, two bodies, two locations, and the murders have been committed within an hour of each other.
They’re separated by a couple of miles, and neither woman has anything in common with the other. One is young and wealthy, the daughter of a famous man; the other is poor, hardworking and unknown.
Isaac Cook and his team at Challis Street Police Station are baffled about why they’ve been killed. There must be a connection, but what is it?
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Murder in Room 346 – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 7
‘Coitus interruptus, that’s what it is,’ Detective Chief Inspector Isaac Cook said. On the bed, in a downmarket hotel in Bayswater, lay the naked bodies of a man and a woman.
‘Bullet in the head’s not the way to go,’ Larry Hill, Isaac Cook’s detective inspector, said. He had not expected such a flippant comment from his senior, not when they were standing near to two people who had, apparently in the final throes of passion, succumbed to what appeared to be a professional assassination.
‘You know this will be all over the media within the hour,’ Isaac said.
‘James Holden, moral crusader, a proponent of the sanctity of the marital bed, man and wife. It’s bound to be.’
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Murder of a Silent Man – A DCI Cook Thriller – Book 8
A murdered recluse. A property empire. A disinherited family. All the ingredients for murder.
No one gave much credence to the man when he was alive. In fact, most people never knew who he was, although those who had lived in the area for many years recognised the tired-looking and shabbily-dressed man as he shuffled along, regular as clockwork on a Thursday afternoon at seven in the evening to the local off-licence.
It was always the same: a bottle of whisky, premium brand, and a packet of cigarettes.