Andy Maslen

"Trigger Point introduces Gabriel Wolfe as a new hero. What a tremendous read. Fast paced, kept me in suspense all of the way through. Could hardly put it down.” Ian Brown SAS combat veteran Gabriel Wolfe is run off the road by a glamorous redhead. She tells him his old CO, Don Webster, wants...

A ritualistic murder. Sacred ground. Powerful enemies. DS Ballantyne’s trials are only just starting. Christopher Piper, Middlehampton Cathedral’s fiery artist in residence, is found crucified at the altar, a bloody message daubed at his feet. DS Kat Ballantyne knows this will be no ordinary...

She thought he was gone. She was wrong. Fifteen years ago, a serial killer was on a rampage murdering young women in Middlehampton. Then, suddenly, the killings stopped, and the murderer was never found… So when the body of another young woman is found bearing the twisted killer’s unique...

THEY'VE FAKED YOUR CHILD'S DEATH. AND IF YOU DON'T GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT, THEY'LL MAKE IT A REALITY. Things have been difficult for Annie since her husband left; her teenage daughter, Isla, has become a ghost of her former self. Annie's terrified that Isla might do something desperate, and...

Her career on the line and an innocent woman charged with murder. Can she save them both? As bogus corruption charges loom over her, DS Kat Ballantyne finds herself deskbound and stuck with cold cases. Her hated boss, DI Carver, has given her just one week to explain how £50,000 found its way...

Detective Ford has a cold-blooded killer to catch. But can he escape his own dark secrets? Barely a month since his promotion to Inspector, DI Ford is called in to investigate the murder of a young nurse and her son in a small flat in Salisbury. There are few clues, and no apparent motive, but...

How do you stop a killer no one believes exists? DS Kat Ballantyne wants to know why a perfect girl like Rosie Duggan would jump to her death from a multistorey car park. Everyone is saying she took her own life. But Kat is unconvinced. Girls like Rosie—bright, popular, well adjusted, and with...

A populist politician lies dead, a playing card stuck to his bloodied face. Was this about more than votes? George Steele — populist, provocateur, mayoral candidate — is beaten to death on a quiet country lane as his wife looks on in horror. DS Kat Ballantyne knows this killing was personal...

For DS Kat Ballantyne, finding the murderer might mean looking closer to home. DS Kat Ballantyne is still reeling from a revelation that turned life as she knew it upside down. But when a dog walker discovers the body of a woman among the standing stones known locally as the Three Sisters...

Detective Inspector Stella Cole was a rising star in London’s Metropolitan Police. Then a hit-and-run driver killed her husband, Richard, a human rights lawyer. Grief drove her to booze and pills. Back at work after a year’s compassionate leave, Stella secretly re-investigates his death and begins to suspect a cover-up....

A journalist’s final words lead Kat Ballantyne into a deadly game of power, corruption and terror. A bomb threat at Middlehampton’s Powerhouse music venue sends DS Kat Ballantyne spiralling into a nightmare—her husband and son are inside. As the city reels in terror, Kat fights to keep her...

A famous victim. A locked room. Dark secrets. For DS Ballantyne, murder isn’t black and white. DS Kat Ballantyne came to the crime-writing festival for an escape. Instead she’s walked straight into a murder scene. Moments before he’s due on stage, a famous novelist is found dead in a...

A dead man crucified on an oak tree used by pagans. A pentagram carved into his chest. Antlers adorning his lifeless body. A horrific discovery in the autopsy room....

On his latest mission, a stone-cold quest for vengeance, he’s flying solo. He's on administrative suspension after a car crash that almost cost a man his life. That means no backup from his boss, no support if things turn nasty, just him, his wits, and his resolve to see justice done....

Now happily living in Sweden, Kriminalinspektör Stella Cole faces off against a psychopath who leaves no clues beyond the victims’ bizarrely altered corpses. As the death-toll mounts, Stella reaches into her own murderous past for clues to the killer’s motives….

My name is Art Zeffer. After being canned by Chicago PD on a cooked-up corruption rap, I hung out my shingle as a PI. Then she walked into my office. She had something special. Something I wanted so badly I ended up putting my life in danger....

Treating a woman for postnatal depression, therapist Mel Porter discovers a shocking truth about herself. As she battles to separate truth from lies, she must confront the most dreadful choice a wife can ever make. Believe that her husband is a killer. Or that she is....

A troop of paras stumble on an elephant's butchered corpse. A sniper observes a glamorous royal couple on their wedding day. A charismatic ultraleft politician sees his chance to strut on the world stage. What happens next sends ex-SAS member Gabriel Wolfe deep into a web of intrigue....

As a baby, Tara Wolfe was kidnapped by Hong Kong triads. After a bungled ransom demand, she was taken secretly to the mainland. Now known as Wei Mei, she has known no other life but the rural village where "Mummy Rita" raised her....

The priest in a snow-blanketed Swedish town opens her church and discovers a dead woman on the altar. The corpse is dressed in a wedding gown and clutches a fresh bunch of cornflowers....