“A Reason To Kill (DI Matt Barnes)” by Michael Kerr

Genre: Thrillers

Book 1 in the DI Matt Barnes Series.

Detective Inspector Matt Barnes is a cop dedicated to his job at the expense of all else. He and his team are protecting the star witness in the upcoming trial of gangland boss, Frank Santini.

All aspects of Matt’s life are altered forever when Santini hires a contract killer, Gary Noon, to hit the safe house. Only Matt survives the onslaught of an inventive and sadistic killer, but is left seriously wounded.

The subsequent search for Noon is both a personal and professional challenge, during which Matt is aided by Criminal Psychologist Dr. Beth Holder, who is brought in to build a profile on Noon.

The man they seek comes to consider Matt a threat to his continued wellbeing, and determines to eliminate him.

As Matt and Beth’s relationship flourishes, more people die at Noon’s hand, and events conspire to bring the cop and killer ever closer to a deadly showdown.

With an unknown enemy within New Scotland Yard, Santini’s goons hunting for him, and a second imported hitman also on his trail, Matt knows that the odds against him surviving by outmanoeuvring the various factions are at best slim.

Noon is the personification of evil; a psychopath using violence and cruelty to feed his sadistic needs. He considers himself a hunter: his fellow man, and especially Matt Barnes, the prey.

“The Girl On The Bus” by Nick Holland

Genre: Horror, Thriller

John Halle is an ordinary man thrown against his will into an extraordinary situation. A lonely ride on a local bus route leads to him being captured in a murder mystery that spans the decades, and that will see him under attack from both sides of the grave!

A lost love that comes back to haunt him will provide the key to bring justice raining down at last upon an evil adversary who will stop at nothing to destroy Halle before his secret is revealed. Can Halle decipher these mysteries from the past, these calls from beyond the grave, before his own grave opens up before him?

“Rope Enough (The Romney and Marsh Files)” by Oliver Tidy

Genre: Mystery, Police Procedurals

Newly promoted Detective Sergeant Joy Marsh is shipped out to Dover on the Kent coast to work under Detective Inspector Romney, a copper with a reputation as a cantankerous bastard, but good at his job. On her first night as his Sergeant a brutal crime in the town starts a chain of events that will test the mettle, the resolve and the detective in both of them.