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The Coroner
Now a major television series on All4 and CBC, The Coroner is the first gripping installment in Matthew Hall's twice CWA Gold Dagger nominated Coroner Jenny Cooper series. Death is her living . . . When lawyer Jenny Cooper is appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, she’s hoping for a quiet life and space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the office she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected files hiding dark secrets and a trail of buried evidence. Could the tragic death in custody of a young boy be linked to the apparent suicide of a teenage prostitute and the fate of Marshall himself? Jenny’s curiosity is aroused. Why was Marshall behaving so strang...
The Wicked Mr Hall - The Memoirs of the Butler Who Loved to Kill
Growing up in Glasgow in the 1930s, Roy Archibald Hall was a natural thief. After moving down to London, Hall who was bisexual became a familiar figure in the capital's glitzy, underground gay scene. Due to his lucrative criminal career, he led an extravagant lifestyle. Eventually the law caught up with him and he was arrested. He spent the majority of the next two decades of his life in a cell. Upon release from prison in 1975, he returned to Scotland and found employment with Lady Margaret Hudson, working as a butler at Kirleton House. David Wright, a former lover from his time in jail, arrived on the scene and was hired as a gamekeeper. The two men fell out over the theft of a diamond rin...
The Disappeared
Coroner Jenny Cooper takes on the corrupt establishment of England’s investigative institutions, fighting a lone battle for justice.
The Redeemed
Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of a porn star turned megachurch devotee.
The Burning
Originally published: London: Mantle, 2014.
The Chosen Dead
When Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the fatal plunge of a man from a motorway bridge, she little suspects that it has any connection with the sudden death of a friend's 13 year old daughter from a deadly strain of meningitis. But as Jenny pieces together the dead man's last days, she's drawn into a mystery whose dark ripples stretch across continents and back through decades. In an investigation which will take her into the sinister realms of unbridled human ambition and corrupt scientific endeavor, Jenny is soon forced to risk the love and lives of those closest to her, as a deadly race to uncover the truth begins.
The Flight
When Flight 189 plunges into the Severn Estuary, Coroner Jenny Cooper finds herself handling the case of a sailor whose boat appears to have been sunk by the stricken plane, and drawn into the mysterious fate of a ten year-old girl, Amy Patterson, a passenger on 189, whose largely unmarked body is washed up alongside his.
The Black Art of Killing
THE ACTION-PACKED THRILLER ABOUT ONE MAN FIGHTING FOR THE TRUTH 'A Bond-style thriller for the 21st century . . . It feels like a movie already' Daily Mail 'A fast based, breathless thriller' 5***** Reader Review 'Brilliant. Incredibly immersive' Tom Marcus _______ 'People sleep peacefully only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf...' After twenty years in the SAS, Leo Black put his soldiering life behind him in pursuit of a respectful academic career. But when a former comrade in arms is killed trying to prevent a scientist's abduction, Black is plunged into his violent past again. And that's just the start of it. Because this scientist wasn't the first to go missing...
A Life to Kill
The garrison town of Highcliff is on tenterhooks waiting for the return of the last British soldiers from war-torn Helmand. Meanwhile, as one of the last remaining platoons prepare to leave its isolated post for the final time, 19-year-old Private Pete Lyons is taken hostage during the night. A patrol sent to rescue him finds itself in a bloody and disastrous fire-fight. How was Private Lyons abducted from a heavily fortified command post? And why does the Army close tanks to disguise what happened during the mission to save him? The bewildered wives and families of the dead are left craving answers. Their fight for justice is every bit as ugly as the one fought by their loved ones in the poppy fields of Afghanistan. Their hopes lie with Coroner Jenny Cooper, who takes on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried with the boy soldiers. But in a town filled with secrets and rumours, it's not only the Army that has something to hide.
Thornfield Hall
The Rochesters are very good at keeping secrets... Thornfield Hall, 1821. Alice Fairfax takes up her role as housekeeper of the estate. But when Mr Rochester presents her with a woman who is to be hidden on the third floor, she finds herself responsible for much more than the house. This is the story Jane Eyre never knew - a narrative played out on the third floor and beneath the stairs, as the servants kept their master's secret safe and sound.
