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DI Nikki Galena is burning out, driven by rage over her daughter’s drug‑induced coma and her crusade against local dealers. When masked gangs terrorise Greenborough and a student vanishes on the marsh, she and new sergeant Joseph Easter must somehow learn to work together.

Nikki’s neighbour is found dead below a church tower in what looks like suicide, then a bound and mutilated man turns up on wasteland. As rumours swirl about DS Joseph Easter’s past, the pair chase two brutal killers and secrets that could tear their team apart.

On rookie PC Danny Wilshire’s first day, a black 4x4 mounts the pavement outside a bakery and leaves him fighting for his life. More of Nikki’s officers are targeted, and a woman dies in an apparently impossible locked room. Someone is hunting her team one by one.

Twenty years after a brutal double murder on Gibbet Fen, a local woman is stabbed in her kitchen and a disturbed man calmly confesses. Jackman and Evans must probe his missing childhood to learn whether he’s a killer or a victim.

Nikki’s dying father asks her to find a mysterious woman named Eve, a promise that drags up painful memories. At the same time a drug dealer is found dead on a haunted airfield. Following both trails leads Nikki and Joseph into the most shocking discovery of her career.

After surviving a horrific accident, Nikki’s friend Helen swears a man was trapped with her, confessing to murder. No trace of him exists, yet she insists she’s now being watched. When notorious criminal Stephen Cox reappears in town, panic rises and Nikki faces a very personal threat.

Decades after three boys were murdered near remote Gibbet Fen, retired detective Matt Ballard receives photos taken before the old crime scenes — and someone starts killing again. To stop a faceless enemy, he must revisit the case that has haunted him his whole career.

A skeleton buried off the record in a churchyard and the savage murder of a wealthy businesswoman drag Nikki into the secrets of an elite drinking club. The trail leads to a village scarred by years of abuse — and a killer determined to keep that history underground.

A young woman is discovered dead in a remote barn, one finger brutally removed after weeks in captivity. Another victim is found alive with similar injuries. As Nikki’s team tracks a ruthless crime boss trying to claim the Fens, the hunt for a kidnapper becomes a race to save lives.

In this standalone thriller, a young woman trying to rebuild her life finds herself caught between loyalty and fear when she stumbles into a dangerous plot. As buried trauma collides with present‑day threats, she must decide who to trust before the past destroys her future.

Detective Carter McLean survives the plane crash that kills his four closest friends and is consumed by guilt. While he secretly tackles the unfinished business they left behind, Jackman and Evans juggle a stalker case and a missing wife that may push him over the edge.

Two teenage girls go to a late‑night party on the Fens; only one staggers back, drugged and terrified, talking about a friend no one can trace. As Jackman and Evans investigate, they uncover a hidden trade in vulnerable girls and long‑buried secrets.

Anonymous callers give Nikki a series of cryptic warnings, naming a time, a place and the next to die in criminal slang only insiders understand. At the same time, designer burglaries sweep the area and a death close to Nikki’s family forces her to join the dots fast.

An unknown arsonist is turning the Fens into a furnace, torching homes and businesses before leaving a corpse at one scene. As more fires claim single victims and a sinister fringe group tightens its grip on the town, Nikki faces a killer who uses flame and fear as weapons.

Jackman’s sister‑in‑law appears to take her own life in a London river, then another woman dies the same way. Old witness statements and a decades‑old crime resurface, and Jackman and Evans hunt a manipulative predator who drives victims to despair from the shadows.

A crime wave hits town as teenagers are mugged and homes burgled for a wildly expensive streetwear brand. When young men start dying and steroids flood the estates, Jackman and Evans go after a shadowy leader called Darke — while still haunted by an uncaught serial killer.

During the Dark Greenborough Festival, crowds flood the town to revel in folklore and the macabre. An anonymous letter warns that death is coming, and soon revellers begin dying from tainted drink. Nikki and her team race to unmask a poisoner hiding in plain sight.

When a new series of brutal killings appears to echo the crimes of a notorious murderer from the past, Matt Ballard and his team are forced to reopen old files. As history bleeds into the present, they must work out who is really dangerous before more blood is spilled.

Serial killer Alistair Ashcroft returns to taunt Jackman’s team, sending chilling messages while a sniper begins executing local men. As rural thefts, old grudges and police targets collide, Jackman and Evans must outthink a patient enemy who has nothing to lose.

Joseph Easter’s daughter discovers a derelict cottage hidden in a copse, clearly used in secret and filled with unsettling pagan artefacts. Old photos inside link it to a girl who vanished fifteen years earlier. With her convicted stalker recently freed, Nikki fears a killer has come home.

Retired detective Matt Ballard hopes for quieter days, but the Fens remain restless. A harmless old woman is harassed, friends in a historic house are consumed by its grim past and strange lights flicker over the marshes. Matt and Liz must untangle obsession from real danger.

IT genius Orla “Orac” Cracken vanishes, and at the same time urban explorers start going missing from abandoned sites on the Fens. When two bodies are found hanging in an ancient church, Jackman and Evans race to stop a killer tied to Orla’s dangerous past.

In the elegant gardens of Shelley House, a gardener finds a charred human hand draped over a wheelbarrow. The trail leads back twenty years to a brilliant but toxic family, a murdered gardener and a brother who vanished. Nikki must expose the truth before anyone else dies.

When an old friend’s sister vanishes from a fen village, Matt and Liz Ballard quietly start to look into it. Liz’s cousin is convinced the local bookseller is manipulating everyone, and night‑time hunts for mysterious marsh lights turn deadly as another friend goes missing.

Two young lovers are found laid out on a blanket in the woods, the boy clutching a red rose. When another couple is staged in the same way, Nikki and Joseph realise they have a killer who turns romance into ritual — and will kill again to protect hidden truths.

While families sleep, someone breaks into their homes and steals only one thing: photographs of their children. After an elderly woman falls to her death confronting a prowler, Jackman and Evans track a night visitor whose obsession with other people’s memories is turning deadly.

An airmail envelope addressed to Nikki arrives with three chilling words: "You failed me." More letters follow, naming four missing local women whose bodies were never found. When a fresh grave is uncovered on the marsh, Nikki realises someone is playing a deadly game just for her.

Holly Stewart moves her family into Solace House hoping for a fresh start, despite its violent history. Soon jobs are lost, the children are bullied and someone prowls the garden at night. As Jackman and Evans investigate linked dismemberment murders, the house’s past and present collide.

A series of strange incidents on dark fen roads is written off as bad luck until Matt Ballard notices a pattern. Young people chasing thrills after dark are not telling the whole truth, and someone is using the cover of night to settle very old scores.

Matt Ballard’s last big investigation begins with a disturbing find that links several long‑forgotten crimes. As his team pulls together scattered clues, they uncover people willing to do anything to keep the past hidden — including killing again.

A man’s body is pulled from the river, slicked with oil; soon another victim is found the same way. While Jackman and Evans hunt a sadistic killer staging these scenes, a long‑time enemy plots revenge from inside a high‑security prison, turning the case into a deadly trap.

After swerving to avoid a figure in the road, florist Ellie McEwan wakes from a coma seeing coloured auras around everyone she meets. When a third professional woman is murdered in her Surrey village, Ellie’s unsettling new gift may be the only way to catch the killer.

Three deaths in three days — an apparent overdose, a deliberate hit‑and‑run and a man found dead in his grand home — leave Nikki with no motive and no suspect. Every path seems to run through her own mother, turning the most complex case of her career painfully personal.

In this tense novella, an officer is assigned to protect a woman whose evidence could bring down dangerous criminals. What starts as a routine protection job turns into a desperate fight for survival when the safe house is compromised and the enemy moves in.

A killer who has slipped justice for years is determined to claim one last victim and close the circle. As fresh bodies fall and old clues resurface, an investigator with their own painful history realises they may be the final target unless they break the pattern in time.

Ellie McEwan is still adjusting to life with the auras that colour every person she sees when a new investigation pulls her back into danger. Working again with DCI Bob Foreman, she must decide how much to trust her strange vision — and who might be hiding in plain sight.

A bloodstained man with a handcuff still on his wrist begs a retired detective for help, then vanishes into the Fens. A stylish woman reports her ex‑con husband missing, and five skeletons are found in a wartime pillbox. Jackman’s Black Notice request uncovers links none of them expected.