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Gallows Drop

Gallows Drop
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At dawn on a lonely stretch of road, a body is found hanging from an ancient gallows the morning after a country show. Hours earlier, DCI Kate Daniels had seen the victim alive. With her leave period imminent, she’s...

The Lost (Stone & Oliver 1)

The Lost (Stone & Oliver 1)
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): The North East (England), Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘He was her child. The only one she’d ever have. It would kill her to learn that he was missing.’ Alex arrives home from holiday to find that her ten-year-old son Daniel has disappeared. It’s the first case together...

The Silent Room

The Silent Room
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A security van sets off for Durham prison, a disgraced Special Branch officer in the back. It never arrives. On route it is hijacked by armed men, the prisoner sprung. Suspended from duty on suspicion of aiding and abetting...

Settled Blood

Settled Blood
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): County Durham, Northumberland, The Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When a young girl is found dead at the base of Hadrian’s Wall, it’s not long before Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels realises her death was no ordinary homicide. She was thrown from a great height and was probably...

The Scandal (Stone and Oliver Book 3)

The Scandal (Stone and Oliver Book 3)
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives...

Monument to Murder (Kate Daniels 4)

Monument to Murder (Kate Daniels 4)
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Bamburgh, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When skeletal remains are found beneath the fortified walls of an ancient castle on Northumberland’s rugged coastline, DCI Kate Daniels calls on a forensic anthropologist to help identify the corpse. Meanwhile, newly widowed prison psychologist Emily McCann finds herself...

Without a Trace

Without a Trace
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Heathrow Airport
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2014

A FATAL CRASH A plane on route from London to New York City has disappeared out of the sky. This breaking news dominates every TV channel, every social media platform, and every waking hour of the Metropolitan Police and...

The Murder Wall

The Murder Wall
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle’s Quayside gives...

Deadly Deceit

Deadly Deceit
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Four a.m on a wet stretch of the A1 and a driver skids out of control. Quick on the scene, Senior Investigating Officer Kate Daniels and partner DS Hank Gormley are presented with a horrifying image of carnage and...

The Death Messenger

The Death Messenger
  • Author(s): Mari Hannah
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a mysterious DVD is delivered to Northumbria Police Headquarters, DS Matthew Ryan and Detective Superintendent Eloise O’Neil are among the few to view its disturbing content. With little to go on the only lead comes from the anonymous...

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