Book 1: CRIME IN THE CHOIR

Crime In The Choir introduces Detective Inspector Gilbert Markham and his teacher girlfriend Olivia Mullen. After two skeletons are discovered in the grounds of St Mary's Choir School, rising star DI Gilbert Markham, assisted by veteran old-timer DS George Noakes, investigates.

Book 2: CRIME IN THE SCHOOL

​Crime In The School is the second in a series of contemporary crime novels which feature DI Gilbert Markham and his teacher girlfriend Olivia Mullen.  When a vicious murder occurs at Hope Academy, the local secondary school where Olivia teaches English, it seems impossible that there could be any connection with the staff and students.

Book 3: CRIME IN THE CONVENT

​Crime In The Convent is the third in a series of contemporary crime novels which feature DI Gilbert Markham and his teacher girlfriend Olivia Mullen.  When the serenity of St Cecilia’s church where Olivia regularly worships is shattered by a series of murders, some very ugly secrets are brought to light.

Book 4: CRIME IN THE HOSPITAL

DI Gilbert Markham and DS Noakes are back, investigating a series of horrific murders connected with a local psychiatric facility in a case which comes uncomfortably close to home. When his team is tasked with solving the mystery of patients who have gone missing from the Newman Hospital, Markham uncovers corruption in high places and a conspiracy of silence.

Book 5: CRIME IN THE BALLET

DI Gilbert Markham and his team face one of their most baffling challenges when they are called upon to solve a series of murders within the local ballet company at the start of the Christmas season. The company is immersed in preparations for its production of The Nutcracker when a choreographer’s body is discovered in the theatre basement and everything is thrown into chaos.

Book 6: CRIME IN THE GALLERY

DI Markham’s team, aided by his teacher girlfriend Olivia Mullen, discover that the town’s apparently respectable façade conceals some very dangerous secrets. The latest story centres on a series of murders at the town’s art gallery. Troublingly for the local community, the killings awaken echoes of an unsolved abduction from the gallery decades previously. 

Book 7: CRIME IN THE HEAT

A body is found stuffed in the refrigerator at a doctor’s office in a local community centre. The victim is twenty-something English teacher Rebecca ‘Bex’ Shawcross. The cause of death: strangulation.
Detective Gil Markham and Detective George Noakes discover the victim wasn’t short of enemies. Rumours swirl about her crooked Councillor father and her own ruthless ambitions.

Book 8: CRIME AT HOME

Nothing ever happens in New College Close. Until one day a piercing scream shatters the calm. Two women are found asphyxiated beneath a luxury mattress. They are retired schoolteacher Marian Bussell and her ex-pupil Dawn. The only clue: a badge from the academy where the dead woman once taught, clutched in her hand.

Book 9: CRIME IN THE BALLROOM

Everyone adores ultra-glam Shirley Bastin, popular dance school owner. Then Shirley is found dead, drowned in a water butt, her dainty heels peeking out from the top. All the evidence suggests her death was a tragic accident. So why does Detective Markham think she was murdered? Someone at the studio knows more than they’re letting on . . .

Book 10: CRIME IN THE BOOK CLUB

Wealthy, rakish Michael Dominguez is found battered to death in a vintage train carriage. Stuck to his lifeless body is a page from a book bearing the emblem of his local reading group. Dominguez was the literary golden boy of Calder Vale whose luck suddenly ran out. The gated community and exclusive book club of Grasmere Park seems respectable, but what goes on beneath the surface?
 

Book 11: CRIME IN THE COLLEGE

Detective Markham visits his alma mater, Sherwin College, hoping for a low-key weekend away in the city of dreaming spires. But his trip down memory lane takes an unexpected turn.
A builder unearths a human skeleton beneath a crumbling old staircase. The dead woman’s identity is revealed. And she’s no stranger to Markham.

Book 12: CRIME IN THE KITCHEN

Jayne Padgett is a beloved teacher who’d do anything for her kids. So how does she end up dead, neatly posed at her kitchen counter? She was strangled and forced to drink bleach. And, stranger still, the killer tried to clear up the mess afterwards. Despite being a favourite with her students, there’s no shortage of suspects...