Böcker av Philip Cox

"I'm so sorry; she died under the train..."Librarian Tom Raymond takes a phone call from the last person he expected to hear from: his ex-wife Lisa. She says she needs to talk. She can't say what it's about, and it has to be face to face.However, Lisa does not show up for their meeting, and later that night Tom finds she apparently met with an accident earlier.Tom later finds that his doubts about Lisa's accident are shared by attractive but shy Amy Spicer, who worked with Lisa at CitiMarket - a market research company. He and Amy form an unlikely partnership as they try to get to the bottom of what really happened to Lisa, and what it had to do with her call to Tom.Soon they come up against the sinister Sebastian Fleming and Ashley Merchant, who are intent on stopping Tom and Amy uncovering the secret of what is actually going on behind the doors of CitiMarket. A secret which might just cost them their lives... Originally published as Waterloo Sunset.

"'You looking for the Angel? Be careful, ' he whispered."Hard-nosed investigative reporter Jack Richardson, whom we first met in Don't Go Out in the Dark, is assigned to a story involving sleaze and a prominent Member of Parliament.During the investigation, Jack receives a call relating to an old case, one involving the murder of a twenty-year-old girl, suggesting that this case might not be as closed as everybody thinks.Torn between his assigned story, and one where there might have been a terrible miscarriage of justice, Jack must make a choice.His decision leads him into a dark place he never knew existed, and which puts him in great personal danger...

"For God's sake, look away! Just look away!"It began on a Sunday. An ordinary Sunday, and a family trip to the mall.Will Carter takes his five-year old daughter to the bathroom, and there he is witness to a deadly assault on an innocent stranger.Over the next few days, Will tries to put the experience behind him, but when he sees one of the attackers outside his home, he becomes more and more involved, and soon passes the point of no return.Becoming drawn deeper and deeper into something he does not understand, Will feels increasingly out of his depth and is soon asking if the victim was as innocent as he first thought?

A car crash: was it an accident? Or was it murder? And if it was murder, who was the intended victim? The first story featuring investigative reporter Jack Richardson. Jack is enjoying an evening with his girlfriend, Lucy Ryder. They run out of wine: Jack is over the limit, so Lucy goes out to the local store. She borrows his coat and car.Lucy never returns: within minutes, Jack's car is rolling down an embankment before exploding.Jack's instincts tell him this was no accident. Believing there is something in Lucy's life that is connected to the crash, he opens her laptop. What he finds leads him to believe could be behind her death.But it was a dark night, raining heavily, and visibility was poor. Lucy was driving Jack's car.Is there something in Jack's past that was connected to the crash, and was it a tragic case of mistaken identity?Previously published as Don't Go Out in the Dark.

Every morning at 8:30 Ruth Gibbons kisses her husband and son goodbye, and sets off for work.Every evening at 5pm, she finishes work, texts 'leaving now' to her husband Matthew, and begins her walk home.Every night at 5:40 she arrives home, kisses her husband and son, and has dinner with her family.Except tonight.Matthew thought he had a pretty normal life. A nice home, a happy marriage, a beautiful son, and a job he enjoys.Then it all changed.He informs the police that Ruth has not returned home, but decides to search for her himself as well. His first call is to her place of work, where to his disbelief nobody has heard of her.He begins to look further, and what he finds causes him to doubt everything he thought he knew about his wife, and to question his own sanity...

"I don't think I've ever seen so much blood."LAPD detective Sam Leroy returns in one of his most disturbing cases.Leroy and partner Ray Quinn are called to a murder scene in affluent Malibu. At the scene even Leroy is taken aback by the savagery of the crime. Furthermore, there appears to be no motive, and no obvious suspect.Leroy believe the two victims hold the key to their own murder, and begins his investigations with them. Before long, the trail leads them to the island of Catalina, and a children's home which has held a terrible secret for a generation...

Investigative reporter Jack Richardson returns once more, this time in a gripping story that begins in a tiny Romanian backwater and ends in the centre of London's seedy underworld. Jack is working on a story when he receives the tragic news that his brother-in-law has been found dead in his car, after having taken his own life.Jack has reservations about the verdict of suicide, and so he starts to probe the circumstances, soon finding similarities between his brother-in-law's death and the story he is working on, both connected to a chain of events which began three years earlier, and over a thousand miles away...

Young, wealthy, handsome - Adam Williams spends an evening in a bar in a small town in Florida.Nobody has seen him since.With the local police unable to trace Adam, his brother Craig and a workmate, Ben Rook, fly out to find him.However, nothing could have prepared them for the bizarre cat-and mouse game into which they are drawn as they seek to pick up Adam's trail and discover what happened to him that night.

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