Please note this book was previously published as The Woman on Mulberry Lane. Detective Inspector Morgan Yeoman heads home with a pile of paperwork and a takeaway dinner. His front door is wide open. He finds his wife Lydia high on cocaine and there’s a dead woman in his living room. Her throat slit with one slash. A dead body in a detective’s home. It’s not looking good for Yeoman. He’s already got a lot on his plate. A young woman was found dead in the dirt in Queen’s Wood. Her naked body thrown into a ditch. Yeoman’s willing to be bad to put away bad men. As long as the real criminals are caught. He’s known for bending the rules, but is he about to go too far?

An attack on an elderly lady means the residents of Pinstone are on their guard. DI Morgan Yeoman is determined to find who’s culpable but doesn’t expect the past to feature so heavily. 1965 and 1991 hold terrible secrets that have encroached on the present—and certain people know exactly what they are. They’ve kept silent for years, but maybe now is the time to reveal them before someone else does… Billy Price spots strangers in Regency Road, and he wants to know who they are—he has to in order to feel safe. An old man, a brunette woman, and a thirtysomething fella. What are they doing there? Are they out to cause trouble? When a murder occurs, it’s clear the cases are linked. Why did Ivy Gibbs go missing from Loving Arms children’s home? Who is the weird man with the little teeth? And will Morgan find out in time? Take a wander down Regency Road and meet the strangers—they’re not what you might think.

DI Morgan Yeoman is disturbed by the death of someone everyone in Pinstone knows. The clues point to the victim’s wife, but if it isn’t her, who else has a nasty grudge against the man? Ray Jones has been planning something for a while now, and his wife is all for him committing a terrible act, vowing to stand by him forever. Everything is in place, he just needs to pull it off. Sheila did an awful thing in her past and, thirty years later, she’s still unable to forget it. She’s a nervous wreck half the time, waiting for the police to knock on her door. When she hears the news about a man murdered in Pinstone, the terror ramps up. Did someone really see Sheila and her husband, Vernon, running towards Cobbs Moor in nineteen ninety? What does that have to do with the murdered man? Who sent Sheila poison pen letters, and who keeps knocking on her door in the middle of the night? Take a gander down Elderflower Mead, a street that has secrets behind certain closed doors, waiting to be revealed.

DI Morgan Yeoman and his team have been investigating robberies at the posh shopping village, Silver Mile. When a robbery goes wrong and someone ends up dead, the pressure is on. Carol Lemon is a member of the robbery gang. Terrible images from the past have haunted her, and she relies on drink and drugs to get through each day, blocking it all out. Is she a liability? Someone has returned to Pinstone to visit the woman who’s been a thorn in his side since nineteen eighty-nine. He’s travelled the country for decades, murdering, assaulting dead bodies. It’s time to finish what he started. Why did he pick young women then teenage girls to add to his kill list? Why did someone remove knickers from a crime scene and keep them in his pocket? How will Morgan deal with Jane Blessing, his ever-irritating DC, when she steps out of line again? Meander down Vicar’s Gate, where murder is only a scream away.