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D.I. Olivia Austin
D.I. Olivia Austin
Series · 7 books · 2021
By
Nic Roberts
Books in series
#1
Find the Girl
2021
Now you see her, now you don't... A young woman who never made it home and a detective hell-bent on hiding her scars. Haunted by a vicious incident eighteen months ago, Detective Inspector Olivia Austin left the busy City of London Police to heal back in her home county of Cornwall. Working for the CID in touristy Newquay was supposed to ease her back into her job gently after a year and a half break, but when a young woman in the nearby fictional town of Peterly goes missing, and a gruesome package is delivered to her distraught parents, there’s a race against time to find her. Despite battling her own trauma, DI Austin doesn’t know if she’s dealing with a plain kidnapping or a murder case, but there's only one thing she’s determined on and that's to find the girl and bring her home. Dead or alive.
#2
The Dead Fall
2021
What's done in the dark will always come to light... A hideous crime with many layers. This one will either make her, or break her. After the dramatic conclusion of last month’s missing girl case, Detective Inspector Olivia Austin feels as though she’s finally finding her feet. With a strong budding friendship in DI Dean Lawrence and a team that finally believes she’s fit for the job, life with Newquay CID could only get better, but the discovery of a deceased male on the ground beneath his balcony shakes a sleepy coastal community. With injuries not quite adding up, Olivia must work hard to unravel the mystery that surrounds his death. With dark secrets rising to the surface, she needs to find out, do the dead fall, or was he pushed?
#3
Kiss and Hell
2021
A grisly discovery, a mysterious advert and a race against time to find the killer Detective Inspector Olivia Austin is back and at the scene of a murder in a hotel. A woman's body has been brutally mutilated and signs point to a crime of passion but as further sick details emerge, it's clear their killer is more dangerous than they first thought. With a case stacking against her, and her own personal hell brimming over from the past, can she catch this sick individual before he strikes again? Or, will she have finally met her match?
#4
Those We Know
2021
A spate of brutal murders and a killer who could be closer to home than one might think.... Detective Inspector Olivia Austin and her team are pushed to their limits hunting for the dangerous and elusive murderer that has Newquay CID on edge. As the case turns personal and one of their own goes missing, the urgency to find the killer steps up and the race to get them before any more bodies are found comes to a gripping conclusion.
#5
The Lost One
2021
A missing teen, suspicious circumstances and a case that will haunt her forever. After five friends go out, only four come back and Detective Inspector Olivia Austin is called to uncover the dark secrets that surround the young man’s disappearance. Somebody out there knows something, but things aren’t always what they seem and just when she thinks she’s getting somewhere, she discovers a truth that threatens to turn her world upside down for good.
#6
The Kill Road
2021
How far would you go to uncover the truth? 19 bodies are found at the end of a remote Cornish road in what appears to be a mass suicide. For Detective Inspector Olivia Austin and her team it should be a straightforward case, but the only two survivors paint a very different picture of events and she finds herself led on the hunt for a dangerous cult leader with the blood of his followers on his hands. But will they be able to catch him before he plans another ascension?
#7
What He Sees
2021
A sick voyeur, a deep obsession and a detective confronting the darkest of humanity. Just as Detective Inspector Olivia Austin is settling into a solid routine with her new partner, an envelope filled with destruction is found at the door to the station leaving her feeling violated and exposed. Someone out there is watching and with no idea who, it’s only the start of how dark and twisted their obsessed perpetrator is. Then the case turns deadly, and Olivia is forced to confront her fears and vulnerability to find the person behind the madness before she becomes his next victim.
Author
Nic Roberts
Author · 17 books