Ian McFadyen

Blood on His Hands

The body of a beautiful young Estonian woman is found in a lake in rural Lancashire. Is it murder or a tragic accident?

Lillia's Diary

Ross Fitzgerald

The eighth book in the Grafton Everest series sees the hapless ex-President of the Republic of Australia, Dr Professor Grafton Everest, caught up in a web of international espionage and intrigue that he is hopelessly ill-equipped to handle. Abandoned to his own inadequate devices when his wife Janet departs on a world tour, with his home invaded by his now broke daughter and son-in-law, Grafton accepts an assignment with the United Nations to investigate electoral fraud in Russia. The reason is not only to get out of the house; an old letter from his mother, addressed to someone in the Soviet Union fifty years ago, suggests that Grafton may not be the only child that he always thought he was. Grafton’s mission to Moscow and his search for this mysterious sibling take him far from the Russian capital, deep into the icy wastes of Siberia and even deeper in a tangled conspiracy whose roots extend back to the Cold War and even as far back as the Russian Revolution.

The Lowest Depths

Marcus Ardleigh, matematico famoso e consulente del governo Tatcher e poi di quello Blair, viene trovato impiccato nel Lancashire. Suicidio o omicidio? A indagare sulla morte è l'Ispettore Steve Carmichael. Prima di morire Ardleigh ha fatto spedire tre lettere identiche a tre amici, dando loro appuntamento in un albergo, alla presenza del suo avvocato Kenyon. Ma la sera prima anche Kenyon viene trovato morto. La soluzione sembra a un passo quando la testimonianza di una ragazza porterà a una verità sconcertante.

I misteri di Moulton Bank

Deadly Secrets

The body of a beautiful young Estonian woman is found in a lake in rural Lancashire. Is it murder or a tragic accident? As Inspector Steve Carmichael begins to look into the dead woman's life, he discovers a wealth of secrets.

When Inspector Steve McNab and his family move from London to the village of Moulton in rural Lancashire they all expect a quieter existence. However, in a matter of days, a woman is murdered in the village, and Steve finds himself in charge of an investigation that casts dark shadows into the village's past.

Little White Lies

It's a bleak midwinter in rural Lancashire, heavy snows have been forecast and everyone is ready to hunker down for a prolonged cold spell. In the sleepy village of Moulton Bank, Detective Inspector Steve Carmichael and his wife have been invited to a Valentine's Day dinner party given by local celebrity Caroline Lovelace. Neither she nor her bombastic MP husband has ever taken any notice of the DI before, so Carmichael is feeling a little flattered... Meanwhile, not so very far away, a solitary man has tied up his narrowboat and not far away from him, out on the towpath, a frozen corpse is slowly buried in the snow...

Frozen to Death

When the eminent mathematician and former government advisor Marcus Ardleigh is found hanged in his home in the sleepy Lancashire village of Moulton Bank, at first it looks to be a simple case of suicide. Very soon, however, Inspector Steve Carmichael begins to suspect that the death is altogether more complicated than it appears. As his investigations lead him and his team ever deeper into Ardleigh's murky past and into tortured lives of his lukewarm friends and bitter enemies, dark and dangerous secrets begin to emerge...

When the body of Timothy Wall, a Private Detective, is found in his office, the querulous Inspector Carmichael discovers some surprising revelations and curious contradictions about the dead man. Loved by many and seemingly despised by others in equal measure, Timothy Wall's whole world seems to be strewn with paradoxes.

The Murky World of Timothy Wall

When a stranger enters DI Carmichael’s local church, with blood on his hands claiming to have committed a murder, Carmichael and his team are quickly summoned. And when the man disappears, as mysteriously as he arrived, with few clues to his identity, where he came from and where he went, Carmichael quickly realises that all may not be as it seems. The conundrum becomes even more puzzling when, in less than 24 hours, a corpse is discovered in the boot of a Bentley car down a quiet country lane. As the body count rises Carmichael and his team remains confounded as to who is behind the murders and what motive they have for taking so many lives. In this, the eighth gripping murder mystery from the pen of Ian McFadyen, the author once again captivates the reader with an array of beguiling characters tightly woven within an intriguing, skilfully scripted plot. It will keep you guessing right until the end.

Blood on his Hands

It’s only four days to Christmas and, with snow deep on the ground, festive cheer abounds in the villages and small towns of rural Lancashire. Inspector Steve Carmichael is relishing the thought of a long break at home with his family. Not even the impending arrival of the cantankerous Aunty Audrey can dampen his mood. However, when a respectable woman mysteriously vanishes after boarding a train home, Carmichael’s hopes of a peaceful Christmas are well and truly scuppered. What has happened to Hayley Bell? As Carmichael’s team start to pick their way through the conundrum and delve deeper into the lives of Hayley, her eccentric husband and her so-called friends it’s clear that all is not what it seems.In this, the sixth in his series of skilfully-crafted detective novels featuring DI Steve Carmichael, the author again demonstrates his mastery of the genre. With an array of captivating characters and a dexterous plot, Ian McFadyen, once more, keeps his readers turning the pages and has them guessing right up to the bitter end.

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