Josiah Dark Series: Books 1-3
(2019)(A book in the Josiah Dark series)
An omnibus of novels by Tim Ellis
Dark Christmas (Novella): With a new partner he doesn't want, a journalist who defies the laws of physics and an unknown man letting himself into his house, Detective Inspector Josiah Dark of the Serious Crimes Division must find out why Santa has been busy leaving gory Christmas presents around Greater Manchester.
Dark Heart (Novella): A fourteen year-old girl's body is found in a frozen grave by three children metal detecting in a field. Detective Inspector Josiah Dark of the Serious Crime Division at Greater Manchester Police thought he'd be investigating this case on his own, because his unwanted partner has been called away to a family crisis, but a reporter called Dixie Reyes knows more than she should - a lot more.
Dark Shadows: An unidentified male corpse, with a wooden stake hammered into its heart, has been pulled from the Peak Forest Canal at Lock Number 9 in Marple. Detective Inspector Josiah Dark has been sent to investigate. The initial chaos at the crime scene is compounded by the unexpected return of his unwanted partner - Detective Constable Annie Lake. Leads are hard to come by, but eventually they begin to unearth a web of bribery, corruption and murder from fifteen years previously. Also, the two people helping him to find out the truth about his wife Ellie - the investigative reporter Dixie Reyes and her partner Hendrik Larsson - have stumbled onto the deaths of old people without relatives who have all their money transferred from their bank accounts days before they die. Morbid Maud - Professor Finn's assistant at the mortuary in Wythenshawe Hospital - asks him to look into the case of her nine year-old sister, who was abducted from Blackpool seafront three years ago. And then, of course, there's the suggestive photographs of Ellie that Hendrik has found . . .
Genre: Mystery
Dark Heart (Novella): A fourteen year-old girl's body is found in a frozen grave by three children metal detecting in a field. Detective Inspector Josiah Dark of the Serious Crime Division at Greater Manchester Police thought he'd be investigating this case on his own, because his unwanted partner has been called away to a family crisis, but a reporter called Dixie Reyes knows more than she should - a lot more.
Dark Shadows: An unidentified male corpse, with a wooden stake hammered into its heart, has been pulled from the Peak Forest Canal at Lock Number 9 in Marple. Detective Inspector Josiah Dark has been sent to investigate. The initial chaos at the crime scene is compounded by the unexpected return of his unwanted partner - Detective Constable Annie Lake. Leads are hard to come by, but eventually they begin to unearth a web of bribery, corruption and murder from fifteen years previously. Also, the two people helping him to find out the truth about his wife Ellie - the investigative reporter Dixie Reyes and her partner Hendrik Larsson - have stumbled onto the deaths of old people without relatives who have all their money transferred from their bank accounts days before they die. Morbid Maud - Professor Finn's assistant at the mortuary in Wythenshawe Hospital - asks him to look into the case of her nine year-old sister, who was abducted from Blackpool seafront three years ago. And then, of course, there's the suggestive photographs of Ellie that Hendrik has found . . .
Genre: Mystery
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