Malcolm Hollingdrake

A mutilated body apparently washed up on a windswept beach. A violent criminal gang preys on moped riders across the area. A teenage girl is desperate to escape sexual exploitation. It’s a tough introduction to Merseyside for Detective Inspector April Decent....

DCI Bennett and his team are back and called to a house in Ripon that has collapsed into a sinkhole where a body is discovered. Soon old, weathered remembrance crosses are found dug up. Each one numbered....

Following his recovery from a personal and professional trauma, DCI Cyril Bennett returns to discover a complex case involving the art world. Soon he unearths a dark side of the industry where greed and dubious practices thrive and, where there is money to be made, violence and murder abound. ...

A psychopath is hell bent on revenge. A body is found with its fingers amputated, then an investigative journalist is murdered. Bennett’s team is faced with some baffling evidence. Hatpins and bicycle spokes become pivotal to the inquiry but the police struggle to connect the evidence. It is...

Jars of honey containing pieces of tattooed flesh are the first clue in the search for a missing 14-year-old boy. Then another boy goes missing and more honey jars are discovered. A number of leads seem to be going nowhere, and the police are running out of time. Can Bennett and his team catch...

A domestic dog attack on a child leads to a complex case - the macabre discovery of indiscernible body parts amongst bin bags littering a road on the outskirts of town. Meanwhile, a team of criminals spreads its tentacles across the sordid underworld of people trafficking, dog fighting...

Meet DCI Cyril Bennett, a ladies' man with a passion for efficiency. His partner, DS David Owen, is naïve and untidy but keen. Together they make a formidable pair. When two dead infants are found at a teacher training college, Bennett and Owen are given the case. At the same time, a killer is...

A young woman goes missing. She's done it before, but Detective Inspector April Decent senses this time it's serious. Can she convince her colleagues she's right before it's too late?