検索キーワード： "Perfect Crime" ハードボイルド

When a young woman is found dead, carefully laid out among wildflowers in a remote Highland loch, Detective Sergeant Scott Hansen is sent north to investigate. A city detective out of his depth, Scott quickly learns that in the Highlands, the landscape is as unforgiving as the people are guarded...

A bomb hooked to a banker's back, a one-eyed busted-out former cop, hooker/biker bars on Airline Highway in New Orleans, drugs in the French Quarter, a 300-pound female bartender, an ex-con whose main goal in life is to have more expensive shoes than anyone else, a drug czar named Fidel Castro (a cousin of the more famous one in Cuba), money laundering schemes, and a criminal genius, who enjoys pulling his victim's fingernails out with pliers and who did everything right in what should have been the perfect crime save for one tiny mistake...

A fire amid the historical 'net huts' of Hastings' fishing village, Rock A' Nore - a local tourist attraction - exposes the mummified remains of a small and unidentifiable body that may well have been concealed inside for quite some time. Is this the body of an unfortunate rough sleeper? An...

When a female body is discovered at the bottom of the cliffs just outside Hastings, Boyd and Okeke find themselves dealing with an apparent suicide. But as forensic details begin to emerge, it becomes evident that it was a staged suicide. As Boyd and Okeke delve into the last few months of the...

Boyd is recruited by DCI Yolanda Williams to work on a 'test case' for a new intelligence-gathering software tool. The test case - a serial killer who appears to have struck again after a lapse of twenty years. Boyd finds himself drawn up to Manchester to solve a brutal double murder, armed with...

When a couple of storage auction bidders win the contents of unit 37 at 'Best Price Storage', they discover the mummified remains of three dismembered bodies inside. Thus begins a new murder case for Boyd and his team. While East Sussex police force are concerned they may have another serial...

Audrey Hincher, a middle-aged woman, with a mundane job and an unremarkable home life suddenly vanishes in the middle of the day on a busy street in the centre of Hastings. Boyd and his team are not immediately concerned for her welfare, but as the days pass and questions start to surface about...

With Boyd convalescing at home after his operation, and DS Minter preparing for his Inspector's exam, CID Hastings is woefully under-manned. So, when the body of a young man is found hanging from a tree - an apparent suicide, and a house is burned down killing a wheelchair-bound old woman, it's...

When old bones are discovered buried beside an A-road it becomes clear that Leon Martin - dubbed the Ken Doll Killer by the tabloid press - may not have taken his life 21 years ago. As Boyd investigates the old case file it becomes clear there may be new bodies buried at lay-bys around the...

DS Okeke's boyfriend, Jay Turner, has had a job offer he can't refuse. The money's too good and the task too easy - follow a rich man's wife and catch her in the act of cheating on him. One problem though... the job's over in the US. And there's another problem - there's a murder. Jay has...

Argyle House, the most hated home on Cottle Street. A place where the town's unwanted and despised are housed. Given the local hostility, it's no surprise to anyone when a body is discovered in one of its flats. Boyd wastes no time despatching Minter and Okeke to investigate. But it's not long...

When Jay Turner - a nightclub doorman accidentally overhears a murder being planned he suddenly becomes Hastings' MOST WANTED man! Not only is he wanted by East Sussex Police for a violent crime that he's been framed for, but, by a desperate psychopath with limitless resources who simply can't...

Returning home from a police conference DCI BOYD catches the last train back to Hastings from Brighton, unaware that he's about to play a central role in what will become a sensational news story. But Boyd is reluctant to get caught up in the media hype or have his face plastered across the...

The tide brings everything back DCI Boyd has left London behind for a new life in Hastings. Newly appointed to East Sussex CID, he barely has time to settle in before his first case lands on his desk: a wealthy local businessman and his young wife have vanished in the English Channel. Their...

When a fire destroys a landmark home in Hastings and 'national treasure' Sir Jeffrey Sutton's body is found in the debris, it seems that arson may be to blame. But who would want the old man dead? Could it be his children - both with strong motives? Or his ex-wife? His live-in carer? Or perhaps...

With Boyd starting his phased return to the CID department, DS Samantha Okeke is once again in the driving seat. When Okeke takes a call from a child psychiatrist about one of his patients, a troubled thirteen year old girl, it's a mystery as to whether she has witnessed a monstrous crime or...

The restoration of an old coastal defence tower is halted when work starts on the flooded basement, leading to the grim discovery of a human bone. The Napoleonic-era ruin is known to the locals as 'Devil's Tower' for the many urban myths and ghost stories attributed to it. Far more terrifying is...