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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 coastguard found the boat drifting a few miles off the south coast. What they discovered onboard was the last thing they expected to see. DCI Bill Boyd - recently relocated from London to Hastings - is now with the East Sussex CID and his first case is that of a local business man and his...

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...

Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.....

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of TimeRiders: City of Shadows, Book Six in the TimeRiders series, read by Trevor White. Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026...

Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.… When Maddy finally unlocks fragments of the secret that Becks has been holding on to, the TimeRiders start to piece together their true purpose. Racing through time to connect the clues, the team discovers a Mayan tribe and an ancient relic provides a vital link to the past… and future.

William Boyd er for tiden fungerende kriminalkommisær, og han hader det. Excelark og udgiftsbilag og interne rapporter fylder hans skrivebord, og da seks lig bliver fundet i Argyle House, hvor byens udstødte lever side om side, sætter han Minter og Okeke på sagen, selvom han helst ville tage...

Det gamle bastionstårn på Sussex’ stormomsuste kyst er af de lokale kendt som Djævlens Tårn. Det er omgærdet af vandrehistorier og rygter om en mørk fortid og er bestemt ikke et sted, man frivilligt bevæger sig hen efter mørkets frembrud. I den oversvømmede kælder gør man et grusomt...

William Boyd er endelig sluppet fri af skrivebordet og tilbage, hvor han hører hjemme: midt i en efterforskning. Og da et par lykkejægere på en lagerauktion vinder budrunden om indholdet af et lagerrum, får han sin sag for. Inde i lagerrummet finder de nemlig tre parterede lig, pakket ned i...

Da en tilfældigt forbipasserende finder et skelet på en øde rasteplads nær Hastings, vækker det uhyggelige minder om den berygtede seriemorder, Dukkemorderen, som terroriserede Sydengland for tyve år siden. Dukkemorderen blev dengang formodet død, så er der en copycat på spil, eller er...

Efter en konference bliver vicekriminalkommissær Boyd uforvarende involveret i et voldsomt gidseldrama ombord på sit tog tilbage til Hastings. Efterfølgende har han brug for en velfortjent pause fra både politiarbejdet og mediernes evinde­lige snagen og sendes på orlov. Gidseltagningen...