Rachel Lynch
1) Lost Cause
One icy cold morning, the butchered remains of a woman are discovered stuffed into a bin. DI Kelly Porter knows this is the work of a deranged and dedicated killer. One who has struck before – and will again.
Kevin Flint is an odd young man. He explores the hidden corners of the Lake District, and likes to creep around and watch. Dark, depraved things excite him. But will
...2) The Rift
Working for the Royal Military Police, Major Helen Scott is used to rapid change. On a posting to Paris she oversees security for a NATO summit in the city, yet has barely begun before her presence is demanded at Interpol headquarters in Lyon.
Helen's orders are to locate a kidnapping victim – the eldest son of oil magnate Khalil Dalmani. The main suspect is Fawaz bin Nabil, whose fortune has
...3) Blood Rites
A young woman is found naked, cold and alone at an ancient stone circle but refuses to tell DI Kelly Porter her identity. Before Kelly can find a lead, their Jane Doe flees the hospital and disappears.
Soon after, Kelly is called to a brutal crime scene where a local woman has been stabbed in a frenzied but organised attack. Birds and animals were burned at the property
...4) Bold Lies
When a badly decomposing body is found by Derwent Water, it doesn't take DI Kelly Porter long to link this professional hit job with the deaths of two scientists in London, who worked with the victim. Their secret lab has been emptied and wiped down; their bodies staged to look like an act of passionate revenge.
Investigating these cases takes Kelly back to
...5) Bitter Edge
When a teenage girl throws herself off a cliff, DI Kelly Porter is left asking why. A once champion runner, Jenna Fraser had the world at her feet until she spiralled into drug use. It's a closed case but as charges are brought against a teacher at Jenna's school for assaulting a pupil, Kelly and her team uncover an even darker story. One which will bring Kelly face-to-face with an old enemy determined
...6) Dark Game
After a scandal forces DI Kelly Porter out of the Met, she returns home to the Lake District. There she begins work on a shocking cold case – the abduction and brutal murder of ten-year-old Lottie Davis. The girl was taken during a birdwatching trip when her parents were distracted for just a few minutes. Was it an opportunist crime or a cold-blooded plan by someone who'd been watching and waiting?
Meanwhile,
...7) Sudden Death
When a helicopter loses controls over the Lake District, the crash comes tragically close to a fell running competition. Runners and bystanders are caught in the devastation.
DI Kelly Porter attempts to coordinate the rescue efforts. Three of the passengers are dead, and the fourth is badly injured. When it emerges that the survivor is none other than the Lord Donald Reilly,
...8) Dead End
When the elderly Earl of Lowesdale is found hanging from the rafters at Wasdale Hall, it's assumed he ended his own life. But the coroner finds signs of foul play and DI Kelly Porter unpicks a tangled story of privilege and deceit.
Meanwhile, two young female hikers go missing around the Lakes and an urgent search begins. As links appear to other unsolved disappearances, Kelly and her team are in a
...An extreme drought hits the Lake District, uncovering a skeleton at the bottom of Thirlmere reservoir. Forensics identify that the body, a young man, must have entered the water with his arms tied behind his back: this was no accidental death. The case quickly becomes personal for DI Kelly Porter when she discovers it's the remains of an old classmate, missing for over twenty years.
A day later, another body
...10) Deep Fear
On a peaceful summer's morning in the Lake District, a woman's body is discovered outside a church. Left naked and exposed to the elements, her fingertips have been removed and her mouth stuffed with soil. A methodical but unhinged killer has arranged symbolic clues in the most brutal ways.
DI Kelly Porter must decode this motive and bring the perpetrator to justice. But as
...11) Little Doubt
When wealthy housewife Ella Watson is brutally stabbed to death in broad daylight it sends shockwaves through the Lake District community. Later that day, Keira Bradley meets the same fate but on the notoriously rough Beacon Estate.
DI Kelly Porter must run two simultaneous investigations, hampered by a boss always protecting his reputation and a housing estate where fear rules and no
...12) The Line
On a sunny morning, when the Mediterranean is dead calm, Captain Paul Thomas embarks on a dive to the wreck of the Zenobia, off the coast of Larnaca, Cyprus. Within hours, he has taken his final, gasping breath in an accident below the surface. A new Royal Military Police liaison is required to pick up on his work, and Major Helen Scott gets the assignment.
It turns
...13) Lying Ways
When two former inmates of Highton prison turn up dead, DI Kelly Porter is tasked with finding out why. As Kelly digs into their life behind bars she finds more questions than answers. A tangled web of corruption and deceit emerges within the prison walls.
As Kelly gets closer to exposing the relationships between the officers and their wards, a full scale prison riot explodes – with
...14) Shared Remains
A broken and bloodied body is found dumped at the bottom of a quarry in Cumbria. There are markers of a suicide at the scene but forensic examinations prove it was all an elaborate staging. DI Kelly Porter soon digs up a bitter history between the two brothers who own the farmland the quarry sits on: Arthur and Samuel inherited half each and have been locked in a
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