The Scottish Murder
Book 9 of the DCI Steve Burt series.
Two killings 500 miles apart seem to be unconnected. A girl’s body discovered in a doorway in London cannot surely be connected to another body discovered in Dundee. When the Scottish body vanishes from the mortuary Police Scotland wash their hands of the investigation. As the murdered girl found in Scotland had recently travelled from London DCI Steve Burt is given both cases . During the investigation the team have to battle political greed, a ruthless killer and major corruption as they unearths a devious plan that would give the UK complete world domination and make a government minister very rich. However in order to protect his expected wealth the minister must eliminate anyone who gets in the way. Steve and his team have to deal with a succession of apparently unrelated murders before the two cases finally come together.
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The Norwich Murders
Book 6 of the DCI Steve Burt series.
Two police officers are savagely beaten to death in East Anglia and DCI Burt is sent to Norfolk to work with Norwich police to assist with their investigations. When the headless body of young woman is found washed up in the Thames, the Special Resolutions team soon find they have another challenging mystery to solve, this time with connections to La Cosa Nostra and modern-day drug running and prostitution rings in the UK and Europe. What are the connections between the cases? DCI Burt is made an offer he finds difficult to refuse but which would mean a huge upheaval in his domestic situation. What will he do about that?
The Abduction
Book 7 of the DCI Steve Burt series.
A soldier retires from the army and is recruited into a mysterious government unit and a young woman is abducted and murdered. These completely separate events become central to DCI Steve Burt´s latest and most devastating case. DCI Steve Burt, whose Special Resolutions Unit is under threat of closure by his new boss, is reluctantly given the abduction case which soon becomes a murder investigation. The abducted girl is the daughter of a high court judge, who is told his daughter will be returned if he finds the defendant in his current trial not guilty, but Steve thinks the man on trial isn’t important enough to have a judge’s daughter kidnapped. Something isn’t right, but what? The young woman’s death takes the DCI on a journey involving murder and corruption and the team begin to unearth apparently unrelated events that when put together draw them back to a previous investigation. Meanwhile one of Steve´s officers feels there is a different side to the investigation and decides to follow her own course of action without supervision with disastrous consequences.
The Revenge
Book 8 of the DCI Steve Burt series.
DCI Steve Burt and his team have been asked to determine whether a serving RAF officer is a spy. If he is, then a kill order on him, issued by a clandestine MI5 department, will be enforced. As Steve and his team are grappling with MI5 and their demands, they are given a double murder case that has all the hallmarks of a professional hitman.
A very determined killer is seeking revenge on the four men responsible for his eight years in prison, and the murder of his wife and young son. The killer has put the knowledge he has acquired in prison into practice, and the team can find no clues, no forensics and no witnesses, This proves to be a difficult and frustrating case and DCI Burt has to use all his experience to track down this elusive killer.