Looking For Trouble

Shes a single parent. A private eye. And liking it. Until, that is, Mrs Hobbs turns up asking Sal Kilkenny to find her missing son.Sals search takes her through the Manchester underworld, a wasteland of deprivation and petty theft, of well-heeled organised crime and, ultimately, murder. Would she have taken the job on if she had known what she was getting herself into?

Actually, yes. Sal is on fire with a desire to see justice done and to avenge the death of a young lad whose only crime was knowing too much...

This is the first Sal Kilkenny mystery, serialised on BBC Radio 4s Womans Hour.

Sal Kilkenny Series
Looking For Trouble (Book 1)
Go Not Gently (Book 2)
Dead Wrong (Book 3)
Stone Cold Red Hot (Book 4)
Towers of Silence (Book 5)
Bitter Blue (Book 6)
Missing (Book 7)
Crying Out Loud (Book 8)

Praise for Cath Staincliffe:

A book about courage and compromise, about how sometimes its kinder and braver to lie.Stunning.
Anne Cleeves

Modest, compassionate... a solid ingenious plotter with a sharp eye for domestic detailLiterary Review

Complex and satisfying The Sunday Times

about as good as the British private eye novel gets Time Out

Its always exciting to see a writer get better and better, and Cath Staincliffe is doing just thatVal McDermid

an engrossing readSunday Telegraph