WILLIAM SHAW

The complete Breen & Tozer series in one ebook omnibus: an outcast detective fights crime and corruption in sixties London.-----------------------Rising talent of UK crime fiction Peter JamesA Superb Storyteller Peter MayAstoundingly good Elly GriffithsA Modern crime master Sun--------------------A SONG FROM DEAD LIPSThe RunawayA nameless young woman is found naked and strangled in an alley on Abbey Road.The RejectDS Cathal Breen, an outcast in the Marylebone CID, struggles to make sense of the case.The RookieUntil new recruit WPC Helen Tozer - the first woman to join the team - makes a breakthrough.--------------------A HOUSE OF KNIVES The Black SheepThe wayward son of a rising MP is mutilated and burnt in suspicious circumstances.The Honest DetectiveDS Cathal Breen dodges political embargo and death threats to pursue the case.The Rolling StoneNotorious art dealer Robert Fraser may provide the only clue - if only he will talk.--------------------A BOOK OF SCARSNever forgottenTeenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered on her familys farm. Five years later, her sister Helen will return.Never suspectedAs soon as DS Breen tracks down the original investigating sergeant, the man goes missing. And so does Helen.Never revealedThe only connection between the suspects is the Kenya Emergency - a nightmare that Englishmen prefer to forget.--------------------SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVILLondon 1969: A detective in love. A crime of passion.The devil: She made a profit from rich men. They paid for her youth. She paid with her life.The angel: To investigate the prostitutes murder, DS Cathal Breen isnt scared to question powerful suspects.The fall: But when a mysterious man from MI6 calls, Breen begins to fear hes uncovered a spy scandal.

The newest instalment in the D S Cupidi Series featuring a mysterious body washed up on the Folkstone shoreline and a suspect whose identity is hidden behind a string of intriguing first dates

*A GRIPPING OMNIBUS FEATURING THE NEWEST NOVEL IN THE DS ALEXANDRA CUPIDI SERIES*The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense, intelligence and powerful humanity about fathers and sons, grief and guilt and facing the darkness within...Salt Lane - DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Murder is different here, among the fens and stark beaches...Deadlandbrilliantly captures Kent and its social divisions, its a crime thriller thats as ingeniously unguessable as it is moving and powerful.Graves End confronts the crisis in housing, environmentalism, historic cases of abuse and the protection given to badgers by the law. The Trawlerman shows that deceit can be found in the most unlikely places. The brooding waters of the Kent coastline offer an ominous backdrop for this lively page-turner of corruption, mental health and the complexities of human connection.If youre not a fan yet, why not? VAL MCDERMID

In the first three novels of the Breen & Tozer Investigations, an outcast detective fights crime and corruption in sixties London.An outstanding storyteller Peter MayWilliam Shaw grips the reader by the throat from page one, and never lets go IndependentSuperb crime novels . . . combines nostalgic period detail with an emotional intensity found only in the very best crime fiction Sunday TimesA SONG FROM DEAD LIPSThe Runaway: A nameless young woman is found naked and strangled in an alley on Abbey Road.The Reject: DS Cathal Breen, an outcast in the Marylebone CID, struggles to make sense of the case.The Rookie: Until new recruit WPC Helen Tozer - the first woman to join the team - makes a breakthrough.And as hippies slam doors in their face, and locals suspect the new African neighbours, Breen and Tozer tread down a perilous path, closing in on a cruel conspiracy that goes far beyond class, colour and creed.A HOUSE OF KNIVESThe Black Sheep: The wayward son of a rising MP is mutilated and burnt in suspicious circumstances.The Honest Detective: DS Cathal Breen dodges political embargo and death threats to pursue the case.The Rolling Stone: Notorious art dealer Robert Fraser may provide the only clue - if only he will talk.And as Breen slips deeper into Londons underground of hippies and heroin, he edges nearer to the secrets of those at the very top. Banished from a corrupt and fracturing system, he will finally be forced to fight fire with fire.A BOOK OF SCARSNever forgotten: Teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered on her familys farm. Five years later, her sister Helen will return. Never suspected: As soon as DS Breen tracks down the original investigating sergeant, the man goes missing. And so does Helen. Never revealed: The only connection between the suspects is the Kenya Emergency - a nightmare that Englishmen prefer to forget. But others remember. Every bloody detail. And when another woman is taken, Breen fears that history - in all its shame and horror - is coming back to haunt them.

Everyone has had their eye caught by an unusual classified advertisement and wondered about the story behind it. For the past two years William Shaw has investigated the eccentric, sad and occasionally alarming truth behind these ads and written about them for the Observer magazine. This book brings together, in expanded form, the most remarkable of those pieces. In it we encounter, among many others, the mother searching for the death certificate of her dead Bulgarian husband; the young woman investigating the healing power of crop circles; and the angry man, adopted in childhood, who after twenty years searching for his birth father was rejected by him and now wants to form a rock band with other adoptees. Small Ads is a transporting book that satisfies our insatiable curiosity about other peoples lives. It is as surprisingly moving as it is highly entertaining.

*A GRIPPING DUNGENESS TRILOGY STARRING DS ALEXANDRA CUPIDI*The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense, intelligence and powerful humanity about fathers and sons, grief and guilt and facing the darkness within...Salt Lane - DS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Murder is different here, among the fens and stark beaches...Deadlandbrilliantly captures Kent and its social divisions, its a crime thriller thats as ingeniously unguessable as it is moving and powerful. If youre not a fan yet, why not? VAL MCDERMID

Cuando tanta gente te pregunta por las cosas que has logrado, que para ti han sido interesantes (o divertidas) y para otros inalcanzables o imposibles, pero que de alguna manera te trajeron hasta aqui, uno se motiva a contar lo que fue esta experiencia de la vida. He ahi, querido lector, el porque de lanzarme a la aventura de escribir este libro. Un libro que espero te pueda ser util para comenzar tu viaje. Con el que puedas plasmar ideas y desarrollarlas. Quisiera empezar por la importancia de rodearte de las personas que te dicen que puedes hacer las cosas y te ayudan con su motivacion a lograrlo. No se quedan solo en un no por respuesta. Es gracias a ellos que tome el impulso para seguir otra idea loca: la de escribir un libro. Esa es la razon por la que estas leyendo estas palabras, que implicaron mucha dedicacion, tiempo y esfuerzo.

Big treat in store for fans. And if youre not a fan yet, why not? Val McDermidWilliam Shaw is one of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction Peter JamesLondon 1969: A detective in love. A crime of passionThe devil: She made a profit from rich men. They paid for her youth. She paid with her life. The angel: To investigate the prostitutes murder, DS Cathal Breen isnt scared to question powerful suspects. The fall: But when a mysterious man from MI6 calls, Breen begins to fear hes uncovered a spy scandal.And then Breens girlfriend Helen Tozer, with her ex-copper instincts, gets dangerously involved. Right or wrong, Breen knows he has too much to lose. He can have no sympathy for the devil.

GET HIGH. FALL FAR.Big treat in store for fans. And if youre not a fan yet, why not? Val McDermidUtterly nails the myth of the Swinging SixtiesSunThe Black SheepThe wayward son of a rising MP is mutilated and burnt in suspicious circumstances. The Honest DetectiveDS Cathal Breen dodges political embargo and death threats to pursue the case. The Rolling StoneNotorious art dealer Robert Fraser may provide the only clue - if only he will talk.And as Breen slips deeper into Londons underground of hippies and heroin, he edges nearer to the secrets of those at the very top. Banished from a corrupt and fracturing system, he will finally be forced to fight fire with fire.

READERS ARE GRIPPED BY THE FIRST IN THE DS CUPIDI SERIES:Atmospheric & really well written! A great reading experience and a great story to run with, day after day This author is the real deal Excellent SHE ALWAYS WENT TOO FARDS Alexandra Cupidi has done it again. She should have learnt to keep her big mouth shut, after the scandal that sent her packing - resentful teenager in tow - from the London Met to the lonely Kent coastline. Murder is different here, among the fens and stark beaches.SHE WAS THE ONE WHO FOUND THE KILLERSThe man drowned in the slurry pit had been herded there like an animal. He was North African, like many of the fruit pickers that work the fields. The more Cupidi discovers, the more she wants to ask - but these people are suspicious of questions.AND NOW IT WAS KILLING HERIt will take an understanding of this strange place - its old ways and new crimes - to uncover the dark conspiracy behind the murder. Cupidi is not afraid to travel that road. But she should be. She should, by now, have learnt.Salt Lane is the first in the new DS Alexandra Cupidi series. With his trademark characterisation and flair for social commentary, William Shaw has crafted a crime novel for our time that grips you, mind and heart.

FREE LOVE. DEADLY PRICE.Big treat in store for fans. And if youre not a fan yet, why not? Val McDermidA first-rate police thriller set amidst the seamy underside of the swinging sixties C. J. SansomThe RunawayA nameless young woman is found naked and strangled in an alley on Abbey Road.The RejectDS Cathal Breen, an outcast in the Marylebone CID, struggles to make sense of the case.The RookieUntil new recruit WPC Helen Tozer - the first woman to join the team - makes a breakthrough.And as hippies slam doors in their face, and locals suspect the new African neighbours, Breen and Tozer tread down a perilous path, closing in on a cruel conspiracy that goes far beyond class, colour and creed.

A SHOTS MAG BOOK OF THE YEARTHE STUNNING FOURTH BOOK IN THE DS ALEXANDRA CUPIDI INVESTIGATIONS FROM ONE OF CRIME FICTIONS FINEST WRITERSA DOUBLE MURDERThe naked corpses of Aylmer and Mary Younis are discovered in their home. The only clues are a note written in blood and an eerie report of two spectral figures departing the crime scene. Officer Jill Ferriter is charged with investigating the murders while her colleague Alex Cupidi is on leave, recovering from post-traumatic stress.AN ELABORATE SCAMThe dead couple had made investments in a green reforestry scheme in Guatemala, resulting in the loss of all their savings. What is more disturbing is that Cupidi and Ferriters disgraced former colleague and friend Bill South is also on the list of investors and the Youniss were not the only losers.AN UNLIKELY KILLERDespite being in counselling and receiving official warnings to stay away from police work Cupidi finds herself dragged into the case and begins to trawl among the secrets and lies that are held in the fishing community of Folkestone. Desperate to exonerate South she finds herself murderously compromised when personal relationships cloud her judgement.Pacey, intense and riddled with surprising twists, The Trawlerman shows that deceit can be found in the most unlikely places. The brooding waters of the Kent coastline offer an ominous backdrop for this lively page-turner of corruption, mental health and the complexities of human connection.

READERS ARE LOVINGTHE SECOND IN THE DS CUPIDI SERIES:A masterful bit of storytelling . . . get your hand on a copy. Why deprive yourself of such wonderful reading? Absolutely wonderful . . . the writing and pace is pitch perfect Excellent from start to finish An excellently written, breathtaking read, that kept me enthralled until the last page YOU CAN RUNThe two boys never fitted in. Seventeen, the worst age, nothing to do but smoke weed; at least they have each other. The day they speed off on a moped with a stolen mobile, theyre ready to celebrate their luck at last. Until their victim comes looking for whats his - and ready to kill for it.YOU CAN HIDEOn the other side of Kents wealth divide, DS Alexandra Cupidi faces the strangest murder investigation of her career. A severed limb, hidden inside a modern sculpture in Margates Turner Contemporary. No one takes it seriously - not even the artworks owners, celebrity dealers who act like theyre above the law.YOU CAN DIEBut as Cupidis case becomes ever more sinister, as she wrangles with police politics and personal dilemmas, she cant help worrying about those runaway boys. Seventeen, the same age as her own headstrong daughter. Alone, on the marshes, theyre pawns in someone elses game. Two worlds are about to collide.Kent and its social divisions are brilliantly captured in Deadland, a crime thriller thats as ingeniously unguessable as it is moving and powerful.***The bestselling William Shaw returns with another thrilling investigation in the unmissable series***

READERS ARE LOVING THE BIRDWATCHER:An outstanding read An engrossing, character driven and steadily paced police procedural Shaw certainly knows how to tell a tale! Great characters, great plot and a fantastic setting WHAT DRIVES GOOD MEN TO MURDER?Sergeant William South has always avoided investigating murder. A passionate birdwatcher and quiet man, he has few relationships and prefers it that way.But when his only friend is found brutally beaten, Souths detachment is tested. Not only is he bereft - it seems that theres a connection between the suspect and himself.For South has a secret. He knows the kind of rage that killed his friend. He knows the kind of man who could do it. He knows, because Sergeant William South himself is a murderer. Moving from the storm-lashed, bird-wheeling skies of the Kent Coast to the wordless war of the Troubles, The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense, intelligence and powerful humanity about fathers and sons, grief and guilt and facing the darkness within.

READERS ARE LOVING THE THIRD IN THE DS CUPIDI SERIES:A must read Totally hooked Fantastic . . . definitely recommend Another cracking book Great characters, wonderful wildlife and a superb location A BIZARRE DISCOVERYAn unidentified corpse is found in a freezer in the garage of an unoccupied house. DS Alexandra Cupidi is handed a case that is made even colder by no-one seeming to know or care whose body it is.A HISTORIC CRIMEIt becomes clear there is a connection between the crime and a skeleton uncovered underneath a housing development of Trevor Grey, a boy who went missing twenty five years earlier.A BURIED LIFEDigging deep into secrets that have long been concealed brings Cupidi to face a deadly conspiracy to hide these crimes. Her investigation is complicated by a secret liaison, a political cover-up and the underground life of Trevor Greys only friend.With meticulously realised characters and a brooding setting, Graves End confronts the crisis in housing, environmentalism, historic cases of abuse and the protection given to badgers by the law. The third book in the DS Alexandra Cupidi series confirms William Shaw as one of our finest writers of crime fiction.

READERS ARE GRIPPED BY THE WILD SWIMMERS:One hundred percent unputdownable An excellent read If you want a treat, start reading today Yet another gripping A Cupidi mystery. If only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, it would have been her who had discovered the dead woman.Convinced the report of a body on the beach is a false alarm, D S Cupidi darts to Folkstone with her daughter Zoe in toe to scan the area. But this time her instincts are off and it is Zoe who discovers Mimi Greenes body on the shoreline.A regular wild swimmer with her friends, it is perplexing that she would have been out swimming alone, especially in bad weather. Putting aside her daughters traumatised state, D S Cupidi must find the truth behind Mimis death.Meanwhile, Jill Ferriter receives a letter from a man named Stephen Dowles. Convicted of murder in the 90s, hes been in prison for more than twenty years. In the letter he claims to be her father.Jill must lean on Bill South in the absence Cupidi, and finding out that he knew Stephen Dowles from a historic case, Bill sets out to uncover the facts around Dowles conviction, revisiting old colleagues and criminals. The Wild Swimmers is an explosive return to the DI Alexandra Cupidi Series, where the waters of the Folkstone shoreline bring encounters that could never be foreseen..

PEACE IS OUT. REVENGE IS ON.Big treat in store for fans. And if youre not a fan yet, why not? Val McDermidAn emotional intensity found only in the very best crime fictionSunday Times Crime Book of the YearNever forgotten Teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered on her familys farm. Five years later, her sister Helen will return. Never suspectedAs soon as DS Breen tracks down the original investigating sergeant, the man goes missing. And so does Helen. Never revealed The only connection between the suspects is the Kenya Emergency - a nightmare that Englishmen prefer to forget. But others remember. Every bloody detail. And when another woman is taken, Breen fears that history - in all its shame and horror - is coming back to haunt them.

A desperate plea for help leads to a sinister mystery in this gripping new crime novel set in Devon. Crime fiction at its very best, a knotty mystery Elly Griffiths Terrific Perhaps his best yet Ann CleevesA SCORCHING SUMMER Down in the seaside town of Teignmouth, ex-Met detective Eden Driscoll grows restless after a long summer caring for his nine-year-old nephew. A DESPERATE PLEA When a man knocks at Edens door desperate for help, claiming someone is trying to kill him, Eden jumps at the chance to solve a mystery. But before he can ask more questions, the stranger disappears. A DEADLY FIRE The cry for help came too late that same night a house along the coast is burnt to the ground, and a mans remains are discovered among the rubble. In the days after, Edens curiosity only grows. He soon finds himself investigating, and begins to uncover a web of deception, jealousy and corruption.

The first in a brand new series of Devon-set crime thrillers featuring DS Eden Driscoll Crime fiction at its very best, a knotty mystery ELLY GRIFFITHS Terrific Perhaps his best yet ANN CLEEVES The undisputed king of seaside noir VASEEM KHAN A gripping and wonderful thriller NICCI FRENCH Twistier than a cramping snake M. W. CRAVENMy finest crime novel of the year Daily Mail Met detective Eden Driscoll never wanted a child, but when his estranged sister vanishes from her sailboat, he is asked to look after her son Finn the nephew he hadnt even known existed. Resettled in the seaside town of Teignmouth, Eden adjusts to his newfound parenthood. Then Finn disappears from school, and Eden knows something is dreadfully wrong. When Edens sisters body is finally found, floating in the sea, local police rule her death an accident, but Eden isnt convinced. She was an experienced sailor and would never sail without a life jacket. Eden starts searching his sisters life for answers, and what he discovers changes everything. READERS LOVE THE RED SHORE What a captivating story! I was totally enthralled This had me gripped from the very beginning and I was immediately invested I was genuinely engrossed in this book and found it hard to put down. One of Shaws best books Wow. What a start to a series William Shaw is a superb crime writer highly recommended