Ice-cool Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn and fiery reporter Caroline King lock horns once again in this latest intriguing mystery. When the body of a teenage girl is found in a local park, it is assumed she is the latest victim of a serial sex offender who has been plaguing the area. But when it transpires that the dead girl’s best friend is missing, DI Sarah Quinn is drawn into a complex murder investigation where nothing is as it seems. With the investigation heading nowhere - not helped by the hostility of the victim’s distraught father, nor by Sarah’s unsympathetic new Chief Superintendent who seems determined to undermine her – a shocking turn of events leads Sarah to question her own judgement. And that’s before she encounters her old foe, calculating journalist Caroline King …

Next of Kin (A Sarah Quinn Mystery, 5)

Literature & Fiction

Carter, Maureen

Genre Fiction

Severn House

A hardhitting Sarah Quinn police procedural Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn and her team are not having a good week. A series of horrifying, vicious street attacks have left the police baffled, with no leads to follow. Random acts of mindless violence? Or is there more to it than that? Meanwhile, a local businessman is threatening to sue the police for wrongful arrest, and Quinn's professional nemesis, journalist Caroline King, is on the case in search of a story. But does Caroline have any idea what she's getting herself into?

Dying Bad (A Sarah Quinn Mystery, 3)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Ice-cool Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn and fiery reporter Caroline King lock horns once again in this latest intriguing mystery. When the body of a teenage girl is found in a local park, it is assumed she is the latest victim of a serial sex offender who has been plaguing the area. But when it transpires that the dead girl’s best friend is missing, DI Sarah Quinn is drawn into a complex murder investigation where nothing is as it seems.With the investigation heading nowhere - not helped by the hostility of the victim’s distraught father, nor by Sarah’s unsympathetic new Chief Superintendent who seems determined to undermine her – a shocking turn of events leads Sarah to question her own judgement. And that’s before she encounters her old foe, calculating journalist Caroline King …

When 16-year-old Caitlin Reynolds fails to return home from school, Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn soon realizes this is no ordinary missing persons case. How could a schoolgirl vanish in broad daylight with no witnesses? Why is Caitlin's mother so unhelpful and hostile to the police? Then the note arrives, referring to a crime committed more than fifty years earlier - and it becomes clear that someone is playing a childish - but all too deadly - game with the police. To make matters worse, journalist Caroline King has got hold of the story - and Sarah Quinn's troubles are only just beginning.

Child's Play (A Sarah Quinn Mystery, 4)

First in the thrilling new Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn series - When a baby is snatched from outside a Birmingham newsagent’s, ‘Ice Queen’ DI Sarah Quinn and feisty TV reporter Caroline King clash head-on in the desperate search to find her. Quinn’s cool investigative methods contrast with those of the fiery King, who’ll stop at nothing in pursuit of a good story. But as the investigation stonewalls, it soon becomes clear that the two enemies will have to work together if the police are to have any chance of success . . .

Question of Despair (A Sarah Quinn Mystery, 1)

Second in the Sergeant Bev Morriss series, Bev follows her hunch that the violent murder of an elderly doctor is more than it appears.

Dead Old

Crème de la Crime

Bev Morriss' life is in a bit of disarray.... When, due to her own outspoken nature, she is taken off a high-profile rape case and reassigned to a seemingly pointless baby kidnapping, Bev's mood plummets even lower. Soon she is fighting not just to save a missing child but also to salvage her own career. Carter writes like a longtime veteran, with snappy patter and stark narrative, and her series should appeal.""-Booklist

Baby Love

Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is having a hard time. Struggling with the aftermath of a vicious attack, she can scarcely trust her own judgment. Her lover is moving on, the guv is losing patience, and her new partner has the empathy of a house brick. Then another police officer dies and a ransom note arrives. And hard doesn't begin to cover it. The fourth gritty police procedural in the acclaimed series which began with Working Girls. ""Birmingham Sergeant Bev Morris juggles a complicated personal life, the murder of a police officer, and a mysterious ransom note in the fourth in the series.""-Library Journal ""Bev Morriss, the outwardly tough-as-nails British police detective who's wracked by inner turmoil, returns in another hard-eged thriller.... As usual, Carter writes with a bluntness that perfectly suits the material, and Morriss, who is still trying to come to terms with an incident that nearly destroyed her, is a multilayered, completely sympathetic, and engaging protagonist - not unlike Maureen O'Donnell in Denise Mina's Garnethill trilogy.""-Booklist.

Hard Time

A killer's targeting Birmingham's pedophiles: a big story, and ace crime reporter Matt Snow's always there first - ahead of the pack and the police. Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss has crossed words with Snow countless times. Though his hang-'em-and-flog-'em views are notorious, Bev still sees him as journo, not psycho. But a case against the newsman builds. Maybe Snow's sword is mightier than his pen? Fourth in Carter's acclaimed gritty, witty police procedural series. ""Carter penetrates beneath the detective's tough exterior to reveal some of her inner fears and self-doubts.""-Booklist

Bad Press

Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is in a very dark place, as personal tragedy pushes her close to self-destruction. Both colleagues and friends have started to give her a wide berth. Although battling her demons, Bev is still a cop, and there are villains to battle as well. Enter the Sandman, a vicious serial burglar who wears a clown mask and plays mind-games with his victims. As the violence spirals into abduction, blackmail and murder, the bad guys soon discover Bev is in no mood to play. ""Carter's well-crafted sixth mystery set in Birmingham.... A stong narrative voice and easy to understand slang make this more accessible to U.S. readers than a lot of contemporary British police novels.""-Publishers Weekly ""No shrinking violet is our Bev. The detection and characterization are also very good.""-Deadly Pleasures ""What a dazzling complex plot this is and the patter is a scream.""-I Love a Mystery

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Next of Kin (A Sarah Quinn Mystery, 5)

Dying Bad (A Sarah Quinn Mystery, 3)

Next of Kin (A Sarah Quinn Mystery, 5)

Child's Play (A Sarah Quinn Mystery, 4)

Question of Despair (A Sarah Quinn Mystery, 1)

Dead Old

Baby Love

Hard Time

Bad Press

Blood Money