Old Ned Jones chokes on his food - or so his shocked family assume when they find him dead. Detective Inspector McKenna, his day soured by the loss of a promotion, is only interested in the extraordinary house of women Ned inhabited. But McKenna's colleague at the lab believes Ned was murdered.

The House of Women

Taylor, Alison G.

Literature & Fiction

Arrow

When a man is accused of murdering his wife, he is sent to prison for life, only to have his sentence quashed two years later when his alibi evidence is confirmed. Now Superintendent Michael McKenna must investigate whether his police officers deliberately suppressed vital evidence. From the author of THE HOUSE OF WOMEN.

Unsafe Convictions

Surrounded by dense, dark woodland, The Hermitage is an exclusive girls’ school. One summer’s night, Sukie Melville vanishes from her room into the woods and her body is found the next day. Superintendent Michael McKenna and his team move in to investigate the death and uncovers a dark and dangerous ethos underpinning the school. Nothing in that hotbed of passionate, brooding resentments is what it seems, and no one can be trusted….

Child's Play

Genre Fiction

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Physical description; 377 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Boarding schools - Wales - Fiction. Murder - Investigation - Fiction. Detectives - Wales - Fiction.

Simeon's Bride

<p>When a woman's skeleton turns up in the small Welsh hamlet of Gallows Cottage, a group of three very different policemen uncovers a two-hundred-year-old conspiracy of silence haunting the guilty and innocent alike. Original.</p>

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Bantam]

In Guilty Night

On a freezing November night, 14-year-old Arwel Thomas, turns up dead in a railway tunnel outside Bangor, an apparent victim of sexual abuse and a runaway from the local children's home.DCI Michael McKenna and his colleagues are slowly drawn in to the web of relationships and power struggles surrounding Arwel and his peers in the claustrophobic world of childcare institution, where nothing and no one can be taken at face value and ethical structures bow to expediency and greed. A world in which they find Elias ab Elis and his wife, blessed with worldly wealth, lurking in the shadows, cursed and impoverished by their own dark tragedies.In this dark world McKenna finds families existing in a twilight of ignorance and stupidity and children consigned to the scrap-heap of life. Forced to confront his own frailties through his investigations, McKenna must probe the underbelly of this seamy culture in order to get at the truth, however destructive it may be.

Crimeline

<p>When Ned Jones is found dead in his home, Detective Inspector Michael McKenna investigates the women who surrounded Ned in order to unravel a story of greed, deceit, and twisted loyalties that point to murder. Reprint.</p>

On a freezing November night, 14-year-old Arwel Thomas, turns up dead in a railway tunnel outside Bangor, an apparent victim of sexual abuse and a runaway from the local children's home.DCI Michael McKenna and his colleagues are slowly drawn in to the web of relationships and power struggles surrounding Arwel and his peers in the claustrophobic world of childcare institution, where nothing and no one can be taken at face value and ethical structures bow to expediency and greed. A world in which they find Elias ab Elis and his wife, blessed with worldly wealth, lurking in the shadows, cursed and impoverished by their own dark tragedies.In this dark world McKenna finds families existing in a twilight of ignorance and stupidity and children consigned to the scrap-heap of life. Forced to confront his own frailties through his investigations, McKenna must probe the underbelly of this seamy culture in order to get at the truth, however destructive it may be.From the Paperback edition.

Contemporary

House of Women, The

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The House of Women

Unsafe Convictions

Child's Play

Unsafe Convictions

Child's Play

Simeon's Bride

In Guilty Night

The House of Women

In Guilty Night

House of Women, The