WARNING: CONTAINS REFERENCES TO INDECENT ACTS AGAINST MINORS. Winter 1990 Why was Alex Carnegie - heir to a corporate fortune - living rough on the streets of Ashbeck when he was murdered? DI Lyle and his team soon discover that Carnegie was the keeper of a dark secret which, if exposed, could topple pillars of Ashbeck society. The suspect's identity is clear early on but there is no definite evidence. As the investigation continues, two more murders challenge the status quo. As Lyle digs deeper, he finds that all is not what it seems but the truth is even darker and more sordid than he could ever have imagined. And who is the traitor in the ranks at Ashbeck CID?

DI Frank Lyle is about to investigate the most emotionally harrowing case of his career to date. He just doesn't realise it yet... 1982 - . A teenage girl's body is discovered on a deserted canal towpath. Lyle struggles to balance work and the demands of his embittered ex-wife, Sarah, but he is getting no closer to finding the killer. Then the wrong man is arrested and dies in custody. 1987 - Lyle is still haunted by his failure to solve the case. Then the victim's father asks him to reinvestigate. A second murder occurs. Working reluctantly with newly promoted DI Simon Ward, Lyle and his team cover old and new ground. But when the killer is finally unmasked can Lyle deal with the shocking truth of his identity?

DI Lyle is about to get a glimpse into the murky world of political activism and hate crime; the murder of a prominent city councillor is just the tip of the iceberg. The city of Ashbeck is on high alert when news breaks that convicted triple murderer and paedophile Bob Kenyon has escaped from custody. Can DI Lyle and his team get to the bottom of this murky mess before another atrocity occurs?

WARNING: This book contains M/M love scenes. The murder of actor David Marlow is no surprise, since the man was uncouth and arrogant; loathed by cast and theatre crew alike. But there are a lot of questions and few answers. Was Marlow somehow connected to a young woman's death from a suspected heroin overdose? Or is the reason for his murder much closer to home? DI Lyle and his team must pull out all the stops to unmask the killer before the greasepaint dries and the curtain rises on the chilling final act.

DI Frank Lyle is about to confront the depths of human depravity and despair. It's autumn 1991 and a horde of Anglican clergy has just descended on Ashbeck for an ecumenical conference at St Luke's church. DI Lyle and his team are called in to investigate when the mutilated body of curate Martin Hayes is found in the churchyard. They are assisted by Canon Thomas Rice, a former police officer, who is able to see both sides. But who was Martin Hayes, and did aspects of his troubled past lead to his brutal demise? As the team get closer to the truth they begin to understand Hayes. But will too much knowledge prove a dangerous thing? This revised edition features a ""taster"" excerpt from the next DI Lyle novel Murder in the Wings.

Three stories featuring DI Lyle & his dedicated team. Cry for help. A badly burnt body is discovered at the scene of a suspected Arson attack. DI Lyle also finds an abandoned baby girl. But who is the child and can her identity help bring them any closer to solving the case? Vanished A young Spanish woman, Paloma Marquez, comes to Ashbeck Police station to report her younger sister, Gabriela, missing.The hunt for the missing girl becomes a race against time as Gabriela is missing vital medication she needs for her well-being. There is also notion that a kidnap gang is once more active. Will DI Lyle and his team find Gabriela in time? A Tangled Web When a young woman starts to receive threatening letters, DI Lyle is drawn into a web of lies, deceit, danger and marital infidelity.But it appears she is not telling the whole truth.Can DI Lyle get to the bottom of the murky lies before someone is seriously harmed - or worse - killed?

It would be advisable to read A Winter Murderland before buying this book. Although he is already emotionally raw from almost dying in the line of duty and having to confront a painful aspect of his past, DS Thomas Fox is soon to be faced with yet another shocking revelation. This time it's personal as it threatens to blow Thomas' life irrevocably apart and change the dynamics of the relationships he has with those he loves forever. As Thomas and his boyfriend, James Lyle, reel from the fallout they are forced to revisit the past where an emotionally devastating blow to Dr Barry Fox and his wife, Sylvia led the future Ashbeck District Coroner to make an irreversible choice This volume also contains New life of hope, the official DI Frank Lyle Christmas story 2014.

On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of jail and dragged him through the streets of Sikeston, Missouri, before burning him alive. Wright's death was, unfortunately, not unique in American history, but what his death meant in the larger context of life in the United States in the twentieth-century is an important and compelling story. After the lynching, the U.S. Justice Department was forced to become involved in civil rights concerns for the first time, provoking a national reaction to violence on the home front at a time when the country was battling for democracy in Europe. Dominic Capeci unravels the tragic story of Wright's life on several stages, showing how these acts of violence were indicative not only of racial tension but the clash of the traditional and the modern brought about by the war. Capeci draws from a wide range of archival sources and personal interviews with the participants and spectators to draw vivid portraits of Wright, his victims, law-enforcement officials, and members of the lynch mob. He places Wright in the larger context of southern racial violence and shows the significance of his death in local, state, and national history during the most important crisis of the twentieth-century.

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.