JUDITH CUTLER

AGENT: REBECCA WATSON

PRODUCER:

THE DETECTIVE
Introducing Birmingham Detective Sergeant Kate Power, exiled from London's Metropolitan Police by personal tragedy and making a new start in the distant outpost of Birmingham CID. Many of her new colleagues are good men but some won’t leave their new female colleague alone long enough to get on with her job. Kate is anxious to lose herself in her work, and before too long a case comes along that will consume her in a way she could never have imagined.

THE CASE
Boys are being abducted, abused, and murdered on her patch, and Kate feels intense personal and professional pressure to catch those responsible. Are her colleagues being deliberately obstructive or simply dragging their feet? Who is behind the vile crimes?

SHE WON’T LET THE BULLIES STOP HER. KATE WILL RISK HER CAREER AND HER LIFE TO BRING JUSTICE TO THE VICTIMS.

Set in the late 90s in England’s second city, this is the first in a series of compulsively readable crime thrillers.

The first in the Kate Power series. It is followed by:
Murder by the Canal
Murder by Arson
Murder by Fraud
Murder in Devon
Murder on the Job

AGENT: REBECCA WATSON

PRODUCER:

An unidentifiable woman is found on a roadside - beaten into a coma and raped. The man who finds her, troubled by his inability to resuscitate her, spends hours at her hospital bedside, talking to the woman everyone calls Elise. Two years later Elise’s condition is downgraded to persistent vegetative state - if the hospital takes her off life support, Elise’s attacker will be guilty of her murder.

Now, months away from retirement, Chief Superintendent Frances Harman has been assigned to investigate Elise’s case. This is stacked on top of Fran’s growing obligation to her elderly parents, a duty that takes her from Kent to Devon, and back, every weekend.

Fran verges on overload as she takes on more and more responsibilities - her parents, Elise, the abduction of a child, the disappearance of her only witness, and the growing affection that she and her long-time colleague Mark Turner seem to share for one another. In a satisfyingly complex story of deadly crime, kidnapping, disappearance, and identity theft, can this warhorse of a detective beat the odds, the stress and the danger that may just be too much for one woman to handle?

The first in the DCS Fran Harman series. It is followed by:
Do No Harm
In Harm's Way
No Harm Done
No Harm, No Foul
Road to Harm

AGENT: REBECCA WATSON

PRODUCER:

Lina Townend, the orphaned natural daughter of somebody, somewhere, has been in care all her life. For the first time, at nineteen, she's pretty happy, living with kind-hearted antique dealer Griff, who combines the roles of grandfather and employer. But there is still something she wants to find her real family, despite Griff's fears that she may uncover things she'd rather not know. When Lina comes across a page from a rare sixteenth century book, "Nature Rerum", which she remembers from early childhood, she snaps up the chance to buy it. She has a vivid memory of being taken as a child to a stately home, where a man she believes must have been her father gave her this book to keep her quiet. If she can locate the book, maybe she can find her father. However, in the weeks that follow, a series of violent burglaries and attacks make Lina realise that what she found might have been more than just a link to her father. Undeterred, she carries on in her dangerous search, but will it lead her to happiness, or bitter disappointment?

The first in the Lina Townend series. It is followed by:
Silver Guilt
Ring of Guilt
Guilty Pleasures
Guilt Trip
Guilt Edged
Guilty as Sin

AGENT: REBECCA WATSON

PRODUCER:

Spring 1810. Young Parson Tobias Campion is excited to be taking over the small Warwickshire parish of Moreton Priory. But his first night in the village brings excitement of the wrong kind when Tobias intervenes in an attempted rape and becomes hero to housemaid Lizzie Woodman. As Tobias settles into life in Morton Priory he finds friendship in the form of Dr. Edmund Hansard and his concern for Lizzie quickly blossoms into something more. But as Jem, Tobias's groom, and local farm boy Matthew compete for Lizzie's attention Tobias resigns himself to the fact that his feeling for the girl will remain unrequited. Soon, however, his mind turns to other matters when the unsettling death of poverty stricken poacher Mr Jenkins, the suspicious demise of local aristocrat Lord Elham and a mysterious attack on Tobias himself make one thing clear; a malign influence is at work in the supposedly sleepy hamlet!

The first in the Tobias Campion trilogy. It is followed by:
Shadow of the Past
Cheating the Hangman

AGENT: REBECCA WATSON

PRODUCER:

Sophie Rivers, English lecturer and amateur singer has a good life and friends to share it with, then suddenly things go badly wrong. One of her students is stabbed to death on the college premises and worse still, her best friend, George, appears to suffer a tragic accident.

The first in the Sophie Rivers series. It is followed by:
Dying to Write
Dying on Principle
Dying for Millions
Dying for Power
Dying to Score
Dying by Degrees
Dying by the Book
Dying in Discord
Dying to Deceive

AGENT: REBECCA WATSON

PRODUCER:

With her abusive ex-husband in prison, Jane Cowan finally has the confidence to accept a new head teacher of the primary school in the Kentish village of Wrayford. But her new life is soon disrupted when a mysterious intruder breaks into her school and then later when a child is badly hurt in the playground – only Jane suspects that her fall was not accidental. Are the two incidents connected?
After another child suffers life-threatening injuries, Jane must become the pursuer and not the prey if she is to protect the pupils in her charge. However, when the children and teachers alike begin to act suspiciously and Jane finds that she herself is a target, fears and doubts that she thought were behind her begin to resurface.

The first of the Jane Cowan duology. It is followed by Head Count.