DCI SEAN BRACKEN
A killer on the loose. A killer behind bars. And a detective caught between them...
DCI Sean Bracken transfers back to Edinburgh from Fife, where he left to go and work after his divorce. He wants to be closer to his adult daughter, and takes the chance when he’s offered the lead of an MIT. Thrown in at the deep end, he is hunting a killer who emulates a serial killer who is in a psychiatric hospital. Bracken knows her from the past. He helped put her away. Now he needs her help to track down somebody who is far more deadly than she was.
“Starvation Lake” is the first book in the Bracken series.
OVER KILL
Book 05
Published: 31-Dec-2021
She played with fire. Then she got burned.
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She played with fire. Then she got burned.
DCI Sean Bracken is about to buy a house, his ex-wife is talking about getting married and his father drops a bombshell. He has very little time to get involved with solving a murder, but that's what is thrown into his lap.
A young woman found beaten and burned in an old building will be taking up Bracken's every waking minute. He has seen victims like this before, battered almost beyond recognition, a crime that is more than personal.
With the crime taking priority, it leaves time for little else and takes Bracken into a world he knew existed but hadn't navigated before.
Along with his team, Bracken will need to tread carefully. There's a killer watching his every move, somebody very clever, and very deadly...
LIFE EXTINCT
Book 04
Published: 31-Aug-2021
Doctor Angela Monroe is found dead at the foot of Salisbury Crags.
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Doctor Angela Monroe is found dead at the foot of Salisbury Crags on Arthur's Seat. An avid runner, it first appears that she fell to her death.
Until the pathologist deems it murder.
It's the night of the summer solstice and people have been celebrating on the famous dormant volcano.
DCI Sean Bracken and his team are called in to lead the investigation.
Monroe was a well-respected professor, lecturing at a local university, who had no known enemies and was a private person who kept to herself.
Was this a random attack? As they dig deeper into her background, nothing makes sense. But somebody wanted her dead, and when the killer strikes again, it takes the team into a whole new direction.
Meantime, Bracken's girlfriend is being stalked...by a dead man. Logic says it can't be him, but who would want to harm her? She enlists the help of Bracken, who knows all too well that dead men don't stalk...
CROSSING OVER
Book 03
Published: 30-May-2021
Her death made to look like an accident.
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A woman is found dead, brutally murdered, her death made to look like an accident.DCI Sean Bracken is called in and discovers that the young woman has a very powerful father. Was somebody trying to get back at him or has the woman's secrets finally caught up with her?
Bracken also has to deal with the mysterious arson attack on his boss's house. And a name from the past resurfaces, a name that Bracken thought was dead and buried.
He is walking a tightrope with these cases and not everybody wants him to succeed. But he's never backed down from a challenge in his life, and this is no different.
With his hands full, Bracken is getting pulled in different directions. But he's more than capable of dealing with a problem head on. As somebody is about to find out...
THINK TWICE
Book 02
Published: 20-Feb-2021
Bracken has played these games before, and one of them has to lose.
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As the end of the year draws to a close, Detective Chief Inspector Sean Bracken is called to a murder scene near the Writer's Museum. The body of a woman is sitting on a bench in the square, her frozen hand holding a paperback.
The book is by famous American professor of psychology and crime writer, Edwin Hawk. Who has just ended a book tour, culminating in Edinburgh.
Hawk doesn't know her and thinks she may be just a fan of his.
Knowing he is the number one suspect, he sets out to convince Bracken of his innocence. But Bracken has dealt with people like Hawk before. Is the man telling the truth or using psychology to get away with murder?
Bracken discovers the real reason the professor is still in Edinburgh, and it's not for Hogmanay. And when he discovers the secrets he's been keeping, not only could his own life be in danger, but those around him.
Bracken will have to deal with not only a vicious killer but somebody who doesn't like to lose. But Bracken has played these games before, and one of them has to lose.
And for the loser, life will never be the same again.
STARVATION LAKE
Book 01
Published: 30-Nov-2020
Nobody sees the outcome. Until it's too late.
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A killer on the loose.
A killer behind bars.
And a detective caught between them...Ailsa Connolly was a brilliant psychologist and a respected criminologist.
She was also a serial killer.
Six years ago, DCI Sean Bracken caught her just before he was about to become her seventh victim. Every year on the anniversary of her incarceration, she taunts him with a phone call, giving him one message; when I get out, I'll kill you.
Now, Bracken has transferred back to Edinburgh from Fife and is thrown into the deep end on his first day back on duty.
There's a killer who is emulating Ailsa, threatening to surpass her body count.
Bracken knows he needs her on board to help him track the killer down, but she's reluctant to get involved.
Then the case takes an unexpected twist, and she agrees to help. But this new killer is taking them down a dark, twisted path, where nobody sees the outcome.
Until it's too late.