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You're a survivor, aren't you, Matilda? But what's the point in surviving when everyone around you is dead? When DCI Matilda Darke receives a mysterious telephone call, she immediately dismisses the threat. Afterall the Homicide and Major Enquiries team are a regular target for prank calls. But ignoring this warning might soon be the biggest regret of Matilda Darke's life. A lone gunman is on a deadly rampage around Sheffield, leaving a bloody trail...
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A TEAM TORN APART. Nine-months ago DCI Matilda Darke survived, a bullet to the head. The brutal attack claimed dozens of lives, including those, she loved most, and the nightmares still plague, her every waking thought. A MEMORY SHE'D RATHER FORGET. Now, she's ready to get back on the job. But, a new terror awaits. A woman is, found murdered and her wounds look eerily similar, to several cold cases. Desperate to find a lead, DCI Darke and her team,...
3) The Fallen
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'DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine' Elly Griffiths
A short story and prequel featuring DCI Matilda Darke, star of Michael Wood's darkly compelling crime series. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid.
It's Christmas in Sheffield. But not everyone is enjoying the festive season...
A man has been found brutally murdered in his own home. The victim is Iain Kilbride, a once-famous TV star who has faded into obscurity....
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Matilda Darke is back… APRIL 2020: LOCKDOWN DI Brady has been tracing victims of systemic abuse at a local children's home after a high-profile accusation pitched it into the spotlight – a case that couldn't be more personal. As Matilda and her team piece together the disturbing picture of the history of the home, it soon becomes clear that this is much bigger than they ever suspected. But nothing prepares them for what they uncover next… The...
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A young boy walks into a police station in France. He claims to be Carl Meagan — a missing child from Sheffield whose name is still whispered as a warning to kids who stay out after dark. Some children won't be found.
On her way home from the supermarket, nine-year-old Keeley Armitage vanishes without trace. Her family is overcome with shock and DCI Matilda Darke can't help but focus on memories of the Carl Meagan case that almost ruined her career....
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Two murders. Twenty years. Now the killer is back for more... DCI Matilda Darke has returned to work after a nine month absence. A shadow of her former self, she is tasked with re-opening a cold case: the terrifyingly brutal murders of Miranda and Stefan Harkness. The only witness was their eleven-year-old son, Jonathan, who was too deeply traumatized to speak a word. Then a dead body is discovered, and the investigation leads back to Matilda's case....
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The second book in Michael Wood's darkly compelling new crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid. When elderly George Rainsford goes to investigate a suspicious noise one night, the last thing he expects to find is a bloodbath. A man has been killed and a woman brutally beaten, left for dead. The victims are Lois Craven and Kevin Hardaker - both married, but not to each other....
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Your life is in his hands. In the gripping new serial killer thriller from Michael Wood, Matilda Darke faces a vicious killer pursuing his own brand of lethal justice. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons and Helen Fields. There's a killer in your house.
The Hangman waits in the darkness. He knows your darkest secrets.
He'll make you pay for all the crimes you have tried desperately to forget. And he is closer than you think.
DCI Matilda Darke is...
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They were the perfect family. It was the perfect crime. The new gripping DCI Matilda Darke crime thriller about the dark secrets that lie within a perfect family. For fans of Patricia Gibney and Angela Marsons. It's the most disturbing crime scene DCI Matilda Darke has ever seen... The morning after a wedding reception at a beautiful suburban home in Sheffield, the bride's entire family are stabbed to death - in a frenzied attack more violent than...
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The third book in Michael Wood's darkly compelling crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Peter James, Lee Child and Karin Slaughter.
Eight killers. One house. And the almost perfect murder...
Starling House is home to some of the nation's deadliest teenagers, still too young for prison.
When the latest arrival is found brutally murdered, DCI Matilda Darke and her team investigate, and discover a prison manager falling apart...
11) Below Ground
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A MISSING DETECTIVE
DCI Matilda Darke has been kidnapped and her nemesis, Steve Harrison appears to be behind it. He’s currently residing in the supermax of Wakefield Prison and spends twenty-three hours a day in his cell, so how could he possibly be responsible?
A SERIAL KILLER WITH A VENGEANCE
As Matilda’s team race to find her, they’re alerted to a body found in an abandoned car on the outskirts of Sheffield. With forensics scouring the...
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Certified strength and conditioning specialist Michael Wood offers readers an inside look at how he trains his private clients using a unique step-by-step approach that follows the same nutrition and exercise strategies that have made him a nationally recognized expert in the field.The TBC30 plan gives readers a game plan while teaching the same science-based approach that has worked for Michael and his clients for more than 30-years. His 6 step plan...
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A MISSING TEENAGER
When Sharon Mackintosh allows her teenage daughter to pick up a friend late one evening, she doesn't expect to find the police on her doorstep the next morning. The body of a young woman has been found in the boot of a car and the police think it's her daughter.
AN ABANDONED CAR
DCI Matilda Darke and her team are called in to investigate the murder. The body has been left in such a peaceful way, she could almost be sleeping,...
14) On Empson
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Michael Wood is professor emeritus of comparative literature at Princeton University and the author of many books, including Yeats and Violence, Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction (Princeton). He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He lives in Princeton.
From one of today's most distinguished critics, a beautifully written exploration...
15) Done And Dusted
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When Arthur Bold returned from his wife's funeral he celebrated his new found freedom by exorcising the demons of his marriage by making best use (in his own eyes) of what remained. Only thing was, all that remained didn't want to go. It didn't want to go at all.
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The nightmare is just beginning...
A short story and prequel featuring DCI Matilda Darke, star of Michael Wood's darkly compelling crime series. Perfect for fans of Angela Marsons and Patricia Gibney.
She invited the killer into her home... The body of a young woman is found in an apartment block in a Sheffield suburb. She was attacked at home, in a sudden moment of violence that sends shockwaves through the community. DCI Matilda Darke has no choice...
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On a cold February afternoon in 1990, seven-year-old Danny Redpath disappeared from his home. Four months later, his body was found in the nearby forest, wrapped in a sheet, and washed clean of all evidence.
Apprehended while attempting to abduct another child, Jonathan Egan-Walsh was charged with the murders of more than a dozen boys. Convicted on all counts, he received life in prison and went unrepentant, still refusing to reveal the whereabouts...
18) Silent Victim
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He took her voiceShe took it back Don't miss the next nerve-shredding instalment in the DCI Matilda Darke Thriller series… A CENSURED DETECTIVE WITH NO LEADS DCI Matilda Darke and her team have been restricted under special measures after a series of calamitous scandals nearly brought down the South Yorkshire police force. A BRUTAL ATTACK WITH NO WITNESSES Now Matilda is on the trail of another murderer, an expert in avoiding detection with no obvious...
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A CENSURED DETECTIVE WITH NO LEADS DCI Matilda Darke and her team have been restricted under special measures after a series of calamitous scandals nearly brought down the South Yorkshire police force. A BRUTAL ATTACK WITH NO WITNESSES Now Matilda is on the trail of another murderer, an expert in avoiding detection with no obvious motive but one obvious method. A DEPRAVED KILLER WHO LEAVES NO TRACES When his latest victim survives the attack despite...
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