Andy Maslen

A ritualistic murder. Sacred ground. Powerful enemies. DS Ballantyne’s trials are only just starting. Christopher Piper, Middlehampton Cathedral’s fiery artist in residence, is found crucified at the altar, a bloody message daubed at his feet. DS Kat Ballantyne knows this will be no ordinary...

Detective Ford has a cold-blooded killer to catch. But can he escape his own dark secrets? Barely a month since his promotion to Inspector, DI Ford is called in to investigate the murder of a young nurse and her son in a small flat in Salisbury. There are few clues, and no apparent motive, but...

How do you stop a killer no one believes exists? DS Kat Ballantyne wants to know why a perfect girl like Rosie Duggan would jump to her death from a multistorey car park. Everyone is saying she took her own life. But Kat is unconvinced. Girls like Rosie—bright, popular, well adjusted, and with...

She thought he was gone. She was wrong. Fifteen years ago, a serial killer was on a rampage murdering young women in Middlehampton. Then, suddenly, the killings stopped, and the murderer was never found… So when the body of another young woman is found bearing the twisted killer’s unique...

A famous victim. A locked room. Dark secrets. For DS Ballantyne, murder isn’t black and white. DS Kat Ballantyne came to the crime-writing festival for an escape. Instead she’s walked straight into a murder scene. Moments before he’s due on stage, a famous novelist is found dead in a...

Her career on the line and an innocent woman charged with murder. Can she save them both? As bogus corruption charges loom over her, DS Kat Ballantyne finds herself deskbound and stuck with cold cases. Her hated boss, DI Carver, has given her just one week to explain how £50,000 found its way...

Gabriel Wolfe used to kill for the government. Before that, he served in the SAS. Now someone has taken his sister. Tara Wolfe lives quietly in Paris these days. A long way away from the years she spent running one of Hong Kong’s most ruthless triads. But people like Tara don’t get to...

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For DS Kat Ballantyne, finding the murderer might mean looking closer to home. DS Kat Ballantyne is still reeling from a revelation that turned life as she knew it upside down. But when a dog walker discovers the body of a woman among the standing stones known locally as the Three Sisters...

A country manor. Two murders. Multiple suspects. Can DI Ford solve the case before his own dark past is exposed? After a dog walker discovers human remains in a badger sett in the idyllic Salisbury countryside, DI Ford is called in to lead the ensuing murder investigation. When a second victim...

Detective Inspector Stella Cole was a rising star in London’s Metropolitan Police. Then a hit-and-run driver killed her husband, Richard, a human rights lawyer. Grief drove her to booze and pills. Back at work after a year’s compassionate leave, Stella secretly re-investigates his death and begins to suspect a cover-up....

Detective Inspector Stella Cole has almost completed her bloody quest to avenge the hit-and-run killings of her husband and daughter. Only one member of the legal conspiracy who murdered them remains....

Suicide or murder? DI Ford is sure there’s a killer to catch, but time is running out. A young female soldier is found on Salisbury Plain, her throat cut and a bloody knife in her dead hand. Everyone assumes that she killed herself. But something doesn’t feel right to DI Ford; the whole...

On his latest mission, a stone-cold quest for vengeance, he’s flying solo. He's on administrative suspension after a car crash that almost cost a man his life. That means no backup from his boss, no support if things turn nasty, just him, his wits, and his resolve to see justice done....

The young girl flinches as she’s sewn into a suicide vest A young girl detonates her suicide vest on a crowded London bus. Ex-SAS covert agent Gabriel Wolfe is caught up in the carnage. Rushing to help the bleeding and traumatised victims he sees his own bloodied face reflected in hundreds of...

A journalist’s final words lead Kat Ballantyne into a deadly game of power, corruption and terror. A bomb threat at Middlehampton’s Powerhouse music venue sends DS Kat Ballantyne spiralling into a nightmare—her husband and son are inside. As the city reels in terror, Kat fights to keep her...

Gabriel Wolfe is done with ops. Haunted by the memory of his murdered wife, Eli, and trying to heal, he spends his time at a gym, teaching martial arts to kids. But whether he likes it or not, the call of duty instilled in him as a kid and reinforced by his military commanders has only been quieted.

A troop of paras stumble on an elephant's butchered corpse. A sniper observes a glamorous royal couple on their wedding day. A charismatic ultraleft politician sees his chance to strut on the world stage. What happens next sends ex-SAS member Gabriel Wolfe deep into a web of intrigue....

Who’s blinding RAF test pilots mid-flight? RAF pilots are trialling an experimental performance-enhancing drug. But when one pilot starts hallucinating, then goes blind and crashes his Typhoon, answers are needed. Fast. SAS veteran Gabriel Wolfe discovers that someone is fatally sabotaging the...

"Trigger Point introduces Gabriel Wolfe as a new hero. What a tremendous read. Fast paced, kept me in suspense all of the way through. Could hardly put it down.” Ian Brown SAS combat veteran Gabriel Wolfe is run off the road by a glamorous redhead. She tells him his old CO, Don Webster, wants...