Matt Brolly

An ancient legend reborn. A killer recreating dark rituals. And a detective racing to break the circle before it’s complete. When the body of a teenage girl is found posed in the Merry Maidens stone circle, her face coated in clay and ochre, DS Liam Kilshaw is drawn into a case where...

A body on the beach. A myth come to life. And a killer who won’t stop… When a mutilated body washes up on Sennen Beach, DS Liam Kilshaw is plunged into a case as dark and unforgiving as the Cornish winter. With the victim’s face so severely disfigured that identification is impossible...

For the first time, 4 of the DCI Michael Lambert titles collected in one volume: DEAD EMBERS, DEAD TIME, DEAD END, AND DEAD WATER.

An Amazon Charts bestseller. In a small town full of secrets, everyone’s a suspect. When a body is discovered, bled dry on a beach, the sleepy seaside town of Weston-super-Mare wakes up to a nightmare. For Detective Inspector Louise Blackwell, recently transferred to the town she last saw as a...

Once you cross the wrong lines, there’s no turning back. For DS Liam Kilshaw, a former marine who almost died on a mission gone wrong, returning to the sea was meant to help combat his PTSD. But when he’s called out with the lifeboat crew off the rugged Cornish coast at night, the dark...

The gripping crime thriller from the number one best seller. An explosive fire. A double murder. And that’s just the start. When DCI Michael Lambert is called out to an apparent house fire, he knows it can’t be routine. Instead he finds the remains of a burnt house....

Accident? Dangerous game gone wrong? Or murder? DI Blackwell faces her toughest case yet....

As the Summer Solstice nears, who will be the next target? A dark thriller from the bestselling author of the DI Louise Blackwell series. In a cave near Weston, potholers discover what they think are human remains. The bones are identified as belonging to Hugo Latchford, a boy who went missing a...

DI Blackwell will do anything to keep her niece safe. And the bomber knows it....

When a homeless veteran is found brutally murdered on the cold streets of London, DCI Michael Lambert is dragged into a labyrinth of conspiracy, revenge, and racial hatred that threatens to tear the city apart.

In the quiet coastal town of Weston-super-Mare, a body is discovered at the foot of a cliff just months after a near-identical tragedy - and Detective Inspector Louise Blackwell can't believe it could be a coincidence....

Brutal attacks. A sinister conspiracy. Time is running out. In the quiet seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, a man is found unconscious on the beach with a strange symbol carved into his skin. The victim - a local drug addict - has no recollection of who attacked him or how he got there. The...

A chilling attack. A missing child. And a twisted killer driven to the very brink. DI Louise Blackwell is still reeling from her brother Paul's murder when she is brought back from enforced leave and tasked with solving a strange new case - the slaughter of wild sheep at Cheddar Gorge, a place...

A fast-paced crime-thriller, full of chilling twists, turns and grisly surprises, Matt Brolly’s Dead Lucky will have you gripped from beginning to end! DCI Michael Lambert is back… When a woman is murdered, the twisted killer forcing her husband to watch her slow and painful death, DCI...

It is six years since special agent Samuel Lynch left the FBI following the disappearance of his son, Daniel. Lynch believes an underground organisation known as The Railroad is responsible and has never stopped searching....

A man is found electrocuted in his bath, an apparent suicide attempt. However, attached to the body is a handwritten note: All it says is "DCI Lambert". Lambert, shaken by past and present, is put on notice when a major prisoner escapes. Lambert will be pushed to his very limits….

Gritty, complex and effortlessly chilling, Brolly’s Dead Eyed is a grisly crime thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. DCI Michael Lambert thought he’d closed his last case… Yet when he’s passed a file detailing a particularly gruesome murder, Michael knows that this is no...

From the bestselling author of the Detective Louise Blackwell series comes a story of two murders, twenty years apart. There’s only one suspect. But what if he’s innocent? Twenty years ago, in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas, Annie Randall took her dog for a walk. The dog returned...

Four cities, four killers, four murders. The Alliance is just getting started....

A fast-paced crime-thriller, full of chilling twists, turns and grisly surprises, Matt Brolly's Dead Water will have you gripped from beginning to end! Twenty-Five years ago Joseph Wyatt was convicted for the drowning of two university students.