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A crowded playground is bursting with excited toddlers, their parents and grandparents. Four-year-old Candice disappears. How? Was she abducted? Did she wander off? Where is she? Joanna Best moves from Homicide to Serious Crime and finding little Candy consumes the city.Jo's secretive criminal life involves helping a young woman, the victim of revenge porn. A brute is on the warpath looking for Joe Best. Who? Candy's parents are at breaking point. They must be handled with sensitivity. At their home, Jo starts a brawl and is arrested. Can she ever stay out of trouble? And can she handle not one but three suitors? Candy isn't found and Homicide take over the case until Best saves her best for last.

The Code of Monte ChristoJoanna Best is a brilliant homicide cop and a damn good criminal. She clashes with senior police and dangerous villains. But Jo isn't a criminal by choice. The only way to fix a family crisis is to break the law, and as she consorts with crims, she tries to solve a double homicide where her colleagues may have arrested the wrong guy. Juggling two jobs is deadly as her partner in crime and her Homicide boss both plan to knife her. So when a maniac tortures her family, Jo panics. Can she find a double homicide murderer? Is her career over? Will a loved family member be killed? And what on Earth is the Code of Monte Christo?

Some people ask to be murdered, like the journalist who researched a VIP paedophile ring. To kill the story you kill the writer. Someone did. Homicide detective Joanna Best has suspects galore but her favourite gets murdered. Now Jo Best is both a brilliant cop and a bloody good crim. She and a friend set up a scam to retrieve a small fortune pinched by two gangsters - the Brothers Crimm. Life gets interesting. The crims kidnap and torture, the top cop sets up a sting, and Jo's father gets arrested. Life wasn't meant to be easy. Whodunit with the two murders and what will Jo lose first-her career, a limb or her life?

Serial killers only stop when they’re stopped. Homicide can’t catch the killer because they don’t know who he, she or they are. The deaths seem unrelated—a woman drowned, a judge crushed, a teacher bashed and an equestrian strangled. Why these victims? They’re normal like you and me. Why murder the good guys? A radio shock-jock with verbal diarrhea is struck dumb. A murderer confesses to the broadcaster and the cases are all over the media. Jo Best is back in Homicide with more boyfriends than stiffs. One lover turns nasty and Jo is shafted. A car crash and missing pet bring heartache. Enter IT whiz, Michael Chan. Jo and Michael head to church for a baptism of fire. Can you spot the killers before Jo? And will she accept that Parisian invitation? 

She’s the youngest and smartest Homicide detective in town. So when a crooked builder is found with a chisel in his chest, and a 22 year-old cold-case cries out to be solved, Jo Best is keen—until she gets a phone call from France. Why would Jo and her crime-busting buddy, computer-whiz Michael, take off for Paris? Dealing with a French drug baron, corrupt cops, human trafficking, the English aristocracy, narrowboats and a priest hole is just for starters. There’s a lunatic suicide bomber on the loose, and back home, Dad’s Army has pitched camp at Victoria Police. And what the heck is happening with Jo’s romantic entanglements? Has Charlotte Bronte got there first? All this and more in the biggest Joanna Best mystery ever—Book 5 in the series.