Bøker av A. S. French

Some secrets last a lifetime.Frank Walker caught a serial killer. And it ruined his life. Now, after twenty-five years in London, he's back north, living with the father who never loved him, in a community that distrusts him. Being an ex-copper in the Hills is just as bad as walking through that estate in a blue uniform.When his next-door neighbour disappears at the same time as her husband's murder, all of Frank's experience as a detective can't save him from the suspicions of the police and the fury of the locals. And he's the prime suspect in both crimes.Frank needs to discover who's setting him up by recovering hazy memories from his past and confronting the present out to get him. If he doesn't catch a killer, his only future will be sharing a prison with those he's spent most of his life putting behind bars.

Astrid Snow is a woman of mass distraction.The stare on his face was so hard you could sharpen knives on it. His voice was as thin as the rest of him and seesawed up and down like an out-of-tune violin.'We had enough to hold you for the Cruz murders, with the witnesses, fingerprints at the scene and your passport found on Caitlin with your blood on it. Yet, we were told to let you go. That instruction came from the highest office in the country. So I did a little digging on you.'Astrid grinned. 'I hope you had a big spade.'Astrid wakes up in an American jail accused of a triple homicide. She has little memory of the night but knows she's not a killer - not of the innocent.Calling in a favour from her former boss at the Agency, the British intelligence organisation hidden from the public, Astrid is released and ready to head home to England until guilt about the murders forces her to stay in the small US town.It's a decision she's about to regret as the bodies pile up, and she discovers some locals are still fighting a war against the British.

Astrid Snow is a woman of mass distraction.Astrid was used to people screaming. Like listening to your favourite Bowie song or a snippet of religious chanting, it existed at the back of her head, regardless of where she was. The rhythm would twist and turn, the instrumental howls occasionally dimming for the vocals or tortured words begging for release. She remembered one particular shriek resembling the guitar part in Ziggy Stardust. It was a soothing sound that allowed her to focus as eyes widened and blood dripped to the floor.After a trip across Europe, Astrid is accused of murdering five of her colleagues from the British intelligence organisation hidden from the public.Now her niece is in the sights of the killer. To save both their lives she has to escape from the Agency that imprisoned her.

Astrid Snow is a woman of mass distraction.'Are you a good woman, Ms Snow?'A deep curve on Astrid's lips made the world stop around her. 'Not very.'The beer chilled her throat, the taste reminding Astrid of the time she threw up over the neighbour's cat. Then she smiled at her companion.They appeared to be a loving couple, the way they held hands as the candle flickered next to them. But they were the opposite of in love. The sparkle in his face wasn't because of desire but concentration to stop him from screaming. She'd already damaged one of his fingers as she squeezed again.Astrid Snow is in America to retrieve a child from the rich father who kidnapped her. A seemingly straightforward rescue from New York leads her into small-town USA and the disappearance of a teenager, a girl whose political activism appears to have upset several people, including the local senator.Astrid has to reach into the dark underbelly of America to discover what happened to the girl who reminds her so much of herself while dealing with the consequences of a sister who hates her.

Would you take a life to save your own?A teenage girl is murdered outside the London Dungeon, and DI Jen Flowers assumes it's just another of the city's daily crimes. But when a series of audio tapes with clues to the girl's killer is discovered hidden around London, Jen realises there's more to the crime than another random murder.With the discovery of each new tape, Jen learns about the murdered girl's life and her journey into London's hidden underbelly. Jen is soon drawn into the city's secret world of runaways and underground clubs.Jen struggles to catch the murderer while dealing with issues at home. Her teenage daughter Abbey wants to join a rock band, while a dark shadow from Jen's past hovers on the horizon.For DI Jen Flowers, finding a killer may prove easier than dealing with her family problems.

What would you do if a serial killer started writing to you?A serial killer stalks the streets of London and DI Jen Flowers is the Met's go-to detective for the crimes. But Flowers is already working on a murder case, and the distractions in her personal life leave her little time for a new investigation.When the serial killer starts sending her letters about the crimes and taunting the police, Jen has to take the case. The stakes increase when the British Home Secretary gets involved.Every murder leads to another letter as the killer plays a game with the police and focuses on Jen. The pressure grows to solve the case, and she turns to alcohol and a new romance as a release.As the killer stalks the city and torments the police, DI Flowers resorts to desperate measures to catch a murderer and keep her family together.

Catch a killer or save a child. What would you do?DI Jen Flowers thought she'd seen it all after fifteen years on the force, but when a vigilante serial killer hits the city and uses social media to gather supporters, she must fight the public and her doubts to catch a murderer and save her daughter.Suffering from blackouts and abandoned as a child by her father, Ruby Vasquez has been chasing that one scoop to make her an internet star. Living with an alcoholic mother who hates her, Ruby discovers a secret about the vigilante's first victim, which puts her in the killer and DI Flowers' sights.Jen and Ruby have to overcome the secrets in their past while battling each other to discover the Hashtag Killer's identity. Jen will have to choose between keeping her daughter safe or finding a killer, while Ruby will need to decide if becoming famous is more important than doing the right thing.