The French Collection Series

A three year old boy disappears from his home in England. After weeks of searching with no clues and no demands for money, the police have to give up and the case remains unresolved. Sixteen years later, Florence, the boy’s French mother, is convinced that she has seen her son in the Latin Quarter of Paris. She asks Ken, her former husband, for his help in tracing the young man. But there is more than one elephant in the room that needs to be disposed of before the two can make their peace and work together. Meanwhile, Florence’s brother is doing all he can to remove a large part of her inheritance and it’s going to take some unconventional counter-deception to stop him. Can Ken and Florence resolve their differences and find their son? Can Florence’s brother be stopped before he goes too far? And will that last elephant wreck everybody’s dreams?

In France, since 2013, the authorities will no longer search for adults who have been reported missing by family members. Approximately 15,000 people disappear each year without trace. Tristan Gautier has just become one of them and, when his mother receives a kidnap demand, it has come from someone in the commissariat de police near to the cemetery of Père Lachaise in Paris. Having paid the ransom demand, Tristan is still help captive and the kidnappers make it clear they will kill their hostage unless they are paid even more money. The threat is real and Tristan’s father plans to find where he is being held. But the plan falls apart when shots are fired. The only clues the family have now to Tristan’s whereabouts come from a man who has been dead for 150 years. To discover where Tristan is, they must try to unravel the secrets of the man’s identity from just a handful of cryptic clues. Can Tristan last out that long or will the kidnappers dispose of him first?

When eight-year-old Jasmine Guichard gets lost in the catacombs of Paris, she triggers a sequence of events that she could never have imagined. And many that she will never know about. While she is trapped in the darkness, a contract killer arrives in the city to wreak revenge on a paedophile who made a mockery of the justice system. D.S. Robbie Allen and D.C. Benedict Blewett are dispatched from Liverpool to find the killer before he strikes again. But when D.C. Blewett spots their mark, his senior officer refuses to believe him. Meanwhile, Harry and Tristan are determined to find Jasmine and are helped in their efforts by a young nun who is not at all what she seems. There's more going on behind the closed doors of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Isabelle of France than meets the eye - a lot more. When D.C. Blewett hands the proof of a European counterfeit gang to the French police, he is elevated to celebrity status. When he then alerts the world's media to events at the Daughters of Charity of Saint Isabelle of France, even his disparaging senior officer starts to take note.

A riveting and unforgettable story of murderer and mystery in another runaway thriller by author Graham Hamer. Detective Benedict Blewett has moved to France to be with his fiancée, Nicole Dubourg - a forensic pathologist. So death is never far from their door in this chilling story of murder and suspense. Right from the start, Benedict's new boss, Lieutenant Jérôme Bérenger, makes no secret of his dislike of the English policeman. He presents Benedict with an impossible case – to find out what happened to a man whose rotting corpse has no finger tips, no face, and whose insides have been eaten by rats. Then, within days, a woman's body floats to the surface of Canal St. Martin in Paris. She, too, has had her face removed. There are no DNA matches for either murder victim, and the woman's fingerprints are meaningless because of the time she spent underwater. . Undaunted, Benedict pushes on relentlessly, but dark forces are at work. In a desperate attempt to silence them, a group of hired thugs try to kill Benedict and Nicole. After a terrifying fight for their lives, the pair realise how much danger their investigation has put them in. They discover that a ruthless, shadowy mastermind called Anton ordered their elimination, but who is Anton? Benedict is nothing if not determined and, in a masterful climax, you can be sure it's going to end badly for someone. The only questions are, how? and for whom? Taken on Face Value is perfect for lovers of Mark Dawson, Anthony Horowitz, or Peter James novels.

Hollie Stevens, a citizen of the Isle of Man has been murdered in Paris. Detective Inspector Penny Chakyar is tasked to go to France, find out what she can about the woman's death, and bring the body home. She's accompanied by Detective Constable Hannah Davis. But their visit to the French capital is resented by Superintendent Catherine Brady who sets out to take over their investigation.   In Paris, they meet up with Sergeant Mathieu Cavellec, the good-looking French policeman who is in charge of the enquiry. But Superintendent Brady appears out of the blue and the situation takes a turn for the worse. The body may not be who they think it was, there is no clear motive for the murder, and no forensic evidence was left behind at the scene of the murder.   Meet The Vicar, a psychopathic contract killer, whose mission is to send sinners into God's welcoming arms. When he realises he's killed the wrong person, he sets about discovering where his real target is hiding. And, in a race to save the life of Hollie Stevens, so do the police. But The Vicar gets to her first.   Can Hollie Stevens talk her way out of The Vicar's clutches? Nobody has ever succeeded before. And the only guidance she has had has come from a strange 'Intuitive' called Camille, and Atticus, a one-eyed black man with dreadlocks. So, when facing The Vicar in an anonymous hotel room, she is all on her own. When the police arrive, it's already too late. The Vicar has done what he must and fled the scene, taking with him the details of one final hit. Can anything stop him?