About this series
Alex Hastings, probation officer and idealist, still believes in the good in other people, but the little town of Highpoint is becoming a very dangerous place for her. An arsonist is starting fires on the Somerset Levels and a sexual predator stalks the streets looking for his next, perfect victim. As the summer heat turns the surrounding countryside to tinder, Alex must deal with this fresh wave of criminal activity under the increasingly watchful eye of the Senior Officer. As her friends settle into new lives, Alex hopes for a brighter future, but will the increasing pressures of her work stand in the way?
Titles in the series (4)
- Death of the Elver Man: Alex Hastings, #1
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The first in a series, Death of the Elver Man is a crime thriller set in the 1980s. Probation officer Alex is struggling with the customs, dialect and prejudice she faces as an 'in-comer' to the Somerset Levels. When one of her probationers, Kevin Mallory, is charged with robbing and murdering a man who operated in the highly-lucrative poaching underworld she is thrust, centre stage, into the investigation. Only Alex knows that Mallory is innocent and sets out to find the real killer and prove to her colleagues that she is 'up to the job'. Alex and her diminutive assistant Lauren begin to piece together their detective work, unaware that they have become the hunted as they are stalked through the eerie landscape of the Levels…
- The Drowners: Alex Hastings, #2
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In Somerset it is carnival season once more, but Alex Hastings is not in the mood to join the festivities. Struck down by a potentially lethal illness, she is beset by problems both at workand within her family. Meanwhile, the demise of Derek Johns gang has left a power vacuum, and an uneasy alliance of criminals forms, determined to take control of the area for their own gain. Then, one night out on the marshes a local man is found dead amidst reports of flickering lights and strange music and rumours grow of the return of an ancient evil. This second book in the Alex Hastings series picks up the story six weeks after the finale to Death of the Elver Man, leading Alex and her friends further into the mystery and menace surrounding the Somerset Levels.
- The Moth Man: Alex Hastings, #3
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This was the moment. The moment he had dreamed of since first seeing the house three weeks ago. Inside, the woman reached up and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and it was the most exciting, provocative gesture he had ever seen. He was shaking though he no longer felt the cold on his bare body. Pulling the stocking over his head to mask his features, he slid through the bushes surrounding the garden and ran towards the house, a human moth drawn to the light and heat of the woman inside. As spring comes to the Somerset Levels Alex Hastings and her friends hope to put the troubles of the past year behind them. But there is a new menace, the shadowy Moth Man who strikes without warning and vanishes without a trace. While the police work to track this unknown predator he moves ever closer to Alex s world, waiting and watching from the darkness. This is the third book in the Alex Hastings series, set on the Somerset Levels in the 1980s.
- Smoke and Adders: Alex Hastings, #4
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Alex Hastings, probation officer and idealist, still believes in the good in other people, but the little town of Highpoint is becoming a very dangerous place for her. An arsonist is starting fires on the Somerset Levels and a sexual predator stalks the streets looking for his next, perfect victim. As the summer heat turns the surrounding countryside to tinder, Alex must deal with this fresh wave of criminal activity under the increasingly watchful eye of the Senior Officer. As her friends settle into new lives, Alex hopes for a brighter future, but will the increasing pressures of her work stand in the way?
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