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THE DI RYAN HALE CRIME THRILLER SERIES
They never proved he killed his wife. Half the station still believes he did.
Twelve years ago, DI Ryan Hale’s wife Jaime vanished without a trace. He was never charged, but the suspicion followed him all the way to London, where a brutal kidnapping left him scarred, inside and out.
Now he’s back in Chesterfield, leading a new team and searching for answers about Jaime that no one else could find.
But before his feet are under the desk a pair of German backpackers find a gruesome pagan ritual at the Nine Ladies Stone Circle. Someone’s been taking trophies and arranging them as offerings to ancient gods.
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Discover how it all begins in this fast-paced prequel novella set 12 years before the events in book one.
“He knows what we did.” Then the line went dead.
Three women have vanished. No obvious motive, just empty houses, an unfed cat and blood smeared on the kitchen table. The only person taking it seriously is Ethel Dockery, the operations superintendent’s mother.
Soon Ryan discovers that all the women worked as nurses at a maternity home in the 1970s. Within hours, there’s a body. And when another person disappears, Ryan realises someone is systematically erasing witnesses to a fifty-year-old secret.
Time is running out. The women are elderly, without their medications, and the nights are dark and long. Ryan and DC Fiona Winters have less than twenty-four hours to uncover what happened at Forest View Maternity Home before the past buries its last survivors.
But while Ryan’s been racing to save them, he should have been watching closer to home.
About R. K Lynott
Hi, I'm Rose, and I write British crime thrillers, liberally scattering bodies all over Derbyshire and the Peak District.
I currently live in the South Island of New Zealand with my husband, two young children, and a grumpy Australian terrier who knows where all the fictional bodies are buried.
My debut police procedural series is set in Derbyshire and the Peak District. After three years of work, the first three books and a prequel novella are now complete and ready for readers.
I hope you enjoy the books.