Charlotte Bell Series

Once you start believing the wrong version of the truth, there is no way back. A dark Scottish psychological crime thriller and the first book in the Charlotte Bell series. When a seventeen-year-old boy is found brutally murdered in Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Charlotte Bell is drawn into an investigation that soon becomes far too personal. The clues reach deep into her past and lead straight to her own front door. To Isla, the troubled girl in her care. Charlotte has always been able to rely on her instincts. That would be reassuring if they weren’t beginning to betray her. The deeper she digs, the harder it becomes to separate fear from fact and truth from manipulation. Every answer seems to distort the picture further. And the closer she gets to the heart of the case, the less certain she becomes whom she can trust. Including herself.

Don’t look into the mirror for too long. You never know who might be looking back. A dark psychological crime thriller set in Vienna and the second book in the Charlotte Bell series. Charlotte Bell returns to her hometown for the first time in thirty years, determined to uncover why her father kept her away from her mother’s family for most of her life. The first answers are waiting in the flat where her childhood ended, and Charlotte quickly realises that revisiting the past is rarely as therapeutic as people like to pretend. Instead, every truth she stumbles across pulls her further away from the person she thought she was. So much for clarity. As the truth about the women in her family begins to emerge, one question becomes impossible to ignore: How much of their darkness lives on in her? Apparently, some families pass down more than memories. Elsewhere in Vienna, Detective Inspector Robert Hahn is facing a nightmare of his own. After years of silence, the Alphabet Killer has struck again, leaving another mutilated body in the same park where Charlotte once played as a child. For some, digging deeper is a mistake. For others, it’s already too late to stop. Not every answer is worth finding.

She says it was self-defence. Is believing her the biggest mistake Detective Sergeant Charlotte Bell could make? The gripping conclusion to the Charlotte Bell trilogy. While suspended from duty in Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Charlotte Bell is blindsided by devastating news: her estranged foster daughter, Isla, has been arrested following the death of her Afghan boyfriend. Self-defence, Isla insists. Murder, says Detective Inspector Eva Hunter, Charlotte's ruthless rival and the officer leading the investigation. Charlotte knows she must stay away from the case. She also knows she won't. Determined not to lose Isla again, Charlotte sets out to discover what really happened. But it soon becomes clear that Isla is hiding far more than she's willing to admit. As Charlotte is drawn into a web of violence, manipulation and control, nothing is as clear-cut as it first seemed. Who is really protecting whom? Because not every killer is a monster. And not every victim is innocent.