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JANE ADAMS

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UK Police Procedural,

Psychological

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Born in Leicester, Jane Adams is one of those upcoming British authors that have specialized in the psychological aspect of mysteries. She has a degree in sociology and before writing held quite a number of jobs (even lead vocalist in a folk band). Her first book, The Greenway, was nominated for a John Creasey Award in 1995 and saw the introduction of her hero Detective Inspector Mike Croft. Adams is married with two children and lives in Leicester.
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DETECTIVE INSPECTOR MIKE CROFT SERIES

THE GREENWAY

Cassie Maltham was ten that August afternoon in 1975 when her cousin Suzie vanished - almost before Cassie's eyes - never to be seen again. Now, twenty years later, Cassie has returned to the quiet English seashore village where Suzie was last seen, to confront the disaster that changed Cassie's life forever. Little has altered. The greenway - the ancient sheltered pathway in whose leafy secret depths Suzie had disappeared - is still there. And soon another young girl is swallowed in its shadow. Has Cassie's return provoked this second sinister tragedy? One thing is certain: Evil, inexorable and insatiable, has awakened from its long slumber and is once more on the move. . . .

 

CAST THE FIRST STONE

Eric Pearson claims he is being persecuted because he has the journal of the late Simon Blake JP, which exposes a child pornographic ring that will topple powerful figures. His claims seem to be the work of a bitter, obsessed man, but then a naked body of a young boy is found in nearby woodlands.

 

BIRD

Bird's grandfather is dying, haunted by the image from his youth of a woman hanging from a tree. Before he dies, Bird vows to uncover the true story behind this woman. Even if it points to her grandfather being a murderer.

 

FADE TO GREY

After two months on sick leave, DI Mike Croft had hoped for a simple case to ease himself back into his job. But it was not to be, for a serial rapist is stalking the streets, targeting young blonde women.

 

FINAL FRAME

Jake Bowen is a filmmaker and a killer. The nationwide hunt for him is called Final Frame. D.I. Mike Croft is beginning to focus on Bowen's background, just as Bowen begins to focus on Croft and those closest to him.

SERGEANT RAY FLOWERS SERIES

THE ANGEL GATEWAY

After a bomb attack Sergeant Ray Flowers moves to his late aunt's cottage to contemplate the future. Old diaries refer to a visitor called Kitty - but Ray learns that she was tried as a witch in 1643, and like him, bore facial scars. He pieces together her life, and finds his own part in it.

 

LIKE ANGELS FALLING

With his resignation from the police force now approved. Ray Flowers's plans to set up a security and detection business with his old friend George Mahoney are in full swing. And one of their first cases is to help an acquaintance whose daughter has joined the cult known as The Eyes of God. The Eyes of God are disturbingly familiar to Ray. For eleven years earlier he led the inquiry into the ritualised murders of three young boys. The man convicted of the killings was cult leader Harrison Lee, whose arrest had led to the mass-suicide of cult members. But now Lee has died in prison, and his evil can be finally laid to rest. Or can it? For as the cultist is being cremated a nine-year-old boy disappears - his body found in the exact same circumstances as the young victims eleven years earlier.

 

ANGEL EYES

When ex-copper Ray Flowers hears that a drug supplier by the name of Angel Eyes is back, he wants little to do with the case. However, when his old colleague crashes his car and ends up in a psychiatric ward, an unknown drug in his system, Ray knows that he cannot avoid it any longer.

 

NAOMI BLAKE SERIES

 

MOURNING THE LITTLE DEAD

Twenty three years ago Helen Jones disappeared on her way to school. She was twelve years old. No trace of her was ever found. But now a confession in a sealed envelope has turned up in a dead man's possessions. Naomi Blake was Helen's best friend and the last person to see her alive. They had quarrelled and Naomi has never forgiven herself. Now blinded and an ex-policewoman, she sets out with Helen's brother to uncover the dusty truth behind Helen's vanishing.

 

 

TOUCHING THE DARK

The new novel featuring blind ex-policewoman Naomi Blake, first introduced in Mourning the Little Dead Tally Palmer is a successful international photographer, and a celebrity in her own right. When she abruptly breaks off a relationship with Simon Emmet, no one - except Simon himself - is very surprised. But Simon is devastated - and increasingly obsessed with Tally. He blames someone called 'Jack', a mysterious figure from Tally's past. Simon's parents are so concerned about their son that they ask for help from their old friends Alec and Naomi. As Simon's precarious mental state deteriorates, they are drawn into a volatile situation more complex - and dangerous - than they could ever expect...