Recent books from CWA members

Lexy Lomax has fled from her obnoxious husband with a cool half-million of his ill-gotten gains and a homicidal chihuahua. Holed up in a decrepit log cabin on the Suffolk coast, she finds herself mistaken for a recently deceased private investigator. Before she knows it she₼s embroiled in a cocktail of marital infidelity, missing cats, poison pen letters - it seems that every other person in the nearby prissy village of Clopwolde-on-Sea could use a private eye. To make matters worse, a local policeman with a shadowy past has developed an inconvenient interest in Lexy, and when she finds the wife of one of her clients unexpectedly dead in a remote field, matters take an awkward turn...

Wig maker Peter Wolff is found dead and his workshop on fire. There are no clues, no DNA and no apparent motive. Detective Inspector Michael Angel is baffled. At the same time, high flying model, Katrina Chancey goes missing; womaniser Gabriel Grainger is reported missing by his long-suffering wife, Zoë; Lord Tiverton has been robbed of a valuable suit of armour; jewel robberies by The Fox, continue unabated, and another body is discovered in unexpected circumstances.

It’s a race to the finish to find the murderer and arrest him before he strikes again!

Set in the industrial town of Bromersley, South Yorkshire, enjoy another jaunt into the criminal world of Inspector Angel as he tackles this unusual case with his customary unique quirkiness and skill.

A dying artist creates a series of paintings – The Death Pictures – containing a mysterious riddle with a priceless reward. But before the answer can be revealed the painter is murdered.

A serial rapist is plotting six attacks. He taunts the police, leaving a calling card counting off each victim.

A TV reporter covers the stories and is drawn in by the baffling questions. Why kill the artist when he would soon die naturally? Could it be connected with the rapes? He crosses the line from journalist to investigator, forced to break the law to try to solve the crimes…

Following the death of his wife. John Bottrell was ready for a quiet retirement in Cornwall when he moved into the derelict cottage on the Lizard. Little did he know what secrets of the occult world would be uncovered from the legacy left to him. He was determined to find out what was going on in Hob's Wood and unravel the psychic disturbances and tales of witchcraft palguing the village. But when four locals died in suspicious circumstances, it brought him into contact with colleagues from the past and helped him fianlly lay to rest the ghost of Mother Lakeland.

A fast paced thriller from the author of 'Stone Dead."

The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In this collection of grisly crime stories Mark Mower takes us on a journey through the darker side of Suffolk folklore, with tales of poisoning, grave robbing, stabbing, shooting and larceny. On the way we meet highwaymen, cut-throats, murderous lovers, homicidal relatives and purveyors of human flesh. The dramas he describes are often played out in the most commonplace of circumstances, but others are so odd as to be stranger than fiction.