by Ted Tayler
Grid gang leader, Tommy O’Riordan, is convicted of murder.
Hugo Hanigan immediately takes bloody revenge.
A nostalgic trip to Dublin for Hugo Hanigan brings the curtain down on this part of The Grid’s story. It continues in the eighth book, ‘Evil Always Finds A Way’.
Evil Always Finds A Way
The drama unfolds over forty days and forty nights across the UK.
The Grid’s story continues as death becomes a constant companion to Phoenix and his colleagues.
Can Olympus halt the reign of terror perpetrated by The Grid?
When this story reaches its conclusion, one thing is sure, what follows next promises to be even more exciting and unpredictable.
Revenge Comes In Many Colours
Justice and revenge are to the fore.
A senior Grid members meeting has a dramatic conclusion.
Colleen O’Riordan strengthens her grip in the capital.
Who is her secret assassin?
What does the future hold for Hugo Hanigan?
The excitement never lets up as the vigilante organisation battles organised crime.
Step by step, the Olympus story moves closer to its final instalments.
Three Weeks In September
The Grid becomes all-powerful under its new leadership. The UK is on the brink.
An onslaught from organised crime combined with attacks by Islamist extremists takes its toll.
Can Olympus stem the tide without revealing its hand? These are some of the story threads in this tenth Phoenix book. The pace is relentless. There are enough passion, excitement and tragedy to last a lifetime. All squeezed into three weeks.
A Frequent Peal Of Bells
The Islamist terror attacks resume.
The Grid wields its power with sustained bursts of criminal activity.
Government resources are stretched to breaking point as austerity cuts hamper their response.
Packed with current political and economic concerns, this eleventh book retains the intensely realistic feel of the whole Phoenix Series.
Larcombe Manor
Can Olympus continue to thwart the ambitions of the all-powerful Grid? Will the authorities uncover the truth behind the Olympus Project? Can the Larcombe families survive the troubled waters that lay ahead? These are the unanswered questions. So many dangers face the Olympus agents before the climactic conclusion of this final book in The Phoenix Series.
The Freeman Files Series
Fatal Decision
Gus Freeman, a retired Detective Inspector, has spent the past three years alone.
His wife, Tess, died from a brain aneurysm six months to the day after retirement.
He is still coming to terms with his enforced solitary existence.
His old boss wants Gus to head up a Crime Review Team investigating cold cases.
Gus can't resist the chance to enter the fray for one last hurrah.
Last Orders
A newly-formed Crime Review Team is tackling cold cases.
Austerity cuts mean Gus Freeman only has a team of three to assist him.
Trudi Villiers, a 26-year-old barmaid, was murdered as she walked home from the Ring O’Bells pub in October 2003. Trudi may have been a good-time girl with a string of lovers, but she was someone’s daughter.
Gus wants his team to find the truth about what happened to her on that fateful night.
Pressure Point
Laura Mallinder left home for work on Sunday, 12th June 2011.
She walked to ‘Gentle Touch’, a massage parlour in Broadgreen, Swindon.
Her boss, Maggie Monk, discovered her body later that evening.
Laura, twenty-seven years old, sustained fatal stab wounds to her back.
Gus Freeman’s Crime Review Team has two successful cold case investigations behind them. Will it be the third time lucky? Unfortunately, the victim’s profession might make it hard to find someone to speak up.
Deadly Formula
Dr Ian McGuire, a research scientist, was shot dead in his kitchen in 2004.
The original investigation found no motive, no leads, and no suspects.
Gus Freeman and his Crime Review Team have a tough cold case to solve.
In this fourth book in the series, the case becomes the least of their worries.
Final Deal
Will the frantic search for DI Suzie Ferris and her kidnapper have a successful outcome? Can Gus end the careers of the corrupt senior officers behind her disappearance? Despite everything, the Crime Review Team has another cold case to unravel.
Dennis Gates was shot dead in August 2010. His killer was never found. The team members have their own crises to face. Will they buckle under the pressure?
Final Deal has two stories woven together to produce a gripping climax, not to miss.
Barking Mad
Why did pet shop owner Mark Malone die in a hail of bullets in May 2015?
Gus and the Crime Review Team face many questions but have few answers.
Killer Ricky Gardiner is on the run from the police. Who will catch up with him first?
Tragedy and triumph intertwine in another gripping instalment in The Freeman Files
Barking Mad has a variety of characters and story threads that keep you turning pages.
Creature Discomforts
A lone sniper killed Grant Burnside, the leader of a violent gang, in May 2014.
Gus Freeman and his team review a case that refused to give up any answers.
Why does every stone they turn over lead to the solving of unrelated crimes?
The Burnside family prides itself on being impregnable.
Nobody speaks out against them and lives.
Gus digs at the foundations until the fortress topples like a house of cards.
But will Gus find Grant Burnside’s killer?
Silent Terror
A brutal murder occurred at a remote bungalow in January 2013.
Gus Freeman reviews the death of Ursula Wakeley, a seventy-eight-year-old spinster.
Why did the former librarian become a victim?
Was it a robbery or something more sinister?
Alex Hardy returns to the fold, and new girl Blessing Umeh joins the team.
With a strong cast of characters, this series has more twists than a corkscrew.
Night Train
Ivan Kendall died in a station toilet eighty miles from home in March 2014.
Why did the quiet family man travel to Westbury from South Wales so late at night?
The Crime Review Team tackle two cold cases in an intriguing ninth title in the series.
The team closes in on Grant Burnside’s assassin an old adversary stands in their way.
Suzie Ferris moves in with Gus, and Lydia Logan Barre finds her father.
All Things Bright
Stacey Read was thirteen and a half when she disappeared.
Police found Stacey's body in the canal ten days later.
Gus Freeman and his team are reviewing the unsolved case.
All things bright and beautiful. Nothing is ever what it seems.
Gus has his work cut out in this tenth cold case as the real horror gets revealed.
Buried Secrets
Alan Duncan met Maddy Mills at a party. They fell in love and moved in together.
What led to Alan’s murder as he went on his weekly run four years later?
Gus Freeman suspects that both Alan and Maddy were hiding from someone.
This intriguing and complex case takes all Gus’s skills to unravel.
Life is never dull for Gus, his team, and the other characters in his life.
A Genuine Mistake
A wealthy businessman lay dead on his doorstep from a single shot to the head.
Gerry Hogan was an honest, hard-working family man with no known enemies.
His young sons stood frozen with shock as Gerry’s partner cradled him in her arms.
When Gus and the team interv
iew Gerry’s friends and family, they get a shock.
At the start, they had a handful of suspects. Soon they had too many. Why?
The twelfth case for the Crime Review Team is their most baffling mystery so far.
Strange Beginnings
Who stabbed Marion Reeves in a frenzied attack in her car back in March 2011?
Marion’s past holds the answer, but dark forces blocked the original investigation.
Gus Freeman confronts a group of wealthy people desperate to hide the truth.
Each witness interview provides another missing piece of the jigsaw.
Can Gus complete the picture and unmask the killer?
The thirteenth case for the Crime Review Team keeps you turning pages to the end.
Dead Reckoning
Kendal Guthrie could start an argument in an empty room. Who killed him and why?
Guthrie argued with five people in a remote country pub on the night he died.
Gus Freeman believed distance, time, and locations were vital to solving the mystery.
How could the killer reach Guthrie’s farm ahead of him? It seemed impossible.
A Crime Review Team member has a hunch and ventures onto Salisbury Plain alone.
The Plain is a dangerous place to be after dark.
The fourteenth case for the Crime Review Team is the most baffling yet.
The Long Hard Road
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