Brodie Farrell Mysteries
8 primary works
Book 1
When researcher Brodie Farrell is asked to locate the whereabouts of a young man, Daniel Hood, she sees nothing suspicious in the request. Duly finds him, passes his details on to her client, and commends herself on a job well done. But a few days later Brodie is overcome by guilt, Daniel is in a life-threatening coma - if it wasn't for her efforts, none of this would have happened. So she resolves to do everything she can to bring Daniel's attackers to justice. But, when Daniel does eventually regain consciousness, he isn't much help to Brodie. Until he was snatched from his ordinary life, he hadn't known he had an enemy in the world. All he knows is that the men who hurt him were looking for someone called Sophie - and he doesn't know anyone of that name. Daniel needs to understand what has happened to him and why he has been left scarred for life. The journey of discovery that he and Brodic embark upon leads them into a deeper and more complex tragedy than either first imagined...
Book 2
A teenage boy is beaten to death with a wheel brace on an abandoned pier. There is one eye-witness to the crime. The police are convinced they have the murderer, they just need a positive identification to lock him up for good. Neil Cochrane was the prime suspect in a serial killer investigation ten years ago and only a travesty of justice allowed him to walk free. The new murder fits the profile exactly and this time he won't escape. That's what Detective Inspector Jack Deacon believes and he is a determined man. But Daniel Hood is the eye-witness and he is not prepared to bow to pressure and identify Cochrane when he is not convinced that this is the man he saw. A taut, compelling exploration of love and honour, True Witness is the second book in the series featuring Brodie Farrell and Daniel Hood.
Book 4
Single mother Brodie Farrell runs a small finding agency, which helps clients locate items that have proved elusive by more conventional methods. In a happy relationship with Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon, she is content with life, though one problem has been bothering her. A bitter disagreement has left Brodie and her old friend, Daniel Hood, not talking. But when she discovers Daniel's house is up for sale, and his family seem unconcerned about his unknown whereabouts, she begins to become concerned. Unfortunately, even her advanced tracking skills can't locate her lost friend. But for Brodie the worrying gets worse when it seems she has become the victim of a sustained hate campaign. Her car is vandalised, her handbag stolen, and then she is terrorised in the local library after a call from Daniel imploring her to meet him there. The conclusion is obvious, but Brodie refuses to believe it. Until, that is, she is attacked again...
Book 5
Brodie Farrell's business 'Looking for Something' prides itself on locating just about anything a client wishes. However her work is cut out for her when she is asked to find the ideal pad for successful 'demon rocker' Jared Fry. To the amazement of Daniel, her shy awkward best friend, Brodie loves a challenge and soon finds the ideal location for the rocker at the old coaching inn 'The Diligence'. Charmed by Fry's business manager Eric Chandos, Brodie wraps up the deal until matters take an ugly turn and a body is discovered on the rocker's new estate.
Book 6
"You can waste a lot of time looking...Or you can pay me to find it for you," is how Brodie Farrell describes her line of work. She's taken on some dangerous cases in the past, looking for things in the strangest of places. So when her latest task is simply to refresh her friend Daniel Hood's driving skills she's banking on a quiet day's work. However, a seemingly innocuous accident with a hysterical girl on the roads leaves Daniel shaken and haunted. Who is she? Why is she accusing Daniel of trying to kill her?
Book 7
Brodie Farrell's work at her company Looking for Something? has often led her into trouble, but this time, her problem is personal. After having just ended her long-term relationship with the gruff, hard-working Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon, she finds out that she is pregnant with his child.
Book 8
Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon doesn't take kindly to threats made on his family. So when local crime boss Joe Loomis starts to menace his infant son and the child's mother, Brodie Farrell, Deacon is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect them. However, the danger of Loomis is not something he will have to worry about for long.Brodie has made a career out of finding lost things, but the last thing she'd want to look for is a man she's taken great pains to lose. Annoyance is quickly replaced by horror when she finds Loomis at her door collapsed in a pool of blood - stabbed to the verge of death with his own knife. But it's the gangster's enigmatic last mutterings that threaten to tear apart her tenuously held family. With Deacon under suspicion and Brodie on the hunt for the crook's killer, both are pulled into a world of twisting family ties and terrorism. Little do they know that the murder of one small time crime boss will unearth a sinister plot that could devastatingly impact far more than the pair's domestic life.
Book 9
"Brodie Farrell has been asked to find some strange things in the course of her business, but this time it's personal. She's searching desperately for a cure for her baby's cancer. Attempting to keep the business afloat in her absence, Brodie's devoted friend Daniel Hood undertakes the hunt for a necklace stolen in a murderous robbery. Typically, he keeps looking when a wiser man would have given up. After the first attack on him. Certainly after the second. Meanwhile Brodie's partner, Superintendent Jack Deacon, is facing his old adversary, Terry Walsh, who presents Deacon with an agonising dilemma."--Publisher description.