Book 1

Time to Die

by Alex Howard

Published 1 January 2014

Detective Inspector Hanlon. She'll break but she won't bend. A woman with a habit of breaking the rules and a fierce loyalty to the few people she respects.

Her boss, Corrigan. Looks like a street copper promoted above his ability. Underestimate him at your peril.

Enver Demirel. Known in the boxing ring as Iron Hand. Now soft and gone to seed. But he would do anything for Hanlon.

Now the kidnap of a 12-year-old diabetic boy has blown the case of some missing children wide apart and the finger is pointing at the heart of the Met.

Corrigan sends in the only cop in his team who would care more about the life of a boy than about her own career. Hanlon.

And then he sends Demirel to spy on her...


Book 2

Cold Revenge

by Alex Howard

Published 12 March 2015

DCI HANLON.
She's not that likeable, but you'll love her.

Detective Inspector Hanlon is back. She's been promoted and now she's going undercover in Oxford to find the sadomasochistic killer of two students.

Philosophy lecturer Dr Gideon Fuller, with his penchant for high-end sadistic sex, is in the frame, but Hanlon is not convinced.

From the specialist brothels in Oxford and Soho, to the inner sanctum of a Russian people trafficker with a taste for hurting women, the trail leads Hanlon deeper and deeper into danger – until she herself becomes the killer's next target.


Book 3

A Hard Woman to Kill

by Alex Howard

Published 10 September 2015

Chechnya: an incorruptible security officer is assassinated.

Berlin: a small child grieves for his father.

In the East: an obese psychopath sets his feet on the first rungs of his criminal career.

A frightened Russian woman seeks DCI Hanlon's help in finding her missing husband. Hanlon's not keen on the case. Until she hears a name she recognises only too well. Arkady Belanov, sadistic pimp and owner of an exclusive brothel in Oxford is involved.

When DI Enver Demirel, her former partner and friend, disappears, Hanlon is forced into an uneasy alliance with the London underworld to rescue him from the blood-stained hands of the Russian mafia.


Book 4

An Incidental Death

by Alex Howard

Published 8 September 2016

DCI Hanlon faces the toughest decision of her career as a string of political murders lead to a deadly confrontation.

A controversial, right-wing German politician is due to speak at the Oxford Union. Following a series of murders linked to a violent anarchist group, the city is on high alert. DCI Hanlon has been partnered with DI Huss to ensure the speech goes smoothly and that there will be no more killing.

The murders soon reveal a chilling alliance between the anarchists and European Jihadis. And when Hanlon traces the killer, she soon realises that the truth has a terrible price. Is Hanlon willing to meet the cost?