Maureen Carter, Author . Crme de la Crime $17.95 (297p) ISBN 978-0-9551589-6-4
This well-paced thriller, the fourth installment of Carter’s gritty procedural series featuring London Det. Sgt. Bev Morriss, neatly blends two compelling plot lines. Schoolboy Daniel Page has been abducted, apparently by someone he knows who...
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Maureen Carter, Author . Crme de la Crime $14.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-9557078-7-2
A sadistic criminal dubbed the Sandman, who wears a clown mask while robbing and assaulting his victims, also leaves sand in their eyes and carves a pound sign in their flesh in Carter's well-crafted sixth mystery set in Birmingham, England (aft
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Maureen Carter, Crème de la Crime (Dufour, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-9560566-3-4
Fans of gritty contemporary police novels will welcome British author Carter's seventh mystery featuring Det. Sgt. Bev Morriss (after 2009's Blood Money). The frantic search of Morriss and her colleagues on the Birmingham force for missing 10-year-ol
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Maureen Carter. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-000-3
The main supporting character, Caroline King, who's a walking stereotype of an aggressive and unethical TV reporter, somewhat hobbles British author Carter's routine first in a new police procedural series featuring Birmingham Det. Insp. Sarah Quinn.
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Maureen Carter. Severn/Crème de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-008-9
Birmingham Det. Insp. Sarah Quinn, introduced in 2011’s A Question of Despair, returns to tackle the abductor of teacher Olivia Kent in a muddled case. A taunting note delivered to Det. Chief Supt. Fred Baker suggesting its anonymous author has Kent
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Maureen Carter. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-036-2
In Carter’s middling third procedural featuring Birmingham, England’s, Det. Insp. Sarah Quinn (after 2012’s Mother Love), Quinn, journalist Caroline King, and solicitor Ruby Wells engage, in various ways, with the ugly crime of “grooming”—turning...
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Maureen Carter. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-78029-058-4
British author Carter’s gripping fourth Det. Insp. Sarah Quinn mystery (after 2013’s Dying Bad) interweaves two crime stories. The first involves the 1960 murder in Moss Pit, Leicestershire, of five-year-old Pauline Bolton by her 10-year-old friend,
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Maureen Carter. Severn, $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8564-7
British author Carter’s solid fifth Sarah Quinn mystery (after 2014’s Child’s Play) finds the detective inspector battling egos, politics, and criminal activity both inside and out of the Birmingham CID offices. With her former boss out and Det....
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