Lakeland Murders series by J.J. Salkeld (0.5-9)
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Overview: J.J. Salkeld (Richard Simpson’s pen-name) worked as a journalist and documentary photographer, based in Cumbria, before beginning the Lakeland Murders series of detective novels.
Genre: Fiction -Thriller
0.5 The Two Towns
It is DC Jane Dixon’s first week on Kendal’s CID team. Her new boss, DI Andy Hall, gives her an open file to review, and it’s a far from straightforward case. A woman has died in suspicious circumstances in a Windermere caravan park, and although her husband is suspected there’s not a shred of solid evidence against him. Can Jane move the case forward, or will a cold-blooded killer really get away with murder?
The rest of the team is busy too, because a vulnerable teenager from a troubled family has gone missing from home. There’s nothing to suggest that the boy has been abducted, so what could have caused him to run away from home? DS Ian Mann, a tough ex-military man, and DC Ray Dixon are both heavily involved in the investigation.
1- Separated at Death
The teenage daughter of a wealthy Kendal family is found strangled in Serpentine Woods. This DI Andy Hall’s third ever murder case and leads are hard to come by, and his personal life is in crisis. Meanwhile, his Sergeant, ex-Marine Ian Mann is faced with a very puzzling case, involving a local bad lad who suddenly seems to be scaling the ladder of criminality. Are the two cases connected? Can Hall and his team crack the murder case, and offer the very coldest of comfort to the bereaved family?
Separated at Death is the first in The Lakeland Murders Police procedural novel series, set in and around England’s beautiful Lake District, and introduces the team of DI Hall, DS Mann and DC Jane Francis, a former research scientist and the newest member of Kendal CID.
2- Death on High
DI Andy Hall and his CID team based at Kendal Police Station face new challenges in the second of the Lakeland Murders series.
There’s been a fatal fall from Fairfield in bad weather, and while the death is initially treated as accidental Hall and DC Jane Francis soon become suspicious and launch an investigation. But as both officers become personally involved, and the outcome remains uncertain, will they live to regret that decision?
And with the recession deepening Kendal CID has been selected as the home of a new Rural Organised Crimes Unit, so ex-Royal Marine Sergeant Ian Mann goes undercover, and infiltrates gangs stealing livestock, farm machinery and metals too. He’s the ideal man for the job, but will DC Ray Dixon, forever counting down the days to his next holiday, leave Mann exposed to very real danger?
3- Death on Account
In the third of the well-reviewed Lakeland Murders series DI Andy Hall and his team are faced with two crimes that differ in almost every way: except both have equally deadly consequences.
A supergrass has chosen to settle in Kendal, on the edge of England’s scenic Lake District, but is murdered in broad daylight on the banks of the River Kent. How has his new identity been compromised? Could there be a mole within the ranks of Cumbria Constabulary, or was he just spotted by another villain having a grand day out in one of England’s loveliest areas?
Meanwhile, on a far from lovely housing estate on the edge of town, a woman is struggling to care for her handicapped daughter, despite the antisocial behaviour of a neighbour from the very darkest depths of hell. Are the Police able to protect mother and daughter adequately, as they face both budget cuts and the urgent need to discover whether or not they have a mole in their midst?
4- Riddled on the Sands
In the fourth of the acclaimed Lakeland Murders series DI Andy Hall and the team face a case with a very local flavour, when a net fisherman vanishes while working far out on Morecambe Bay. Only his tractor is found – because these fisherman don’t use boats – and when examined DS Ian Mann makes a disturbing discovery which points, unavoidably, towards murder. But the locus is a forensic nightmare, because it’s washed clean with every tide, so can Andy Hall and the team really make any progress with the case? And will the appearance of Mann’s former military colleagues in the area help, or hinder, the investigation?
5- Pale Horse, Dark Horse
In the fifth of the best-selling Lakeland Murders series DCI Andy Hall and the team are faced with their most complex case yet. A body is found buried at the feet of Long Meg, an ancient Cumbrian stone circle, but the grave was dug months, not millennia, before.
6- Hail and Farewell
The sixth book in J J Salkeld’s best-selling Lakeland Murders series, set in and around England’s lovely Lake District, and featuring the places and events that the tourists don’t usually see.
Chris Brown wasn’t the first young man to die at Uppies and Downies, Workington’s ancient Easter mass football game, but the fact that two serving detectives were in the scrum when he died was awkward, to say the least. So DCI Andy Hall, DS Jane Francis and DS Ian Mann are called in to take over the case. They soon confirm that a gang war is in progress, yet the victim had no known affiliations to anything beyond his community and its traditions. Can the team achieve justice for Chris Brown? And why have the gangs become so well established in the area anyway? Could it be that police corruption is at the root of the matter?
7- Mortal Men
In the seventh novel in the acclaimed Lakeland Murders series newly promoted DI Jane Francis is faced with a crime that’s both baffling and brutal. A farm worker has been shot dead in his Troutbeck cottage, and while there’s an absence of witnesses there’s a surfeit of suspects. Was the victim killed because of current criminal connections, or are the clues all in his past?
The rest of the team are busy too. Superintendent Andy Hall is struggling to keep ahead above the murky political waters of Cumbria Constabulary’s HQ, while DC Keith Iredale investigates a spate of distraction burglaries perpetrated by a young woman on some of Kendal’s oldest residents.
8-Delayed & Denied
The eighth instalment in J J Salkeld’s best-selling Lakeland Murders series is a novella, featuring a recently retired (and now pram-pushing) Andy Hall, as well as DI Jane Francis and DS Ian Mann. Blunt and blackly humorous CSI Sandy Smith is on hand once again, and Ray Dixon returns to the fray.
Set in an era of continuing cut backs, Hall becomes involved in a Quixotic attempt to prove the innocence of a Whitehaven man convicted years before of murdering his wife, before dumping her body in Crummock Water. And when another woman is strangled to death in the town, Hall and DI Francis begin to wonder if the cases could be connected? Told with Salkeld’s usual blend of gritty humour and social observation, Delayed & Denied casts a sharp, sideways glance at the dispensation of justice in difficult times.
9- A Half Remembered Life
In the ninth book in J J Salkeld’s best-selling Lakeland Murders series detective Andy Hall is drawn onto some treacherous ground. Could the apparently accidental death of an environmental activist at St. Bees years before have been a cunningly conceived murder, involving both undercover police officers and a subsequent cover-up? And could Hall’s chief suspect in the case really be a charming, over-achieving sociopath?
Aided an abetted by DS Ian Mann (suspended) Andy Hall needs to be absolutely sure that he’s right, because his wife and best friend’s careers, and maybe even his family’s safety, are all at stake. As always the former DCS in Cumbria Constabulary has endless ideas and theories to offer, but as to hard evidence? Well, that’s quite a different matter….
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