Detective Inspector Quigg and Sergeant Lulu Begone (on an exchange programme from the South African Police Service) must hunt down a festive serial killer who is selecting his victims to match the Christmas carol - The Twelve Days of Christmas. Each day, victims are found stabbed with their clothes removed and their faces ripped off. A verse from the carol is daubed on the wall in blood. Will Quigg find the killer before he is forced to resign? Also, Quigg must choose between two women, or must he? And can he persuade the Chief to let Sergeant Begone be his partner on a permanent basis? |
Detective Inspector Quigg and his temporary partner new recruit Police Constable Mavourneen Duffy hunt for a stolen corpse – tagged as Body 13 – from the mortuary at Hammersmith Hospital, which leads to the discovery of an exclusive paedophile ring called the Apostles who traffic in children. Also, Quigg's private life gradually becomes as complicated as the investigation when he gets sucked into a ménage à trois. |
he sequel to Body 13 has Detective Inspector Quigg and Detective Constable Heather Walsh (his new temporary partner) trying to identify a serial killer who carves biblical references into his child victims. As they struggle to solve the riddle of the twenty-three missing children over the past sixty years, a psychic from Canada arrives to help them. Quigg continues to battle the exclusive paedophile ring called the Apostles to bring them to justice, and his private life becomes even more complicated when a hacker called Lucy joins his ménage à trois. |
Here it is at last – the fourth in the Quigg series. Quigg faces his most difficult case yet when over a thousand skulls are discovered beneath Eternity Wharf in Fulham. Quigg and Walsh must investigate the past and the present to find out the truth behind the skulls. Walsh is seriously injured while chasing a suspect in the underground chamber, and ends up in hospital. The Chief gives him the crazy Tallie Kline as his new temporary partner, and together they begin to amass clues and follow strange leads towards an astounding conclusion. Also, the exclusive paedophile ring – the Apostles – are planning to finally rid themselves of Quigg and his troublesome hacker – Lucy. As these two threads unfold, there are more twists and turns than the Minotaur’s maze. |
Quigg has a new partner - DS Jane Dwyer from Vice, but it's just for one case, and she doesn't like him. But they have to make the best of a bad pairing because a woman has been murdered and it looks like a vampire is feeding in Highgate. Rodney Crankshank is still on the trail of the person who murdered his colleagues at Bulldog Investigations, but its dangerous work. Lucy has decided to go back home to Quigg, but someone is determined to stop her. |
It’s All Hallows Eve! DI Quigg has a new partner – DC Jezebel Rummage – but she’s not all she seems. Seven children have gone missing in one month from the Ragged Children’s Home in Bethnal Green. As far as anyone is concerned, the children are runaways, but when Quigg and Rummage investigate they find something a lot more sinister. Also, Sergeant Ada Sage is threatening to report him for sexual harassment unless she gets what she wants; Inspector Nicky Wright also wants some more odd jobs completing, but odd jobs are the last thing on her mind; and to get Mrs Morbid to put Mandy back on the post, he has to promise to investigate a haunted house in Copperfield Street. |
In order to get Mandy put back on the internal post-delivery, Quigg agrees to investigate the haunted house belonging to the administrative manager’s daughter – Regina Humblin – at 66 Copperfield Street in Southwark. Also, the Chief gives him his next case, which involves two decapitated bodies, but leads are few and far between until a reporter offers him a deal. Ruth is contacted by a whistle-blower from the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) and decides to re-launch her career by investigating police corruption, but when the whistle-blower mysteriously commits suicide, and men in vans appear outside the house, drastic action needs to be taken. Lucy starts off helping Quigg, but is soon teamed up with her father – Jack Neilson – to extract confessions from corrupt police officers. Duffy takes on the paranormal investigation at 66 Copperfield Street, but is soon out of her depth. DI Gwen Peters arrives one night and asks for Quigg’s help in finding who abducted Joe – their son he never knew he had. His pursuit of Miss Tinkley finally ends in success, but at what cost? |
Quigg is given one of his most perplexing cases yet when bodies are discovered in the exhibits in Mrs Salmon's Waxworks in Marylebone, which is complicated by the mounting victim count of the DNA profiles discovered in the graveyard wax covering the exhibits. There are no viable suspects, Rummage is not herself and someone is out to discredit him.
The criminal enterprise being run by the Met have recovered, but Ruth, Jack and the enterprise are taken by surprise when arrests are made by the NCA following a European-wide operation involving the decryption of the criminal communication network EncroChat. But that's not the end of it. They soon learn that waiting to take over are a Shadow Board and a Chairman. So, Jack recruits a team of homeless ex-military personnel to help him eradicate the enterprise once and for all. Lucy is onto something, and quickly becomes hooked on a treasure hunt. Then her father gives her a microchip for human implantation as a birthday present. On a whim, she implants the chip in her hand, and things quickly begin spiralling out of control. A woman has disappeared at a séance and Duffy takes on the task of finding her. She recruits a partner – Harry Hudson, who is also doing the online home-study Certified Paranormal Investigator course. In the end, it's not just about a disappearing woman. There's also the Russians, an amorous ghost called Edward, a serial killer who likes to keep detailed notebooks and the burning crows. |