Having tracked down her own mother’s murderer and helped to track down the man who abducted and murdered couples from all over the country, Catherine Colson-Sayers has got the bug for investigating and sets up her own Private Investigations Agency. In this story Catherine has to work out who is bumping off patients at a local hospital. Doctors and Nurses become the usual suspects, but Catherine digs deeper and harder to find out more.
Catherine Colson-Sayers is a brilliant mind with a big heart. She witnessed her mother's brutal torture murder at the tender age of 9. The press have just revisited the story due to the the conviction of Charlie Edwards, the murderer Catherine was instrumental in bringing to justice. Now a couple of teenagers have gone missing, and the mother of Natalie Richerson turns to Catherine for help. Rejoin Catherine and her sisters Caroline and Adrianne, along with their husbands Logan, Travis and Robert. Follow the ups and downs of their lives, and the romances that flare up along the way. When Catherine decides to start up an investigations agency, it takes her life, and the lives of those surrounding her, on many new and exciting adventures!
There is a dark spectre in Travis' past, one that has previously caused him terrible physical and emotional pain. That pain is about to be superceded in ways Travis cannot yet imagine - but it is coming...it is waking, rising from the depths of a long sleep to do its worst!
Her brother-in-law is missing, and so is a seemingly innocent teenaged school girl named Helen Goodyear. Catherine has to find them both, but her priorities change when an unrelated teenaged girl is found dead. And then another, and then another. What the hell is going on in Sheriton and who is murdering all these girls? An AWOL husband, or innocent girls being snatched and murdered, Catherine has to prioritise her work to solve both of these mysterious cases. What she finds both shocks and amazes everyone on the team she assembles to investigate. A team which includes Ben Sharman, Catherine’s former business partner and a man who has openly professed his deep and abiding love for her. A man who, Catherine’s husband, Logan, detests.
A shadow is lurking, moving among us, judging us to be either worthy of life or worthy of his darkest ministrations. The shadow has skills, he can erase all trace of our lives, then he will erase us. We will become nothing, no one, less than the vermin that will become our only company in death. It is up to Catherine Colson-Sayers (CCS) Investigations to track down and identify the killer, bringing him to justice. Until they do, take care, or you could be next to disappear!
Catherine has always known that she is different. At school her exceptional IQ earned her the nickname ‘freak’. But Catherine knows that it wasn't only her high IQ that had gained her that horrible nickname; she had known things, things she shouldn't have known. Now an intruder is playing with her brilliant mind, invading it at will and threatening to harm her family. That, Catherine will never allow!
Matthias has got his dearest wish. His parents have retired from the farm, his brother,Chad has taken off to who knows where, and his sister, Ashton has taken up an offer to reside at a riding academy - that leaves Matthias free to run the farm as he's always wanted. But being in full control means he is also fully responsible for keeping the farm in good running order, something he finds out, all too soon, is not as easy as it sounds. All this pales into insignificance when his personal life seems to take on a life of its own. Pam is the girl he grew up with, the one that all and sundry expect him to marry. Fenella is the daughter of a wealthy newspaper mogul and she has decided that Matt is just the man she needs. Can Matt hold on to the farm through difficult financial times, and will he make the right choice between the two women who are viing for his love?
At 16, Ashton Langdon had experienced her first kiss and it had sealed her heart and her fate inextricably with Wesley Craemer's. Avoiding temptation, Wesley kept his distance, indulging in women who would sate the desires he had so very nearly lost his head to. He wanted Ashton, of that there was no doubt. He wanted his hands on her, yet it was the last thing he could allow. They had grown up as neighbours, had spent long days on the farm in the company of her brothers, Matt and Chad, but Wesley couldn't feel less brotherly towards Ashton Langdon. At 18, she was singled out as a rising star in the showjumping world and accepted an invitation to join the Equestrienne Riding Academy in Essex. Wesley was too busy sowing his wild oats to even notice that she was gone - or so Ashton thought. Wesley Craemer had other ideas.
Chad Langdon is tough, often seen as arrogant and sometimes overbearing, but when he loves he gives everything he has to that person. When he fell in love with Fallon Craemer the fall was fast and deep, so when she refused his marriage proposal it cut him to the quick. Chad left Dersley Dale to lick his wounds but found himself and his new career as a writer. With renewed determination he returns to his home village and the woman he is hell bent on making his wife.
“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.
