Judith Cutler Bücher

Introducing Birmingham Detective Sergeant Kate Power, exiled from London's Metropolitan Police by personal tragedy and making a new start in the distant outpost of Birmingham CID. Her new Brummie bosses are good men, for the most part, but they can't seem to let their new female colleague alone long enough to get on with her job. Kate is anxious to lose herself in her work, and before too long a case comes along that will consume her in a way she could never have imagined.Young boys are being abducted, abused, and murdered on her patch, and she feels intense personal and professional pressure to catch those responsible. Kate must navigate the unfamiliar channels of power in male-dominated Birmingham; are her colleagues being deliberately obstructive or simply dragging their feet? Soon she is forced to make an important Should she follow the conventional line of enquiry, toe the company line, and work as part of the team, or should she strike out on her own, reputation be damned?Kate's got her work cut out for her, but she's a tough young cop who's seen a lot in her brief career and no one, not a heavy-handed supervisor or a vicious killer, is going to stop her from surviving, and thriving, in Birmingham. Power on Her Own is a taut, gritty cop novel from talented crime writer Judith Cutler.

May 1861, Victorian England. Harriet and Matthew Rowsley find themselves stranded at a house party at Clunston Park due to flooding when shockingly, one of the guests is murdered! The finger is pointed at Clara, an eleven-year- old maid, and convinced she cannot be the culprit, Harriet and Matthew agree to investigate!

Unruly guests are the least of Harriet and Matthew Rowsley's concerns when an accident turns out to be brutal murder at Thorncroft House. With a house full of suspects, the sleuthing duo has to find out who is behind this and why. Harriet has her own theory and decides to follow her hunch. After all, every aspect should be considered, just in case!

Sophie Rivers is not enjoying her MEd course at the University of the West Midlands. Maybe it's just too long since her first degree or because she's missing love-of-her-life Mike Lowden. Sophie confides in excellent lecturer Carla Pentowski but there's something strange about Carla's past - or lack of it. When some of her students start to behave oddly, Sophie talks to her old friend, Superintendent Chris Groom. But he has news of his own: the death on his patch of first one Malay girl, then another. Then Carla disappears. The nearer Sophie gets to solving the puzzle, the more unlikely it seems that she'll escape alive...

A delayed retirement, sexual assaults and a media frenzy have Superintendent Harman seeking to resolve this on-going nightmare

On a freezing winter's night, an unexpected visitor arrives at Thorncroft House. Tensions soon arise as the household is trapped indoors by the snow, escalating when the dead body of a young housemaid is discovered, and housekeeper Harriet Rowsley and her husband Matthew must consider that they may be harbouring a murderer in their midst . . .

With her husband away on an England cricket tour of Pakistan, and the deadline for her MEd dissertation looming on the horizon, Sophie Rivers is in no mood for unwelcome distractions. Unfortunately, as a member of the university choir, she is finding it nigh on impossible to avoid them. It soon becomes apparent that the music faculty of the University of the West Midlands has more than its fair share of nutty professors and insecure students - and for some reason Sophie seems to have been appointed their unofficial guidance counsellor. But when the body of a professor turns up at a concert at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, all this fades into insignificance. Sophie's old friend, DI Chris Groom, calls on her insider knowledge to find out who - and what's - behind the killing.

Head teacher Jane Cowan is a victim of her own success and is expected to bring other schools up to scratch. Jane can't turn a blind eye when some of the poorer new students disappear. When everything points to people smugglers in the area, she has her work cut out seeing justice done. And that's before a threat far closer to home rears his head.

Land agent Matthew Rowsley and his capable wife Harriet are part of a group of trustees assigned to manage Thorncroft House - until matters take a disturbing turn when Lord Croft's long-lost cousin and heir, Julius Trescothick, arrives, ready to claim his inheritance. But is he who he claims to be . and what are his true intentions?