Publisher's Synopsis
The complete box set of The Falconer Files Brief Cases
Book 1. Love Me To DeathOn Christmas Day the two detectives are summoned to a block of apartments in Market Darley, to investigate the unexplained death of a young woman whose fiancé was due to move in with her on New Year's Day.
At first, her death seems a complete mystery, then, something that Dr Christmas discovers on the internet indicates that her death could just have been a tragic accident, or was it?
Book 2. A Sidecar Named Expire
A young man and his girlfriend decide to celebrate their first St Valentine's Day together, with a cosy evening of cocktails at her house.
But as the evening progresses, events don't go quite as Malcolm Standing planned.
The next morning, DI Falconer and DS Carmichael are called in to try to sort out what really happened.
Book 3. Battered To Death
DI Falconer and DS Carmichael are both enjoying a well-earned rest day, when they are summoned to a most distressing incident that has occurred at a chip shop on the parade of shops in Upper Darley.
It was obviously murder, but was it something to do with the robust behaviour of some of the more aggressive customers from the night before or was it closer to home?
Book 4. Toxic Gossip
DI Falconer becomes involved in a gossip-fuelled hate crime, only to find himself questioning his own judgement when it comes to protecting Miriam Darling from her anonymous persecutors...
Book 5. Driven To It
Abigail Wentworth is looking forward to her reunion lunch with Alison Fairweather. They are old schoolfriends who met twice a year, usually for Alison to dish the dirt on the others they had known when they were younger - and for Abigail to gloat over their 'inferior' circumstances, in comparison to her own respectable existence.
During lunch, though, Abigail recognizes a face from the past - and from that moment onward, her life skids completely out of control...
Book 6. All Hallows
Harry Falconer is summoned to an address in Carsfold on the evening of 31st October when a man is found dead in his garden, a hollowed-out pumpkin jammed over his head, and his garden shed blown-up and fire-damaged. Carmichael is immediately summoned to join him and, together, they interrogate the victim's neighbours, uncovering a plethora of damaged and broken relationships, in their search for his killer.
Book 7. Written Out
A regional television programme, Get One Over, where amateurs search for and discover antiques and valuable objects in junk shops, has captured the nation's zeitgeist and gone nationwide.
The Christmas episode is to be filmed in Market Darley, and being antiques fans, Miss Emily Jarvis, and DI Falconer and DS Carmichael plan to be in town to bump into the stars of the programme.
But on a crispy cold December morning, as the chase around the town to find the TV stars continues, it proves to be a terminal performance for one of their number.
Book 8. Death of a Pantomime Cow
DI Harry Falconer has managed to duck two days spent over the festive season in the Carmichael household by pleading other commitments, but treating the whole family, himself included, to tickets to the first performance, on Boxing Day.
But he seems to be able to do nothing straight forward, and when tragedy strikes in the very first Act, he is catapulted back into his professional role with a vengeance: and on a Bank Holiday, too.
