The Detectives King and Lane Series: Books 1–3

Victoria Jenkins

Looking for a new female detective duo to get hooked on? Read the first three books in this bestselling series: Detective Alex King and her new recruit Chloe Lane face three terrifying killers – in three seemingly impossible cases.

The Girls in the Water

When she woke, she found herself in darkness. She couldn’t move. She was going to die and she had no idea why…

Early one icy winter morning, Detective Alex King is called to a murder scene at a local park. The river is running high, and in the water lies the body of a woman, her wrists tied, and all her fingernails missing.

The victim, beautiful, young Lola Evans, had a troubled past, but Alex’s team can’t find a reason why anyone would want to kill her. The pressure to solve the case keeps mounting, but all their leads run dry. And then another body is found in the water…

The First One to Die

She tried to break her fall, twisting desperately, but there was nothing to catch hold of, nothing with which she could stop herself. Her single scream cut through the night air.

A young woman falls from a rooftop to her death. Keira North, was twenty, happy and carefree. It seems like an accident, but there’s broken glass on the carpet, and witnesses overheard an argument. Could someone have wanted her dead?

Keira’s friends don’t seem as helpful as Alex would expect and the post-mortem reveals that Keira was hiding a secret: she was five months pregnant. Alex’s team soon finds that all of Keira’s closest friends have secrets that someone might kill to keep.

Nobody’s Child

A body is found in an abandoned hospital, too burnt to be identified, but Detective Alex King knows that every victim is someone’s daughter or son.

Pushing aside her own troubles, Alex puts everything into finding the killer, but when someone else is found dead, she begins to suspect that the body in the hospital was just the first of many.

Just as Alex uncovers a heartbreaking link between the victims, she finds her own safety under threat. Is this a figure from her past hell-bent on revenge, or could the murderer be even nearer than she thinks?

Readers love Detectives King and Lane!

I was hooked from the start and suffered sleepless nights because I just couldn’t put it down. Brilliant!!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

‘Had my brain rattling in my head!… genius… Sometimes my mouth fell open and a few OMGs escaped… I loved it!’ B for Bookreview, 5 stars

‘Bam! Straight out of the starting gate this had me totally hooked… Fast paced all the way through, hit after hit of tension, excitement and horror… I don’t hesitate in giving this 5 stars, it had me captivated and on the edge-of-my-seat.’ Bonnie’s Book Talk

I was hooked from the start and suffered sleepless nights because I just couldn’t put it down. Brilliant!!’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

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