Books by L M Krier

A serial sex attacker is spreading fear in Stockport and DI Ted Darling and his team are on the case. The man randomly targets young women and abducts them from busy supermarket car parks. He's armed with a knife and is clearly highly trained in how to handle it.Ever-dwindling police resources make the manhunt harder, even though the attacker clearly doesn't care whether or not he's caught. All his victims say he's dead behind the eyes.As the gripping thriller nears its climax, the dangerous predator becomes even more ruthless and his actions threaten the lives of more than one of the team members.

Ted Darling s'apprêtait à tuer un homme. C'était la première fois de sa vie. Il avait 29 ans.Dans l'oreillette, il avait son chef, l'inspecteur Matt Bryan. Voix calme, apaisante, un peu cassée parce qu'il fumait trop, d'ailleurs sa toux sinistre ne trompait pas : il avait déjà un pied dans la tombe.Bryan était de la vieille école, protocole avant tout. Quand il s'adressait à Ted, c'était de manière formelle, assez rarement avec le prénom. Le plus souvent, c'était sergent . - Bon, sergent, à mon commandement, pas avant vous entendez, à mon commandement vous ferez feu. Code 'Fahrenheit'. Je répète, code 'Fahrenheit'. Ted Darling est un policier atypique. Il est calme, de petite taille. Il ne fume pas. Il a renoncé à la boisson. Mais c'est un agent spécial de la police armée. Il est ceinture noire dans quatre arts martiaux.Plus tard, les circonstances le mènent à ranger ses armes pour rejoindre la police judiciaire, brigade criminelle. Sa première affaire est le meurtre brutal d'une adolescente. Son nouveau patron pense qu'il va rapidement résoudre ce crime. Ted a des soupçons. A-t-il fait le bon choix en décidant de changer de voie ?Ou au contraire, comme l'a mis en garde son chef dans la branche armée, va-t-il saborder sa carrière ?Ou au contraire, comme l'a mis en garde son chef dans la branche armée, va-t-il saborder sa carrière ?

Dirty Old Town''gritty gripping northern noir''Dark streets. Dirty secrets. Closed front doors. But what is going on behind them?DCI Ted Darling is shocked to discover, in his new role as Head of Serious Crime, that topping the figures on his extended patch is domestic violence. When it ends in death, it''s the one crime where the victim can''t testify and witnesses don''t want to get involved.One of Ted''s team is the first on site at an apparent murder-suicide, but becomes convinced that all is not what it seems. Are they getting too drawn into the case? And how deeply will it affect them?A gripping psychological thriller to keep you guessing right up to the end.

A violent killing. But who's the real victim? DCI Ted Darling is called to a suspicious death. His prime suspect is a young woman with special needs, daughter of a local councillor with an axe to grind. Further investigation reveals a cynical crime, new to Ted and his team. They'll need to work with officers from Drugs, up against dangerous and hardened criminals. In the midst of it, Ted has to support his partner, Trevor, as he's interviewed about a historic sexual assault case in which he was a victim. Can Ted, for once, put his marriage above being a police officer, as Trev asks him to? Or will the case drive a wedge between them?

'Where does a wise man hide a pebble?'Home Office Pathologist Professor Nelson's question marks the beginning of Detective Chief Inspector Ted Darling's latest case. Not one he was expecting to get for him and his team. The tragic but seemingly straightforward suicide of a young man.It's a case where nothing is quite as it seems. There's no shortage of potential suspects. The trouble is, they all alibi one another. The case is going nowhere. An unexpected change in the police hierarchy isn't helping. Nor does a phone call from the Infirmary summoning Ted to the bedside of a dying man.Ted's detection track record is excellent. But could this enquiry prove to be his nemesis? The one that got away

Compelling, character-led police procedural crime thriller with a distinctly different type of detective in the lead role.It's a big operation and a complex one. With the Big Boss out of action, Ted's in charge of one part of the enquiry, a robbery and brutal stabbing of a woman in a car park. But overseeing it all is a senior officer with a serious grudge against Ted. One who'd stop at nothing to take him down.Then another face from the past turns up, needing Ted's help. One whose presence can only mean trouble of a serious kind.

Random, unrelated killings, seemingly without motives? Or the work of a single cold-blooded killer? And are the murders in any way connected to the shocking crimes which RSPCA officers are investigating in the same area?Ted Darling's latest case takes him to the darkest side of the human psyche, where identifying the killer is the least of his problems. Making a case that will stick takes all of his skills and experience.The last thing he needs while heading up a complex enquiry is anything in his private life to distract him...

Ted Darling is back and his boss has news for him. He'll be taking on more responsibility over an expanded area, with a bigger team. Before he even has chance to take stock, he's facing his first body in what could be the most cynical murder he's ever encountered.The corpse count rises with a separate case developing, where a savage killer appears to be selecting victims from online dating sites and dispatching them in vicious, frenzied attacks.With potentially two serial killers at work, Ted has plenty on his plate. But then he discovers that not all coppers work like he and his team do. Some of them just want to see someone behind bars, and aren't too fussy if they are guilty or not.

When a killer strikes close to home ...DI Ted Darling doesn't like coincidences. There are too many for comfort surrounding his latest case. They're spilling over into his private life too, when toxic family secrets are uncovered.A serial killer appears to be targeting vulnerable elderly people in care homes and despatching them in the most cynical way. Ted and his team are struggling to get a lead on who the killer really is.It doesn't help that his newest team member is adding to his problems, rather than helping him to solve them.Then an unexpected phone call brings devastating news for Ted and his long-term partner, Trevor.

In his darkest and most complex case to date, DI Ted Darling has to confront demons from his own past when investigating the brutal murder of a young boy.As more deaths follow, he realises he's up against powerful people who believe themselves to be above the law, and starts to feel out of his depth. Just how high up does it go?At the same time he has to cope with a new boss, much more formal than his old one, who increasingly makes him feel he's not up to the challenge.It all starts to put an intolerable strain on Ted's long-term stable relationship with his partner, Trevor.

Two missing women. One will die.The pressure's on for Ted Darling and his team. There's an inquiry into their last case, still unsolved.Then a woman disappears. The clock's ticking to find where she is and what's happened to her.A second missing person. A body. But whose?And why is Ted seeing similarities between the previous crime scene and the one from the last case?Note: Every Game You Play continues investigations begun in Preacher Man and Cry for the Bad Man, so is best read after those two.

Down Down Down 'deadly mind games with a killer' A series of arsons with a distinctive signature, happening on DCI Ted Darling's patch. The logical prime suspect has the best alibi of all. Yet he seems intent on entering into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Ted. Is there any connection between the fires and the body parts being discovered in random locations? They're identified as belonging to a man badly burned in a firework incident. Someone who was tortured before death and mutilated after it. Ted has a plan to get the result he so desperately needs. But is he prepared to compromise his principles to bring it off?

Ted Darling was about to kill a man. For the first time in his life...You've never met a copper like Ted Darling. He's small, quiet. He doesn't smoke. He's packed in the booze. But he's a Specialist Firearms Officer. With black belts in four martial arts.Then a shift in circumstances makes him swap guns for the CID. His first case is the brutal murder of a teenage girl. His new boss thinks he can wrap it up easily. Ted has doubts over the suspect.Has he made the right choice in switching jobs? Or has he, as his Firearms boss warned him, committed career suicide?