Books in the Alicia Friend series

A dead grandfather. An impossible witness. A cover up that may set a killer free. The victim:On a wet winter''s evening in a northern British city, Karen and Jerzy Krasowski attend a psychic reading in a pub. For fun. But when the psychic tells Karen something awful has happened, the couple flee back to their home to make a grisly discovery: Karen''s father has been brutally murdered. The detective:Detective Sergeant Alicia Friend returns to work, where her interest is piqued by the notion of a psychic witness. Which is impossible, isn''t it? And when the psychic goes missing, Alicia employs her ridiculously perky brilliance to penetrate the network of lies buried just beneath the surface of a successful middle class family. The politicians:While DS Friend and DCI Murphy try to solve a murder, an MP caught up in her own scandal is monitoring the case very closely. There doesn''t seem to be a connection between her and the victim, so what is she hiding? And can she derail the case? In Alicia''s first case in many months, she is at first relieved to land what looks like a straightforward murder, but is soon embroiled in an increasing body count, a political coverup, and a web of secrets that might just tear an innocent family apart. This is the fourth in the Alicia Friend series. 1. His First His Second2. In Black In White3. With Courage With Fear4. A Friend In Spirit5. To Hide To Seek 6. A Flood of Bones7. To Begin the End

Six suspects, six motives, six alibis.Freshly promoted to detective inspector, Alicia Friend is yet to unleash her quirky (sometimes irritating) personality on a murder case. That is until her former roommate calls with a plea to insert herself into an investigation. A high school teacher has been murdered in an English countryside mansion. In a room locked from the inside.By one of six people - all of whom might want this troubled individual dead.Struggling to assert her true, perky persona in an unfamiliar senior role, Detective Inspector Alicia Friend embarks on a new phase in her life by attempting to solve an ingenious murder and fix a friendship damaged by recent changes in her life.About the BookTo Hide To Seek is A. D. Davies''s take on a traditional British locked room murder mystery that serves as a stand-alone quick read for fans of the genre, as well as TV shows like Death in Paradise and Jonathan Creek.For regular readers of Alicia Friend''s investigations, To Hide To Seek is number five, a novella approximately one-third the length of a regular installment. The Alicia Friend series: 1. His First His Second2. In Black In White3. With Courage With Fear4. A Friend In Spirit5. To Hide To Seek (novella)6. A Flood of Bones7. To Begin the End

A 50-year-old murder spree. A present-day victim. A town rife with secrets.As the floodwaters around a rural West Yorkshire town recede, several bodies are left behind. At first, it is thought to be a disturbed graveyard, but the gruesome discovery is quickly established as multiple homicides. From 50 years ago. And when a young local woman is murdered, tension in the community threatens to boil over. As the case expands quickly, Detective Inspector Alicia Friend uncovers even older secrets - secrets linked to a psychotic priest from the 19th century, to a white supremacist group, and an amateur sleuth who poses the theory of a cult spanning generations. With too many suspects and too many bodies, A Flood of Bones is a serial killer novel where anyone could be a killer, and anyone could be the next victim.The Alicia Friend series1. His First His Second2. In Black In White3. With Courage With Fear4. A Friend In Spirit5. To Hide To Seek (novella)6. A Flood of Bones 7. To Begin the End

When hallucinations prove real, the end of sanity is near.In recent years, Detective Inspector Alicia Friend has seen herself descend from a perky, often annoyingly-happy analyst, into a CID detective facing the everyday violence, intimidation, and apathy that has caused so many police officers before her to grow jaded - something Alicia swore would never happen to her.Now, a young woman whom Alicia needs to protect has seen a figure that all had assumed imaginary step out from her nightmares into the real world.The Skinny Man is here.But this isn''t some supernatural phantom. This is a person, a human obsessed with the legacy of one of Alicia''s former cases, and he will kill, torture, and manipulated anyone to get what he wants.As Alicia battles to keep her own secrets, she must pull apart the fractured mind of a devious and cunning killer as well as protect the would-be victim.But, with so much at stake, the past cannot stay buried forever.To Begin the End sees the chapter of Alicia Friend''s life, for so long defined by the Century Killer case, finally draw to a thrilling conclusion.--------------------The Alicia Friend series1. His First His Second2. In Black In White3. With Courage With Fear4. A Friend In Spirit5. To Hide To Seek (novella)6. A Flood of Bones7. To Begin the End

Detective Sergeant Alicia Friend: perky, insubordinate, utterly brilliant.Since returning from assignment in America, DS Alicia Friend has been grounded at a desk, her new boss unwilling to risk her in the field. But when Alicia''s former partner requests her input, the SCA cannot refuse.It only involves interviewing a young terror suspect, after all. What can go wrong? But Alicia backs her partner''s suspicions and links the crime to a seemingly unconnected incident. Then a third attack occurs, and there is no denying it: someone is coordinating these vicious incidents, and the endgame is building.Back in full flow, the sometimes-annoyingly-perky detective summons all her brain power to push the investigation toward a seemingly benign cult, hindered at every turn by the group''s lawyer, by the detective seeking to replace her, and by a hierarchy as interested in politics as they are in catching the killer.With Courage With Fear sees DS Alicia Friend face her most devious serial killer yet - one who may be even smarter than her.________________________________________The Alicia Friend Series1 His First His Second2 In Black In White3 With Courage With Fear4 A Friend in Spirit5 To Hide To Seek 6 A Flood of Bones7 To Begin the End