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Unfinished Business Books

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First novel in a brand new crime series from the author of the Dividing Line books. Mark Creegan has it all - wealth, a successful business and a beautiful wife and children. However, his idyll is being ruined by an ominous blue car that stalks him everywhere he goes. Mark fears his very dark past is about to catch up with him after years of running. His stalker turns out to be Brodie MacBride, an ex-police officer turned private investigator from Glasgow whose business is unfinished business. The fortunes of the Creegan family are tied up with The Carver, a serial killer operating in Manchester who is escalating in scale and savagery. As Brodie forcibly drags the Creegan skeletons out of the closet - using less than legal methods - the net closes in on The Carver, leading to a deadly confrontation that will leave many lives devastated. Contains strong language and scenes of violence.

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Private investigator and ex-policeman Brodie Macbride's business is unfinished business, getting justice for those denied it legally. Homeless people are disappearing in Glasgow. When one homeless man just prior to his disappearance tells Brodie that the devil wants his face his suspicions immediately land on Lucas Thorne, an artist who is in the city with his Face in the Frame exhibition, displaying frighteningly realistic faces he claims to have sculpted himself. Brodie sends in Cass, his second-in-command and long time secret crush to scope Lucas out. However, to Brodie's chagrin, she falls for the charming artist and the two begin a relationship. Brodie becomes more frustrated when homeless people continue to disappear and no one will believe his wild theory. Brodie also has to contend with trouble in the form of the McVays, the most powerful criminal family in Glasgow. They're about to go to war with a renegade section of the family and Toni, the great McVay matriarch, insists on dragging him into the fight. While fending off unwanted attentions from a group of psychotic gangsters, Brodie goes on a one-man crusade to reveal the truth about Lucas Thorne, a truth that could potentially put his beloved Cass in great danger. Contains violence and strong language.

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Brodie MacBride is a Glaswegian private investigator whose business is unfinished business, walking the narrow line between legal and downright illegal, getting justice for those denied it by legitimate means. Brodie is feeling the pressure. Not only is Toni McVay - head of the most powerful criminal family in Scotland - insisting on dragging him into a gang war but the goddaughter of his best friend, DI Pete McLaren, has gone missing and Brodie is going all-out to find her. On top of all that his second-in-command and long-term secret crush Cass is still recovering from her last boyfriend assaulting her and trying to cut off her face. In between dealing with gangsters constantly invading his space, the desperate hunt for a missing woman and trying to keep his team together, Brodie has to contend with his very own stalker. Who would have thought being a vigilante ex-police private investigator would be so complicated? Contains very strong language and scenes of violence.

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Private investigator Brodie MacBride leaves his comfortable office in Glasgow to go on the hunt. John Lyons - his ex-business partner and the man who almost killed him - has been spotted in the Lake District and Brodie is determined to get the revenge he's dreamed of for years. Brodie's second-in-command and long-term secret crush, Cass Carlisle, accompanies him in the search. However John Lyons proves to be more resourceful than Brodie had assumed he would be after spending years on the run not only from Brodie himself but from the Glasgow police and the infamous McVay clan. After fending off repeated abduction attempts and attacks not only from Lyons himself but other underworld figures, Brodie fears he's made a massive error of judgement, especially when his beloved Cass is put in danger. However this only makes Brodie even more determined to get his pound of flesh from the one person in the world to ever get the better of him.

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Brodie MacBride and his private investigative team are feeling the pressure. Seth and Sarah Creegan, serial killers they were responsible for putting behind bars, are using their considerable wealth to manipulate those on the outside, determined to exact brutal revenge. Brodie and his second-in-command, Cass, are enjoying the new romantic depth to their relationship, which they're forced to keep secret so their enemies won't use it against them. Cass's obsessive ex-boyfriend, in prison for attacking her and attempting to cut off her face, is due for early parole. They fear news of their relationship will send him into another psychotic rage. Their enemies are gathering in the shadows, weaving a dark web around them and they've no idea from which direction the danger will come next as they struggle to fend off the repeated attacks. In order to survive, Brodie must join forces with some of the most dangerous people in the country. For the first time, he finds that he is unfinished business. Contains strong language and violence.

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Life has finally settled down into a comfortable rhythm for Brodie MacBride. He’s living with Cass Carlisle, his second-in-command and love of his life and business is booming. That is, until a woman named Susan Silvers walks into his office and turns everything upside down. Mrs Silvers hires Brodie to track down her son, who has been sucked into Higher Light, an apocalyptic cult gaining a stranglehold on Glasgow with frightening speed. Brodie faces off against Malachi, Higher Light’s charismatic and compelling leader, who proves to be his toughest opponent yet and Brodie finds himself locked in a battle for the city’s very soul.

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It's the wedding of the year and Brodie MacBride is finally marrying Cass Carlisle, the woman of his dreams and his second-in command. After negotiating a wedding consisting of punch-ups, a drama queen of a sister and bizarre vibrating gifts, the happy couple leave Glasgow and head down south to Lancashire to break the news of their marriage to Cass's estranged family. They discover the village in which she was born and raised is being terrorised by the local bully and the man who tried to rape Cass when she was a teenager. As Brodie and Cass attempt to free the village from its tormentor, secrets from her past start to tumble out, secrets her own family have gone to a lot of trouble to suppress.

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