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Meet Kent’s Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman. She’s given everything to rise to the top. She’s menopausal, overworked — and the only one who can crack this impossible case. ‘In Cutler, we are undoubtedly dealing with the crème de la crème .’ The Times Please note, this book was previously published as Life Sentence . Months from retirement, Detective Fran Harman should be winding down and planning her move to the seaside. Instead, her boss — a dear friend who’s fast becoming something more — hands her the most baffling cold case of her career . The victim is dubbed Elise. She was found by a road, battered beyond recognition. A passing man tried to resuscitate her. She’s been lying in a hospital bed ever since. Visited by the man who gave her the kiss of life. He was the prime suspect, but he has a cast-iron alibi. With doctors about to switch off Elise’s life support, Fran will stop at nothing to get justice for her. But how much can one woman handle? And in a case where nothing — and no one — is what they seem, Fran will need to watch her back. Discover a fiendishly twisty British crime mystery from a bestselling author. Fans of Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaughter, Angela Marsons, A.J. Cross, Mel Sherratt and Helen H. Durrant are sure to be hooked. READERS LOVE COME TO HARM : ‘A warhorse of a character.’ Northern Echo ‘ A very sympathetic character facing the difficulties of her position and age with great determination.’ Crime Squad ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Hurrah . A book with a menopausal woman dealing with aged parents as the heroine. And she not only gets the murderer but a man as well.’ Ann ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Engrossing procedural with human interest . . . Judith Cutler is a master of her craft .’ Mary ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Well written and absorbing . . . I could sympathize with Fran in her dilemma.’ Damaskcat ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Intelligent .’ Sami ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ A good balance between personal background and the crime solving.’ Mrs SJ Frankis ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ One of the best I’ve read for ages , very true to life and really brought home some experiences.’ Muriel THE DETECTIVE Officers don’t come more driven than Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman . She’s spent decades rising through the ranks of the Kent Force, while handling everything life has to throw at her. Including the untimely death of the love of her life. Now, aged fifty-three, she finds herself menopausal, overworked and alone. Torn between her career and the demands of caring for two elderly parents, is she about to burn out? THE SETTING Fran Harman’s made a cozy home for herself in Lenham, a picture-perfect little village in the Kent countryside, in the south of England. This cottage is her refuge, the place she comes back to to unwind after a hard day’s work at the station.
Meet Kent’s Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman. She’s given everything to rise to the top. She’s menopausal, overworked — and the only one who can crack this impossible case. ‘In Cutler, we are undoubtedly dealing with the crème de la crème .’ The Times Please note, this book was previously published as Cold Pursuit . Twenty-three victims. To get to the one he really wants . . . After thirty years’ loyal service, Detective Fran is ready to hang up her handcuffs! But retirement will have to wait. A predator is stalking the city streets . He attacks vulnerable young women in broad daylight, then slips away without a trace. Fran can’t stand the thought of a man like that walking free. When the media get wind of the case, a nervy young reporter comes calling on Fran, desperate to discuss the Kent prowler. But is her interest professional — or something more? Fran senses this woman has a secret that she’s not ready to share. The clock is ticking for Fran to uncover the truth. Before this reporter becomes front-page news for the worst possible reason . . . Discover a fiendishly twisty British crime mystery from a bestselling author. Fans of Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaughter, Angela Marsons, A.J. Cross, Mel Sherratt and Helen H. Durrant are sure to be hooked. READERS LOVE COME TO HARM : ‘A warhorse of a character.’ Northern Echo ‘ A very sympathetic character facing the difficulties of her position and age with great determination.’ Crime Squad ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Hurrah . A book with a menopausal woman dealing with aged parents as the heroine. And she not only gets the murderer but a man as well.’ Ann ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Engrossing procedural with human interest . . . Judith Cutler is a master of her craft .’ Mary ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Well written and absorbing . . . I could sympathize with Fran in her dilemma.’ Damaskcat ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Intelligent .’ Sami ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ A good balance between personal background and the crime solving.’ Mrs SJ Frankis ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ One of the best I’ve read for ages , very true to life and really brought home some experiences.’ Muriel THE DETECTIVE Officers don’t come more driven than Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman . She’s spent decades rising through the ranks of the Kent Force, while handling everything life has to throw at her. Including the untimely death of the love of her life. Now, aged fifty-three, she finds herself menopausal, overworked and alone. Torn between her career and the demands of caring for two elderly parents, is she about to burn out? THE SETTING Fran Harman’s made a cozy home for herself in Lenham, a picture-perfect little village in the Kent countryside, in the south of England. This cottage is her refuge, the place she comes back to to unwind after a hard day’s work at the station.
One cold, wet evening in an otherwise unusually dry April, a man falls from the fifth floor window of a hotel in Hythe. Did he jump or was he pushed? Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman is already struggling to juggle her work and private life: she is having difficulties finding a company willing to restore her and her boyfriend’s new home and has to put Mark up in her own cottage while the work is completed. And now, why did this man jump from a hotel balcony when he had a perfectly good balcony at home? A glitch with the water system and her boyfriend’s troublesome daughter add more problems to Fran’s lot. Can she find the time to discover what it is that appears not quite right about Alec Minton’s death?
Meet Kent’s Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman. She’s given everything to rise to the top. She’s menopausal, overworked — and the only one who can crack this impossible case. Please note, this book was previously published as Burying the Past . Fran’s no stranger to murder on her patch. But not like this . . . Newly engaged Fran can’t wait to move into the Rectory, an elegant Georgian home out in the sticks. Where better to start married life — with her beloved detective fiancé? But she’s about to get more than she bargained for. A human skeleton is unearthed, buried in a long-forgotten vegetable patch. This murder hits far too close to home for Fran’s liking. But her search for answers will have to wait. A young woman comes forward with fresh blood on her hands, and a story that doesn’t quite ring true. Now, the clock is ticking for Fran to unravel the truth behind a far more recent killing. Can she solve both cases — while holding her blended family together by a thread — before her dreams are destroyed for good? Discover a fiendishly twisty British crime mystery from a bestselling author. Fans of Angela Marsons, A.J. Cross, Mel Sherratt and Helen H. Durrant are sure to be hooked. READERS LOVE NO HARM DONE : ‘In Cutler, we are undoubtedly dealing with the crème de la crème .’ The Times ‘A warhorse of a character.’ Northern Echo ‘ A very sympathetic character facing the difficulties of her position and age with great determination.’ Crime Squad ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Hurrah . A book with a menopausal woman dealing with aged parents as the heroine. And she not only gets the murderer but a man as well.’ Ann ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Engrossing procedural with human interest . . . Judith Cutler is a master of her craft .’ Mary ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Well written and absorbing . . . I could sympathize with Fran in her dilemma.’ Damaskcat ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An enjoyable, old-fashioned, romping good read . Kept me guessing until the end.’ Susan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ A good balance between personal background and the crime solving.’ Mrs SJ Frankis ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ One of the best I’ve read for ages , very true to life and really brought home some experiences.’ Muriel THE DETECTIVE Officers don’t come more driven than Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman . She’s spent decades rising through the ranks of the Kent Force, while handling everything life has to throw at her. Including the untimely death of the love of her life. Now, aged fifty-three, she finds herself menopausal, overworked and alone. Torn between her career and the demands of caring for two elderly parents, is she about to burn out? THE SETTING Fran Harman’s made a cozy home for herself in Lenham, a picture-perfect little village in the Kent countryside, in the south of England. This cottage is her refuge, the place she comes back to to unwind after a hard day’s work at the station.
When a child goes missing at the local tennis club on the day when several skeletons are unearthed on an Ashford building site, Fran Harman finds her caseload heavier than ever at a time when the force is cripplingly short-staffed and she has a less than supportive new Chief Constable to contend with. Enjoying a game of tennis with his fellow Golden Oldies when the girl disappeared, Fran's partner Mark can't help blaming himself for not keeping a closer eye on her. Sucked into the kind of desperate police search he thought he'd left behind on retirement, Mark enlists the help of the Oldies to find young Livvie before it's too late. Meanwhile, a further shocking discovery in the skeleton case suggests that a serial killer may be lurking rather closer than Fran would wish.
Retired police detective Fran Harman discovers that someone doesn’t like her digging up the past when she re-opens a 20-year-old cold case. Newly-retired, ex-Chief Superintendent Fran Harman and her partner Mark have volunteered to assist West Mercia police in reinvestigating an unsolved crime. Twenty years ago, a car was found abandoned on an isolated road running through the Wyre Forest, its hazard lights still flashing, the passenger door open. In the back, were two child seats. One was empty; in the other lay a desperately ill baby. Neither the baby’s mother nor the elder child were ever seen again. Where had Natalie Foreman been and where was she heading? As they question those who knew the missing woman, Fran and Mark uncover worrying discrepancies and mistaken assumptions underlying the original police investigation. In their new role as civilians in a police world, they find themselves encountering hostility and resentment from some of those they question – and it’s clear that more than one key witness is not telling them the whole truth.