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Can fledgling PI Annie Raymond cut it on her own when faced with an impossible job, a boss who hasn't a clue who she is, and a schoolgirl who is ready to blacken her name to save her own skin? Annie has resolved to do her best for grieving mother Martha Martin and keep the sordid details of her son Terry’s life hidden, but when conflicting stories around Terry’s last days surface, Annie is quickly entangled in a web of rumor and deceit. Pretence and distortion have become accepted as integrity and truthbut who is a fraud and who is an innocent victim? Annie desperately needs a third case on her books to secure her future, but when it arrives, her future career is the last thing on her mind. Not only has Annie herself walked into a trap but she has also led a young girl into mortal danger. Can she make things right before it’s too late?
Her man’s a convicted murderer, but Brittany Booth is determined to save him from incarceration in a secure mental hospital by flushing out the witness who failed to come forward. The murdered man’s lover and friend are equally determined to see his killer declared insane. Unluckily for private investigator Annie Raymond, both sides land in her lap. Annie has her own troubles. Her relationship with Scott has ended and he is engaged to local detective Kate Ronsen. Annie tired of Scott long ago, but Kate does not believe it and is in a position to make life very difficult for Annie. With a boss ready to grab credit for her work when it goes well and lay blame when it doesn’t, Kate’s antagonism could make things impossible. It’s a tangled nightmare, and the last thing Annie needs as she fights to find a way out of a stalled chapter in her own life.
PI Annie Raymond's dreams of being a successful insurance fraud investigator start to look precarious when she is accused of corruption. She decides that it is time to come clean, both to her aunt who raised her as her own, and to her estranged father, a police sergeant in rural Argyle. However, neither wants to listen. Her father is swamped by a murder enquiry and her aunt is full of conspiracy theories and gossip. Suddenly, news from London has Annie racing south, but the case is not the lifeline she hoped foror is it? After all, it wouldn't take much to fake the evidence and deliver the miracle. Annie knows she has to clear her head and concentrate, yet echoes from Scotland resonate, and when a witness in London provides a horrifying revelation, the loose ends in her case become entangled with events hundreds of miles north. All at once, Annie realizes that she must get back to her father before it is too late.
Private investigator Annie Raymond is now working in London, on a case that has suddenly turned nasty, when she’s asked to travel back to East Yorkshire for another outing with the Thompson sisters. But no one wants her there, and the man whose signature is on the paperwork is in hospital fighting for his life. When someone gets to Barbara Thompson before Annie can clear up the confusion, she realizes Barbara was playing a dangerous game. And that now it’s too late to walk away, and save herself. The fourth outing for PI Annie Raymond sees her pick her way through a minefield of doubledealing and return to a past she thought she had left behind.
The 30-year old rusting hulk of a get-away car. A middle-aged woman’s suicide 15 years ago. A hacking of the city’s traffic systems. Detective Superintendent Martyn Webber knows where to focus his resources - on the present. Yet when past sins return to haunt him, and a manipulative teenager fools his team, has he overlooked a link that places more than his reputation on the line? And who in the force’s hierarchy is trying to pull his strings? Someone with a very long memory, and an even longer reach. Penny Grubb is an international award winning crime writer. Find out more on her website; www.pennygrubb.com
Syrup Trap City by Penny Grubb is a crime novel featuring private investigator, Annie Raymond, and Detective Ayaan Ahmed. Annie is dismissive of her current assignment. These everyday cases are routine to her these days. She takes time out to visit old acquaintances, at the ramshackle local firm that she worked for years ago. Whilst sharing gossip and coffee with Pat Thompson and Barbara Caldwell, she keeps half an eye on the surveillance she is being paid to do, but her attention focuses on potential betrayal from much nearer home. What is her boss, the enigmatic Mrs Peters, up to now? Shadowing Mrs Peters is a far more tricky business, but while her attention is focused elsewhere, the apparently routine job takes a nasty turn. Annie has misinterpreted events badly and taken her eye off the ball. Suddenly, danger lurks round every corner and nothing is as it seems.
It’s years since Private Investigator Annie Raymond set eyes on PC Jennifer Flanagan, yet here they are face to face because a rogue shipping container turned up in a recycling yard on the outskirts of Hull, and a man died. The grieving widow hurls accusations but too quickly backs off. Why is the container undocumented? How did it arrive unnoticed amid the forest of cameras and automated recognition systems? When Annie’s paymasters start taking too close an interest in her present, and Jennifer’s supervisors begin digging into her past, the two women are drawn into an uneasy alliance. Do they feel under surveillance because they’re watching each other, or is it something more sinister? While Annie tries to protect her agency, in the myriad dockyards sprawled alongside the dark waters of the Humber, robotic systems swing gigantic steel containers with millimetre precision through the cold winter air.