DS Charlie Rees Series by Ripley Hayes

DS Charlie Rees has been sent … on holiday.His boss says Charlie is burned out and needs a break from crime.The first day is pretty quiet. The rest, not so much. Charlie spends it trying to find out who killed the sexy lifeguard and left the body in the room next door. Then it turns out that main suspect is the man Charlie spent the night with.This is a standalone novella which can be read as the beginning the DS Charlie Rees series.

DS Charlie Rees wants a fresh start.He wants to make his name as a serious, professional, detective.Two students disappear. This could be Charlie’s chance. If he can find them.But the university doesn’t want to admit they’re missing, and his personal life is a disaster.The fresh start is turning into a hot mess.

An early morning phone call. A dead teenager. A bunch of hostile witnesses with a wedding to attend.Charlie Rees was enjoying the calm after the storm in Llanfair. He thought he and Tom Pennant might get some peaceful time together. Maybe even fall in love. Not a chance.As Charlie battles to get justice for a murdered boy, Tom has his own battle to save the art college and his career.This is book two of the Charlie Rees trilogy. The books are best read in order.

It was supposed to be a holiday. In New York City. A chance for Tom to do some drawing, and for Charlie to see the sights.The streets of the city seem safe and clean. Everyone is friendly, and the doughnuts are to die for.Charlie and Tom have an unexpected encounter with the past in a piano bar, but it’s OK. They’ve got the Atlantic Ocean between them and the troubles of the last year. It’s all behind them.Until they get asked for help in an unexplained death.What could possibly go wrong?

Charlie Rees is in New York, and at home in Llanfair, dogs keep disappearing. Hardly the crime of the century, thinks Acting DS Eddy Edwards ... until computer nerd Will arrives and turns everything upside down.

A searing summer heatwave. A terrifying fire and a dead police officer. Not your typical north Wales summer for DS Charlie Rees. Social media is awash with lies about local holiday parks being requisitioned to house refugees. Sleepy Llanfair finds itself on the radar of the far right. Charlie is called out to a fire at an Asian-run business, and in the shattering aftermath, a body is discovered... moreA searing summer heatwave. A terrifying fire and a dead police officer. Not your typical north Wales summer for DS Charlie Rees. Social media is awash with lies about local holiday parks being requisitioned to house refugees. Sleepy Llanfair finds itself on the radar of the far right. Charlie is called out to a fire at an Asian-run business, and in the shattering aftermath, a body is discovered. To his horror, Charlie's straight-talking colleague Patsy Hargreaves is the number one suspect for the murder. In the centre of a media storm, Llanfair suffers another devastating fire and another body is discovered. Will Charlie find the evidence he needs before the whole town goes up in flames? less