CHANNILLO
Series Description:
Hartleydale CID's new cold case team, led by Detective Superintendent Donald May, assembles for a long weekend away at a remote moorland retreat. Their task: to solve the murders of six women brutally killed in the 1980s. No one was caught and convicted; every suspect had a cast-iron alibi. Now Chief Constable Jean Samson is receiving anonymous tipoffs about the murderer. Impatient for success, she commissions May, along with DI Charlie Riggs, DS Georgie Ellis, assisted by forensic archivist Pauline Philbey, to make the evidence – old and new – add up for the first time in 40 years. As the facts gradually fall into place, the team begin to realise that they are not only the hunters, but the hunted. Everything is turned on its head as a vicious wildfire takes hold on the moors. There is no way in or out of the retreat. And the murderer knows that only too well. Can May and his colleagues solve the case and save themselves? Or will it all be a case of too little too late?
Category/Genre(s): Adult Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Historical FictionUpdated: Weekly
Status: Upcoming
Author Bio For David Baker:
David Baker was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He studied Music and then Information Science at various universities and ended up with five degrees (including a PhD), five fellowships and a Professorship to his credit. After a career in higher education within the UK (interspersed with regular work around the globe), he retired from his final role as Principal and Chief Executive of Plymouth Marjon University in 2009.
Since then, he has led a portfolio career as consultant, lecturer, teacher, writer, reviewer, editor, musician, and musicologist. He has some twenty non-fiction books and a significant body of published, peer-reviewed papers to his credit as well as two academic book series which he leads.
David writes fiction for fun, with an interest in detective stories and late Roman Britain. Sometimes he puts the two together. He also tries his hand at poetry from time to time.
A Month of Murder was his first published novel. Broken Eagle volume I, describing the adventures of Germanus the Gaul in fifth century Roman Britian, was his second, with two more volumes in the trilogy to come. The Organ Loft Murders (set in Victorian England) is his third and Murder in Five Movements his fourth. The Away Day Murders, his latest murder mystery, continues the adventures of Hartleydale CID’s team of detectives, led by newly-promoted Detective Superintendent Donald May.
When not working, David enjoys building model railways (indoors and out) and spending time with his growing number of grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Series Description:
Hartleydale CID's new cold case team, led by Detective Superintendent Donald May, assembles for a long weekend away at a remote moorland retreat. Their task: to solve the murders of six women brutally killed in the 1980s. No one was caught and convicted; every suspect had a cast-iron alibi. Now Chief Constable Jean Samson is receiving anonymous tipoffs about the murderer. Impatient for success, she commissions May, along with DI Charlie Riggs, DS Georgie Ellis, assisted by forensic archivist Pauline Philbey, to make the evidence – old and new – add up for the first time in 40 years. As the facts gradually fall into place, the team begin to realise that they are not only the hunters, but the hunted. Everything is turned on its head as a vicious wildfire takes hold on the moors. There is no way in or out of the retreat. And the murderer knows that only too well. Can May and his colleagues solve the case and save themselves? Or will it all be a case of too little too late?
Category/Genre(s): Adult Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, Historical FictionUpdated: Weekly
Status: Upcoming
Author Bio For David Baker:
David Baker was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He studied Music and then Information Science at various universities and ended up with five degrees (including a PhD), five fellowships and a Professorship to his credit. After a career in higher education within the UK (interspersed with regular work around the globe), he retired from his final role as Principal and Chief Executive of Plymouth Marjon University in 2009.
Since then, he has led a portfolio career as consultant, lecturer, teacher, writer, reviewer, editor, musician, and musicologist. He has some twenty non-fiction books and a significant body of published, peer-reviewed papers to his credit as well as two academic book series which he leads.
David writes fiction for fun, with an interest in detective stories and late Roman Britain. Sometimes he puts the two together. He also tries his hand at poetry from time to time.
A Month of Murder was his first published novel. Broken Eagle volume I, describing the adventures of Germanus the Gaul in fifth century Roman Britian, was his second, with two more volumes in the trilogy to come. The Organ Loft Murders (set in Victorian England) is his third and Murder in Five Movements his fourth. The Away Day Murders, his latest murder mystery, continues the adventures of Hartleydale CID’s team of detectives, led by newly-promoted Detective Superintendent Donald May.
When not working, David enjoys building model railways (indoors and out) and spending time with his growing number of grandchildren and great grandchildren.