Homicide Detective. Husband. Father. Mate.
Charlie Cooper is all of these, but most of all he’s an advocate for the victims. The final voice for those who can no longer speak, Coop won’t rest until justice is done.
Even if that means taking down one of his own.
Wife. Mother. Friend. Missing Person.
Rebecca Gilmore went out last night. She didn’t come home.
With the vicious Adultery Killer still on the loose, Detective Charlie Cooper is paying special attention to missing women. As he investigates Rebecca’s disappearance, he soon realises everyone close to the suburban housewife has something to hide. Is this the work of the elusive serial killer, or someone closer to home?
A tale of families, greed, corruption, and murder, Dark City is the prequel novella to the Detective Charlie Cooper Mysteries.
Dead men tell no tales. When a kidnapper winds up in the morgue, can his captive be found before she joins him six feet under?
Sydney, Australia. Charlie Cooper needs more time with his family. With his transfer out of homicide to a quieter station fast approaching, the weary detective’s only regret is the decade-long serial killer case he couldn’t crack. But when he’s called to one last murder scene, Cooper can’t believe the victim is the perp he’s been chasing for years.
Certain the sociopath’s latest abductee still lives, the desperate cop races to find her before the clock runs out. But with her journalist husband interfering and the question of who felled the psycho looming large, Cooper fears it’s lights out on his career… and an innocent’s life.
Can he tie up the clues and grasp the redemption he craves?
There’s a secret buried deep in the Fisher family’s past – a secret someone will kill to protect.
When young shipping company heir Jill Fisher is found dead in her apartment, Detective Charlie Cooper and his partner Joe Quinn don’t believe she was killed by a random intruder.
Corporate lawyer Beth Fisher struggles to cope with the grief following her sister’s murder, but she decides there’s one last thing she can do for Jill – finish the ancestry research she was so passionate about.
Cooper and Quinn’s investigation and Beth’s research uncover truths about the Fisher family and their business dealings that raise more questions than answers. Cooper must act fast before more lives are lost. And for Beth, work and family collide as she struggles to find the secret someone will kill to protect.
Will a mother’s search for the truth about her son cost her the two children she has left?
Jackie Rose is a mother on a mission. Determined to prove her eldest son did not commit suicide, she enlists the help of her best friend’s husband, Homicide Detective Charlie Cooper.
Reluctant to reopen another team’s case, but even more reluctant to upset his wife, Cooper and his partner Joe Quinn investigate. They soon discover Jackie Rose is right – someone’s killing kids. The deeper Cooper and Quinn dig, the more they realise everyone has a secret to hide. Can they find the killer before more young lives are lost?
As Jackie struggles to cope with the circumstances surrounding her eldest son’s death, a new threat emerges. Her ex-husband, unhappy with the effect of the case on the family and concerned Jackie’s becoming increasingly unreliable, wants to take their remaining two children to the other side of the country. Will Jackie’s fight to clear her son’s name cost her the two children she has left?
Reality television just got deadly.
When a contestant on hit reality show Transformation in Paradise turns up dead, Detectives Cooper and Quinn find themselves out of their comfort zone on a remote holiday island. Amid growing pressure from the mainland to solve the high-profile case, Cooper struggles with the island’s lack of resources and the decision from up high that the show must go on.
With the million-dollar winner-takes-all prize still up for grabs, the show’s five remaining contestants all seemingly have something to hide. Did one of them commit murder? Was a crew member involved? Or does the island have secrets of its own?
Everyone is entitled to a voice, but has a protest group turned to murder to make themselves heard?
A fatal stabbing in a local park appears to be a mugging gone wrong – but Detective Charlie Cooper suspects there’s more to this murder than meets the eye.
The victim worked at a local pharmaceutical plant, where protesters against the company’s manufacture of vaccines are becoming increasingly vocal. The victim was the CEO’s nephew, and soon a clear message is sent – stop making vaccines, or more blood will be shed.
Lab Technician Leo McCarthy loves his job at Lighthouse Pharmaceuticals. Processes and procedures, scientific testing, black and white – all things Leo’s difficult mind can understand. But when his friend is murdered, Leo’s world is thrown into a type of chaos he thought was long behind him.
A football player in the prime of his life is found dead from an apparent drug overdose. Was it an accident, suicide, or something more sinister?
Detective Charlie Cooper is struggling just to keep awake after some upheaval on the home front.
But life is busy for everyone, and Cooper is intrigued from the start with this baffling case. Jimmy Dallas was a rising star with everything to live for – would he really have stuck a needle in his arm the week before the biggest match of his career?
Joel Maguire for one does not believe his best mate would have knowingly injected himself with anything. Reeling from the shock loss, and dealing with some issues of his own, the Rangers’ star player struggles to put one foot in front of the other, let alone play finals football.
Someone’s killing farmers.
Anna Walsh is fed up with country life. Raised by one farming family, and married into another, she is one of Riverhaven’s favourite daughters. And she hates it. Anna and her husband have secret plans to escape the life they inherited but never wanted.
Then murder comes to town.
A poultry farmer is found strung up by his feet, electrocuted, his throat slashed. Murdered in the same brutal fashion as thousands of chickens on his farm every day.
The close-knit locals are horrified, and all fingers point to the new arrivals in town – animal activists. The group had seemed peaceful enough when they breezed in and set up camp by the river. But suspicions grow as more acts of violence plague the once peaceful rural community.
Their escape now on hold, Anna and her husband fear for her missing father-in-law. Locals assume he went bush to get over the sudden death of his wife. But with the new level of violence in town, Anna isn’t so sure anymore.
Has the animal rights group taken its fight against cruelty to a murderous level? Or is this sleepy rural paradise hiding a darker secret?
Bonnie Hunter has dedicated her career to locking up rapists.
While her track record for putting them behind bars is second-to-none, one particularly nasty character has eluded her for years. His penchant for cutting out the tongues of his victims to stop them talking has made him rather difficult to catch.
But he’s just made his first mistake.
Cooper and Quinn have their own problems. With a vigilante killer amongst them, they’re racing the clock to figure out who’s taking justice into their own hands before the press get wind of it and send the vigilante to ground.
Thrown together when the rapist commits his first murder, Bonnie, Cooper, and Quinn team up to stop a ruthless killer with a fresh taste for blood. But will they catch him before the vigilante does?
Discover a series of gripping mysteries set in the stunning harbour city of Sydney, Australia.
Charlie Cooper needs more time with his family. With his fortieth birthday behind him and his transfer out of homicide just around the corner, the weary detective is looking forward to a quieter life. But the city – and its killers – have other ideas.
Join Cooper and his new partner Quinn in the first three books of this compelling series as they race to save the final victim of a dead serial killer, uncover a family dynasty’s web of lies, and find the truth when a series of teenage suicides are not what they seem. Then jet off on a well-earned break from the city in the bonus novella, where Cooper and Quinn find out that island paradise is not all it’s cracked up to be.
If you enjoy a good page-turner with a tough, clever detective, a loyal sidekick, and a twisting plot to keep you reading well into the night, you’ll love Catherine Lee’s unforgettable Charlie Cooper Mysteries.
The conclusion of this gripping mystery series set in the stunning harbour city of Sydney, Australia.
Charlie Cooper is running out of time. After a series of unexplained murders, he’s come to the only conclusion that makes sense – the Sydney Homicide Squad has a vigilante on their hands. But with their superiors not listening and a suspect list that’s too close to home, can Cooper and Quinn find the killer before they lose one of their own?
Join your favourite Aussie crime-fighting duo as they uncover the truth in a drug factory with help from an unlikely ally, tackle the world of elite sports where the pressure to perform can be murder, and head to the country to find out who’s targeting farmers.
Then, in the unforgettable series conclusion, be right by Cooper’s side as he and Quinn finally discover the identity of the Vigilante Killer. Will justice ultimately be served? And will the Homicide Squad ever be the same again?
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