Jacqueline Holborough

This six tales of suspense examines the jealous, betrayals, and resentments that lead to tragedy.

The following day, Sam reports to Ross and Selway what she has seen, but they are skeptical. Sam is forced to put her job on the line to prove that they are wrong and that this horrifying crime was committed by two 15-year-old boys. As she pursues the tru

The police are still convinced that Matthews is responsible for his wife's death, until one of the team points out to Ross an old case file. Eight years before, a man called Baxter was killed in exactly the same way as Alan. Ross asks Sam to compare the B

The investigation widens. Sam quickly realizes that Terri's death could not have been suicide but she still has to prove it. Meanwhile the police are fitting together the pieces of a too-coincidental puzzle. At the gym, everything is in turmoil, until Kei

When an elderly woman is beaten to death on a rundown inner-city estate, suspicion falls upon a local alcoholic who has a history of violent crime. But Sam has little specific forensic evidence and the actual details of how Millicent sustained her injurie

A farming accident in present-day Cambridge leads Sam to investigate the army cover-up of a murder in Northern Ireland in 1985. When local farmer Phil Nelson dies after a fall under a combine harvester, Sam Ryan thinks the death is accidental. But an anonymous tip-off later points her to evidence that Phil was murdered. DI Connor quickly suspects Owen Johnson, a farm worker and former soldier, and Phil's wife, Jane. Then Ian Neal, a soldier who served...

A student is murdered and the police suspect it is the same person who killed lecturer Annabelle Evans. Sam is too close to the case and her emotion is clouding her judgement. She seeks the advice of her former mentor, Professor Leon Forman. Ryan believes that the killer is waiter and sometime student Marco Rossi, and that Annabelle's husband Martin is innocent. DI Connor learns that his suspicions are wrong about Martin killing his wife because she...

A drugs war leads Sam into the murky world of dealers, undercover detectives and police corruption. Sam is called to a squalid flat where Maggie Collins and her baby daughter are found dead, the mother from a drug overdose, the baby from dehydration. Two weeks later, an explosion kills a local drug dealer. Sam's post-mortem reveals that the dealer had ingested the same drug as the dead mother. Sam thinks the cases are linked, but her theories are...

Sam, now emotionally entangled with DI Michael Connor, continues her investigations into two suspicious deaths. The arrival in Cambridge of Connor's wife, Helen, could prove embarrassing. Sam is more worried about her work and the prospect of a job offer in London. But will Sam solve the mirroring crimes of the past and the present before a deadly personal revenge is enacted? What is the connection between the dead soldier, Ian Neal, and an Army killing...