Detective Inspector Declan Walsh

By the time you read this, I will be dead..." When Victoria Davies was pushed off her stately home's roof in 2001, all evidence pointed to her husband Michael. But now, twenty years later a letter has appeared, written by Victoria before her death; a letter that was never received, and a letter...

The second book in a new series of procedural crime thrillers featuring DI Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon, Murder Of Angels is perfect for fans of L.J Ross, Ian Rankin, Damian Boyd and Ann Cleeves. Finding a home at DCI Alexander Monroe's Last Chance Saloon Crime Unit, Declan and...

The third book in a new series of procedural crime thrillers featuring DI Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon, Hunter Hunted is perfect for fans of L.J Ross, Ian Rankin, Damian Boyd and Ann Cleeves. When an old friend of DI Declan Walsh is murdered and an old enemy restarts their...

The fourth book in a series of procedural crime thrillers, Whisper For The Reaper is perfect for fans of L.J Ross, Ian Rankin, Damian Boyd and Ann Cleeves. Ten years ago, DCI Patrick Walsh found himself hunting The Red Reaper; a serial killer so cunning that every body found with his calling...

The fifth book in a new series of procedural crime thrillers featuring DI Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon, To Hunt A Magpie is perfect for fans of L.J Ross, Ian Rankin, Damian Boyd and Ann Cleeves. Thirty years ago a group of five child detectives; Tommy, Luke, Tess, Jane and Daniel...

Thrice cursed. Thrice bound. Thrice damned. When the body of a famous television academic is discovered in Greenwich Park, carefully positioned beside a megalithic stone fountain and missing a hand, DI Declan Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon find themselves not only involved in a...

The seventh book in a series of procedural crime thrillers by #1 New York Times bestselling writer Jack Gatland, Killing The Music is perfect for fans of L.J Ross, Ian Rankin and Alex Smith. When Dave Mansford, founding member of 80's band Alternator is electrocuted live on stage during a...

After a fatal poisoning in Essence, the Michelin-Starred restaurant of celebrity TV chef Leroy Daniels, DI Declan Walsh and the team of the Temple Inn 'Last Chance Saloon' Command Unit find themselves in the middle of a multi-sensory gastro war, following an investigation that takes them deep...

Before he was a policeman, DI Declan Walsh was a Corporal in the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police, resigning after a case went terribly wrong, ending with Declan and his SIB partner, Lance-Corporal Moses killing the main suspect of a case in self-defence. Now, over ten...

To be the king - you need to kill the king. When East-End gangster and 'frenemy' to the Last Chance Saloon, Johnny Lucas, is accused of murdering a London gangland rival in his boxing club, he claims his brother was the killer. The only problem though is that his brother, Jackie, is actually...

If you hunt - prepare to be hunted. When the body of convicted serial killer Jacob Spears, AKA the 'Essex Ripper' is found, hanged outside the walls of onetime Newgate Prison, DI Declan Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon find themselves in a race against time--as they hunt a vicious...

Sometimes, folklores are real. When legendary TV actor Montgomery Pryce is shot in the chest by an arrow and killed while on stage during a Robin Hood convention, Detective Inspector Declan Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon are brought in to solve the murder, only to find that nearly...

You'd better not laugh... you'd better not die. Father Christmas, otherwise known as good ol' Santa Claus is dead, murdered in the street, poisoned with a fatal cocktail laced with mistletoe for that 'Christmas touch'. But he wasn't the first, and he won't be the last - because across London...

When you go digging, don't be surprised at what you find... When a decades-old body is discovered in an underground cell in Temple Church, DI Declan Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon are sent to discover more on it - in particular, why a twenty-year old body has been dug up from their...

Spike the story - before it spikes you... It's a time of change for the Last Chance Saloon - recent promotions have changed the focus of the Unit, and when a Fleet Street Legend, Hunt Robinson, is kidnapped from Heathrow Airport and found close to death in the crypt of Fleet Street's St Bride's...

Lipstick on your collar... Murder on your mind... following the bombshell ending of Kill Your Darlings, Declan Walsh has a new job, a new office and a new remit - but when a City of London art gallery discovers the star of their latest exhibition dead, with only a signed, painted "kiss" on his...

The critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Declan Walsh series continues... It's all fun and games - until somebody dies... When a body is found beside the Roman Fort Gate on the London Wall, dressed as a Roman Soldier and with an antique Roman Gladius stabbed into their chest, it's...

The critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Declan Walsh series continues... He's back. When new victims of the still-at-large serial killer known as the Red Reaper start to appear in London, DCI Declan Walsh and his team are placed back on the case - but everything isn't what it seems...

The critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Declan Walsh series continues... Waiting for a taxi can be murder. Someone is killing London "black cab" taxi drivers. Seemingly unconnected, but all with the same MO, bodies are being found across the City of London, and only two clues...

The critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Declan Walsh series continues... "Ring-a-ring o' roses, a pocket full of posies, a-tishoo! a-tishoo! They all fall down..." Three years ago, Detective Sergeant Anjli Kapoor faced her most terrifying case—the brutal kidnapping and murder of...