David Kilner: 5 books

Detective Sergeant Skyla Merrick investigates the strange case of a man found murdered with his arm boiled in cooking oil. She has a suspect but why is he so keen to confess?

Detective Sergeant Skyla Merrick finds herself embroiled in a farce involving her boyfriend, a dodgy politician and the politician’s wife, all of whom have secrets they’d rather not have revealed. Then the spirits of George Orwell and Big Brother upset the delicate applecart.

Skyla Merrick is always in some kind of trouble … In disgrace and suspended, the Cornish-born detective witnesses the first of the bizarre deaths while visiting Arthurs Bay, a coastal fishing village with bigger ideas. The director of a local climate change research facility, Edwina Ling, is number...

Skyla Merrick is always in some kind of trouble … On light duties – investigating the theft of rock art – following a near-death experience, DS Skyla Merrick is challenged when ordered to  investigate a series of grotesque murders and weird clues. Quickly the contours of the case take shape....

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