Maureen Carter: 16 books

Birmingham DI Sarah Quinn contends with a relentless TV reporter in this “crisply written” series debut from the author of the Bev Morriss novels (Library Journal).   When a baby is snatched from outside a Birmingham newsagent’s, ‘Ice Queen’ Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn is on the case....

When a child is murdered, everyone gets a life sentence. When ten-year-old Josh Bankss body is discovered dumped on waste ground, Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss wants justice. Shes not alone. Everyone hates child killers even hardened criminals. Tip-offs trickle in, and the new press liaison officer...

Fifteen years old…brutalised, dumped in a park, throat slashed - schoolgirl prostitute Michelle Lucas died in agony and terror, utterly alone The sight breaks the heart of Sergeant Bev Morriss of West Midlands Police. She thought she was hardened, but gazing at Michelle’s pale, broken body she is...

A hardhitting Sarah Quinn police procedural|Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn and her team are not having a good week. A series of horrifying, vicious street attacks have left the police baffled, with no leads to follow. Random acts of mindless violence? Or is there more to it than that? Meanwhile,...

A serial killer's targeting Birmingham's paedophiles, and crime reporter Matt Snow always gets there first - ahead of the pack and the police. Is the murderer tipping him off? Snow isn't revealing his source - not when it's a story to die for. But is the reporter breaking the news - or making it?Through...

A widow kills herself. A father jumps to his death. A teenager’s body is callously dumped in a derelict school. Are there links with the menacing caller who’s playing a macabre game of cat and mouse with a reporter? All in all, Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss has more than enough on her professional...

When 16-year-old Caitlin Reynolds fails to return home from school, Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn soon realizes this is no ordinary missing persons case. How could a schoolgirl vanish in broad daylight with no witnesses? Why is Caitlin's mother so unhelpful and hostile to the police? Then the note...

An abandoned baby… A kidnapped five-year-old… A dead police officer… And Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss thinks shes having a hard time! Bev doesnt do fragile and vulnerable, and struggling to cope with the aftermath of a vicious attack, she is desperate not to reveal the lurking self-doubt. But...

A hard-hitting DI Sarah Quinn police procedural - 'Olivia Kent is lying. Olivia Kent is crying. Olivia Kent is dying. I could make it quicker. Put her out of her misery. But I won't.' The anonymous letter sent to the chief superintendent would appear to be a piece of malicious nonsense. But schoolteacher...

Blood splattered daffodils stuffed in a dead woman's mouth. The random act of a sneering gang, or revenge forged in burning hatred? West Midlands Police think Sophie Carrington's murder is the latest attack by teen yobs beating up the old - but Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss won't accept it. No one desecrates...

A good police officer doesnt get emotional, but some cases just make you want to cry… Taken off a high-profile rape investigation to lead the hunt for a missing baby, Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is torn professionally and personally. When the baby-snatching turns into something more sinister it...

His wife murdered, his baby abducted who’s making media personality Nathan Rayne suffer? And how much closer to home can the criminal get? The police inquiry is going nowhere . . . and Birmingham’s kick-ass cop Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is on sick leave after witnessing a colleague’s murder....

Ice-cool Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn and fiery reporter Caroline King lock horns once again in this latest intriguing mystery. When the body of a teenage girl is found in a local park, it is assumed she is the latest victim of a serial sex offender who has been plaguing the area. But when...

A body with multiple stab wounds and four tiny puncture marks is found lying in a pool of blood, the victim beaten beyond recognition. Even seasoned detectives regard the damage inflicted as overkill. With a faceless, nameless victim, the inquiry’s on the back foot from the start. Stakes...