Major Crime Squad Series

THE CHARACTERS AND EVENTS IN THIS SERIES ARE ENTIRELY FICTITIOUS AND ACCORDINGLY, ANY SIMILARITY BETWEEN THEM AND ACTUAL CHARACTERS OR EVENTS IS ENTIRELY COINCIDENTAL. BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THESE STORIES, THERE IS MENTION OF SEXUAL ABUSE AND SIMILAR BEHAVIOURS WHICH MAY AFFECT SOME READERS, SO DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
== Alphabetical List of Books ==
A Pound of Flesh
A Study in White
A Thousand Words
A Woman Scorned
Bed of Roses
Black Friday
Born that Way
Breathless
Burning Desire
By Mine Own Hand
Carbon Copy
Crash Course
Crossing the Line
Dead in the Water
Do No Harm
Don't Bank on It
Fourteen Words
Ghosts of the Past
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Honour Among Thieves
Hot Shot
In the Eye of the Beholder
In the Name of the Father
Line of Fire
Lost Boys
Meat Market
Misjudged
Money to Burn
New Beginnings
No Rest for the Wicked
Once Bitten
One for All
Out of the Cold
Suffer Little Children
Thicker than Water
Turf War
Watcher in the Night
Who Will Guard the Guards
Poison XXXX
== Chronological Order ==
For a more detailed chronology, see Timeline.
# Suffer Little Children
# Meat Market
# Who Will Guard the Guards
# Breathless
# Bed of Roses
# Burning Desire
# Dead in the Water
# Fourteen Words
# In the Name of the Father
# Born that Way
# One for All
# Home Is Where the Heart Is
# Misjudged
# Turf War
# Watcher in the Night
# Carbon Copy
# Do No Harm
# A Woman Scorned
# Black Friday
# Ghosts of the Past
# New Beginnings
# Crash Course
# Money to Burn
# Honour Among Thieves
# No Rest for the Wicked
# Don't Bank on It
# Hot Shot
# In the Eye of the Beholder
# Out of the Cold
# Lost Boys
# Line of Fire
# A Pound of Flesh
#By Mine Own Hand
#Crossing the Line
# Thicker than Water
#Once Bitten
#Poison XXXX
#A Study in White
#Homeless XXXX
#A Thousand Words
== Blurbs ==
=== Suffer Little Children ===
Eleven-year-old Holly Grisham goes missing on her way home from school on a Friday afternoon, sparking an investigation by the police. The following Monday, she is found in Hester Park, alive but in a coma. Initially, her father is pursued as a suspect; however, less than a week later, Joanna Yorke goes missing while at Hoyts Southlands – and because Ian Grisham is being interviewed by the police at the time, he is ruled out as a suspect.
=== Meat Market ===
A prostitute turns up dead in an alley by the hotel where she was last seen, which in itself does not seem that unusual, however, when an autopsy is conducted, it is found that she is missing her liver.
=== Who Will Guard the Guards ===
A member of the police force turns up dead. Investigation of his death reveals that he was murdered and that the killer is someone who has knowledge of forensic techniques and how to combat them.
=== Breathless ===
Women are being strangled around Perth. Apart from the way they are killed, and the fact that only women are targeted, there is no definitive victimology.
=== Bed of Roses ===
A killer is finding his victims on a dating site. He arranges to meet them and takes them to a hotel room, where he seduces and kills them.
=== Burning Desire ===
A serial arsonist is targeting people around Perth, assaulting them and then burning them alive.
=== Dead in the Water ===
Victoria Summers is drowned in her hotel bath. At first, an ex-boyfriend is a suspect, but then a second victim is drowned.
=== Fourteen Words ===
A self-proclaimed white supremacist is "clensing" [sic] the community.
=== In the Name of the Father ===
A young prostitute is found dead, crucified, in Highgate. It doesn’t seem unduly significant until a second and third are found similarly laid out. During the autopsy of the first (and later similarly with the second and third), it is found that she was given the last rites.
=== Born that Way ===
Men are being murdered around Perth, in particular near the clubs of Northbridge.
=== One for All ===
A group of three or four men is targeting young women, and gang-raping them.
=== Home Is Where the Heart Is ===
Two men target homes in Perth’s western suburbs. Unusually, they pick times when the owners are home. They will rape the women, and physically assault the men, before killing them.
=== Misjudged ===
A supreme court judge is killed in an apparent hit and run, and detectives race to find which of her cases might be related to the incident.
=== Turf War ===
Felix "Happy" Wolfe from motorcycle club The Renegades is murdered. Fearing retaliatory attacks, the Major Crime Squad investigates. However, a second victim is found, from a rival gang.
=== Watcher in the Night ===
A car is bombed, and the driver, who died in the explosion, turns out to be Jacob Goodman, who is out on parole. When Grant Etheridge is released, he is attacked and left for dead, later succumbing to his wounds.
=== Carbon Copy ===
A young girl goes missing and the M.O. is the same as that in an abduction in what has become a cold case, as it was originally investigated in 2007.
=== Do No Harm ===
An ‘Angel of Mercy’ is taking the lives of terminally ill patients in hospitals around Perth.
=== A Woman Scorned ===
A man is found dead, having recently been with a woman. Though it later turns out that the woman he was with was not his wife. It appears that the cause of death is poisoning.
=== Black Friday ===
A young girl is abducted from Mueller Park, near West Leederville train station. However, the detectives soon realise that she is only the first of a string of girls.
=== Ghosts of the Past ===
A career soldier takes his own life after being unable to work through his PTSD as a result of service in Vietnam. So someone decides to take out target those he perceives as part of the problem – other members of the armed forces.
=== New Beginnings ===
An apparent home invasion in which the whole family is killed brings the team in contact with the Federal Police again, as it turns out that the family was part of the National Witness Protection Program.
=== Crash Course ===
The police connect a string of hit and run incidents to the same vehicle.
=== Money to Burn ===
Someone is targeting expensive houses, not just to rob them, but rather to punish the owners, apparently for their wealth.
=== Honour Among Thieves ===
A killer targets inmates and staff at a local women's prison and detectives go undercover to investigate.
=== No Rest for the Wicked ===
The team flies out to the coastal town of Mammangup, where someone is targetting local kids.
=== Don't Bank on It ===
A spree of bank robberies hits Perth, and the one thing they have in common is that none of the hostages survives.
=== Hot Shot ===
The team is called in when a string of apparent accidental overdoses is linked chemically to the same batch of drugs.
=== In the Eye of the Beholder ===
A young woman is beaten to death and cut up with particular attention paid to her face and breasts, but there is no evidence of any sexual assault.
=== Out of the Cold ===
A body is found, that is later revealed to have been cryogenically frozen.
=== Lost Boys ===
The body of a man turns up, and he is later positively identified as someone who went missing twenty years earlier. But the post mortem reveals that he has only recently been killed.
=== Line of Fire ===
A killer strikes by remote, using a drone. A single shot, straight to the heart. The team must discover who is behind the attack before more killings occur.
=== A Pound of Flesh ===
The team gets directed to look into a string of possible murders in the horse racing industry, not of humans, but of the horses themselves.
=== By Mine Own Hand ===
A series of suicides that aren't necessarily suicides draws the attention of the MCS team.
=== Crossing the Line ===
A killer comes from New Zealand and keeps killing.
=== Thicker than Water ===
A young woman in the late stages of pregnancy is abducted in what seems like a carjacking, but the following day, her body is found, and it appears that someone has performed an emergency caesarean, however there is no sign of the baby.
=== Once Bitten ===
A woman turns up dead, and it is discovered that she was once a victim of a sexual assault. Although considered an unfortunate coincidence, it is not until the second victim is found that the connection is made.
=== Poison XXXX ===
Patrons at a restaurant are poisoned. At first it seems like an individual incident or maybe an accident. However, a second restaurant is targeted in a similar fashion.
=== A Study in White ===
A young woman is killed at her wedding. However, while an ex is being interviewed as a suspect, a second prospective bride is killed and the CIU is brought onboard. They are pushed to find the perpetrator as an upcoming bridal expo will provide a fertile ground for potential victims.