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 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

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

Drone Killer XXXX

## Chronological Order

*For a more detailed chronology, see Timeline.*

1. Suffer Little Children
2. Meat Market
3. Who Will Guard the Guards
4. Breathless
5. Bed of Roses
6. Burning Desire
7. Dead in the Water
8. Fourteen Words
9. In the Name of the Father
10. Born that Way
11. One for All
12. Home Is Where the Heart Is
13. Misjudged
14. Turf War
15. Watcher in the Night
16. Carbon Copy
17. Do No Harm
18. A Woman Scorned
19. Black Friday
20. Ghosts of the Past
21. New Beginnings
22. Crash Course
23. Money to Burn
24. Honour Among Thieves
25. No Rest for the Wicked
26. Don't Bank on It
27. Hot Shot
28. In the Eye of the Beholder
29. Out of the Cold
30. Lost Boys
31. Crossing the Line
32. Drone Killer XXXX
33. By Mine Own Hand
34. A Pound of Flesh
35. Thicker than Water
36. Once Bitten

## 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.

### 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.

### Crossing the Line

A killer comes from New Zealand and keeps killing.

### Drone Killer XXXX

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.

### By Mine Own Hand

A series of suicides that aren't necessarily suicides draws the attention of the MCS team.

### 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.

### 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.