Raven Settles a Score

Raven Settles a Score
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2013-07-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471905063

John Raven - the ex-cop with a taste for exotic adventures and voluptuous adventurers - is unexpectedly thrust into the thick of the action. His Andalusian holiday turns out to be no picnic when he finds himself at the crossroads of the snow-white heroin trail and the blood-red trail of international murder . . . 'A swift, stylish novel' Publishers Weekly

Dangerous Silence

Dangerous Silence
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471905640

For six years Kit Fraser has been an honest man, selling burglary insurance for his father-in-law. But no one knows the truth about his history, and why he is so uniquely placed to advise his clients. No one, that is, except Kline, who emerges from the shadows of the past with an offer that Kit may have no choice but to accept - even through it will jeopardise his secure life, and his future.

Zaleski's Percentage

Zaleski's Percentage
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-07-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471904962

Zaleski is a middle-aged philanderer determined to retrieve the Virgin's Dowry, a jeweled monstrance worth £500,000, which has reappeared for display in an art gallery in Conduit Street in London. This ageing Polish patriot carries out the crime but in doing so becomes the target for Detective Inspector John Raven of the CID - one of the most ruthless and capable policemen on the force. 'Perfectly fascinating and perfectly written' Chicago Sun Times

The Scent of Danger

The Scent of Danger
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471905624

It was a dazzling two-man jewel robbery that went like clockwork, but when Arran and his confederate, Bain, fall out the plot takes a sinister turn. Bain learns that Arran has left with the take, and without his wife, Caroline, for Gibraltar. With Caroline as bait, and a false passport, Bain follows Arran - but his single-minded desire for retribution is weakened by his attraction to Caroline, which, for the first time, threatens his criminal existence. And Bain can secure revenge only at the expense of his freedom . . .

Loose Cannon

Loose Cannon
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2013-07-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147190556X

Newly extradited to England from California on charges of fraud, Philip Page faces a long prison sentence. The police are already convinced of his guilt, having been furnished with apparently watertight evidence by an anonymous informant, but Page believes he has been framed. Released on bail, he sets about unmasking the mystery witness. When maverick investigator John Raven is called by one of the suspects, Page and Raven soon realise they want the same thing. So begins a gripping race against time to expose the source of the evidence and clear Page's name.

Death is a Friend

Death is a Friend
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2014-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147190492X

'Donald MacKenzie is a born storyteller' Guardian Every thief dreams of committing the perfect crime. Cameron, Thorne and Gun are convinced that the jewel robbery they have planned cannot possibly go wrong, but jealousy mistrust and fear doom the enterprise from the start. One of them dies a slow, hideous death; the other two find they have walked into hell. Soon, a beautiful woman and two desperate men find themselves trapped by their own actions. And when the thread of tension snaps they learn that death can indeed be a friend.

Cool Sleeps Balaban

Cool Sleeps Balaban
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471905748

Scott and Usher both need money, and they need it badly. One to save his farm, the other his future. Usher is an experienced criminal and housebreaker, but Scott is a rookie - he's desperate for cash, but petrified of the implications that his actions might have. To make enough money for their purposes, the pair must commit at least two burglaries - but when things go wrong they discover themselves capable of a degree of violence and level of treachery that lead to a climax of nightmarish proportions.

Three Minus Two

Three Minus Two
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471905780

Journalist Hamish Hunter finds himself in possession of a film on which the fate of several people and the relations between two countries - Poland and Great Britain - depend. But who can he trust? His girlfriend, Wanda, daughter of a déraciné Polish count, whose loyalties are more complex than they seem? An old friend in the intelligence racket? The authorities? Soon Hunter finds himself in desperation, hounded on all sides, and in a climax of nerve-racking suspense it becomes finally clear that no on is on any side but their own.

Double Exposure

Double Exposure
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2014-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471905705

Kit Hendry has several criminal convictions, but now he is given the choice of a twelve-year sentence or a government mission to trace the security leakage from a Dusseldorf installation. Kit can crack safes - he can also speak German. Under the vigilant surveillance of Gaunt and also of Bernadette, with whom he is infatuated, he crosses the channel and is exposed to a smallpox victim, but the film he secures becomes the final double take . . .

Deep, Dark and Dead

Deep, Dark and Dead
Author: Donald MacKenzie
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471905888

The charge against Shane Stafford was assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Stafford had attacked gossip columnist Gavin Legge. Legge had been engaged to Shane's twin sister. In Shane's view Legge had not just let down his sister, but had hounded her to suicide. It was the custom of the Stafford clan to stick together. Shane's attack on Legge had been public and conspicuous. The police believed they had an open-and-shut case. But did they?