Crime Fiction

English Crime Fiction set in the North-West of England.

 

Inspector Walter Darriteau is a black detective based in Chester in the north-west of England.

He’s nearing retirement but not yet ready to be pensioned off. You can follow Walter Darriteau’s cases in David Carter’s murder mysteries that are all based in and around Chester, North Wales, and the Wirral.

 

For People Who Enjoy Murder Mysteries 

 

In “The Murder Diaries – Seven Times Over” a Lay Preacher is run down on the by-pass. A Right Reverend falls under the London express on the North Wales coastal line, and an old man drowns in the canal. Accident, suicide, or murder? Could it just be coincidence that three men die within a short period of time? 

Walter doesn’t believe in coincidences and is soon on the case, and when an old lady is found dead in Delamere forest, death by carbon monoxide poisoning but no abandoned car in the vicinity, Walter is convinced there is a serial killer at large. But what is the motive for these seemingly random killings?

Can he find the killer before he or she kills again, and in so doing Walter puts his own life at risk. “The Murder Diaries – Seven Times Over” is out now in paperback and as an ebook on Kindle.

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If You Are Looking for a British Based Police Thriller Then Look No Further!

 

“The Sound of Sirens” opens with a brutal and bloody murder. A young man enters a packed city centre pub last thing on a hot Friday night. He pulls a gun from his lightweight jacket and shoots dead the lead singer of the band before making his escape from the bar.

Walter Darriteau only lives locally and is soon on the scene, as is the chief crime reporter from the local newspaper, Gardenia Floem.

‘Is this a drugs related killing?’ she asks.

‘How the hell would I know!’ replies an annoyed Walter. ‘Get her out of here!’

But is it a drugs related killing? ponders Walter, as everyone over the ensuing days seems to believe. Walter isn’t so sure about that and is soon following various leads all over the city in an effort to apprehend the culprit.

And he isn’t to know that this is but the first of three equally horrendous deaths. It isn't long before he is under huge pressure from his boss, Mrs West, to solve the case. But can Walter do that before anyone else is killed?

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