The DCI Jairus Novels

Jairus isn’t a policeman anymore, and it’s killing him. His whole world has collapsed after being investigated for murder, twice. Cleared, but off the force, he spends his days drinking and trying to fathom what went wrong. Then he gets offered a deal from the devil. Douglas Burdock, son of a much despised media baron, asks Jairus to look into the closed brutal murder of a journalist, suspecting a cover-up. If Jairus solves the case, then Burdock will use his father’s influence to get him back on the force. But nothing’s that simple.

On a cold winter’s morning, DCI Jairus finds himself in a forgotten house with only the dead for company. Two pensioners have been brutally slaughtered in a ritualistic manner, which seems to link back to a cold case. Now sober and back on the force, Jairus finds himself facing a cold case from five years earlier that everybody thought was closed. After the massacre of a family, Rebecca Barclay-Cole was arrested and sent to prison for the murders; now she’s out, exonerated, and DCI Jairus must solve the mystery and find out who really murdered her family and the two latest victims.