Jill McGown Libros

The gripping new Lloyd and Hill mystery, following BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES February 13th: what seemed like Wilma Fenton's lucky night, when she scooped her biggest-ever win at bingo, turned out to be the night she died at the hands of someone lurking in the dimly-lit alleyway leading to her flat. And what seems to be a lucky break - there was an eyewitness to the whole incident - turns out to be a complication, for the man who saw the murder committed is Tony Baker, a well-known journalist and TV personality who, almost twenty years ago, single-handedly tracked down a serial killer who had eluded the police. Did Baker see more than he claims? Does he want to beat the police to the punch again? What seems like a minor complication turns out to be the trigger for a deadly chain of events, as the man the media will come to call the Anonymous Assassin publicly announces he will kill again, and challenges Baker to catch him before he does. In the full glare of the national media, Bartonshire police are to mount a dangerous, force-wide hunt for the killer, with Detective Chief Inspectors Lloyd and Hill and their hastily constituted team spearheading the investigation.

Three intriguing murder mysteries in one volume

The 7th Lloyd and Hill mystery. Lying in the glare of the police arc-light was the body of a 15-year-old schoolgirl, beaten, strangled and possibly raped. For Hill and Lloyd this is the start of a harrowing police enquiry. One that will produce suspects and motives but no witnesses.

A young woman is found murdered in a small English town, while the main suspect has spent the night drinking, and denies any involvement. It looks like an easily solved case for Detective Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Judy Hill, but it soon proves more complex than they originally thought.

The eleventh gripping police procedural featuring Detective Chief Inspectors Lloyd and Hill, by the acclaimed author of Plots and Errors.The wife of a well-to-do doctor is found bound, gagged, and suffocated, after an apparent burglary. But too much conflicting evidence, and too many suspects tell Detective Chief Inspectors Lloyd and Hill that this murder is far more complicated.

"Clever and surprising." THE KIRKUS REVIEWS Both victims were dishy, but that's all murder victims Leonora Austin, struggling artist, and Rosemary Beale, ex-call girl had in common. It's a disturbing case for newly promoted Detective Inspector Judy Hill, who knew Leonora, but also for her boyfriend, Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd. But when investigating the complicated romantic lives of Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Beale, including their husbands' past and present lovers, Hill and Lloyd uncover cold-hearted greed and calculated ambition—and a killer (or killers?) wanting to finish the job....

A white Christmas. Deepening snow isolated the village from the outside world. By the time the body in the vicarage was discovered, Byford was cut off altogether. It was, it seemed, a domestic murder. In fact Chief Inspector Lloyd thought it would be an open and shut case. But it turned out to be as complex and perplexing as his relationship with Sergeant Judy Hill. And both of them seemed to be slipping from his grasp…

When the owners of a struggling detective agency are found asphyxiated in their car, Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd rejects the majority opinion that they committed suicide. And his theory--that they were murdered--becomes even more likely when the doomed couple's one client, wealthy Mrs. Angela Esterbrook, is found shot to death.Why would someone with her sort of money employ an untried agency to carry out an investigation? The super-rich Esterbrook family is a puzzle that Lloyd and his partner, Judy Hill, must solve before it's too late. For the curtain is rising on a tragedy of Shakespearean grandeur. But no one, not even the cunning killer, anticipates how the plot will take on a lethal life of its own-- beyond everyone's control . . . .

Victor Holyoak made his millions by selling state-of-the-art security systems. In the end, even the most sophisticated devices were no protection against the intruder who murdered him in his own factory. The millionaire’s death shocked the townsfolk of Stansfield. But was there something they didn’t know about their deceased benefactor? Chief Inspector Lloyd was convinced he had seen Victor somewhere before. Was his memory playing tricks again? Or did the murky past hold the clues to a murder that seemed to come under the heading of unfinished business?

"A crisp...traditional mystery." LOS ANGELES TIMES Frank Derwent (F.D. to everyone in the business), the Hollywood hotshot, has come to western Scotland to shoot a movie. But what happens offscreen is much more interesting. Especially when Barbara, budding starlet and F.D's nineteen-year old mistress, is killed. Not quite as sweet as she seemed, the wee lass knew how to blackmail like a pro. Although clever Detective Patterson is on call to lend the local bobby a hand, he can't prevent further loss of life. And Patterson begins to suspect that no one is safe from his past--no matter where he (or she) hides....

Before Melissa Whitworth started interviewing for her article on the other woman she had never met her husband's secretary, Sharon Smith. Nor had it occured to her that her husband might be having an affair. But when Sharon is found strangled, Detective Chief Inspector Judy Hill investigates.

The deputy headmaster's wife has been murdered. At the rundown private boarding school, Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Judy Hill find a multitude of motives - and a school full of suspects. But no murder weapon is found because that went missing two months before the crime occurred.

‘He’d waited for her outside her flat that night, but Lloyd had come home with her, and he’d had to let it go. But he’d get her. One day. He’d get her.’ Four young women. Four horrific rapes. Committed, it is claimed, by Colin Arthur Drummond, a privileged young man from Malworth. Certainly Detective Judy Hill will never forget his chilling description of a fifth unreported rape—or his threat that she was to be his sixth. The prosecution has an open-and-shut case against him—or do they? For very soon, Drummond is threatening Judy again. As she sets out to prove his guilt for a second time—and save her own job—Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd is called to a horrifying scene. It appears Colin Drummond has picked his next victim...

When Dean Fletcher fell for a blonde nymphet named Kayleigh Scott, he managed to ruin his life. Kayleigh had told him she was eighteen. In truth, she was not quite thirteen—and poor Dean was soon off to prison, a convicted sex offender, still smitten with his adolescent lover.Now he’s finally free again, only to be ensnared by two crimes that have Chief Detective Inspector Lloyd pulling out what’s left of his hair. One is an infant kidnapping; the other is the murder of Kayleigh’s mother on the very eve of the family’s sudden move to Australia. Lloyd thinks he hears the ring of truth in Dean’s declarations of innocence. But with his partner Judy out on maternity leave, he’ll have to pick his way alone through this minefield of birth, death, murder, and domestic evil.

‘Telling him that she might be pregnant had been a desperate measure that at least called a halt to the violence while she worked out where to go from here. And there was only one way that she could see...’ More than half of Bartonshire, it seemed, had entertained murderous thoughts at some time or another about bullying farmer Bernard Bailey. Which might have explained why his property was protected by more security devices than Fort Knox. All, sadly, to no avail. After six months of highly publicized death threats, Bernard’s bloodiest corpse is discovered in his isolated farmhouse—launching DCI Lloyd and DI Judy Hill into the most unusual murder enquiry of their careers. For as the evidence is sifted, the question for once isn’t ‘Who stood to gain from the death?’ but ‘Why didn’t they do it sooner?’