Evil lurks in the city streets.
A man is discovered on a leafy North London street, fighting for life after a brutal beating. DI Matthew Denning and his team are quickly called in to track down the monster responsible.
Except the victim is hiding secrets of his own. His name shows that he was reported missing two decades ago - but it's clear that the missing person is not the same man lying broken in a hospital bed.
A visit to a squalid East London flat unearths a victim with his throat slit, his body left to decompose. A sad end to any life - but when it is identified as former DCI Frank Buckfield, star of the Met police, the case takes on a new significance.
Two seemingly unrelated cases - but as Denning and DS Molly Fisher, investigate further, they uncover links between the two victims that lead back to a ring of silence cloaking the blackest of crimes.
But as Denning and Fisher try to track down a killer with revenge on their mind, they find themselves pitted against a psychopath who will kill to keep their secrets hidden. Can they uncover the truth, before they end up the latest victims?
The latest in the gripping London crime series featuring DI Matthew Denning and DS Molly Fisher, The Darkness Within is a must-read if you like Angela Marsons, L.J. Ross or Joy Ellis.
Praise for the Denning and Fisher crime thriller series:
'This story starts with a bang and holds your attention throughout...fast paced and multi layered, each twist and turn drawing us further in' - Book Bound
'Enough twists to keep you guessing in this solid, engrossing and well plotted police procedural...thoroughly entertaining' - The Bookwormery
'Wow I really enjoyed this book! It is a complex, intriguing, grabbing book that you can sink your teeth into. I was hooked from beginning to end' - Reading Through the Pain.
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Graeme Hampton grew up in Central Scotland. After training as a stage manager in the theatre, he worked in London for a number of years, before returning to Scotland to study for a BA in English Literature at Stirling University. The DArkness Within is his third novel.
He lives in Hastings, East Sussex.
He gazes at the bodies. Young men, probably in their early thirties. The wooden flooring around them has been stained dark red. He wonders what kind of monster could have done this.
And why.
As a murder detective in the Met Police, D.I. Matthew Denning is used to seeing the very worst of humanity. But when a young woman's body is discovered in an East London churchyard, her face obliterated by blows, he is plunged into his most shocking case yet. While the investigation discovers that victim Bryony Allen was hiding some dark secrets, nothing seems to warrant the violence that ended her life.
Until Denning, along with D.S. Molly Fisher, uncovers a link between this murder and the disappearance of an undercover policeman investigating a high-level criminal gang, one that may be responsible for the deaths of two men found dead in a ritual execution in Kent. While the top brass want to suppress Denning's discovery, the team knows that the key to the case may lie in the actions of a rogue officer.
And when his own boss, D.C.I. Liz McKenna, goes missing, the case becomes even more personal. Can Denning and Fisher get justice for Bryony's murder, while fighting through the wall of silence from the powers that be?
A twisty, utterly compelling detective novel that fans of Stuart MacBride and Line of Duty will love.
Praise for the Denning and Fisher series:
'fast paced and utterly gripping, with plenty to keep you guessing from start to finish. Thoroughly entertaining.' The Bookwormery
'Well-paced, with a few clever twists, I was never quite sure I knew who the killer was. Graeme Hampton's writing is fabulous.' Jessica Belmont
'This story starts with a bang and holds your attention throughout...fast paced and multi layered, each twist and turn drawing us further in.' Book Bound.
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Graeme Hampton grew up in Central Scotland. After training as a stage manager in the theatre, he worked in London for a number of years, before returning to Scotland to study for a BA in English Literature at Stirling University. Run For Cover is his fourth novel.
He lives in Hastings, East Sussex.
Old crimes don't stay buried forever...
The launch of a gripping new crime thriller series featuring D.I. Matthew Denning and D.S. Molly Fisher, Know No Evil will utterly engross fans of Ian Rankin, Angela Marsons and L.J. Ross.
It's high summer, and London sizzles in the grip of a heatwave. But when the body of a young mother, Leanne Wyatt, is discovered in an East London park, the heat rises to boiling point for D.I. Matthew Denning. Under pressure to solve the case, and fast, he delves into Leanne's history and finds that she was close to some dangerous individuals - could one of them have taken her life? But when another woman is found dead in similar circumstances, Denning is forced to consider that a killer stalks the capital's streets.
But when young, ambitious, D.S. Molly Fisher discovers a horrifying link to these deaths and a killing spree in South London a decade ago - by a psychopath dubbed 'The Bermondsey Ripper' - the case is blown wide open.
Anthony Ferguson is serving a life sentence for these crimes, so are these new deaths the result of a copycat killer - or did the police convict the wrong man? Whatever the case, Denning and Fisher need to stop a killer in their tracks - before he or she sets their sights on them.
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Graeme Hampton grew up in Central Scotland. After training as a stage manager in the theatre, he worked in London for a number of years, before returning to Scotland to study for a BA in English Literature at Stirling University. Know No Evil is his first novel.
He lives in Hastings, East Sussex.
All families have secrets... some are deadly.
When D.I. Matthew Denning is called to investigate a house fire in a North London street, he never anticipated the horrors that awaited him. As Denning and D.S. Molly Fisher search the wreckage, the bodies of the Galloway family - Brian and Ellie, son Simon, daughter Amber and 9-year-old grandson Caleb - are discovered in the smouldering house.
All evidence points to a tragic accident... until Matthew and Molly discover that the family was dead before the fire, murdered in their home by a faceless psychopath.
What starts as a routine investigation swiftly turns into a murder investigation, with Denning and Fisher hunting a killer who has wiped out three generations.
But as the case deepens, Denning and Fisher discover that the Galloways were no ordinary family. Like all families, they harbour secrets - but unlike others, their secrets were so deadly, someone is willing to spill blood to keep them hidden...
An utterly gripping detective thriller set in London, Blood Family will thrill fans of Angela Marsons, Mark Billingham and Robert Bryndza.
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Graeme Hampton grew up in Central Scotland. After training as a stage manager in the theatre, he worked in London for a number of years, before returning to Scotland to study for a BA in English Literature at Stirling University. Know No Evil is his first novel.
He lives in Hastings, East Sussex.
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