Sarah Ward

A Carla James Crime Thriller

1 - Death Rites (Jan-2025)

Inspector Francis Sadler

1 - In Bitter Chill (Oct-2015)
2 - A Deadly Thaw (Oct-2016)
3 - A Patient Fury (Sep-2017)
4 - The Shrouded Path (Sep-2018)

A Mallory Dawson Crime Thriller

1 - The Birthday Girl (Apr-2023)
2 - The Sixth Lie (Nov-2023)
3 - The Vanishing Act (Jul-2024)
4 - The Death Lesson (Oct-2025)

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  In Bitter Chill
  

  • Oct-2015
  • / Police Procedural
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  Inspector Francis Sadler - 1
  

  The deepest secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves in this richly atmospheric, compellingly written, and expertly constructed crime debut from an emerging talent. Derbyshire, 1978: a small town in the idyllic English countryside is traumatize...

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  A Deadly Thaw
  

  • Oct-2016
  • / Police Procedural
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  Inspector Francis Sadler - 2
  

  Lena Grey is found guilty of murdering her husband, who was found smothered in their bed. She offers no defense, and serves fourteen long years in prison. But within months of her release nearly two decades later, his body is found in a disused morgu...

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  A Patient Fury
  

  • Sep-2017
  • / Police Procedural
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  Inspector Francis Sadler - 3
  

  When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as she steps from the car that this house contains death. Three bodies discovered - a family obliterated - their deaths all s...

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  The Shrouded Path
  

  • Sep-2018
  • / Police Procedural
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  Inspector Francis Sadler - 4
  

  The past won't stay buried forever. November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshire mists, the first chills of winter in the air. Their voices carrying across the fields, they follow the old train tracks into the dark tunnel of t...

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  The Birthday Girl
  

  • Apr-2023
  • / Thriller
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  A Mallory Dawson Crime Thriller - 1
  

  Welcome to Eldey, an island with deadly secrets.Mona: a carefree artist, staying at the Cloister to work on her illustrations.Beth: the harried mother of a toddler, on the remote Welsh island for a weekend with her family.Charlotte: a reluctant stepm...

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  The Sixth Lie
  

  • Nov-2023
  • / Thriller
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  A Mallory Dawson Crime Thriller - 2
  

  Six lies killed Huw Jones.On New Year's Eve 2011, Huw Jones disappeared from his bedroom while his father and five friends were downstairs. His body was later discovered on the nearby cliffs at St Non's.That night, all six friends lied in their state...

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  The Vanishing Act
  

  • Jul-2024
  • / General Fiction
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  A Mallory Dawson Crime Thriller - 3
  

  Everyone in the family had a secret. Which one has proved deadly?When Mallory Dawson gets a call from a former colleague, Elsa, describing a strange scene, she initially thinks nothing of it. The teenage cleaner had gone into clean a holiday cottage ...

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  Death Rites
  

  • Jan-2025
  • / Mystery
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  A Carla James Crime Thriller - 1
  

  ‘Fresh, original and utterly compelling’ Marion ToddA calculated killer. A town under threat. An unfinished pattern...Archaeology professor Carla James is reeling following the death of her husband. Desperate for a change of scene, she ta...

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  Quiet Bones
  

  • Jun-2025
  • / General Fiction
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  A dead child. A missing student. A darkness at the heart of Jericho College. When the body of a baby is found wrapped in a swan’s wing deep in the woods, archaeology professor and expert consultant Carla James is brought in to assist on the cas...

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  The Death Lesson
  

  • Oct-2025
  • / General Fiction
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  A Mallory Dawson Crime Thriller - 4
  

  The sins of the past have not been forgotten…Pippa Evans had been a teacher at Penbryn Hall for just one week when her body was found alongside evidence of a pill overdose. Going undercover at the private school, investigator Mallory Dawson senses ...

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