Money Kills
DI Nikki Barnes thriller trilogy has been released on Amazon as e-books and paperbacks.
Excerpts from the First of Three DI Barnes Thriller – “MONEY KILLS”. (Part 1 of trilogy)
DI Nikki Barnes, an ex army doctor, has been working for the City of Birmingham Police Department. She has solved the murders of a freelance journalist, a whistle blower and two army veterans. She is ably assisted in her task by Ayesha Begum, an IT expert who is also a hacker and her best friend. A loner, Nikki is compelled to work with John Williamson, a rookie detective constable and the son of the Home Secretary, Anna Williamson.
As Nikki unravels the crimes, it takes her into the murky worlds of extortion, money laundering and trafficking. Her quest to uncover the perpetrators takes her on a journey from Birmingham to Whitehall, Wales and Shropshire. Colonel Barnaby Hastings, an Afghanistan war veteran, is ridden with guilt following the murder of soldiers under his command at the hands of the Taliban. He returns to the UK and sets up an opium smuggling operation. He goes on a murdering spree to cover his tracks so that the money received from the drug trade can continue to benefit the families of the deceased soldiers. Nikki tracks him down and, after defending his wrong doing, Colonel Hastings kills himself with a dose of curare, a muscle relaxant.
Nikki is learning to use her autism and special skills to her advantage, but she is haunted by the suspicion that she was experimented on as a child. On her deathbed, her nanny, Keisha Belinfante, leaves a cryptic note to the effect that she let Nikki down and tells her to talk to Glenroy Da’Costa, her boyfriend who has now moved to Jamaica.
Nikki enlists the assistance of Keisha’s son, Delroy, and travels to Jamaica to find out about her past.
Medicine Kills
A woman’s body is found in an industrial estate in the west side of Birmingham. DI Nikki Barnes, an ex-army doctor is teamed up with DC John Williamson. The body of a jogger is discovered in the leafy suburbs of Solihull.A fertility specialist is gunned down in the middle of Birmingham.A high flying doctor pushes her research into new frontiers.The authority of police is compromised of the highest level.DI Barnes continues to face her demons.What motivates the perpetrator? The investigation trail begins in Birmingham and leads DI Barnes into the murky world of modern day slavery, greed, corruption and killings.Can DI Barnes catch the killer?
Fame Kills
DI Nikki Barnes is suspended from the UK Police force.She travels to Mumbai where her uncle, the home minister asks her to help local police in solving baffling crimes.Famous people with a high IQ and beautiful Bollywood actresses are found wandering aimlessly on the streets.Children and women from the slums and red-light district are found dead.Nikki meets her nemesis in unusual circumstances who needs her help.Politicians are working with local goons in inciting riots.Nikki uses her investigative skills to find out the reasons for these killings which takes her through the murky world of drug trafficking, blackmail and designer babies.Will Nikki catch the culprits without further escalating the riots in Mumbai.
County Kills
DI Nikki Barnes returns. This time, the trail leads into the corridors of power.
When a county councillor is found dead from an apparent drug overdose, the explanation seems straightforward.
DI Nikki Barnes isn’t convinced.
The scene is too neat. The evidence doesn’t fit. And someone has gone to considerable trouble to make a murder look ordinary.
What begins with one dead councillor leads Barnes from street-level drug dealing to suspicious council contracts, shell companies, money laundering and a private security firm with powerful connections.
Then another councillor dies.
As Barnes follows the evidence, she finds herself confronting people accustomed to influence, secrecy and obedience. At the centre of the widening investigation stands Sir Trevor Ellis—a respected political figure whose public world of regeneration and civic duty may conceal something very different.
But Barnes has learned not to confuse suspicion with proof.
To bring down a network built on money, fear and power, she must follow the evidence wherever it leads—even when the trail reaches far closer to the institutions of law and government than anyone wants to admit.
Because in public life, corruption rarely announces itself.
And sometimes, power kills.
Coming Soon
Greed Kills
Power Kills
