Scott & Bailey series 2

Bleed Like Me

DC Rachel Bailey has dragged herself up from a deprived childhood and joined the Manchester Police. Rachel's boss thinks her new recruit has bags of raw talent but straight-laced DC Janet Scott, her reluctant partner, has her doubts. 
The two go on to become an unstoppable duo, as seen in the hit TV series.

Real women. Gritty lives. Gruesome murders. 
The second book - and prequel to the second ITV Scott and Bailey series - featuring the straight-talking Manchester detective duo Rachel Bailey and Janet Scott, and their dynamic boss Gill Murray.

Cath Staincliffe is an established novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV's hit series, Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis. Cath was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Best First Novel award for her acclaimed Sal Kilkenny series, and for the Dagger in the Library award in 2006. She was joint winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger award in 2012 for Laptop. She is a founding member of Murder Squad, a group who promote crime fiction. 
 
http://www.cathstaincliffe.co.uk

A family man 
The bodies of a man, woman and child are found, lying in pools of blood. The owner of the inn where the bodies are discovered has fled. But he’s not alone – he’s taken his two young sons with him. No one knows what he’s going to do next... 
 
A professional front 
DC Janet Scott has survived a terrifying attack, and is now having second thoughts about her life and steady marriage – but if she acts on her feelings she risks tearing her family apart. Her best friend DC Rachel Bailey is reeling from a love affair that could have killed her – literally. It’s hard to stay focussed. 
 
A united force 
Gill Murray has enough of her own problems without the team falling apart. She knows they must work together if they are to find the desperate man before he makes his final move. But one question haunts her: what will they have to do to stop him?

Scott & Bailey series 1

Dead To Me

A prequel to the hit TV series Scott and Bailey, and a chillingly authentic story of murder and hunting killers on the mean streets of Manchester

DS Rachel Bailey and DC Janet Scott... make tweedy Oxbridge-educated gentlemen detectives seem like a long distant memory

[A] grounded, realistic look at the world of the Manchester murder squad

Cath Staincliffe is an established novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV's hit series, Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis. Cath was shortlisted for the CWA best first novel award for her acclaimed Sal Kilkenny series and for the Dagger in the Library. Her latest stand-alone novels all focus on topical moral dilemmas. She is a founding member of Murder Squad, a group who promote crime fiction. 
 
http://www.cathstaincliffe.co.uk

A daughter’s death 
A teenage girl is found brutally murdered in her squalid flat. 
 
A mother’s love 
Her mother is devastated. She gave her child up to the care system, only to lose her again, and is convinced that the low-life boyfriend is to blame. 
 
Two ordinary women, one extraordinary job 
DC Rachel Bailey has dragged herself up from a deprived childhood and joined the Manchester Police. Rachel’s boss thinks her new recruit has bags of raw talent but straight-laced DC Janet Scott, her reluctant partner, has her doubts. 
 
Together Scott and Bailey must hunt a killer, but a life fighting crime can be no life at all...

Cath Staincliffe

Real people, real problems...Staincliffe writes brilliantly and compassionately about things that matter. Seriously good

Gritty, intelligent, humane and involving

An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout

Has her finger on the pulse of  her city and that rare ability to write about love, motherhood and friendship without sentimentality

A community on the brink. 
 
An abandoned chapel burns. In this part of Manchester, destruction is not unusual. But this time, the body of a man lies inside. 
 
And it’s down to Scott and Bailey to save them all... 
 
Detective Constable Rachel Bailey is struggling to come to terms with huge change, just as her partner, DC Janet Scott grapples with a horrifying tragedy. But they must put aside their own troubles if they are to solve this murder investigation. Especially when a second building goes up in flames…

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Real people, real problems...Staincliffe writes brilliantly and compassionately about things that matter. Seriously good

Gritty, intelligent, humane and involving

An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout

Real people, real problems...Staincliffe writes brilliantly and compassionately about things that matter. Seriously good

Gritty, intelligent, humane and involving

An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout

Real people, real problems...Staincliffe writes brilliantly and compassionately about things that matter. Seriously good

Gritty, intelligent, humane and involving

An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout

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