Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Tony Parsons

London has a new detective - DC Max Wolfe is on the hunt and he means to get his man, whatever the consequences…

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The gripping first novel in the DC Max Wolfe crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. Like Ian Rankin or Peter James? You'll love this. 
 
Twenty years ago, seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field. 
 
Now, they're being murdered one by one, in the most violent way imaginable. 
 
Detective Max Wolfe has recently arrived in the Homicide division of London's West End Central, 27 Savile Row. 
 
Soon he is following the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the internet and all the way to the corridors of power. 
 
As the bodies pile up, Max finds the killer's reach getting closer to everything - and everyone - he loves. 
 
Soon he is fighting not only for justice, but for his own life...

The Murder Bag

The thrilling Richard and Judy Book Club pick (DC Max Wolfe)

A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag. 
 
'This is brilliant stuff!' Peter James 
'The colourful plot races through the pages' Times 
'A remarkable novel on multiple levels' Booklist 
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On New Year's Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. 
 
The murder weapon - a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered - leads Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard's Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as the Slaughter Man. 
 
But the Slaughter Man has done his time, and is now old and dying. Can he really be back in the game? 
 
And was the murder of a happy family a mindless killing spree, a grotesque homage by a copycat killer - or a contract hit designed to frame a dying man? 
 
All Max knows is that he needs to find the missing child and stop the killer before he destroys another innocent family - or finds his way to his own front door ... 
 
Even the happiest of families have black, twisted secrets that someone is ready to kill for... 
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Readers can't get enough of The Slaughter Man . . . 
 
***** 'WOW !!!' 
***** 'It's just an altogether enjoyable read. I can't wait to go back and read the rest of the series.' 
***** 'If you enjoy intelligent, well written crime fiction, then add Max Wolfe to your reading list' 
***** 'An excellent and thrilling read.' 
***** 'Absolutely brilliant! This was something different altogether..........WOW!'

The Slaughter Man

(DC Max Wolfe)

From the Sunday Times no.1 bestselling author, a brilliant page-turning Max Wolfe thriller that will keep you gripped and guessing until the very last page. 
 
‘Tense and human’ LEE CHILD 
‘Brilliant stuff’ PETER JAMES 
‘A cracking read’ PIERS MORGAN 
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#taken in the night 
 
They thought they were kidnapping the mistress of one of London’s most powerful gangsters. But they’ve taken the wrong woman. And crossed the wrong detective. 
 
#taken underground 
 
Detective Max Wolfe's hunt for the missing woman takes him from New Scotland Yard’s legendary Black Museum to the glittering mansions of career criminals, from sleazy strip joints to secret sex dungeons – and to unspeakably dark deeds committed decades ago. 
 
#taken to the limit 
 
It’s a world of family secrets, sexual jealousy, and a lust for revenge – which might also become Wolfe’s grave… 
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Readers cannot get enough of #taken . . . 
 
***** 'I read this with my mind darting from one scenario to another, my heart pounding, my pulse racing. If I could have read it in one sitting, I would have.' 
***** 'There are lots of twists and surprises along the way and I will definitely be reading the other books in this series.' 
***** 'A propulsive page-turner' 
***** 'A wonderful writer that brings a much needed warmth to a great detective series.' 
***** 'Parsons writes real, complicated, multi-dimensional characters and crimes . . . I am always a bit annoyed at the end of a book in the series because I am going to have to wait to see what happens next in his life.' 
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'A cracking read’ ITV, Good Morning Britain 
‘Eye-widening twists’ SOPHIE HANNAH 
‘A must-read’ JEFFERY DEAVER 
'Whip-fast, twisting like a moped in a traffic jam.' THE SUN 
'Pages that stick to the fingers' SHOTS MAGAZINE 
'Fast-paced, twisty ... will have you hooked from start to end.' CULTUREFLY

#taken

Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong girl.

“Tony Parsons puts you right there in every scene he writes. I love that kind of storytelling and I’m a D.C. Max Wolfe fan.” – James Patterson 
 
 
 A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them by the neck until dead. 
 
 As the bodies pile up and riots explode across the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe hunts a gang of killers who many believe to be heroes. 
 
 And discovers that the lust for revenge starts very close to home ... 
 
Praise for The Hanging Club 
 
 “This is Parson’s best crime novel so far and underlines his exceptional talent” (Daily Mail) 
 "I've long been a fan of Tony Parson's writing…This is brilliant stuff" (Peter James) 
 
 "Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic" (Lee Child) 
 
 ‘Has all the ingredients and more: great plotting, great characters and at least two eye-widening twists I didn't see coming.’ (Sophie Hannah) 
 
 "If you haven’t already become a fan, the third outing for Max Wolfe is the perfect introduction to the London underworld that Tony Parsons has so vividly created…Wolfe’s cases couldn’t feel more of-the-minute" (GQ) 
 
 “A gripping page-turning book that will demand your full attention” (Irish Examiner) 
 
 “Fast paced and gripping” (Best Special Series) 
 
 “Parsons had me gripped from the first chapter to the last sentence” (Irish independent) 
 “A cleverly plotted page-turner, with touches of Cracker and Nordic Noir, all soaked in the atmosphere of London’s murky back-streets” (CSMA Club Life magazine) 
 
 
 Praise for Tony Parsons… 
 
 “It’s all as addictive as your favourite boxset…it contains more twists than a contortionist caught in a tornado” (The Shortlist) 
 
 "Told with clarity and insight ... Confirms Parsons has earned a place at the very pinnacle of British crime writing" (Daily Mail) 
 
 “Tense…with a dose of dry wit” (The Daily Express) 
 
 “A taut always engaging thriller” (The Sun) 
 
 “I put my life on hold while I was reading because I couldn't tear myself away from the gripping story... It's complicated, brutal but Tony Parsons has managed to weave the brutality into a truly brilliant story” (Bestselling Crime Thrillers) 
 
 “It's a brilliant crime novel, a thrilling procedural. Max Wolfe is a wonderfully endearing character, smart and tough and vulnerable, and with Scout (and Stan too) Tony has created so much warmth and tenderness, in a world, a genre, so often devoid of it. His research is wide, deep, impeccable - from forensics to the psychology, procedure to protocol. And boy does he know how to create suspense, and convincing plot lines, which snake and weave, and surprise right until the very end. This is a complex, shocking, very contemporary story, told with utter conviction and authority. I was hooked from page one. Crime writing has a brilliant new star” (Henry Sutton) 
 
 “Sometimes, rarely, you know from the first chapter or so of a novel that you're in the hands of a master story teller. In the case of Tony Parsons…we know this within the first few pages. A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling (and wrenching) portraits of the characters, good and evil, conspire to make this a must-read" (Jeffery Deaver) 
 
 “Superbly crafted crime drama that grips from start to finish” (The Sunday Post) 
 
 “Fast paced and gripping” (The Scotsman) 
 
 ‘[Tony Parsons'] writing pedigree is first class. It shows in this terrific thriller, and Max Wolfe is a class act, a brilliant character that has to feature again ... Absolutely stunning!’ (Books Monthly)

The Hanging Club

ALMOST HOME. BUT NOWHERE TO HIDE. From the number one bestselling crime-writer comes a brilliant, page-turning new DC Max Wolfe thriller. 
 
'Remarkably moving' The Times 
 
When terrorists use a drone to bring down a plane on one of London's busiest shopping centres, it ignites a chain of events that will draw in the innocent and guilty alike. 
 
DC Max Wolfe finds himself caught in the crossfire in a city that seems increasingly dangerous and hostile. 
 
But does the danger come from the murderous criminals that Max is tracking down? Or the people he's trying to protect? 
 
Or does the real threat to Max lie closer to home? 
 
'Tony Parsons puts you right there in every scene he writes. I love that kind of storytelling and I’m a D.C. Max Wolfe fan.' James Patterson 
 
'A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling characters conspire to make this a must-read.' Jeffery Deaver 
 
'I've long been a fan of Tony Parsons' writing, and this is brilliant stuff.' Peter James 
 
‘Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic’ Lee Child 
 
'Great plotting, great characters and at least two eye-widening twists I didn't see coming’ Sophie Hannah 
 
'Simply superb plot and characters’ Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Girl On Fire

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A terrifying secret. A missing girl. 
 
As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside twelve women are discovered - all dead from hypothermia. 
 
But when DC Max Wolfe looks in the cab of truck, he finds thirteen passports. 
 
One woman has survived. Where is she? And what sort of danger is she in? 
 
The hunt for her will take Max into the dark heart of a terrifying world where nothing and nobody is safe ...

Die Last

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