Parish & Richards, Volume 5: Books 13-15

In the Twinkling of an Eye: Parish & Richards are given the case of a gifted boy murdered on the fourteenth green at the local golf course; Richards is also trying to find out if a 1966 diary that she bought at a car boot sale, and written by a captive 15 year-old girl called Loveday, is genuine. Stick and Xena are working to solve the case of a young woman’s thawing body found in a wood. Jerry Kowalski is back, and she becomes involved in the trial of an architect who is accused of murdering his wife. His barrister is going to get him acquitted, but Jerry has a feeling the architect is guilty, and asks Bronwyn for her help. A Time to Kill: Parish & Richards investigate what appears to be the simple case of a woman who was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own apartment, but Richards is convinced it's the work of a serial killer . . . Stick & Xena attend the A&E at King George Hospital to investigate a woman who says that she murdered her boyfriend, but things are a lot more complicated than they first appear. And then Xena gets some bad news . . . Jerry Kowalski is back at the office. She's dealing with a client who lives in a high-rise called Butterfield Spire, which is owned by recluse Israel Voss. There's a smell, but the building supervisor won't let her bring in the experts to investigate . . . Deceit is in the Heart: Richards is seconded to the Serious Crime Analysis Section (SCAS) at Bramshill in Hampshire, but sometimes evil sneaks in before the door is bolted . . . When Epping detectives put Carrie's murder on the pending pile, Parish knows that he must find her killer . . . Jerry goes back to work, and decides to take things easy by going to see Mrs Birmingham about a request to write her Last Will & Testament - what could possibly go wrong? A man comes into the station and confesses to murdering a woman four months previously. Stick and Xena must find out whether he's telling the truth, and where her head is . . . Also, Zara Roche - Israel Voss' apprentice - is in Italy when she receives a sealed letter from his solicitors that changes everything . . .