Katherine John
Katherine John has worked as a management consultant, social worker and was a Bunny Girl in New York.
Her novels have been published in Czech, German and Polish.
Katherine John has also written as K A John, and wrote a Quick Read novella, BLOODY VALENTINE, for James Patterson (Random House, 2011) and a novelisation of the Hammer horror film, WAKE WOOD (Hammer Books/Random House, 2011).
She lives in Wales with her husband.
Books
The Destruction of Evidence (Trevor Joseph 7)
No evidence remained on the bodies of Alun Pitcher, a well-liked, wealthy, careful and cautious businessman, and his family after they'd been wrapped in brown paper and string, doused in petrol and ignited.
The fires had destroyed any evidence, or so the pathologist and the local police believed.
Defeated, the local force asks for outside help.
A Well Deserved Murder (Trevor Joseph 6)
Sergeant Peter Collins' cousin, journalist and photographer, Alan Piper, is living next door to the neighbours from Hell. They build a deck that overlooks his patio and monitor his every movement. Under the cover of darkness they steal plants and building materials from his garden, but when his gate and gatepost disappear he calls in the police who advise him to put up a CCTV camera.
Black Daffodil (Trevor Joseph 5)
Newly promoted Inspector Trevor Joseph and Sergeant Peter Collins take their wives on a long overdue holiday to Trevor’s brother’s Cornish farm. But when they arrive they find Trevor’s seventeen year niece, Sarah, in intensive care, beaten to a pulp by her drug dealing, junkie boyfriend, Charlie.
The Corpse's Tale (Trevor Joseph 4 novella)
Dai Morgan has the body of a man and the mind of a child.
He lived with his mother in the Mid Wales village of Llan, next door to bright, beautiful 19 year old Anna Harris.
Midnight Murders (Trevor Joseph 3)
Compton Castle is a Victorian psychiatric hospital long overdue for demolition. Its warrens of rooms and acres of grounds, originally designed as a sanctuary for the mentally ill, now provide the ideal stalking ground for a serial killer.
Murder of a Dead Man (Trevor Joseph 2)
Jubilee Street - the haunt of addicts and vagrants is a part of town to avoid at all costs, especially when it becomes the stalking ground of a brutal and ruthless murderer. A drunken down and out is the first casualty, mutilated and burned alive but his grisly death raises even more problems for the investigating officers, Sergeants Trevor Joseph and Peter Collins.
Without Trace (Trevor Joseph 1)
In the chilly half-light of dawn a bizarre Pierrot figure waits in the shadows of a deserted stretch of motorway. The costumed hitchhiker's victim is a passing motorist. The murder is cold-blooded, brutal, without motive.
Amber Knight
As the Red Army advances towards the Wolfsschanze, Hitler's command bunker in East Prussia, the complex is evacuated and its treasures plundered from European cities are loaded on to trucks to escape the Russians. Included in the Nazi horde, is the body of a Teutonic knight, entombed in a layer of amber. As the Red Army and partisans close in, the commander guarding the booty agrees to split the treasure amongst the warring parties, and with it the Amber Knight disappears.
By Any Name
A blood-stained man runs half naked down a motorway at night dodging the traffic - and worse. Cornered by police, admitted to a psychiatric ward suffering from trauma-induced amnesia, all he can recall is a detailed knowledge of weaponry and military techniques that indicates a background in terrorism.
