Judith Cutler

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Power On Her Own

Dying For Power

Dying For Millions

Dying On Principle

Dying to Write

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (1998)

Paperback - NEL (1999)

Power On Her Own
A Kate Power Crime Novel
'Kate strode down the endless corridors. OK, they'd scored a hit. They'd sent her to the back of beyond to collect a set of files. Everyone must have been in on it - whoever she spoke to referred her to someone else on a far distant floor. She grinned even as she cursed herself for falling for the trick: the sort of thing you'd do to anyone new to the squad, just to test them.
So why was no one in the office when she went back in? The phone started to ring. Who the hell had been stupid enough to put it right at the back of the desk? She bent to reach it - and was pushed hard forward, arms pinioned. A hand clamped her mouth, the thumb rough against her nose.'
Personal tragedy cut short Kate Power's accelerated-promotion career in the Met. She's lucky though - Birmingham CID gives her a job, and the chance to make a new start in the house her great-aunt has given her. Soon Kate discovers that she's trying to fix up the house from hell, with a garden to match. Domestic matches professional pressure: though most of her new colleagues are helpful and supportive, some just think that she's flesh meat to harass.
Some seem to think Kate's not pulling her weight in their current case of the abduction and abuse of young boys. Then her personal life starts overlapping with the investigation. Should Kate follow the conventional line of enquiry, or strike out on her own?
Judith Cutler's new crime series is a sharp, authentic examination of the contemporary police force - and life for women within it.
'One of the most appealing newcomers on the crime fiction scene for years' F.E.Pardoe, Birmingham Post
'An auspicious debut' Evening Mail

First British Edition Piatkus (1998)

Dying For Power
No men for ages then three turn up at once. As if juggling a suddenly complicated love life weren't enough, Sophie Rivers has to cope with the usual demands of teaching at William Murdock in Birmingham - an underfunded, multicultural college of further education.
A new challenge emerges when some Muslim students object to Sophie's short skirts. Then a spate of fires, deliberately started, escalates from a nuisance to a deadly weapon when a young teacher is killed. Another colleague is assaulted in a vicious baseball bat attack. Something is going badly wrong at William Murdock. Could there be a connection between the fundamentalist movement amongst the students and the increasingly dangerous incidents? Or is a down to the gang of muggers Sophie has seen in action?
One thing is for certain: Sophie's ever-inquisitive instincts will lead her into the heart of the affair. Even if it means considerable danger to herself..

Paperback - Piatkus (1998)

Dying For Millions
See Review by Lynda Ross
Sophie Rivers is rightly proud of her cousin Andy, a famous rock'n'roll star. Andy has renounced the excesses of the music business for a life of campaigning for good causes.
So why would anyone want him dead? It all starts harmlessly enough; vandalism, graffiti... But when one of Andy's readies plunges to his death after swigging the singer's drink, Sophie begins to fear for her cousin's life.
And then the killer - tired of being thwarted - turns his attentions to Sophie…
"As tough and gritty as they come" Northern Echo
"Thoroughly sharp, modern, witty, and literate" Margaret Yorke
"Judith Cutler's Brum-based crime novels are a hit" Crime Time

Dying On Principle
Lecturer Sophie Rivers' move to state-of-the-art George Muntz College seems to have been a good one. Until a young computer technician is found dead - and Sophie finds that her home and office have been bugged.

Paperback - Piatkus

Dying to Write
From the author of the highly acclaimed Dying Fall, here is a sharp and witty Birmingham mystery.
For lecturer Sophie Rivers a writing course in the far from exotic location of Sandwell isn't exactly an enticing holiday prospect. Still, creative inspiration might strike. But then, knowing Sophie's luck, so might a murderer.
She can hardly believe it when, soon after the course begins, a fellow student is found dead in her room. And when a course tutor goes missing, it's clear that someone on the course is interested in death as a reality rather than a literary concept. Sophie can't control her investigative instincts, despite the fact that the police warn her to leave the crime-solving to the professionals. Until she herself becomes a victim...