Captivity

by Catriona King

387 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 9, 2026

About the author

Catriona King is a doctor and NHS Manager. She was raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland and moved to central London to live and work as a Doctor, where she trained as a police Forensic Medical examiner. She worked closely with the Metropolitan Police on many occasions, and encountered many fascinating people and situations, in both Belfast and London. In recent years, she has lived and worked in Belfast, basing her D.C.I. Craig crime novels in the streets of modern Belfast and Northern Ireland, and locating the fictitious crime headquarters of 'Docklands Coordinated Crime Unit' in one of Belfast's most colourful and oldest districts, Sailortown. Catriona has written since childhood, fiction, fact and reporting. 'A Limited Justice' is her first novel, released on Kindle on 24th August 2012 and in paperback on the 26th October to Five Star Reviews. It follows Detective Chief Inspector Marc Craig and his team, in the hunt for the killer of three people.
There are four further novels in the D.C.I. Craig series: 'The Grass Tattoo', 'The Visitor', 'The Waiting Room' and the fifth book in the Craig Series 'The Broken Shore' released in December 2013. All are available in paperback and e-book. Catriona's sixth novel, 'The Carbon Trail' a standalone espionage thriller set in New York City, will be released in April 2014. Books six and seven in the Craig series called 'The Slowest Cut' and 'The Coercion Key' respectively are currently in edits for release in 2014.
Catriona is active on both Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CatrionaKing... and Twitter https://twitter.com/CatrionaKing1 where she engages about her books. Her website is www.catrionakingbooks.com
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Reviews

[MRS JEAN SMITH · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book in the series.

A welcome return for Craig, Liam and the team. The story is about people smuggling, abuse, drugs ,the amazing processes used and hard work needed to help identify the victims, villains and solve the crime.

I really enjoyed reading about the police systems and methods which are used and Catriona’s style of writing made me feel that I was an insider, an integral part of the squad.

The characters are well rounded and believable and I have over time become fond of them, a strange thing to admit about fictional people. That is completely down to the authors skill in bringing them to life on the page.

I think The Captivity is the best book in the series.