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Detective Inspector Declan Walsh #1-3
The DI Walsh Series: Books 1-3
Featuring the first three books in Jack Gatland's DI Declan Walsh series, this collected edition also includes an exclusive 'prequel' short story, previously only available to Reader's Club subscribers!
Books included as part of this
LIQUIDATE THE PROFITS (a short story prequel)
“Your career’s finished, Walsh. Now pack your things and get out…”
The murder of a Chinese Diplomat’s son… An East End gangster with a strange secret… A Cryptocurrency that shouldn’t be on sale… And Detective Inspector Declan Walsh is fighting for his career…
1: LETTER FROM THE DEAD “By the time you read this, I will be dead…"
A twenty year old murder… A Prime Ministerial Leadership Campaign… A paranoid, homeless ex-minister… A TV Evangelist with a murderous secret… Detective Inspector Declan Walsh has had better days…
2: MURDER OF ANGELS
"One murder... One suspect... One victim... Yet two identical bodies have been found..." When Declan’s old mentor admits to a gruesome murder, the team at the Last Chance Saloon find themselves in a race against time to find the true killer of Angela Martin. There’s a slight problem though; someone else has also admitted to the murder, and revealed a second, identical body - Gabrielle Chapman - down to clothes, tattoos and historical injuries…
3: HUNTER HUNTED
“We need to hunt a killer… It’s you, Declan… When a close friend of Declan is murdered, an old enemy restarts their vendetta against him as Declan, in charge of finding the killer realises that he is the prime suspect. Now on the run from his own team and forced to ask help from unexpected sources, Declan must find the true killer and reveal the biggest conspiracy in Westminster, before he’s charged with murder - and loses everything…
This box set consists of three full novels, a short story 'prequel' and a preview of book four, WHISPER FOR THE REAPER
Books included as part of this
LIQUIDATE THE PROFITS (a short story prequel)
“Your career’s finished, Walsh. Now pack your things and get out…”
The murder of a Chinese Diplomat’s son… An East End gangster with a strange secret… A Cryptocurrency that shouldn’t be on sale… And Detective Inspector Declan Walsh is fighting for his career…
1: LETTER FROM THE DEAD “By the time you read this, I will be dead…"
A twenty year old murder… A Prime Ministerial Leadership Campaign… A paranoid, homeless ex-minister… A TV Evangelist with a murderous secret… Detective Inspector Declan Walsh has had better days…
2: MURDER OF ANGELS
"One murder... One suspect... One victim... Yet two identical bodies have been found..." When Declan’s old mentor admits to a gruesome murder, the team at the Last Chance Saloon find themselves in a race against time to find the true killer of Angela Martin. There’s a slight problem though; someone else has also admitted to the murder, and revealed a second, identical body - Gabrielle Chapman - down to clothes, tattoos and historical injuries…
3: HUNTER HUNTED
“We need to hunt a killer… It’s you, Declan… When a close friend of Declan is murdered, an old enemy restarts their vendetta against him as Declan, in charge of finding the killer realises that he is the prime suspect. Now on the run from his own team and forced to ask help from unexpected sources, Declan must find the true killer and reveal the biggest conspiracy in Westminster, before he’s charged with murder - and loses everything…
This box set consists of three full novels, a short story 'prequel' and a preview of book four, WHISPER FOR THE REAPER
1027 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 21, 2021
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About the author
Jack Gatland
59 books235 followersJack Gatland is the pen name of #1 New York Times Bestselling Writer Tony Lee, who has been writing in all medias for over thirty years including comics, graphic novels, middle grade books, audio drama, TV and film for DC, Marvel, BBC, ITV, Random House, Penguin USA, Hachette and a ton of other publishers and broadcasters on licenses such as Doctor Who, Spider Man, X-Men, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Doctors, Wallace and Gromit and Shrek. As Tony, he’s toured the country talking to reluctant readers with his ‘Change The Channel’ school tours.
He’s currently a member of the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain, the Society of Authors, The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers and the Crime Writer’s Association.
As Jack, he’s writing a new series of Crime Thrillers starring Detective Inspector Declan Walsh, recently seconded to the City of London Police department known as the Last Chance Saloon.
The first twelve of these, LETTER FROM THE DEAD, MURDER OF ANGELS, HUNTER HUNTED, WHISPER FOR THE REAPER, TO HUNT A MAGPIE, A RITUAL FOR THE DYING, KILLING THE MUSIC, A DINNER TO DIE FOR, BEHIND THE WIRE, HEAVY IS THE CROWN, STALKING THE RIPPER and A QUIVER OF SORROWS are available now, with book thirteen, MURDER BY MISTLETOE released in December 2022 – with further adventures continuing throughout 2023.
In addition to that, the first book in a new series of Adventure Mysteries starring Robin-Hood style con-man forger-turned treasure hunter Damian Lucas, THE LIONHEART CURSE was released in January 2022, and he has both a new series of crime procedurals, spinning out of the DI Walsh series and featuring ‘Cop for Criminals’ Ellie Reckless including PAINT THE DEAD and STEAL THE GOLD, and a new spy series, spinning out of the DI Walsh series and featuring burned MI5 agent Tom Marlowe including SLEEPING SOLDIERS and TARGET LOCKED.
He can be found at www.tonylee.co.uk and www.jackgatland.com.
He’s currently a member of the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain, the Society of Authors, The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers and the Crime Writer’s Association.
As Jack, he’s writing a new series of Crime Thrillers starring Detective Inspector Declan Walsh, recently seconded to the City of London Police department known as the Last Chance Saloon.
The first twelve of these, LETTER FROM THE DEAD, MURDER OF ANGELS, HUNTER HUNTED, WHISPER FOR THE REAPER, TO HUNT A MAGPIE, A RITUAL FOR THE DYING, KILLING THE MUSIC, A DINNER TO DIE FOR, BEHIND THE WIRE, HEAVY IS THE CROWN, STALKING THE RIPPER and A QUIVER OF SORROWS are available now, with book thirteen, MURDER BY MISTLETOE released in December 2022 – with further adventures continuing throughout 2023.
In addition to that, the first book in a new series of Adventure Mysteries starring Robin-Hood style con-man forger-turned treasure hunter Damian Lucas, THE LIONHEART CURSE was released in January 2022, and he has both a new series of crime procedurals, spinning out of the DI Walsh series and featuring ‘Cop for Criminals’ Ellie Reckless including PAINT THE DEAD and STEAL THE GOLD, and a new spy series, spinning out of the DI Walsh series and featuring burned MI5 agent Tom Marlowe including SLEEPING SOLDIERS and TARGET LOCKED.
He can be found at www.tonylee.co.uk and www.jackgatland.com.
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February 16, 2022
The first is a sort of prequel and begins with Walsh decking a priest, unfortunately on camera. He returns to his station to be suspended but as he is leaving he is approached by a DCI who quickly tells him she wants to use him on a case. (view spoiler) The book ends with him being told that his father (a retired cop) has died in an accident.
Into the next book and he has been transferred to Temple Inn Crime Unit (Last Chance Saloon) under DCI Monroe who worked with his father in the past. When he goes to the house he inherits from his father he finds a hidden room where his father has kept files of his cases and is working on a memoir, Did this get him killed in the accident? The case involves the death of the wife of an MP as a letter she wrote at the time comes to light.
I am really enjoying the series, but think they definitely need to be read in order. They are a bit on the gritty side but I would certainly recommend them.
Into the next book and he has been transferred to Temple Inn Crime Unit (Last Chance Saloon) under DCI Monroe who worked with his father in the past. When he goes to the house he inherits from his father he finds a hidden room where his father has kept files of his cases and is working on a memoir, Did this get him killed in the accident? The case involves the death of the wife of an MP as a letter she wrote at the time comes to light.
I am really enjoying the series, but think they definitely need to be read in order. They are a bit on the gritty side but I would certainly recommend them.
February 10, 2023
This a good box set. liked it so much I have started on the next (books 4-6).
Must admit, I like this way of reading them as there is always a cliffhanger at the end of each book, as well as a solid end to the actual incidents of that particular book (if you get what I mean).
The cliffhanger automatically drags me to the next box set, which I suppose must be both a good marketing strategy but of course that in itself would be useless if the writing/storytelling wasn't first class.
Must admit, I like this way of reading them as there is always a cliffhanger at the end of each book, as well as a solid end to the actual incidents of that particular book (if you get what I mean).
The cliffhanger automatically drags me to the next box set, which I suppose must be both a good marketing strategy but of course that in itself would be useless if the writing/storytelling wasn't first class.
April 21, 2022
More thrills than a roller coaster
Great series starter and each book ends with a cliffhanger that leads you right into the next. There are so many plot twists that other than Declan Walsh you are never quite sure who the good guys are. I sure hope that this is fiction and not based on real life politics and policing or we are all in trouble.
Great series starter and each book ends with a cliffhanger that leads you right into the next. There are so many plot twists that other than Declan Walsh you are never quite sure who the good guys are. I sure hope that this is fiction and not based on real life politics and policing or we are all in trouble.
December 17, 2022
Hide Out
Very involved cases keep you rereading passages because you have a hard time believing it. This author is not shy about killing off characters and changing the story lines. Great series .
Very involved cases keep you rereading passages because you have a hard time believing it. This author is not shy about killing off characters and changing the story lines. Great series .
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