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Lee Weeks

Lee Weeks was born and brought up in Devon. She left school at seventeen and spent most of the next seven years travelling in Europe and the Far East.

She has done a variety of jobs including Cocktail waitress, DJ, English teacher and Personal fitness trainer. She spent fifteen years in London before returning to Devon where she now lives. Lee is busy working on the next Johnny Mann instalment. 

For more information on the inspiration behind her novels and to see more of the world of Johnny Mann, please visit her website

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Cold Killers

Eddie Butcher, one of four brothers from a notorious East End family, is tortured and brutally murdered while visiting London from his home in Marbella. DI Carter and DS Willis monitor his extravagant funeral in case Eddie’s violent brother Terry, under house arrest in Spain, tries to make an appearance. Terry is wanted for robbery, drug trafficking and murder - and the police strongly suspect he is even prepared to kill his own family to maintain his power.

What Carter hasn’t told all of his colleagues is that this family’s history is personal to him. When Carter is offered the chance to finally catch Terry, he knows he cannot refuse. But it comes at a heavy personal, and professional, cost - and Willis must protect them all as the Butcher family’s enemies close in, wanting revenge.

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World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth Simon & Schuster
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Cold Justice

A killer seeking revenge.A community protecting its own.The most explosive case yet for DC Willis and DI Carter.

Cornwall, 2000. Jenna wakes up after a drug-laced party to the realization that she has been raped. And it looks like it involved her new boyfriend, who has come down from London for the summer. But the case is assigned to a corrupt local police sergeant, who knows he can extort money from the boy's father, prominent London MP Jeremy Forbes-Wright, in return for his silence.

Fifteen years later and Jeremy Forbes-Wright is found dead under highly suspicious circumstances. On the same day, his two-year-old grandson Samuel is kidnapped on a London street and DC Ebony Willis and DI Dan Carter are called in to find the missing boy. They soon realize all roads lead to Cornwall and to find the little boy they must finally get justice for Jenna. But someone is murdering the people they need to speak to and time is running out … 

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World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth Simon & Schuster
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Frozen Grave

Someone has a list of women. And they're crossing the names out one by one.

The first body is found in a dilapidated warehouse in London's East End - an attractive woman, brutally murdered. She went into the building, dressed for sex - and didn't come out...

Then another woman burns to death in her own home. She was alone but all signs point to murder.

Two seemingly separate victims, but Detective Inspector Carter and Detective Constable Willis are convinced they were killed by the same person. And when a third body is found, the detectives start to suspect a serial killer is on the loose.

But what connects the victims? And who will the killer go after next?

From the author of the bestselling Dead of Winter and Cold As Ice comes a page-turning new thriller that will have you hooked from start to finish.

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World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth Simon & Schuster
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Cold As Ice

There's a time to love, a time to hate, a time to heal ...and a time to kill. On a freezing cold winter's day, the body of a young woman is pulled from an icy canal in London. To D.I. Dan Carter it looks like a tragic accident rather than the work of a murderer. 

But D.C. Ebony Willis is not so sure.

Why has the woman's face been painted with garish make-up and wrapped in a plastic bag? Meanwhile cosmetics saleswoman Tracy Collins receives a phonecall. It's been twenty years since she gave up her daughter for adoption, so when Danielle gets in touch, she hesitantly begins to rekindle a relationship with her and her grandson Jackson. 

But when Danielle suddenly disappears, Tracy is plunged into the middle of a living nightmare. With the discovery of another body, it becomes clear that Danielle is in grave danger.
There is no time to lose and Ebony Willis must take on the most challenging assignment of her career - to play the role of the killer's next victim..... 

From the author of the bestselling Dead of Winter comes a page-turning new thriller that will have you hooked from start to finish. 

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UK & Commonwealth Simon & Schuster
World Darley Anderson Agency
Bulgaria Press Publishing House
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Dead of Winter

Victim, suspect, policeman. When the lines blur, who do you trust?

When two bodies surface in the garden of a rented house in North London, Forensics discover fingerprints which link back to an unsolved crime that no one in the Metropolitan Police wants to remember.

More than a decade ago, in an isolated holiday cottage in Sussex, a family was found brutally slaughtered. The prime suspect was Callum Carmichael, the father of the family and a police officer from the Met's own ranks. But without enough evidence to arrest him, the case was hushed up and the trail left to go cold.

Now, with fresh proof that the killer is still out there, rookie DC Ebony Willis is sent to find Callum Carmichael. But Carmichael is an unknown entity and, with every piece of information she tells him, she risks leading a dangerous man closer to his prey. Gritty, atmospheric and impossible to put down - fans of Martina Cole and Jessie Keane will love Lee Weeks' gripping thriller.  

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World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth Simon & Schuster
Bulgaria Press Publishing House
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Kiss And Die

Ruby is looking for love– but her kiss is deadly…

A serial killer is on the loose and it appears to be a woman–her target, adulterous businessmen. After picking them up in bars, she brutally tortures her victims before decapitating them.

Meanwhile, Hong Kong detective Johnny Mann is still struggling to deal with his dead father's legacy of corruption and triad involvement. His nemesis CK Leung is determined to bring Johnny into the triad fold and has now deployed the most dangerous weapon–his daughter Victoria–beautiful but deadly.

Falling into a downward spiral, Johnny is on the verge of destroying everything he holds dear while Ruby continues her terrifying murder spree. Johnny needs to pull himself together fast, because Ruby is getting nearer and is closing in for the kill…

A nerve-shredding thriller that will grip fans of James Patterson and Karen Rose

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World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth HarperCollins / Avon
Bulgaria Press Publishing House
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Death Trip

Troubled by the revelation that his fathers killer is still alive, Detective Johnny Mann makes a life changing discovery. He has a younger brother an eighteen year old Dutch boy named Jake, born from an affair of his fathers. Before he can reach him he discovers that Jake has been captured by terrorists in Thailand.

When Mann hears that the investigation has ground to a halt he knows he has to help. Unknowingly Jake booked his gap year travels through an Amsterdam based company tied to the mafia. Posing as a drug producer from China, Mann has to infiltrate the gang and find his brother before its too late. Will they discover the truth about their father or will Mann realize that he never truly knew what his father was capable of?

Manns search for the brother he never knew he had takes him from the carefree, teenage parties on the beaches of Thailand to the desperate drug-ridden world of Amsterdams Red Light District. In order to win the game, Mann must play it.

This is gritty and disturbingly realistic crime at its best.

Territory Publisher/Agent
World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth HarperCollins / Avon
Bulgaria Press Publishing House
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The Trafficked

***THE FEMALE JAMES PATTERSON***

DETECTIVE JOHNNY MANN IS BACK

Missing children. An evil racket. A race against time.

Summoned to meet his boss, rebellious Detective Johnny Mann expects to be told that he is being demoted. Instead he is ordered to lead the investigation into the kidnapping of Amy Tang - the illegitimate daughter of a major player in the skin trade, CK Leung. Mann is reluctant to help - he has crossed paths with CK before- but he has no choice.

Nine-year-old Amy is the third child to be kidnapped and held for a vast sum of money, but while the other two children were released after the vast ransom was paid, Amy is still being held captive.

Mann's investigation takes him to London, where he teams up with DC Becky Stamp. Within days of his arrival, an arson attack kills twelve women and children. The charred bodies of the victims are found chained to their beds - their injuries rendering them identifiable.

What is the link between the kidnapping of Amy in Hong Kong and the deaths of these women and children and can Mann discover the truth before it's too late.

Prepare to be terrorised all over again with this disturbingly addictive thriller from the writer hailed as the female James Patterson.

Territory Publisher/Agent
World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth HarperCollins / AVON
The Netherlands Luitingh-Sijthoff
Russia AST
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The Trophy Taker

***THE FEMALE JAMES PATTERSON***

A serial killer is on the loose. His target? Lone Western women lured to Hong Kong by the promise of easy money. As The Butcher's killing spree escalates, bags of mutilated body parts are found all over the island - and more girls are disappearing.

Taking on his first homicide case, Detective Johnny Mann is determined to stop The Butcher's brutal reign. Haunted by the memory of his father's death by the Triads, he's the only man who can track down a killer who's paralysing the city with fear.

Georgina Johnson has left her tragic past in England to start afresh in Hong Kong. But soon her life is in peril as she is sucked into the sinister world of the city's hostess clubs. Venturing into dark and dangerous places, Mann unearths chilling evidence about the killings.

And then another body is found, one which brings the murders closer to home! Bolt the doors, turn on the lights and pray for mercy.

Territory Publisher/Agent
World Darley Anderson Agency
UK & Commonwealth HarperCollins / AVON
Germany Goldmann
The Netherlands Luitingh-Sijthoff
Russia AST
Turkey Pegasus

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