Mary-Ellen Mitchell is dead
She was a competent horsewoman, but now she lies, neck broken, while her horse grazes nearby – was it really an accident?
DI Callum MacLean has relocated to the New Forest. His new patch couldn’t be more different from his native inner city Glasgow – and he’s frightened of horses!
At first he puts down the slow progress to ‘country ways’, but then realises he’s being used as a pawn in someone else’s game – but whose?
Carol Cole’s first novel in her DI Callum MacLean Mysteries series, is a skilfully crafted story that will keep you guessing until the end! Read more about Murder in the New Forest here.
A young girl is missing – is this a second murder..?
A suspicious death, a missing girl, and very few leads has New Forest police grasping at straws.
As the search gets underway to find the little girl, last seen feeding her ponies, all potential suspects have rock solid alibis. The only lead is a white van seen near the area in both cases.
Yet Callum begins to fear they might not be the only ones looking for the missing girl. Will they find her before tragedy strikes again?
Carol Cole’s second novel in her DI Callum MacLean Mysteries series, another skilfully crafted story that will keep you guessing until the end! Read more about Straw in the Wind here.
Everyone in the village seems to be hiding something…
Killer in the New Forest, book 3 in the DI Callum MacLean detective series is now available!
On an icy evening in January a meeting of the Gymkhana Society is held in the village hall.
The meeting is well attended but it is late in the evening when it ends. People are in a hurry to go home and get their children to bed or to rush to the local pub before last orders. The exodus is abruptly halted when the first vehicle to leave the village hall reverses over a man and kills him. DI Callum MacLean and DS Daisy Donaldson are on the case. Read more about Killer in the New Forest here.
But where exactly are they? Can you work it out from the photos?
Why the New Forest?
The ‘New’ Forest isn’t so new, It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror in about 1079, and is one of the largest tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in England. Read more about the New Forest here.
If anyone knows the ins and outs of the New Forest, from the murky depths of its woods, to the lonely swathes of its heathland, it’s author Carol Cole. Born and raised in the heart of the Forest, she’s creates authentic and believable mysteries that will keep you enthralled! Read more about Carol here.
The DI Callum MacLean Mysteries
Murder in the New Forest is the first instalment in the DI Callum Maclean Mysteries series of novels. Their beautiful prose and skilfully crafted stories deftly transport the reader into the rich tapestry of the southern landscape.
The second book in the series, STRAW IN THE WIND, and the third book, KILLER IN THE NEW FOREST, are also now available. The fourth book is well on its way!
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It is very nice to have the lighter days upon us. The dawn chorus in the garden is limbering up much earlier in the mornings and their scale exercises are coming along nicely. They have a few new recruits and are pretty impressive to listen to. I am not quite so enthusiastic about the jackdaws who seem to be engaged in early morning tap dancing classes on the roof – just above my bedroom – just above my head. They have a new sport. One bird sits on the chimney and caws ‘go’ and the rest run along the roof… Read More »Live Radio interview & Audible release!
