Sean Black

Sean Black grew up in Scotland, studied film in New York, and has written the screenplays for many of Britain s best-known TV dramas. To research the first two Ryan Lock thrillers, he underwent weeks of intensive bodyguard training and spent time inside America s most dangerous maximum security prison.

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Keep Your Friends Close

Natty and Sean Wainwright are happily married. Rock solid, in fact. So when Natty’s oldest friend Eve Dalladay appears, just as their daughter collapses on a school trip in France, Natty has no qualms about leaving Eve with Sean to help out at home. Two weeks later, Natty finds that Eve has slotted into family life too well: Sean has fallen in love with her. He’s sorry, he tells Natty, but their marriage is over. With no option but to put on a brave face for the sake of the children, Natty sets about building a new life for herself. And then she receives an anonymous note: EVE HAS DONE THIS BEFORE. DON’T LET HER TAKE WHAT’S YOURS…

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A Merry Mistletoe Wedding

It is almost a year since Sean and Thea met and it’s been a roller-coaster ride: they’re getting married on Christmas Day! Neither Thea or Sean want a big fuss – a simple wedding, with Christmas lights and just a few sprigs of mistletoe for decoration is all they need. But before they know it, things begin to get complicated. Trying to manage a long-distance relationship in the build-up to their Christmas wedding is one thing, but as one challenge after another comes their way, the happy couple begin to wonder if they’ll ever make it down the aisle…

The Mathematical Bridge

Cambridge, 1940: It is the first winter of the war and snow is falling thick and fast. When a college porter hears a child’s cries for help coming from the river below the ancient Mathematical Bridge, Detective Inspector Eden Brooke is summoned. Despite his desperate attempts at rescue, the flood carries the child’s body into the night. The boy was Sean Flynn, part of a group of Irish Catholic children evacuated from a poor London parish. When a local electronics factory is attacked and an Irish Republican slogan left at the scene, Brooke questions whether there could be a connection between the two events. As more riddles come to light, he begins to close in on a killer, but there is one last twist: it seems that Sean Flynn had his own startling secret.

Holly’s Christmas Kiss

Holly Michelle Jolly hates Christmas, and she has good reason to. Apart from her ridiculously festive name, tragic and unfortunate events have a habit of happening to her around the holiday season. And this year is no different. After the flight to her once-in-a-lifetime holiday destination is cancelled, she faces the prospect of a cold and lonely Christmas. That is, until she meets Sean Munro. With Sean’s help, can she experience her first happy Christmas, or will their meeting just result in more memories she’d rather forget?

Stone Bruises

Sean is on the run. We don’t know why and we don’t know from whom, but we do know he’s abandoned his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of an isolated, lonely part of rural France at the height of a sweltering summer. Desperate to avoid the police, he takes to the parched fields and country lanes only to be caught in the vicious jaws of a trap. Near unconscious from pain and loss of blood, he is freed and taken in by two women – daughters of the owner of a rundown local farm with its ramshackle barn, blighted vineyard and the brooding lake. And it’s then that Sean’s problems really start…

Hell And High Water

In 2013, Sean Conway embarked on his bid to be the first person to swim the length of Britain, raising money for the charity War Child. Accompanied by three support crew on a tiny, leaky yacht, he set out from Land’s End, aiming to hit John O’Groats in two months. From swimming alongside a dolphin and amidst stunning night-time phosphorescence, to tackling treacherous tides and growing a huge beard to protect himself from jellyfish stings, this is a story of immense courage and determination over an incredible 900-mile journey.

Hypothermia

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears to be suicide; Maria had never recovered from the death of her mother and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body approaches Detective Erlendur with a tape of a seance that Maria attended before her death and his curiosity is aroused. Erlendur begins an unofficial investigation into Maria’s death. But he is also haunted by another unsolved mystery – the disappearance of two young people 30 years ago – and by his own quest to find the body of his brother, who died in a blizzard when he was a boy.