Margaret Duffy's writing is deeply influenced by her connection to the natural world, a passion she also channels into her work as a garden designer. Her previous experiences in public service have provided a unique perspective that subtly informs her narratives. Now residing in Devon, she crafts stories that often draw from the evocative atmosphere of her surroundings. Her prose invites readers into worlds shaped by both meticulous observation and a profound appreciation for the earth.
Twelve-year-old Damien 'Spike' Baker loves to climb up trees and walls to look in people's windows. But he makes a deadly mistake when he climbs up some rampant ivy on a large mansion. When his body is discovered on a building site, Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley offer to assist with the investigation. What did Damien see through the window?
Patrick Gillard is drawn out of retirement when his former NCA boss asks him to find John Brinkley, a newly retired commander of the Metropolitan Police who has gone missing. Patrick is convinced that there's more to the disappearance than meets the eye. What does Brinkley know that has the Met, MI5 and dangerous mobsters all on his tail?
An unwelcome blast from the past puts Patrick and Ingrid back in harm’s way . . .Nicholas Haldane was dead, but he wouldn’t lie down. And now Julian Hardy, the man who hired him in a bid to destroy Richard Daws, a top official in the National Crime Agency, is out of prison and has changed his surname to Mannering.Patrick Gillard, working for the agency but within the Avon and Somerset force with his wife Ingrid Langley, receives a request from MI5, for whom he used to work, to investigate Mannering. They are then called in when his cleaner makes a shocking discovery.Meanwhile, an enigmatic couple calling themselves Simon and Natasha Graves turn up in the village, intent on pestering Patrick’s recently widowed mother. Could there be a connection to Mannering?Patrick and Ingrid are soon embroiled in a deeply personal and disturbing case.
Working part-time for the Serious Organized Crime Agency at the side of her former MI5 agent husband, crime author Ingrid Langley uses her literary contacts to investigate the activities of a fellow crime writer who is suspected of arranging a meeting with a wanted criminal at a publishing gala.
When a dangerous criminal who once attacked Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley's friend DCI James Carrick is released from prison and then murdered, Carrick quickly becomes the prime suspect. Ingrid and Patrick take up the case, but how far will Patrick go in order to prove James' innocence?
Standard print edition published: Sutton, Surrey: Severn House, 2016.
Patrick has a new role, much to Ingrid Langley's relief. It seems like a safe desk job, but when the head of the Metropolitan Police's Commander Rolt is found barely alive, Patrick is pulled into frontline action. And when further, discoveries are made, Patrick and Ingrid are in danger yet again, hunting one of the Met's most-wanted criminals.
Patrick Gillard's father asks for his help when one of his father's parishioners claims the wrong body was cremated at her husband's funeral, but thinks take a sinister turn when the parishioner's home is destroyed in a massive explosion.
A Gillard and Langley Mystery - Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley, late of MI5 and now working as consultants for SOCA, are called in to investigate when a policemans horribly mutilated body is found with the initials R.K. carved on his torso. At the same time, DCI James Carrick asks them to make enquiries on a private matter: he has discovered that his father, Robert Kennedy, whom he thought long dead, is not only alive but a criminal. Can there be a connection between the two cases?
In the new Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley mystery, Ingrid is upset when her husband and working partner Patrick is sent on assignment days after the birth of their new son. But Ingrid has a bigger problem to deal with: Pangborne is murdered, and all clues point to Patrick as the killer.