Ian McFadyen crafts compelling crime fiction centered around the DI Carmichael series. His narratives offer intricate plots that can be enjoyed sequentially or as standalone adventures. McFadyen actively engages with his readership, relishing discussions about his mysteries and the theories readers develop.
When the body of Timothy Wall, a Private Detective, is found in his office, the querulous Inspector Carmichael discovers some surprising revelations and curious contradictions about the dead man. Loved by many and seemingly despised by others in equal measure, Timothy Wall's whole world seems to be strewn with paradoxes.
Carmichael is summoned to his local church by the vicar, who reports a man who has just come into his church with blood on his hands and is claiming to have just murdered someone. By the time Carmichael arrives the man has disappeared, with few signs to identify who he was, where he came from and where he went...
When the body of Kendal Michelson, a leading light in the local Steampunk movement, is found on a popular seaside beach impaled by his own sword, the querulous Inspector Carmichael is reluctantly drawn into the curious and unfamiliar world of Steampunk.
Ian McFayden brings us the sixth page turning detective novel following DI Steve Carmichael
Killing Time is the fifth book in the Carmichael series of Murder Mystery novels.
In the village of Moulton Bank, Detective Inspector Steve Carmichael and his wife have been invited to a Valentine's Day dinner party. When one of the guests fails to turn up, and is later found to have seemingly abandoned his car in the middle of a nowhere, Carmichael begins an investigation.