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Max Wolfe Series

Dive into the gritty streets and opulent corners of London with a tenacious detective haunted by his past. This series follows his relentless pursuit of a killer targeting the city's elite, unearthing dark secrets and long-buried betrayals. As the body count rises and the investigation pulls him closer to personal danger, he must confront not only the murderer but also his own inner demons.

Die Last
#Taken
The Murder Bag
Girl On Fire
The Slaughter Man
The Hanging Club

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  1. 1

    The Murder Bag

    • 469 pages
    • 17 hours of reading
    3.8(326)Add rating

    ________________________ The gripping first novel in the DC Max Wolfe crime series by Tony Parsons, bestselling author of Man and Boy. Like Ian Rankin or Peter James? You'll love this. Twenty years ago, seven rich, privileged students became friends at their exclusive private school, Potter's Field. Now, they're being murdered one by one, in the most violent way imaginable. Detective Max Wolfe has recently arrived in the Homicide division of London's West End Central, 27 Savile Row. Soon he is following the bloody trail from the backstreets and bright lights of the city, to the darkest corners of the internet and all the way to the corridors of power. As the bodies pile up, Max finds the killer's reach getting closer to everything - and everyone - he loves. Soon he is fighting not only for justice, but for his own life...

    The Murder Bag
  2. 2

    The Slaughter Man

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    'This is brilliant stuff!' Peter James A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag. On New Year's Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon - a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered - leads Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard's Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as the Slaughter Man. But the Slaughter Man has done his time, and is now old and dying. Can he really be back in the game? And was the murder of a happy family a mindless killing spree, a grotesque homage by a copycat killer - or a contract hit designed to frame a dying man? All Max knows is that he needs to find the missing child and stop the killer before he destroys another innocent family - or finds his way to his own front door ... Even the happiest of families have black, twisted secrets that someone is ready to kill for...

    The Slaughter Man
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    The Hanging Club

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    A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them by the neck until dead. As the bodies pile up and riots explode across the sweltering city, DC Max Wolfe hunts a gang of killers who many believe to be heroes. And discovers that the lust for revenge starts very close to home...

    The Hanging Club
  4. 4

    Die Last

    4.1(129)Add rating

    "Tony Parsons puts you right there in every scene he writes. I love that kind of storytelling and I'm a D.C. Max Wolfe fan." - James Patterson 12 DEAD GIRLS As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside, twelve women, apparently illegal immigrants, are dead from hypothermia. 13 PASSPORTS But in the cab of the abandoned death truck, DC Max Wolfe of West End Central finds thirteen passports. WHERE IS SHE? The hunt for the missing woman will take Max Wolfe into the dark heart of the world of human smuggling, mass migration and 21st-century slave markets, as he is forced to ask the question that haunts our time. What would you do for a home? This is crime writing to die for - GQ

    Die Last
  5. 5

    Girl On Fire

    • 410 pages
    • 15 hours of reading
    4.0(1280)Add rating

    ALMOST HOME. BUT NOWHERE TO HIDE. From the number one bestselling crime-writer comes a brilliant, page-turning new DC Max Wolfe thriller. 'Remarkably moving' The Times When terrorists use a drone to bring down a plane on one of London's busiest shopping centres, it ignites a chain of events that will draw in the innocent and guilty alike. DC Max Wolfe finds himself caught in the crossfire in a city that seems increasingly dangerous and hostile. But does the danger come from the murderous criminals that Max is tracking down? Or the people he's trying to protect? Or does the real threat to Max lie closer to home? 'Tony Parsons puts you right there in every scene he writes. I love that kind of storytelling and I’m a D.C. Max Wolfe fan.' James Patterson 'A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling characters conspire to make this a must-read.' Jeffery Deaver 'I've long been a fan of Tony Parsons' writing, and this is brilliant stuff.' Peter James ‘Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic’ Lee Child 'Great plotting, great characters and at least two eye-widening twists I didn't see coming’ Sophie Hannah 'Simply superb plot and characters’ Peterborough Evening Telegraph

    Girl On Fire
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    #Taken

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    ‘Tense and human’ LEE CHILD ‘Brilliant stuff’ PETER JAMES ‘A cracking read’ PIERS MORGAN _____________________ #taken in the night They thought they were kidnapping the mistress of one of London’s most powerful gangsters. But they’ve taken the wrong woman. And crossed the wrong detective. #taken underground Detective Max Wolfe's hunt for the missing woman takes him from New Scotland Yard’s legendary Black Museum to the glittering mansions of career criminals, from sleazy strip joints to secret sex dungeons – and to unspeakably dark deeds committed decades ago. #taken to the limit It’s a world of family secrets, sexual jealousy, and a lust for revenge – which might also become Wolfe’s grave… _____________________ ‘Eye-widening twists’ SOPHIE HANNAH ‘A must-read’ JEFFERY DEAVER 'Whip-fast, twisting like a moped in a traffic jam.' THE SUN 'Pages that stick to the fingers' SHOTS MAGAZINE 'Fast-paced, twisty ... will have you hooked from start to end.' CULTUREFLY

    #Taken