The DI Treloar crime thrillers
feature Detective Inspector Félipe Treloar of Devon & Cornwall Police and his team working on serious crimes in Cornwall.
In the books bad things happen to good people and evil things happen in beautiful places.
The DI Treloar crime thriller series. What's the story?
• A brooding, troubled Cornish-Spanish protagonist in DI Félipe Treloar
• His closeknit family with sisters: the quiet Eva, flamboyant Lucia and bubbly Beatriz
• A famous neighbour in successful author and artist Ochre Pengelly
• A shady government agent in friend and collaborator Benedict Fitzroy
• And devoted sidekick DS Samantha Scott
• Plus glorious Cornish settings, a host of baddies from the French girl to the Spargo clan
• And, as one of the literary awards judges put it plenty of "creative Cornish deaths"
What's not to like?
Detective Inspector Treloar lives in a home he built himself: Lost Farm Barn, located in Poldark territory.
The first in the series, Rogue Flamingo, introduces the team as they investigate a series of brutal slayings in the sleepy south Cornwall fishing village of Porthaven near Mevagissey.
In Broken Dove, the second in the Treloar series, two young girls are abducted from a swimming pool in St Ives. Meanwhile an uninvited guest arrives at Treloar's May Day party in the wilds of west Cornwall.
Silent Gull, the third book, sees a culture clash between the ancient Cornish Spargo clan and the Hollywood superstar incomer Jackson Power with his Fowey based therapeutic centre The Valley of the Tides.
Sad Pelican, the fourth in the series, set in and around Padstow, finds the team chasing a killer who leaves victims in macabrely staged settings.