The Catrin Sayer Novels

The Falmouth Model Detective Sergeant Catrin Sayer is asked to help with a cybercrime issue, to trace the ‘hacker’ who prepared a bizarre image of a student at Falmouth University in Cornwall and placed it on her Facebook page. As a second image of the young woman is hacked into the website of the Tate Gallery, Sayer is drawn further into the strange case.

Detective Constable Catrin Sayer is nearing the end of her first year working in the Art Crime Unit of New Scotland Yard. A call to Scotland following a suspicious death of a retired clergyman is tied to a rumour of fraud or theft associated with the Kelvingrove Museum. Catrin finds her enquires lead her into bigger issues; the drug world politics of southern Scotland … and into danger.

Two years after a major art heist in London, a prisoner in Rome says that he is prepared to talk about a sentencing deal there, in exchange for details of the London robbery. Detective Sergeant Catrin Sayer’s subsequent proposal to close the case is unusual, to say the least… to focus on an obscure third painting that was stolen, a portrait of a farmer’s wife, Mrs. Rosalind Heaton of Carnforth.

A Chinese naval officer from a cruise ship goes missing while his ship visits Holyhead. An international police operation to break an art smuggling ring loses track of three paintings worth $2 million ... from the same cruise ship, on the same cruise. Constable Catrin Sayer, a uniformed police officer with the Metropolitan Police, agrees to go undercover ...

Catrin Sayer returns to art crime investigation - promoted to detective inspector in the elite Art and Antiques Unit at New Scotland Yard. Thrown immediately into a major international case, she is also picked by the Home Office to look into the origin of a strange painting found in Tregynon, in Wales, hidden away in the home of a recently-deceased judge.

A valuable painting is discovered in East London at the scene of a suspicious death of a young woman. It leads Detective Inspector Catrin Sayer to a gang leader and his accountant now held in separate prisons in Scotland. Her assignment is ‘to stir them up a bit’. She does so and it has surprising consequences.

The seventh Catrin Sayer Mystery. While dealing with some significant personal challenges, Detective Inspector Catrin Sayer is drawn into an investigation into a forgery found in a Norfolk museum, but it leads quickly to a violent confrontation with a North London biker gang.

The eighth Catrin Sayer Mystery. Detective Inspector Catrin Sayer is back, adjusting to life as a working mother and a police officer. At least her work as an art crime investigator is familiar ground, she thinks. A violent knife attack near her home and an undercover operation at a casino change that for her.

A family in South Wales are defrauded by an apparent Nigerian internet scam, but it tracks to an office in Lewisham, South London. DCI Catrin Sayer is drawn into an increasingly violent investigation to bring closure to the case.

Catrin Sayer takes a career development assignment with the Devon and Cornwall Police, at the rank of superintendent, managing a reorganisation task force. During her contract, the violent deaths of a man and his daughter are linked to an art theft. Sayer is also given the management responsibility for the murder investigation team.