Published to great critical acclaim, and described as ‘one of the year’s most remarkable first crime novels.’

As Blackport University starts a new academic year, two more girls fall victim to the killer they are calling the Beast of Blackport. Students, prostitutes... no attractive redhead is safe, and Detective Inspector Dave Shenfield and his colleague Ray Whitelaw at breaking point. He knows that Gavin O'Driscoll, once a student at Blackport, has returned to the town where he took his first victim seven years earlier, before disappearing into thin air. But can Shenfield prove it?
Meanwhile, a new student has arrived at the university from the Isles of Scilly, with a background more sheltered than most. Flora Castledine is pretty. Red-haired...
While Flora falls in love and Shenfield grapples with unsympathetic colleagues and uncooperative university lecturers including his own long-estranged son, the murderer hits out one more time with devastating consequences for all of them.

This novel is also set in and around the fictional northern town of Blackport.

It's Danny Nolan's big chance - to show off his natural talent as an actor in front of two screen legends, to break himself out of the cycle of rejection, deprivation and petty crime that has been his life since he was a small child. But Danny has run away...
Detective Inspector Ray Whitelaw thinks - like everyone else - that Danny is just another young thug. But Danny's drama teacher is Kieran Henshall, who himself escaped a similar existence when he was a teenager. Kieran knows Danny would never willingly miss his one golden opportunity - and is even more certain that the youngster would not have abandoned his beloved dog, Deefer. Someone has scared Danny badly.
It doesn't take Whitelaw long to trace a connection with two recent murders. And no matter where he turns, all trails lead back to one of Blackport's leading families. Just how are glamorous actress Tricia Denstone and her rich businessman husband involved in the story of an unwanted boy and his troubled past? Until Whitelaw can untangle the lies, deceptions and buried secrets of the Denstone family, a killer is walking free.

When he and four fellow-students at Blackport University were acquitted of a serious crime, Matthew Cosgrave felt he could get on with his life. Twenty-five years later, happily married and with a successful career, he has done just that. Only the death of his young daughter Daisy has marred the intervening years.
But then Spike Vardon, Matthew's best friend from college days, is killed in a mysterious drowning accident and Matthew receives a letter that shakes the very foundations of his comfortable existence.
As he tracks down the other men with whom he stood trial, Matthew realises that the past cannot be so easily shaken off...

The Somerfords are the kind of family people envy. Until Ian Somerford's secretary is found lying dead at the foot of an apartment block, and rumours start to fly...
'Set in Coventry, which Georgie Hale knows so well, Hear No Evil is the best book yet by this talented mistress of suspense.'