Mystery, Romance & Thriller
Beyond the apocalypse — crime mysteries, love stories and speculative thrillers from JC Mitchell. Every available title links straight to Amazon.
The Stone Witness: Kate Hardwick Mysteries
Beneath the Rows
A hand sealed inside a wall. Three murdered women. One city built on buried secrets. When renovation work uncovers a hidden chamber beneath Chester's ancient Rows, DS Kate Hardwick is drawn into a case spanning generations.
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The Watching Imp
The murders beneath Chester's Rows are solved, but DS Kate Hardwick knows the story didn't end there. When an archivist investigating old secrets is murdered, Kate follows the trail to a forgotten stone imp.
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The Last Stone Witness
The murder of retired solicitor Martin Wycliffe leads Kate to the mysterious Refused Papers and a decades-old conspiracy of people who knew the truth but chose not to see it.
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Maddie Shaw is found naked and wet beneath Minerva's Shrine, leading Kate to a 1999 murder and a property-development cover-up that has survived for decades.
Coming soonThe Legionary Who Never Left
A murder at Bonewaldesthorne's Tower coincides with sightings of Chester's legendary Roman soldier — including one witness who insists the legionary was walking the wrong way.
Coming soonThe Prisoner on the Hill
A present-day death at St Mary's on the Hill reopens a disturbing Chester cold case from the 1970s and raises the possibility that the truth was deliberately buried.
Coming soonThe Eyes in the Crypt
A body discovered at the Old Crypt with actual human eyeballs carefully laid out nearby draws Kate into a dark investigation about witnessing, secrets and those who chose to look away.
Coming soonThe Silence of St Werburgh's
An archivist disappears after uncovering evidence in St Werburgh's archives that threatens the history and reputation of an old Chester family.
Coming soonThe Second Body
A grave opened at Overleigh Cemetery contains an unidentified second body that should not be there, forcing Kate to investigate who secretly buried it and why.
Coming soonThe Lost Eagle
A deadly hunt for the legendary lost eagle of Legio XX leads to evidence of a hidden Mithraic chamber beneath Chester and a modern battle driven by greed, ownership and deception.
Coming soonThe Stone Witness Series: Books 1–3
The first three Stone Witness mysteries collected in one volume.
Read on AmazonHawthorn Vale
Still You
A second-chance romance. When she returns to Hawthorn Vale, the last person she expects to find still waiting is the one she never stopped thinking about.
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Unexpectedly Yours
He fixes everything; she never stays long enough to need fixing. As professional arguments turn to attraction, Grace begins to want the one thing she's always avoided: somewhere to belong.
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The Vet Next Door
Newly settled in Willow Cottage after divorce, Lucy has no intention of complicating things with the handsome country vet next door. But Hawthorn Vale has other ideas.
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Hawthorn Vale: Books 1–3
Return to the picture-perfect English village of Hawthorn Vale with the first three romances in one collected volume — Still You, Unexpectedly Yours and The Vet Next Door. Second chances, unexpected attraction and cosy village life await.
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Still His
She left Edgewater and the man she couldn't forget. Now she's back, and walking away a second time may be impossible.
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Marked
Everyone in Edgewater knows what he did. She's the only one who wants to discover who he's become.
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Still Us
Twenty-six years together, and one last chance to remember why. Some loves don't end — they just wait.
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That Night
They survived that night, but they never escaped it. Now the past is calling them back to Edgewater.
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Scarred
Some scars fade with time. Others stay, teaching you exactly who deserves your trust.
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Shameless
Everyone knows her mistake. He wants the woman behind it, shameless and unafraid.
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Edgewater: Books 1–3
The first three Edgewater novels collected in one volume.
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Everyone Remembers the Murder
Four hundred people remember watching him die; the cameras show empty air. Memory specialist Dr Rowan Hale must enter a history that has already been rewritten.
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