Serenity Booksellers are honoured to welcome award-winning and best selling Margaret Murphy (M.K. Murphy) to Serenity Booksellers to talk about and celebrate the release of Blood Debt, the second instalment of the D.S. Rick Turner series.

Tickets are £5 per person without book (ticket redeemable against a signed copy of Blood Debt) or £10 per person with book (includes a signed copy of blood Debt.) ​Light refreshments included in ticket price.

Event starts at 6:30pm (doors at 6pm)

About Margaret Murphy (M. K. Murphy)

Founder of Murder Squad and a past Chair of the Crime Writers Association (CWA), Margaret has been longlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and shortlisted for both the ‘First Blood’ critics award and the CWA Dagger in the Library. She is an HRF Keating, Red Herrings, and Short Story Dagger winner.

In 2023, she published Dead Man Walking, the first of a new detective thriller series, under the pen name M.K. Murphy. It was immediately optioned for TV. The sequel, Blood Debt, will be released 12th September 2024. Over almost three decades, Margaret has written 12 internationally acclaimed psychological suspense novels under her own name, plus 5 equally well-received forensic thrillers as Ashley Dyer and AD Garrett. Her work has been translated into nine languages.

A brief introduction to the Rick Turner novels (penned as M.K. Murphy)

Dead Man Walking
When DS Rick Turner’s girlfriend is snatched on day one of his first major trial, he’s given a stark choice – sabotage his own testimony or watch her die. Then his brother offers to help. But Sam is a wanted criminal who fled justice over a decade ago, and the last time they’d met, Rick had witnessed Sam coldly, deliberately, stab a defenceless man to death.

Blood Debt
As gangs rampage unchecked across London, DS Rick Turner is shot when a vigilante crew blunder into a major police operation. Speculated on by conspiracy theorists, mistrusted by his bosses, and targeted by a deadly enemy out for revenge on Sam, Rick must decide where his true loyalties lie.

A bit more about Blood Debt

Justice is served
As criminal gangs rampage unchecked across London, a secretive elite squad begins a campaign of action, delivering the guilty to the cops – along with all the evidence they need for a conviction.

Lines are drawn
But when innocent people are shot after the vigilante crew blunders into a major police operation – Detective Rick Turner among the unintended victims – it’s clear they must be stopped. Rick’s brother Sam might be able to help, but he’s a fugitive from the law himself, on nobody’s side but his own.

In too deep
As Sam and Rick are drawn into a vast criminal web, allegiances

Praise for the DS Rick Turner series
‘A compulsive thriller’ Ann Cleeves
‘Not to be missed!’ Daniel Sellers