Detective Chief Inspector Jack Buchanan, whose wife, Karen, calls him an anachronism in the 21st century, a comment he whole heartily endorses, is a 35-year veteran of policing in Glasgow, which some observers call “The Mean City”.When he walked the beat in the Gorbals area of Glasgow as a young PC, his idea of street justice was to take the miscreant down a dark alley, thump seven bells of hell out of them and send them on their way with a warning never to do it again. Now 35 years...

A list of easy conversation starters for events with familiar and new people as well as games that include and involve. A very short and easy to reference guide.

This is an adult book with adult humor and some pictures not suitable for children. Now, if you are an adult male and are often referred to as a child, then this book is perfectly fine for you.Note: This book has lots of swear words, seriously! I mean who writes words like Shit and Dick on the front cover of a book and expects it won't be brown bagged in most book stores? We appreciate the gate busters who wrote books like S&*! My Dad Says and Go the F&*# to Sleep and allowed the c...

In spite of being trapped between the never-ending pressure from above to retire, and the need to quickly resolve the latest, cold blooded murder. Buchanan grits his teeth and doggedly forges ahead with the investigation.Was the gruesome death of the businessman a one off, performed by some sadistic killer? Or was it a macabre message to those who think they can step out of line?Who sprayed superglue onto DS Street’s hair just weeks before her marriage to PC Hunter. Was it a ...

On that fateful Saturday morning, when Glaswegian John McDermott left for work for another painting job in Eastbourne, DCI Jack Buchanan was preparing for the first barbeque in his new home thinking his days of being a policeman in Glasgow were over. But it wasn't to be, while Buchanan browned the chicken on his barbeque, John McDermott's body went headfirst through a garage roof on its downwards travel from the scaffolding seven floors above.And so it was, as John McDermott's body...

DCI Buchanan is on administration leave and is staying at Castlewood Country Club. He’d seen his wife and daughter off to France on the ferry and now planned to spend the week relaxing, reading, horse riding, and sipping his favourite single malt; and come hell or high water nothing was going to get in the way of that. But he hadn’t reckoned on what mayhem the whirlwind called Cynthia Mountjoy was about to cause.

The myatery of cabin 312 is the third in the DCI Buchanan mystery series.Recovering from a very bad car crash, Buchanan takes his wife Karen on a two-week luxury cruise through the Dutch and Belgian canals. During the cruise, an English couple go missing. When their cabin is searched, blood stained female clothing is found but there is no trace of her, or her partner. Instead of shore trips, relaxing at the bar and reading, Buchanan is thrust into investigating the mystery of what ...

For Eastbourne guitar maker Jack Nevis, tomorrow is a foreign country. Yet today, living and working on the Osprey, a rust encrusted WW2 tugboat, are memories, safety, and home. Woken by the sound of a gunshot, Jack finds a body in his workshop and is immediately thrust into a world of dead Pharaohs, looted Nazi gold, and a damsel in distress, Nancy. Does Nancy really want to learn how to make a guitar? Or is she being coerced into to finding out if the much sought after falcon figurine of...

The Penitent Heart, is one man’s journey from despair to hope. It is the story of Bill, a hapless househusband, who while being under the influence of alcohol causes a road traffic accident, and the subsequent death of the other driver. Overloaded with stress and guilt, Bill suffers a debilitating emotional breakdown. Bill abandons his wife, Ruth, and her three young daughters by her first marriage, to become a cook on a charter yacht bound for the Amazon. Bill may have run away from his w...

Hey daddy to be, it takes a lot more than sticking out your chest and being a proud papa to become a good daddy. The Daddy Survival Guide is the first in the series to help the first time dad to be understand what is really expected of him, without all the fluff and touchy feely contents of most mom-to-be books. You need to understand the changes of the pregnancy phases, what you should be doing to prepare for this new baby and how to get yourself in gear for the road ahead. To make things...

Sometimes when boy meets girl, the world is bliss and everything is right in the universe. Other times, there's baggage, pasts, secrets and skeletons that reside in long forgotten closets. Jo has some minor celebrity status as a writer of suspense stories. Her tales typically include women who are wronged and strike back violently. Leo is a handsome and seemingly self made man who finds himself attracted to this bookish and quiet woman. After a whirlwind romance, the two fall in love and ...

You think your mom was bad, let me tell you, when my mom threatened to send me to school in nothing but my underwear because I hadn’t thrown my dirty clothes in the hamper, she followed through! That woman had some resolve! My mother had a very twisted sense of right and wrong. She could swear like a sailor and make grown men blush, but God forbid one of her children mention repeat her choice words. Her method of overcoming the desire to be ‘foul mouthed’? SOAP. ...