Constable Elizabeth West, Australia's greatest export, turns up in the North of England tracking a murderer across the Yorkshire Moors. Goyt Hall is a big old country house and lying dead, in front of the fireplace, is a beautiful young girl.Reviews: 'I'm delighted to have found Thorogood's books. Have raced through the Jack Hamma series and presently on 6th Elizabeth West. Googled his mini biography, fascinating! He really has been around the traps, no wonder he can produce volume...

If humour is the best medicine, as they say, little book is worth a whole hospital full of doctors, here are a couple of exerts taken at random:25: Shooting Accident'I lost my husband in a shooting accident.''Oh!''He attacked me with a knife and I accidently shot him!'100: Sweet Tooth:'How much sugar are you putting in your coffee?''I got a sweet tooth.''Sweet tooth.''Yeah.''You gotta sweet mouth!'Review: 'Love...

Book One: Shakespeare on the Roof.A secret Commando mission is ambushed. Jack runs for his life. There is a court martial. Jack is discharged from the army. Later at a party he meets a beautiful woman. The same beautiful woman who had Jack kicked out of the army. Reluctantly Jack is sent on another mission. This time to save his nemesis.'Really looking forward to reading the next Jack Hamma.''What a splendid book. How com...

Lazonby finds himself engaged to the mysteripous, red headed and wild eyed Larisha. Is she werewolf, vampire or a misundrstood beauty. But there are more mysterious characters that Lazonby has to contend with: Faye is she a fairy spirit who inhabits a castle in the north of England and the three sirens who storm Lazonby's compartment on a Brit Rail train.

Book One: Picnic with PicassoPrivate Detective Jack Hamma wakes up incarcerated in a blacked out room. He takes on his captors, a mob of big burley bikies and he runs for it. A woman appears with a baby, she is shot dead by the bikies and Jack is left holding the baby. For Jack getting away from the bikies and at the same time learning how to change nappies is top priority. But the bikies are everywhere and now Jack has a small girl Little Miss Jabber to pro...

It takes all of Private Detective Jack Hamma's resourcefulness, his ability to think on his feet and his downright native cunning to come out on top in these fast paced thrillers.The Purple PimpernelJack Hamma, private detective extraordinaire, meets the rich and beautiful Katerina de Medici Crest. Jack lives to regret that meeting. His drink is spiked and he finds himself under arrest for murder. Jack must untangle a web of intrigue full of...

Book One: Unconditional Surrender. Jack Hamma's world falls apart. His wife leaves him. His Private Detective business collapses. His baby daughter is kidnapped. He's at rock bottom. He must pull himself together to save his daughter.'Another cracker with Jack Hamma as the action hero.''I have read all the Jack Hamma books as they came out and have enjoyed them all.''Gripped and held my interest from the start.''Whilst liking all the Jack Hamma...

Private Detective Jack Hamma is hijacked by a beautiful woman and she in turn is hijacked when a London Supermarket is Bombed. Jack comes to the rescue and the result is a disaster. Jack is left high and dry until a third hijacking, Malaysian terrorist capture a train and hold the passengers hostage, Jacks mission is to attack the train in full view of heavily armed terrorist and release the captives can he pull it of or is it another recipe for disaster?'A crackin...

In October 2007 I went around the world in 40 days. I drank cider with ex-commandos in Devon, I watched Morris Men drinking Old Rosie and doing their thing in Much Marcle and listened to an old man sing about cider in Carhampton. I saw cider being made in Brittany, splashed it about in Spain, ate food cooked with it in Germany and even picked the odd apple in America. Read all about my cider trip and much more.If you want to make alcoholic cider in the home you can try my Dry Spark...

A fascinating history of the bicycle and how riders of all ages have fallen in love with the two wheeled cycling machine. This book contains their stories and more.Follow a one handed cycle tour across England. Join Ros on her cycle tour of Holland, a great adventure that ended in disaster. See how the bicycle played a role in women's fight for equality. And join British paratroopers who jumped out of aeroplanes hanging on to bicycles and then cycled into battle.Rev...

It's night - pitch black. The rain pours down. A young girl screams. Jack Hamma comes to the rescueThere's a fight. A Mafia boss is dead. The Mafia want revenge!'A rip roaring adventure.''Like all Jack Hamma's it has a brilliant opening scene.'Book Two: Licensed to ThrillBy the ski of his teeth Jack Hamma is holding on 2,000 feet up a mountain. Two climbers are about to fall Tt their certain dea...

Jack is in the Australian bush, it's pitch black, there's a thunderstorm and an old tree crashes down, Jack takes shelter from the thunder, lightning and torrential rain and then he hears a scream.'Thorogood's Jack Hamma series deserves its success. They are rip roaring adventures, told in a no nonsense style, all with Jack's signature wry humor. The latest, Blind Man's Buff is no exception and, like all Jack Hamma's it has a brilliant opening scene.'  'Exciting fast paced ...