After six years behind bars Chet Bennett is once again a free man. But it doesn't end here. Chet has to find and deal with the people who set him up as the fall guy. Festering for six long years, it has become a bitter obsession; he has to find them and mete out his own justice before he can move on. But six years is a long time and the forty million, still missing from the heist, could have taken the perpetrators a very long way. They could be anywhere in the world. No matter, Chet is pre...

While investigating what appears to be a series of tit for tat racial attacks in the back streets of Norwich, Theo Stern is asked to help in the search for gangster, Benny Lyle, said to have been kidnapped from his London home.But there is something cynically methodical about the Norwich attacks and Lyle is recently reported to have been seen in Norfolk's tiny Georgian town of Holt. So are the Norwich attacks simply retaliatory and has Lyle really been abducted? Stern has his doubt...

It's 2006 and a group of university students enter into a reckless dare which culminates in the death of one of them. A formal investigation classifies the death as being accidental.Fast forward to 2014, and the remaining students who took part in that dare, now each residing in various UK towns, one even in Australia, are being sought out and one by one brutally murdered. But what, after all this time, has sparked the killing spree and who is responsible? In one of the most involv...

Theo Stern's old friend, jazz musician, Steve Arnold hits Sheringham. But jazz is the last thing on Stern's mind when he finds that his friend is involved in a sinister tangle of violence and death.A brutal killing on a cross channel ferry and the arrival of a jazz musician to perform in a sleepy seaside town.Two totally unconnected events?So thinks private investigator, Theo Stern. But sinister happenings indicate otherwise and Stern finds himself ...

The slaying of a foreign diplomat and a London cabby bequeathed £250,000 by a mother he hasn't associated with for years.Unconnected incidents? So it seems, but when Frank Barnes, asks where and how his mother died he is drawn into a dark, frightening world where nothing is as it seems.

n anonymous, threatening telephone call demanding information or face the consequence, is not the way Theo Stern likes to start his day. And, worse, the caller refuses to specify the information required, saying only that all would be revealed in time. Stern must decide; is the threat genuine or just a crank getting off on anonymous calls?The question is answered for him when Annie, the love of his life, is abducted and more calls are received, each taunting, the demands specific. ...

A former Intelligence agent disappears and private detective, Theo Stern, is asked to investigate. A woman is found brutally killed, her neck viciously broken, and MI5 agents threaten Stern, warning him off the case. As an ex-London copper, Stern doesn't threaten easily, but when he is callously driven off the road and almost killed his resolve is tested to the extreme.

Four simple words, individually nothing spectacular. But, put together, a phrase so humiliating it has the power to transform life.From boyhood, Andy Roper had just one obsession: he wanted nothing more than to be a soldier. He eagerly entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, at seventeen and three quarters, the youngest age possible, and seventeen years later was a hardened veteran officer in his beloved Royal Anglian Regiment. Then, while on patrol in Afgha...

Within these pages you will find twenty-five short stories. You will find each different, each hopefully a pleasant little read. Some involve ghostly goings on, others a little detective work and still others are a tad goofy; just a little nonsense with something, hopefully, to raise a smile. When taking that welcome break, cup of tea or coffee in hand, this is a little book which can literally be dipped into at any point for a ten minute relaxing read.

A piece of an aircraft that's lain hidden since the second world war is found in Norfolk woodland. It's find sparks a search; two families, each desperate to discover the fate of relatives believed to have been aboard an aircraft that mysteriously disappeared in 1940. But is this find part of that aircraft and are they being honest about the reason for their search? Theo Stern investigates and finds himself embroiled in a web lies and deceit where, even after seventy years, savage violence...

When a remote farmhouse burglary results in the death of one of the two elderly sisters living there the police are led to believe only a few trinkets were stolen. But then the surviving sister seeks out Theo Stern and admits that during the raid a priceless painting was also taken. But why were the police kept in the dark? She confides all to Stern, swearing him to secrecy and begging for his help to retrieve the painting.Stern's encounters danger at every turn when his investigat...

Rod Bishop was just fourteen when his wayward father disappeared. Since then, Rod has taken the responsibility for his mother and three younger siblings very seriously. Even while in the military, he's kept a close eye on the problems at home, sending money and advice when needed. Now, though, an IED in the desert of Afghanistan has ended Rod's army career and sent him home suffering from PTSD. But Rod isn't a quitter, and though his physical injuries have healed, mental scars still remain...