Hide and seek may be child’s play, but murder most certainly is not.Summer 1959. When murder comes to the garden party of the Reverend George Sixpence, the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes are despatched from Banbury police station to apprehend the killer.Arriving at the splendid Victorian vicarage, Dykeman and Shapes find a group of suspects riddled with envy, bitterness and contempt for one another. As the two policemen strug...

She's blonde. She’s clever. She’s in his office. London based PI David Good doesn’t stand a chance.South London. The 1980s. David Good, a morally confused and womanising private investigator, is hired by a ridiculously beautiful blonde to help her fend off the attentions of a serial blackmailer. But he's barely got to grips with the woman's keen sense of self-interest when he stumbles on to something far more unsavoury.Never one to run a mile when a woman n...

The first four books in this highly popular series.Meet private investigator David Good, a man with unreliable clients, a taste for blondes and a knack for digging up the dirt and 1980s London is his playground. Crime fiction with attitude and humour.“I really loved everything about this story. From the fantastic use of language and slang, to the plot(s), to the main character himself - everything lined up just right for my tastes. David Good PI is a rough but absolutely lo...

Where gentle humour and a little romance meet classic murder-mysteries.Join the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes as they set about solving three murder cases, each set in and around the small Oxfordshire market town of Banbury in the early 1960s.Each story brings you an array of colourful characters. From the elusive and calculating killers, to the unsuspecting and promptly dispatched victims. From the untrustw...

Before the Great War, Britain fought its first secret battle.In the spring of 1912, the nation appears calm and confident — yet beneath the surface a dangerous contest of secrets is already under way.Alexander Templeman, a young and respectable London solicitor, has no interest in intrigue or espionage. But when a chance encounter places him in possession of information others are prepared to kill for, his world is abruptly and violently transformed.

A collection of thirty-two very short stories for those moments when you don’t have time for a more heavy-weight tome. From a demon hair-dresser to a dangerous hand-bag and some wise advice from Humphrey Bogart, some of these stories will make you smile, some will make you frown, maybe one or two will even make you sad.

When murder strikes at a village fete, even the crows are asking, who wanted the scarecrow dead?The sun is shining, the bunting is fluttering, and the village of Staunton is alive with the excitement of its annual fete and scarecrow festival. But amid the laughter and merriment, darkness lurks. Before the first morning is done, a woman, dressed as a scarecrow, is found dead in an isolated spot on the edge of the village.Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the iras...

Where gentle humour and a little romance meet classic murder-mysteries.Join the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes as they set about solving three murder cases, each set in and around the small Oxfordshire market town of Banbury in the early 1960s.Each story brings you an array of colourful characters. From the elusive and calculating killers, to the unsuspecting and promptly dispatched victims. From the untrustw...

Who would have thought golf could be such a deadly game?When two players stumble upon a dead body in a bunker on the thirteenth hole of their favourite golf club, their discovery is about to set in motion a series of events that will lay bare some of the less savoury aspects of the human condition.Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes find themselves engaged on a case that will drive them to distraction as they begin to investig...

Meet, for the first time, David Good, Private Investigator. Plying his trade in 1980s South London, the PI with pliable morals, a taste for blondes and a full-on sense of humour, turns out to be a big softie as he takes up the challenge of sorting out yet another domestic mess.Having discovered that one Alice Jones, a young woman with a well-developed taste for strawberries, has a varied and not entirely honest life, he quickly finds himself wrestling with emotions he’d prefer woul...

Thirteen fabulous crime stories from Ben Westerham’s highly popular ‘Shorts in the Dark’ series. It’s time to take a wander into the darker recesses of the mind.The Old Man’s Shed – School-boy Jacob Whistler finds his neighbour’s shed an irresistible temptation. But what is it he finds lurking inside?Alone in the Dark - “There’s something about watching others in the night that appeals to me. It always has.”The Pond - Revenge can come in many guises and sometimes fr...

Money can buy you many things but immortality isn’t one of them.Business titan, Henry Graball, has it all. Money, power, status. None dare challenge him, whatever the justification. At least, that is how he sees the world and why not?When his dead body is found at the venue of the extravagant party he has thrown to celebrate his success, it is clear there is someone out there who sees things very differently indeed.When so many people have good reason to wish ill of...