The second Catrin Sayer mystery. A retired clergyman collapses in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, right in front of the painting by Salvador Dali called ‘Christ of Saint John of the Cross’. It is thought to be a heart attack until the angina medication he took at the onset of the attack was discovered to be a placebo; it was totally ineffective. Meanwhile, a drug 'baron' in Glasgow searches out the services of a friend of his late father, a man with prior convictions for art forgery; he...

A cruise ship officer from Hong Kong disappears during a port stop in Holyhead on the North Wales coast and a missing person investigation turns up no leads. On the same cruise, an international police operation to break an art smuggling ring loses track of three valuable Russian paintings thought to be on board. Four months later the younger sister of the missing sailor becomes a student at Bangor University, nearby. The Metropolitan Police Art Crime Unit wants to know why she is in the U...

More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash.Allan Jones brings stories – many previously unpublished – from the golden days of music reporting. Long nights of booze, drugs and unguarded conversations which include anecdotes, experiences and extravagant behaviour.- A band's aftershow party in San Francisco being gatecrashed by cocaine-hungry Hells Angels- Chrissie Hynde on how rock'n'rol...

The Third Catrin Sayer Mystery. A second-year student at Falmouth University in Cornwall receives a shocking image ‘hacked’ into her Facebook page; one of her being viciously assaulted at knife-point. Although she is mainly clothed in the image, she realizes later that it is probably derived from a session where she was nude, modelling for a figure-drawing class at a nearby college, despite the rule that no cameras are allowed in the studio. Worked into the image, partially buried, is a va...

The tenth and final novel in the Catrin Sayer series.In the middle of family upheaval during the Covid pandemic, Catrin Sayer takes a career development assignment with the Devon and Cornwall Police. There, at the rank of superintendent, she chairs a reorganisation task force, a far cry from her former operational roles with the Metropolitan Police.During her contract, the violent deaths of a man and his daughter in Tavistock are linked to an art theft. Art crime being Saye...

At dawn on a July morning, the body of a Roman Catholic priest, Duncan Aster, is found in the shallows of a lake in Cumbria, UK. His final email refers enigmatically to a woman called Susan and an Anglican priest from Ontario. The priest, Andrew Moore, turns out to be Aster’s last known contact. He won’t assist the police inquiry nor will he speak about the matter with his bishop.As the battleground between Bishop Azikiwe and Reverend Moore develops, Cumbria Police decide to send a...

The Sixth Catrin Sayer Mystery. Detective Inspector Catrin Sayer now leads art investigation within the prestigious Art and Antiques Unit of the London Metropolitan Police. Her team is suddenly assigned to assist Trident, the organized crime unit, at a crime scene in East London where a valuable painting has been discovered. It is a suspicious death; a young woman has fallen from the balcony of an apartment owned by a gang leader. The painting has links to a drug gang in Glasgow where, som...

The eighth Catrin Sayer Mystery.Sayer returns from an extended maternity leave with the same challenge as most new mothers. She needs to rebalance her life and get back into the workforce. In her case, as a detective inspector in the Metropolitan Police, her work is the specialised world of art crime. A tip-off from an informant about a painting, a savage knife attack on a person near her home and a police undercover operation at a casino weave together to giver her the biggest cha...

The Fourth Catrin Sayer Mystery, following immediately the events in THE FALMOUTH MODEL. Detective Sergeant Catrin Sayer returns from a supposedly routine assignment in Malaysia that went disastrously wrong to be assigned to a new case. Two years after an unsolved major art robbery from a merchant bank in London, a prisoner in Rome sends a message: he is prepared to talk about a sentencing deal for information about the bank robbery. Three paintings were stolen, two of them near-priceless ...

Sayer returns to art crime investigation with a promotion to detective inspector in the ‘elite’ Art and Antiques Unit at New Scotland Yard. Her first assignment is to join a major investigation into an international art crime ring. As she begins her new role she is also hand-picked by a senior Home Office bureaucrat to look into the origin of a painting found in a village in mid-Wales in the home of a recently-deceased judge.As she balances the competing casework assigned, a deacon...

The body of a fifteen-year-old boy is discovered ten years after he disappeared. Dennis Lewis's remains are bound with rope in a makeshift grave in a farmer’s field near Maryport, Cumbria.Community Sergeant Harriet Calder was not involved in the original investigation, but her name is highlighted on a church bulletin found with the body. Scrawled on the same page is the word ‘Compline’. Calder, in her part-time role as a Methodist preacher, had led the service at his church the wee...

In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones – Canada’s first blind diplomat – vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory Indian philosophy that changed his life.Advaita Vedanta, the most iconoclastic and liberating of the classical Indian philosophies, profoundly altered the author’s experience of self and worl...