Meet Arnold Landon, mild-mannered history buff turned amateur sleuth. Murder in the Barn marks the beginning of an addictive new series, featuring an unlikely hero whose passions run deep.IT STARTS WITH A SIMPLE PLANNING REQUEST …Rampton Farm, Northumberland, has always been a gloomy, godforsaken place. Now it’s earmarked for demolition—to make way for just another tawdry amusement park. It will be progress, and nothing can stand i...

Arnold Landon finds himself drawn into another bitter dispute over land—in which a defenseless old woman pays the ultimate price.To the casual observer, Penbrook Farm might seem like a ramshackle hovel, buried deep in the woods of Northumberland.But to fragile old Sarah Ellis, it’s home. And the developers can have the place over her dead body.Of course, no one ever expected it to come to that …Least of all Arnold Landon, the peaceable planning offi...

OBSESSIONS CAN TURN DEADLY.Eric Ward has a new client: Dieter Barschell. He’s an ex-professional footballer charged with dealing drugs at a Newcastle racecourse.Eric secures bail for his client. He also precipitates a murder investigation.While defending Barschell, Eric antagonizes one of the prosecution witnesses, DCI Charlie Spate.Can the two men work together to try to resolve this mess?This time Eric’s client has connections that...

Don’t miss the final book in the bestselling Eric Ward series. It’s a cracker!A dangerous killer with a penchant for the Zodiac symbols is abducting, torturing, and murdering women. Eric Ward and Sharon Owen are in court defending the man accused of these crimes, and due to a technicality, the suspect walks free. But is he really guilty?Meanwhile, DCI Charlie Spate is tracking the alleged Zodiac Killer but loses his trail. Eric receives an urgent call askin...

A skeleton buried on a lonely Northumberland hill?Nothing wrong with that. Garrigill was once an ancient burial ground.Archaeologist Rena Williams is here to excavate the site. She is an old friend of Arnold’s. And with his help, her team have uncovered more than a few old bones already.But never like this.The bludgeoned skull, the modern dental work … nothing about this death feels accidental. Or even all that old.Who was the dead m...

AN OFFER TOO GOOD TO BE TRUEFormer police officer-turned-solicitor Eric Ward is recovering from a serious eye operation when the offer comes in.Come down to London.Help Philip Scarn, a successful entrepreneur, break into the North East.Get paid handsomely doing it.On the journey, Ward is nearly killed. At the other end of a phone call, a shadowy voice warns this is just the beginning. Then a young woman is murdered. Ward finds himsel...

A ruthless new boss shakes up Arnold’s quiet life at the council.From the moment Karen Stannard comes striding in the door, Arnold Landon knows his workplace will never be the same.Now, he is saddled with a project he never wanted: the Ridgeway Viking Trust. Its shady leaders tell him there’s treasure buried in the rolling Northumberland Hills—they just need one more payout to reach it.But is there more to the Trust than meets the eye?Muck-raking jo...

INFIDELITY CAN BE MURDEROUSLY DANGEROUS.Eric Ward thinks he is happily married—until he discovers that his wife, Anne, has been spending rather too much time with a business associate.Suspicious and angry, Ward finds comfort in the arms of a beautiful stranger. But when his new lover is found dead, he must do everything he can to avoid becoming the focus of a murder inquiry that could wreck his future.As police pressure looms, Ward makes his own inq...

IF IT SEEMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS.Farmer Paddy Fenton faces financial ruin as a result of foot and mouth disease among his flock.Then he gets an offer that he can’t refuse: ready cash to rent one of his outbuildings. He doesn’t enquire too closely as to what is happening there until a police raid uncovers a sinister operation.Eric Ward agrees to represent Fenton and soon finds himself in a bitter turf war. The criminal network stretche...

Past and present explode in murder.A counter-terrorist organization stops the murder of a French politician in the Pyrenees. The would-be assassin is killed at the scene. He has a disturbing tattoo on his arm.Eric Ward meets Ben Shaw at a bankers’ dinner. Ben hires him to look into his old rival and Eric’s ex-wife’s probable new lover, Jason Sullivan. Jason’s disappeared and so has the money for a project he was working on.DCI Spate is looking into ...

Colin Bannock is hiding quite the secret.By day, he’s a smooth-talking lawyer. After hours, he is someone else entirely.He corners Arnold Landon, wanting him to join his society of history fanatics.Appalled, Arnold declines outright. He’s never been a joiner and, besides, he has enough on his plate already.He is hunting for a lost and ancient treasure. And he knows the hiding place is close.Then Bannock’s body washes up on the banks of the R...

A thriving law practice and a happy marriage are almost enough to convince solicitor Eric Ward he has overcome his painful past and started a new life.All it takes is the wrong client for it all to unravel.An investigative journalist beaten to a pulp.A crooked Newcastle businessman living the high life in France.A woman from a half-forgotten past.Former police officer-turned-solicitor Eric Ward represents Eddie Stevens, an investigative reporter on t...