So you want to be a stand-up comedian? Well, here it is, folks. With the jokes you find in this little book you can be guaranteed far more rotten eggs than accolades. You might get away with it with the family, but not in public!

A clever psychopathic serial killer, who leaves no clue or deliberately misleading clues, has successfully caused two innocent police officers to be imprisoned for the murders of a dozen prostitutes in other parts of the country. Now he is killing in Norfolk, Detective Chief Inspector Tony Dyce's home territory. What Dyce does not know is that he is the perp's next intended fall-guy. Intriguing murders, with detailed, intimate forensic science, combined with sex, humour, mystery and schmal...

John Hunter and his chief are blissfully unaware that what seems to be a straightforward lesson in retribution has been carefully staged by Makepeace's devious mind, working a dozen moves ahead of the game. If his comprehensive plans come to fruition, not only would world stability be destroyed, probably forever, but the chances of atomic war breaking out would increase exponentially. Hunter believes he has a chance of stopping the megalomaniac mountain of flesh, unaware that he is watched...

One of Tony Dyce's friends is viciously maimed by a gang of international crooks in the first move by them to obtain the second half of an antique Chinese chess set, which when complete gives the location of one of the hoards of Nazi gold. After years spent trying to decipher the clues from their half set, without success, the pieces have for maximum security been spread around among the ex-SAS soldiers. Their peaceful civilian equilibrium is destroyed and their lives are at stake, along w...

Harry Page, recovered from his gunshot wound, is enjoying a quiet, peaceful life, with not a cloud on his horizon. Hah! He thinks!There is one person in the world to whom he owes a favor, his friend, Trevor Gale, and that favor is asked of him: Trevor's father, the magazine magnate, whose wife was murdered seventeen years ago on the Island of Thassos, is being blackmailed over the existence of a knife. Trevor assumes that his father has murdered someone, but cannot talk to him about...

Frederick's happy, untroubled little world is thrown into turmoil when he is seduced by Imelda, and destroyed utterly by her murder of his baby son. Consumed with blind grief and guilt he joins an army about to become enmeshed in the most horrendous war the world has ever known. His bad dream becomes a far worse reality as battle follows bloody battle, and yet, throughout it all, an unlikely love survives.

Caroline Carter's corpse is sitting upright by one of the kitchen cupboards, its head smashed in by the heavy iron skillet lying artistically posed next to the body, the ring finger of the left hand missing. DI John Hunter automatically reads the murder as a domestic, particularly since the husband, Max, has apparently 'done a runner'. John has no idea that the death is only the top layer of the most intriguing can of worms he has ever come across. DI Annie Green, an avid reader of crime f...

Womaniser Klaus Kinser, conducting the West Midlands Philharmonic Orchestra, falls headlong into the orchestra pit, very dead. What looks like a heart attack is anything but - his body has surprisingly stopped producing proteins. Forensic scientist Jane Keller is hard pressed to identify the source of the problem as more musicians die, without apparent motive. Intriguing detective work leads to an electrifying climax, with a totally unexpected and ironic twist in the tail.

One of Tony Dyce's friends is abducted and viciously maimed by a gang of international crooks, in the first move by them to obtain the second half of an antique Chinese chess set, which, when complete, gives the location of one of the hoards of Nazi gold. After years spent trying to decipher the clues from their half set, without success, the pieces have for maximum security been spread around among the ex-SAS soldiers. Their peaceful civilian lives are destroyed, and those lives are at st...

The United Kingdom is free of rabies, but the danger is ever-present.Billy Harsley is eleven and hyperactive. School bores him and he longs to have adventures like Huck Finn. He has run away for the third time and is sleeping rough on the marshes near Great Yarmouth, while the police search for him in the town.A German coaster has just tied up in the port, ready to unload, but there are problems on the ship, mechanical and animal.Both the Captain's dogs, unknown to him...

A sometimes lighthearted, sometimes serious overview of one man's twenty years of spying for GCHQ, as a member of the then highly secret 'Y' Service, beginning with his cloak and dagger recruitment after training as a telegraphist.The first posting is Cheadle, in Staffordshire, where the Polish Air Force is the target, where lightning literally does strike, a dead body is found, and where a pop song results in a ludicrous charge of 'Conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline'...

A psychotic serial killer is unleashing indiscriminate death among the elderly, using a unique and diabolically dangerous device. The old people are apparently dying of influenza and the deaths are accepted as from natural causes. Sheriff Cnut and his team are fighting a losing battle against a powerful, informed enemy. Shockingly, as the death toll rises, Cnut learns that the killer is a highly disturbed figure from his own hidden past. Constant, electrifying action leads to a terrifying ...