A Murderer on the Loose.A Detective Haunted by the Past.A Race Against Time.DCI Jonathan Walker is a senior detective for the Lancashire Constabulary in North West England. He’s haunted by events of the past and hell bent on redemption, if he can stay healthy for long enough that is."A moody, enveloping crime thriller." (SPR Editorial Review)After a body turns up in the sleepy villag...

A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery.On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John “Slim” Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor.Unfinished and water-damaged but still ticking, the old clock provides a vital clue to an unsolved missing-persons case.As Slim begins to ask questions of the tiny Cornish village of Penleven, he is drawn into a world of lies, rumours, and secret...

"An absolute feast for noir and paranormal thriller fans alike. Highly recommended." ~~ bestthrillers.comJohn "Slim" Hardy, heavy drinker and disgraced soldier turned bumbling private detective, is hired to investigate Ted Douglas, an investment banker who slips out of work every Friday to visit a desolate cove on the Lancashire coast. There, he walks to the shore, opens an old book, and begins to read aloud.His wife thinks he's having an affair.Sli...

A #1 Bestselling Collection! Over a quarter of a million series copies distributed.And 10,000+ series ratings across all platforms – averaging 4.4 out of 5. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Expect twisting investigations, mounting tension, and endings that keep you guessing.✔ Three full-length novels in one collection✔ Over 24 hours of gripping crime fiction✔ The perf...

A #1 Bestselling Series! Over a quarter of a million series copies distributed.And 10,000+ series ratings across all platforms – averaging 4.4 out of 5. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Three gripping investigations — where the stakes rise, the cases darken, and the truth becomes harder to uncover.Book 4: The DunesA body buried in the sand.A pattern no one wants to se...

The second collection of Jack Benton’s thrilling Slim Hardy Mysteries, including books 4-6 in the series: Slow Train, The Angler’s Tale and Eight Days.Slow TrainOn the evening of Saturday, January 15th, 1977, a local commuter train is delayed at a small village station by a freak blizzard. Young nurse Jennifer Evans, keen to get back to her family, plans to walk the last couple of miles to her home in a neighbouring village. She phones her ...

Richard II found himself under siege not once, but twice in his minority. Crowned king at age ten, he was only fourteen when the Peasants' Revolt terrorized London. But he proved himself every bit the Plantagenet successor, facing Wat Tyler and the rebels when all seemed lost. Alas, his triumph was short-lived, and for the next ten years he struggled to assert himself against his uncles and increasingly hostile nobles. Just like in the days of his great-grandfather Edward II, vengeful magn...

Traumatised by a recent case, private investigator John “Slim” Hardy tries to create a new life for himself on the remote Cornish coast. However, when he is recognised by a local woman, he is unable to resist the draw of a dark mystery which has left a long shadow over the village.Fourteen years earlier, a local man, Richard Maynard, died in mysterious circumstances. The only witness was his five-year-old daughter, Ellen. Now, Richard’s sister, Wendy, wants answers. But the only pe...

A party gone wrong?Or a sickening group attack?Not everything is what it seems, and not everyone is who they appear to be.A young girl is found dead at the Pike Tower on Winter Hill near Chorley and DCI Walker and the newly promoted DC Briggs are drafted in to investigate. But what they find extends far beyond the Rivington Pike. What seems like a party gone wrong, or a sickening group attack, transpires to be much ...

Her key to freedom is also her torment.Mina is an outcast. A childhood accident left her scarred and with a curse that her master exploits to hunt dragons for sport.She wants freedom, from both her master and the curse, but unless the right dragon is killed, she’ll be a bondservant for the rest of her days.With Mina’s uncanny ability and her master’s magical strength, the beast responsible for her misery will fall … even if she has to take matters i...

Harold Godwineson, the Last Anglo-Saxon King, owed everything to his father. Who was this Godwine, first Earl of Wessex and known as the Kingmaker? Was he an unscrupulous schemer, using King and Witan to gain power? Or was he the greatest of all Saxon Earls, protector of the English against the hated Normans? The answer depends on who you ask. He was befriended by the Danes, raised up by Canute the Great, given an Earldom and a wife from the highest Danish ranks. He sired nine children, am...

Two realities.One catastrophic mistake.And a system that just started to wake up.He thought it was just cargo.He didn’t know it could destroy the universe.Jon Simmons is a broke interstellar trucker flying solo on a shady delivery job. His cargo? Sealed. His instructions? Don’t ask.But what’s inside isn’t just black-market tech—it’s the blueprint for a planet-killer.Worse still… he de...