Seventeen years ago teenager Nicardo Clarke grasped his brother's hand and a sibling deal was sealed. Now Nicardo's brother is dead, brutally murdered and Nicardo, forced to honorthe deal, is drawn to another continent and a dark world where life is cheap and one man fears placing his trust in another.

When a remote farmhouse burglary results in the death of one of the two elderly sisters living there the police are led to believe only a few trinkets were stolen. But then the surviving sister seeks out Theo Stern and admits that during the raid a priceless painting was also taken. But why were the police kept in the dark? She confides all to Stern, swearing him to secrecy and begging for his help to retrieve the painting.Stern's encounters danger at every turn when his investigat...

It's 2006 and a group of university students enter into a reckless dare which culminates in the death of one of them. A formal investigation classifies the death as being accidental.Fast forward to 2014, and the remaining students who took part in that dare, now each residing in various UK towns, one even in Australia, are being sought out and one by one brutally murdered. But what, after all this time, has sparked the killing spree and who is responsible? In one of the most involv...

Theo Stern's dreams of retirement are shattered when a threat from his past suddenly rears its head and he's forced to face its life threatening consequences.With a history of over forty years' hard front line detective work, a weary Theo Stern is convinced it's time to call it a day. He dreams of a carefree retirement by the sea. But when a woman asks for help to find a missing boy, Stern is persuaded by Cherry, his devoted assistant, to take the case. Just this o...

A concerned wife seeking details of her husband's late night jaunts, and a river drowning requiring clarification. Two completely separate and, to Stern Investigations,, seemingly everyday, bread and butter cases.But further investigation slowly reveals a web of dark and dangerous deception that shrouds both cases. Determined to uncover the truth, Theo Stern delves deeper into the mire, unaware that every step he takes is luring him ever closer to his own demise.

A piece of an aircraft that's lain hidden since the second world war is found in Norfolk woodland. It's find sparks a search; two families, each desperate to discover the fate of relatives believed to have been aboard an aircraft that mysteriously disappeared in 1940. But is this find part of that aircraft and are they being honest about the reason for their search? Theo Stern investigates and finds himself embroiled in a web lies and deceit where, even after seventy years, savage violence...

Theo Stern's old friend, jazz musician, Steve Arnold hits Sheringham. But jazz is the last thing on Stern's mind when he finds that his friend is involved in a sinister tangle of violence and death.A brutal killing on a cross channel ferry and the arrival of a jazz musician to perform in a sleepy seaside town.Two totally unconnected events?So thinks private investigator, Theo Stern. But sinister happenings indicate otherwise and Stern finds himself ...

While investigating what appears to be a series of tit for tat racial attacks in the back streets of Norwich, Theo Stern is asked to help in the search for gangster, Benny Lyle, said to have been kidnapped from his London home.But there is something cynically methodical about the Norwich attacks and Lyle is recently reported to have been seen in Norfolk's tiny Georgian town of Holt. So are the Norwich attacks simply retaliatory and has Lyle really been abducted? Stern has his doubt...

n anonymous, threatening telephone call demanding information or face the consequence, is not the way Theo Stern likes to start his day. And, worse, the caller refuses to specify the information required, saying only that all would be revealed in time. Stern must decide; is the threat genuine or just a crank getting off on anonymous calls?The question is answered for him when Annie, the love of his life, is abducted and more calls are received, each taunting, the demands specific. ...

Rod Bishop was just fourteen when his wayward father disappeared. Since then, Rod has taken the responsibility for his mother and three younger siblings very seriously. Even while in the military, he's kept a close eye on the problems at home, sending money and advice when needed. Now, though, an IED in the desert of Afghanistan has ended Rod's army career and sent him home suffering from PTSD. But Rod isn't a quitter, and though his physical injuries have healed, mental scars still remain...

A former Intelligence agent disappears and private detective, Theo Stern, is asked to investigate. A woman is found brutally killed, her neck viciously broken, and MI5 agents threaten Stern, warning him off the case. As an ex-London copper, Stern doesn't threaten easily, but when he is callously driven off the road and almost killed his resolve is tested to the extreme.

The slaying of a foreign diplomat and a London cabby bequeathed £250,000 by a mother he hasn't associated with for years.Unconnected incidents? So it seems, but when Frank Barnes, asks where and how his mother died he is drawn into a dark, frightening world where nothing is as it seems.