Meeting the perfect woman can have its downsides, as London based PI David Good is about to find out.Good girls can seem ten-a-penny at times and some people would have you believe they're sweet little things that wouldn't harm a hair on a squirrel's back. And in 1980s south London, private investigator David Good thinks he's been lucky enough to find his very own example of well-behaved perfection.But he really ought to have known better and it's not long ...

When you’re dressed for living and full of beans, a run-in with death might not be all that is seems.London based PI, David Good, only went out to get his hair cut and to pick up a few bits and bobs at the local shops but, somehow or other, he’s finished up with a murder case on his hands. A man he’d spoken to only briefly that very morning has turned up dead, seemingly the victim of a hit-and-run incident. But it doesn’t take Good long to find out there is a lot m...

She’s Queen of the dancefloor and would-be Queen of the con and she’s about to give London based PI David Good a right old run-around.It seems to private investigator, David Good, that he might well have come face-to-face with the hottest claimant yet for the title of Queen of the Con in 1980s London. He might be no mug himself, but she’s a smooth operator with a ruthless streak as wide as the English Channel and most of her previous victims don’t seem to be in a h...

Where gentle humour and a little romance meet classic murder-mysteries.Join the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes as they set about solving three murder cases, each set in and around the small Oxfordshire market town of Banbury in the early 1960s.Each story brings you an array of colourful characters. From the elusive and calculating killers, to the unsuspecting and promptly dispatched victims. From the untrustw...

The second collection of very short stories in the highly popular 50for30 series, for those moments when you don’t have time for a more heavy-weight tome. From a problem with stinky feet, to a man with a flamingo obsession and on to a troublesome goldfish called John Wayne, these stories will by turns leave you laughing, horrified and even, in one or two cases, just plain bewildered.

A revenge sandwich is about to leave more than a bad taste in the mouth of garage owner Harry Minch.Garage owner Harry Minch isn’t a nasty piece of works and he’s never demanded much from life. However, if he was being entirely honest with himself, he’d have to admit that, where relationships are concerned, he’s probably a bit thoughtless, some might even say selfish.Unfortunately for Harry, he’s now crossed a woman whose expectations of the men in her life...

A classic tale of espionage on the eve of the first world war.A murdered British civil servant. Stolen Government documents. A fleeing German agent. Events that presage a desperate new assignment for secret service agent Alexander Templeman.Tasked with helping to keep an escaping German scientist out of the hands of ruthless enemy agents, Templeman will soon find himself isolated and fighting for his very life. If the uncertain and inexperienced agent fails...

She's blonde. She’s clever. She’s in his office. London based PI David Good doesn’t stand a chance.South London. The 1980s. David Good, a morally confused and womanising private investigator, is hired by a ridiculously beautiful blonde to help her fend off the attentions of a serial blackmailer. But he's barely got to grips with the woman's keen sense of self-interest when he stumbles on to something far more unsavoury.Never one to run a mile when a woman n...

Hide and seek may be child’s play, but murder most certainly is not.Summer 1959. When murder comes to the garden party of the Reverend George Sixpence, the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes are despatched from Banbury police station to apprehend the killer.Arriving at the splendid Victorian vicarage, Dykeman and Shapes find a group of suspects riddled with envy, bitterness and contempt for one another. As the two policemen strug...

For one young woman, a sizeable and unexpected legacy comes with the ultimate price-tag; her life.A rural idyll in the depths of the Oxfordshire countryside is shaken to its foundations when the body of a beautiful woman is found at the bottom of a field-side ditch. Still smarting from the loss of his one-true love, Inspector Leslie Dykeman, accompanied by his irascible side-kick, Sergeant Stanley Shapes, is sent to investigate. What they uncover is a web of secrets, lies, jealousy...

Before the Great War, Britain fought its first secret battle.In the spring of 1912, the nation appears calm and confident — yet beneath the surface a dangerous contest of secrets is already under way.Alexander Templeman, a young and respectable London solicitor, has no interest in intrigue or espionage. But when a chance encounter places him in possession of information others are prepared to kill for, his world is abruptly and violently transformed.

When murder strikes at a village fete, even the crows are asking, who wanted the scarecrow dead?The sun is shining, the bunting is fluttering, and the village of Staunton is alive with the excitement of its annual fete and scarecrow festival. But amid the laughter and merriment, darkness lurks. Before the first morning is done, a woman, dressed as a scarecrow, is found dead in an isolated spot on the edge of the village.Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the iras...