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...

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...

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.

The first four books in this highly popular series.Meet private investigator David Good, a man with unreliable clients, a taste for blondes and a knack for digging up the dirt and 1980s London is his playground. Crime fiction with attitude and humour.“I really loved everything about this story. From the fantastic use of language and slang, to the plot(s), to the main character himself - everything lined up just right for my tastes. David Good PI is a rough but absolutely lo...

Money can buy you many things but immortality isn’t one of them.Business titan, Henry Graball, has it all. Money, power, status. None dare challenge him, whatever the justification. At least, that is how he sees the world and why not?When his dead body is found at the venue of the extravagant party he has thrown to celebrate his success, it is clear there is someone out there who sees things very differently indeed.When so many people have good reason to wish ill of...

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...

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...

An old-fashioned festival where someone’s idea of fun proves nothing short of deadly.As their cosy little weekend of fun and frivolity is blown out of the water by a violent murder, Inspector Leslie Dykeman and Sergeant Stanley Shapes find themselves faced with a plethora of possibilities and few obvious suspects amongst a group of friends staying at the upmarket Marlborough Hotel. Except, that is, they’re about to discover that even the best of friends have secrets they prefer to ...

The mind can play funny tricks on a person, especially when murder is involved.When nervous and isolated Pauline Higgingbottom finds her brother, Ralph, has been murdered in his own home she begins to be plagued by horrific recollections from her own past. But what do these have to do with the murder and what part might they play in her own future?A dark, psychological story from Ben Westerham’s Shorts in the Dark series.

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...

An old-school crook. A new-school thief. One moment that changes everything.Once upon a time, Frank ran cons with the best of them. Now retired from his life of crime, he spends his evenings nursing a pint at his local pub, minding his own business. Until, that is, he spots a young pickpocket working the place.Old instincts kick in and Frank steps forward to offer a word of advice and warning. But this new generation plays by different rules and Frank’s abo...