Poor old Nick Sharman may be dead and gone, but there’s still life left in the old dog yet – as Mark Timlin shows in this collection of stories about his memorable detective.Follow Sharman as he rocks through the underworld of 90s London and beyond with more than a helping hand from his old mate Detective Inspector Robber, both men still sharp as a pair of tacks.There’s murder, mayhem and maybe a few laughs on the way – plus an interesting soundtrack......

THEN: Once upon a time in south London, three young men without a future decide to invent their own. The Sixties are starting to swing and Jimmy, John and Billy want it all: the clothes, the pills, the music and the women. Through drugs, protection and armed robbery, they start building their crime empire; everything they've always dreamed about is within their grasp. But then Billy changes sides and becomes a cop...and finds that his days are numbered. NOW: Billy's son, Mark, is working f...

The First Nick Sharman ThrillerNick Sharman is nobody's favourite person. Ex-cop, ex-doper, invalided out of the Met after a stray bullet in the foot saved him from an investigation into the missing evidence from a drugs haul.The cops don't like him. The villains don't like him. Sharman is unemployable. So he's hired himself an office and set up shop as a private investigator in his south London patch.Divorces and debt-collecting were what he expect...

The Second Nick Sharman ThrillerWhen you're an ex-cop and an ex-doper scratching a living as a private investigator in the unromantic streets of south London, you take any work you can get. Even a dreary little debt collection job for some toe-rag of a used-car dealer.When Nick Sharman collects the money due on a classic Bentley he finds himself stepping into another world. A world where a reclusive rock musician in a secluded mansion complete with its own ...

Working in a bar has proved too dangerous for Nick Sharman, so he's back in the private investigation game.His first job, looking for a lost Highland terrier called Prince, shouldn't be too demanding; a quick visit to the owner's ex-husband and a mention in the local newspaper ought to trace it. But Sharman has reckoned without a skinhead nutter by the name of Eddie Cochran.Then there's the call from Sunset Radio. Late-night phone-in DJ Peter Day has managed to upset an unp...

The Seventh Nick Sharman ThrillerLife as a private detective has proved too much for Nick Sharman, and when a chance run-in with a couple of young thugs secures him a job as a part-time barman, it looks as if he's found a promising new occupation.Unfortunately the drug squad has other plans. With two coppers slaughtered in as many weeks, Sharman finds himself being coerced into helping track down the killers.All too soon he is working alongside a po...

The Fifth Nick Sharman ThrillerDisliked by Old Bill and villains alike, South London private eye Nick Sharman attracts trouble like the proverbial magnet.When businessman James Webb asks Sharman to find out who murdered his sister, her husband and two young children, the trail's been cold for over a year; the original police investigators had found nothing - no clues, no witnesses, no motive. There isn't much to go on. Besides, Sharman has other things to o...

The Third Nick Sharman ThrillerIt starts when Nick Sharman's eye is caught by a woman in a fashionable West End store. She is young beautiful and classy. And she is shoplifting.In a moment of gallantry, Sharman saves her from the indignity of being caught. The next thing he knows Elizabeth Pike is his client. One evening a few weeks before, her father, multimillionaire Sir Robert Pike, took his old service revolver and blew a hole in his head. Now the battl...

The Fourth Nick Sharman ThrillerNick Sharman is in traction, hospitalised for four months, and desperate for a distraction. Then Fiona arrives - a topless model for the tabloids who bullies him into convalescing in her flat in Camberwell...After his last disaster-ridden case, Sharman has promised himself a quiet life. What he gets - almost the minute his leg is out of the plaster - is more trouble. Emerald Watkins, king of a black south London 'firm', has r...

The Sixth Nick Sharman ThrillerFor south London private detective Nick Sharman too many things have gone wrong lately. So when he's offered a job up west, with all the luxury of a posh Knightsbridge hotel chucked in, he doesn't refuse.Multi-million selling LA band Pandora's Box are in town to complete their latest album. A lot is riding on it being finished - their reputation and several million quid at least. But there have been a few strange accidents: so...

Nick Sharman - at last - is living a life of married bliss with his new partner (and ex-stripper) Dawn. The bad boy has settled down, and the booze and the drugs and the guns are but a happy memory - unlike his ex-wife Laura, now married to respectability.Laura's quite capable of shattering the idyll, but this time it's serious - their fifteen-year-old daughter Judith, the real love of Sharman's life, has gone missing. The police are looking, but have no leads. Laura fears the wors...

When a police officer's daughter was found raped and murdered, Sailor Grant, the local nonce, was sent down. Sharman always had his doubts, but that part of his life is over.Now, Sailor is out of prison and keeps phoning Sharman to help him get justice, but Nick wants to be left alone. When Sailor is found dead and Sharman is half beaten to death by the local coppers, Nick realises that he must find the truth about the events from his past before those close to him are killed.