A collection of forty crime and thriller short stories, with all profits from the sale of this book to be donated to Hospice UK and Sophie's Appeal.Do you think you know darkness? Think again. Bloodhound Books presents Dark Minds—a collection of stories by authors who have come together to produce an anthology that will lure, tantalise and shock its readers. What took place "By the Water?" What goes on behind "A Stranger's Eyes?" And what is so special about "Slow R...

Three short stories to savour as you relax with your favourite blend of coffee.  Each is written to amuse and bring a wry smile to your face. For the reader who prefers a light-hearted tale without the modern trend for questionable language.  Enjoy!!

When a sixteen year old boy is taken prisoner by a young German submariner on a popular holiday beach in Norfolk, he has no idea how to escape from the deadly situation...especially as WW2 has been over for more than fifty years.  That is the immediate problem.  Somehow he has managed to travel back in time and he has no idea how to return to his own time.  He can't ask anybody to help him because nobody would believe him.  All he can do is try to escape his captor...

A mysterious green girl enlists the help of two schoolgirls in finding and recovering a magical amulet that can be used for good or evil.  The amulet had been brought to our world centuries ago by another green girl and her brother and was considered lost.  It must be returned to the world it came from. They are not the only ones trying to find it.  Someone else wants to find it in order to use its powers for evil purposes.  Can they find the magical amul...

In the tradition of classic British crime tales, here are eight of my short stories.  The crimes range from identity theft to cold-blooded murder, in fact you could say that there is a crime for every taste.  So sit back in your favorite chair, pour yourself a drink and prepare to be entertained.

A collection of seven stories involving the fictional Inspector George Jarrold of the Great Yarmouth Police, set at the end of the Victorian period.  Pre-dating finger prints and other basics if forensic investigation, Jarrold depends on his common sense and his knowledge of human behavior in solving the crimes laid before him. With Inspector Jarrold and his companion, Constable Mann on the scene, no criminal can rest easy.

The fourth novel in the Jimmy Suttle series, from 'one of the UK's finest crime novelists' (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY), author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRAD'There is no-one writing better police procedurals today' Sunday TelegraphD/S Jimmy Suttle is called to a brutal murder in the picturesque Devon village of Lympstone. Harriet Reilly, a local GP, has been found disembowelled in the bedroom of her partner, climate scientist Alois Bentn...

A murder committed in the night of dead. It's all a game for Detective Wycliffe to solve in a puzzling case.Writer David Cleeve lived exactly the way a bestselling novelist should live - in an opulent house set in a beautiful corner of Cornwall. But beneath the successful façade was a private nightmare. For at regular intervals a sinister and mysterious warning was delivered to him: a single playing card, the Jack of Diamonds. Then, one day, the card arrived torn i...

"DELIGHTFUL."--The Wall Street JournalIn short mysteries so brilliantly plotted they'll confound the cleverest of souls, Inspector Morse remains as patient as a cat at a mouse hole in the face of even the most resourceful evildoers. Muldoon, for instance, the one-legged bomber with one fatal weakness . . . the quartet of lovers whose bizarre entanglements Morse deciphers only after a beautiful woman is murdered . . . and those artful dodgers who catch the cunning and very res...

Bunch, engrossed in her flower arrangements for the church, is placing the chrysanthemums when she sees a man crumpled over on the chancel steps, dying. The man can only utter one word, “sanctuary.” No one at the vicarage understands what he means, and nothing can be done to stop his death. But, when his relatives promptly arrive to pick up his possessions, Bunch can’t get the word out of her head. She knows just who to turn to, her godmother, Miss Marple. What Bunch and Miss Marple discov...

The first intriguing case that began Colin Dexter’s phenomenally successful Inspector Morse series. As portrayed by John Thaw in ITV's Inspector Morse.‘Do you think I'm wasting your time, Lewis?’Lewis was nobody’s fool and was a man of some honesty and integrity.‘Yes, sir.’An engaging smile crept across Morse’s mouth. He thought they could get on well together . . .The death of Sylvia Kaye fi...

Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel returns in the fifth in the series, facing a case of grisly murder in LondonWhen a successful businessman is the victim of a vicious murder, all evidence points to his wife and her young lover.But then the victim's business partner suffers a similarly brutal fate and when yet another body is discovered, seemingly unrelated, the police are baffled.The only clue is DNA that leads them to two women: one dead, the oth...