Ex Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwod was enjoying his retirement and had forgotten all about aliens, flying saucers and men in black. He was happiest when sketching and painting pubs before they were demolished and drinking with his friends in the Wednesday Club. Then he was enticed back into service with the position of Commander and asked to search for a missing person. The case had echoes of previous cases he had been asked to solve but never to his satisfaction and raised even mor...

When J's car broke down in the village of Greenwood his initial frustrations were quickly eradicated when he entered the Plough pub and fell immediately fell in love with the landlady Ruth. It seemed his classic car would not be repaired quickly and he and Ruth began a relationship over beer and fine dining. However he never quite explained what he was doing in the village and Ruth ad no reason to disbelieve his story of being a location manager lost in the English countryside. Then J's ex...

The book you hold in your hands says that our churches and our nation are in desperate need of biblical awakening and revival. It begins with the churches. In stark opposition to the quest to give our utmost for God's glory, as a whole, the modern evangelical movement has settled for a compromised form of Christianity. The book exposes the roots of this compromise, analyzes keys areas of church life where we have abandoned the biblical record, and offers a roadmap for revival and reformati...

How can a Christian create a work of art that truly glorifies God? While many books address the need for a Christian vision of art, few speak to the actual criteria artists can follow to do art to the glory of God. Not only does this booklet speak to the need for a Christian ideal in art, but also it capably guides the reader through several important building blocks of what constitutes a composition of heavenly worth. Although the discussion focuses mainly on the areas of painting and arc...

Is Jesus mythological? And is he a mere product of his cultural milieu? Through narratological and social-scientific analysis of the gospel account, Barber systematically demonstrates that there are two opposing patterns structuring the gospel. The first is the pattern of this world, which is the combat myth, with a typical sequence of motifs having mythological meanings. It is lived out by everyone else in the accounts except Jesus, because this pattern of the world is the pattern of myth...

Set six years after the Arab Spring, Morocco remains home to remarkable levels of violence against women. Dr. Jack Lockhart, an American professor of forestry, arrives in Morocco to research the famed argan forests and develops a beautiful, father-daughter relationship with a young woman, Indela. Unbelievably, Indela's boyfriend, Mansour, attacks Indela in Jack's presence. When Jack confronts Mansour, Indela defends Mansour and rejects Jack. Distressed and confused, Jack resolves to remain...

At the VIP opening of The Shed, a new Arts Community Centre for Rutherford, Lucien Wadsworth a Shakespearean lecturer at Rutherford University is found dead in the gents toilets. It looks like he had slipped and cracked his skull on the porcelain. Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwood soon discovers that Lucien Wadsworth is not his real name. Further investigations by his Sergeant, Miles Davis uncovers the fact that he had taught at many other Universities under a variety of aliases all ...

No one in the small English town of Fordhamton liked Alan Price. When he was found dead in a hotel bedroom Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwood had plenty of suspects. On the other hand, he found that no one wanted Alan Price dead, he had more value to the town being alive. Then the post-mortem revealed that he had an unknown 'truth drug' in his system of a kind usually deployed by the secret services. He had met a woman for lunch who could have spiked his drink, but no one saw her ente...

Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwood is recalled from retirement to locate a missing MI5 agent. He has no name and no photo to assist his search; only told that he is the right man for the job. He is soon informed that a left hand drive Range Rover crashed on the bypass, burst into a fireball and the car and driver burned to a cinder with no means of formal identification. After speaking to the police station sergeant and the brewery he is reasonably certain that the dead man was Roger ...

The reason for the first Rutherford Arts Festival was as much a mystery to Detective Chief Inspector Steve Winwood as to everyone else. Rutherford had no claims to be the centre of the Arts. Steve did not like mysteries which was a strange thing for a detective to admit to. It did not get off to a good start when Edwin Searchfield a well respected music teacher was found dead under a painting of a naked female cellist on the evening of the VIP preview evening to launch the Festival. Then s...

This box set contains all three parts of The Fordhamton Trilogy completely edited and amended to mirror the paperback versions, recently published.Part One: A Little Local Affair chronicles the effects the death of local businessman and Councillor Alan Price has on the lives of the residents of Fordhamton as they sometimes succeed and sometimes fail to pursue their sexual, economic and political ambitions. It brings to town the reluctant cockney Detective Inspector Steve Harley and...

'Football's a funny old game Brian' –Jimmy Greaves, footballer (Chelsea, AC Milan, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham and England –goal machine!).To some people Cricket, Golf, Tennis, Baseball and Snooker is just as funny. Not to mention Lawn Mower Racing, Tiddleywinks, Croquet and many others.They are all mentioned in this book of sporting quotes along with the sportsmen and sportswomen who play them. As well as officials, spectators and the press. They can all be relied upon to ...