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...

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 ...

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...

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...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The mind can play desperate tricks on a person, especially where 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 Sho...

Sun, sea, sand. The perfect setting for a little romance, just so long as you can ignore the blackmail, the kidnapping and the corpses.Looking forward to a few days in the old seaside town of Brighton, private investigator David Good is expecting to do nothing more than hand-hold a young woman needing to keep a low profile. When the manageress of the hotel they are staying at takes a shine to him it looks like all is rosy in his garden.Honestly, though, what did he expect? ...

She’s lost in the land of the living. He’s desperate to keep her from the land of the dead.An unscheduled visit to church sees London based PI David Good sign up for what appears to be a straightforward missing person case. But it's not long before he lands up in hospital and finds his emotions being taken on a roller-coaster ride he wasn’t expecting, as he races to save a desperate woman from herself.If that wasn’t enough, an ex-convict with revenge on his...

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...

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...

Before the Great War, Britain fought its first secret battle.In the spring of 1912, Alexander Templeman boards a night train expecting nothing more than a quiet journey north. Instead, he is drawn into a hidden world of spies, secrets, and pursuit. A world in which a single mistake can be fatal.Untrained and unprepared, Templeman finds himself trapped in the Scottish Lowlands by a brilliant and merciless enemy. With time running out and no one he can fully ...

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...