"Backstory" is a book-length companion piece to the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful series of crime fiction novels set in Portsmouth and featuring D/I Joe Faraday and D/C Paul Winter. I wrote it in response to literally hundreds of e-mails from readers wanting to find out more about the books. Where do they come from? Why do they feel so real, so authentic? In...
The discovery of a headless corpse on the rocks below cliffs on the Isle of Wight is only the beginning of a journey for DI Joe Faraday to the centre of the grim trade in human cargo from the crippled societies of the Balkans. From cheap labour to prostitution, Portsmouth, like every other city in the UK is home to untold human misery; a black economy built on illegal immigration....
Freshly promoted to the elite Major Crimes Unit Faraday is thrown into the deep end with the investigation into the murder of prison officer Paul Coughlin. Was the violent Coughlin killed by a recently released con he brutalised in prison? Or is his death a legacy of a wider, more savage violence from twenty years before? Coughlin was an ex petty officer in the Royal Navy. He...
October, 1944: For the 1000 Year Reich, time is running out. Desperate to avoid the humiliation of unconditional surrender, German intelligence launch Operation Finisterre: a last-ditch plan to enable Hitler to deny the savage logic of a war on two fronts. Success depends on two individuals: Stefan Portisch, a German naval officer washed ashore after the loss of his U-boat and...
D/I Faraday is gone and the police are left reeling. As his boss attempts to limit any possible PR damage his one time shadow on the force, ex D/C Winter is ever more concerned that he may have made the biggest mistake of his life throwing in his lot with the city's drug baron, Bazza McKenzie. Especially as Bazza is becoming increasingly desperate and violent as his empire begins...
A man, chained inside a tunnel and then dismembered and scattered along the tracks by the early morning train from Portsmouth to London. The beginning of DI Joe Faraday's most gruesome case yet. A bizarre suicide? The cruelest of murders? Checking the list of missing persons as the police attempt to identify the body DC Winter comes across a missing man, someone who stepped out of...
When Ellie's husband is killed in an accident her world falls apart. Her husband's company is in debt and, in order to keep it going, she must learn to fly the World War II fighter plane it was built around. She must also find answers to the questions of what really lies behind her husband's death.
1982: the Hunger Strikes are over. Ten men are dead. The Provos are calling for revenge. As Britain prepares for war in the South Atlantic, one man plots the ultimate counter strike. His code name? REAPER. The author also wrote "Rules of Engagement".
With the world in crisis and the Superpowers moving towards confrontation, a UK city is trying to maintain order during a nuclear emergency. Civil rights are suspended and Martin Goodman, a man with a violent secret is put in charge. But unknown to Goodman, he too is under scrutiny.
The government is running scared. The Sabbathman is killing the people who have gained the most from their policies. His message is clear: "You have ruined this country. None of you are safe". As the public warm to the killer, MI5 are called in to stop him.
The fourth novel in the Jimmy Suttle series, this is the latest novel from one of the UK's finest crime writers. 'There is no-one writing better police procedurals today' Sunday Telegraph D/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...
D/C Winter has gone undercover in an attempt to infiltrate the inner circle of the city's premier drug's lord Bazza McKenzie. Isolated from his colleagues, resenting the way his superiors have presented him the job as a fait accompli and abroad in a world where money is easy and respect is earned in brutally straightforward ways, DC Winter is in his element. Worryingly...
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