Skull Days
A DI Ambrose Mystery
It is 1960. The boss’ daughter is missing, organised crime is moving onto the patch, and a skull turns up in a school’s grounds.
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New — Eighteen Tales of Murder
NightCall
A collection you can dip in and out of. The stories are up to date, but many carry the atmosphere of a Victorian ghost story — and the murder plots keep you guessing to the last page.
From the Case Files
Start anywhere. The bodies keep turning up.
Five DI Ambrose mysteries, a collection of short stories, and three novels beyond the beat aswell as a biography.
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Short Stories
Eighteen tales of murder and mystery, set in eighteen different times and places. A book to dip in and out of.
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Foul Play
A DI Ambrose Mystery
Chalk Heath Players are mid-rehearsal when the leading lady is found unconscious at the side of the stage. It is clearly not an accident.
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The Women Behind It All
One pen name. Two writers. A dare that stuck.
PJ Quinn is a collaboration between published novelist and poet Pauline Kirk and her lawyer daughter, Jo Summers.
When Pauline started suffering from writers block, Jo challenged her to write a crime novel; a good old-fashioned whodunnit, with interesting characters and a great plot. Then somehow Jo found herself co-writing it, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Chalk Heath, 1958
Hats, half-truths and no forensics worth the name.
The DI Ambrose Mysteries are set in the late 1950s and early 1960s; long before PACE, DNA or political correctness. Gentle giant DI Paul Ambrose works the case with DS Winters, PC Sutton and WPC Meadows, who is doing a job the world has not decided a woman should do.