Family trouble! Growing old quietly was never really an option for Nick Sharman. When he takes on a job for a prosperous Manchester businessman looking for his runaway teenage daughter, Meena, he shou
Sharman’s Christmas with his daughter Judith starts with the worst of gifts: news that his ex-wife Laura, her new husband, and their baby son have been killed in a bomb explosion on a plane. Sharman a
They had so much on Sharman that he couldn't move without their say-so. Stuff he'd done for himself, and things he'd done for them, too. His name was ruined on both sides of the fence. So they came up
Nick Sharman—at last—is living a life of married bliss with his new partner (and ex-stripper) Dawn. The bad boy has settled down, and the booze and the drugs and the guns are but a happy memory—unlike
Sixth in the Nick Sharman crime series It's time for another rock and roll case. American rock gods Pandora's Box are cutting their new album in London but someone has wiped the tapes and one of the b
As hardboiled as they come, the fourth in the Nick Sharman series Nick Sharman is in traction, hospitalized for four months, and desperate for a distraction. Then Fiona arrives—a topless model for the
Could it be the end for Nick Sharman? The latest from the Spillane of Brit Noir, as hardboiled as they come For seven years, ex-cop Nick Sharman has lived in "exile" on a Caribbean island, his life of
In this shamelessly personal view of the best television crime series, Mark Timlin has taken the straightforward approach of including any crime show that he's enjoyed since he was small. Fortunately,
Spanning?40 years of love, life, and villainy,?this?epic novel is?a major tour de force from?an author at the peak of his powers, the Spillane of Brit Noir?Once upon a time in south London, three youn
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