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Set against the background of the London Blitz, Peter Porteous lives over the Ha’penny Steps in Kensal Town. He has a day job as a factory supervisor, and he volunteers as an Air Raid Precautions warden. He spends a lot of time fire watching during the height of the bombing in 1940. He is also a black marketeer. In these times of shortages and...

Set against the background of the London Blitz, Peter Porteous lives over the Ha’penny Steps in Kensal Town. He has a day job as a factory supervisor, and he volunteers as an Air Raid Precautions warden. He spends a lot of time fire watching during the height of the bombing in 1940. He is also a black marketeer. In these times of shortages and...

Set against the background of the London Blitz, Peter Porteous lives over the Ha’penny Steps in Kensal Town. He has a day job as a factory supervisor, and he volunteers as an Air Raid Precautions warden. He spends a lot of time fire watching during the height of the bombing in 1940. He is also a black marketeer. In these times of shortages and...

Edward Carter is a contract opener. He’ll open anything for the right price. He chooses his contracts carefully and he’s not too fussed who he works for as long as he gets paid. Some of London’s biggest and ruthless crime organisations approach him to get things done. He has strict rules of work. He gets half his fee for opening and then the...

In this sequel to The Closer, Janice Deveaux must confront some of her deceased lover's, Edward Carter issues. She must use all the skills he has taught her as she finds her way through the worst of gangland London.

Feral street drugs runner, Darren Hope, finds himself in a load of trouble after being arrested when on a quick job late one night. He is facing jail time and the loss of his newly acquired family and apartment not to mention his violent supplier wants compensation for the lost merchandise. In an attempt to raise some quick cash, he muscles in...

A partially dressed Detective Sergeant Dagmar Johnson wakes up lying next to an unknown man in an unknown house. In an attempt to discover how she ended up there, events that follow lead her to an encounter with an organised crime gang heavily into prostitution, money laundering, loan sharking and the supply of heroin. Dagmar Johnson is serving...

Book 2 of the Penance trilogy finds Detective Sergeant Dagmar Johnson pregnant after her brief tryst with the handsome accountant. This bisexual, mixed race, German American is a magnet for trouble which seems to find her all too easily.

Book 2 continues where Book 1 leaves off. This time, Johnson is kept busy trying to solve the case of the...

In the final part of the trilogy, Dagmar Johnson is forced to return to London upon the appearance of Angela/Angelica Jones who is seeking her assistance. Having given birth to her daughter, Dagmar Johnson is reluctant to leave the safety of her home and family but she realises that her past life is catching up with her. She must take action to...