First case for the much-loved Inspector Ghote

DS Harriet Martens resolves to resign but when the pro-hunting Politician Robert Roughouse collapses during one of his speeches at an anti-hunting demonstration, DS Martens takes charge of the investigation. Visiting Roughouse in hospital proves to be difficult as he is no longer there. DS Martens investigates further...

ISBN: 0 74908 030 2

Latest in the Detective series with his new publisher.

New Harriet Martens adventure.

Summoned by the new, fantatically determined Chief Constable of the Greater Birchester Police, Harriet Martens is startled to be greeted with the blunt question, "Who killed the Preacher?". She is then tasked with making use of the latest DNA techniques to investigate the murder, thirty years ago, of a charismatic youth known as the Boy Preacher, strangled in the empty ballroom of the city`s Imperial Hotel. To the scene, she finds, only seven people had access. But the forensic laboratory tests fail to do what the Chief Constable expects. And now Harriet has to rely on her ability to make connections which past investigators have missed , and to ferret out the motives of the suspects who have died and the lies they have left behind them. Not to mention those of the suspects still alive - the city`s distingiuished ex-Undersherriff, a dragon of a head teacher, a wily car dealer ... As pressure from the ambitious Chief grows, Harriet finds the case is even invading her sleep. Until one night a very different dream reveals the unexpected answer ...

ISBN: 1 4050 3344 4

Detective Chief Inspector Harriet Martens is nicknamed the Hard Detective for her tough stance. So no one, least of all Harriet, expected her to fall - dangerously - in love while investigating the murder of a tennis star...

ISBN: 0 333 90723 X

Officially excluded from the most baffling murder case to occur in Bombay for many years, Inspector Ghote has only one option - to track down the killer unofficially instead.

ISBN: 0 333 90279 3

Two of DCI Harriet Martens' officers have died within hours of each other, the circumstances of their deaths echoing the Book of Exodus - "a life for a life, and eye for an eye". If it is a series, can she prevent the six deaths to follow, beginning with "a tooth for a tooth"?

ISBN: 0 333 76619 9

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DCI Phil Benholme has the reputation for being a little soft - but only because he tries to see both sides of every story. And now he is faced with the murder of Professor Unwala, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1945. What does a "soft cop" do when his teenage son is also his prime suspect?

ISBN: 0 330 35402 7

Inspector Ghote is not a happy man. His wife has just inherited a big house in Calcutta and she is determined that they both move there from his beloved Bombay. When they get there, they find the property inhabited by squatters. Ghote detects a whiff of corruption.

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By the author of "The Bad Detective" and "The Rich Detective", this book also features a policeman whose human weakness affects the work he does.

ISBN: 0 330 34355 6

Comprising three novels - "The Perfect Murder", "Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade" and "Inspector Ghote Caught in Meshes" - this volume features the adventures of Bombay detective, Inspector Ganesh Ghote.

ISBN: 0 330 34856 6

Detective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career, and dreams of retirement in Devon until an influential businessman offers him the paradise island of Ko Samui. All he has to do is steal an incriminating file from the Fraud Investigation Office at police HQ.

ISBN: 0 333 64994 X

Detective Inspector Bill Sylvester is hard at work on a very delicate enquiry. Someone has sent an anonymous letter to the South Mercia Police Constable which alleges that a prominent local antiques dealer has been pursuading old ladies to change their wills in his favour and then murdering them.

ISBN: 0 330 33298 8

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CWA Gold Dagger Award

CWA Gold Dagger Award

ISBN: 0 00 231360 X

At the Mira Behn Institute for Medical Research someone is smuggling out a dangerous drug, made from the venom of poisonous snakes. Inspector Ghote's suspect is the snake-handler Chandra Chagoo, but Chagoo's now lying dead on the floor of the Reptile Room, a viper slithering across his back.

ISBN: 0 333 66271 7