Bøger af Anthony Day

When Mick Jones, a top London Fence and drug pusher is arrested for handling stolen goods, he is offered a plea deal, to frame Geno, one of London's most powerful drug lords, along with full immunity if he gives evidence and helps in an operation to take Geno down. But the police sting goes wrong when Jones turns out to be too dishonest for his own good and double crosses them, stealing both the money and the evidence and absconding to France. With it looking as if Geno will walk, the police have only one hope left and so decide to send an experienced officer to go deep undercover and gain the confidence of one of the two drug mules they had arrested at the sting, a nihilistic young girl named Laurel. So Chuck Gamble, a no nonsense, gruff, macho, lone wolf detective of the old school is given the task to befriend her, to win her confidence and get the girl to testify and then get her to the Old Bailey alive, as once Geno learns of the Police plan, he's hit-men set out to stop her. A hilarious page-turner of a comedy which will make you laugh as well as think, with this clever and witty story filled with pun and pathos and a bunch of funny and loveable characters you will instantly fall for and wish to learn more about.

In an age when the poor were very poor and the rich extremely rich, when the divide between the two was wider than the Pacific Ocean and the rich delighted in making the poor suffer, the fate of the common man was work hard and die young, or strike out on his own to make his fortune and there was no better place to do just that, than the Caribbean and become a Pirate. And so begins the bawdy comic tales of Calico Jack, Anne Bonny and Mary Read as they try to stay forever one step ahead of the law and British justice. Along the way they have to deal with the politics of their ship, and of the other pirate crews whilst the governor tasked with bring law and order back to the Caribbean, Woodes Rodgers sets about pitting his wits against theirs. Can Jack keep them all together as they try to make an honest living as pirates on the Caribbean sea robbing the rich and keeping all that loot for themselves.

Returning from her cousin's wedding Ruth Holland is involved in a car accident. She wakes to find herself lost and isolated at some out of the way, country railway station where the trains never seem to stop. The station has a guard, but he can't sell her a ticket and a schoolgirl who seems to delight in tormenting her. No matter what she does she can't escape and in the next 48 hours as is her destiny she will die. Trapped, Ruth is forced to confront her past, reflect on her decisions in life and value herself as she searches for a means of escape. A modern Gothic horror with all the class of Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, or an Edgar Allan Poe horror.

Scientist in Canterbury working on a secret project accidentally release toxic waste into the sewers, where it mixes with the bacteria to create a new life-form. So terrifying, no one can describe it. So hungry, it can eat a whole person in one bite. The council must act, before it eats them too. One man can save them, but no one knows where he is? Can they find him or is the city doomed?

On the train home to London, flapper Samantha Bishop, drinking champagne and thinking of friends and jazz clubs, comes to the aid of a distressed young woman, Nicola White, who says she's seen a murder taking place from the carriage window. No one believes her, but Samantha feels sorry for her and when they arrive in London, they inform the police. However the police don't seem to be able to find any evidence and so, relishing the chance to be the knight in shining armour and for the excitement, Samantha with Nicola begin their own investigation, taking them into the seedy underbelly of the city, on a trail of murder, extortion and sexual exploitation. This book, is an amusing parody of the upper class English amateur detective novel.

The second in The Adventures of Samantha Bishop series. When the French racing driver and Samantha's friend Pierre Gilbert is killed during a road race in Italy, his widow discovers that he had a yacht secretly moored in the South of England and asks Samantha if she would take a look at it for her. Deciding to make a long weekend of it so begins another adventure for Samantha Bishop and her friend Nicola White as the fearless flappers stumble upon an international gun smuggling gang, bringing arms into the Irish Free State and who will stop at nothing to keep the troublesome twosome from discovering the truth, including murder.

A touchingly warm and heartfelt tribute for a deep long-lasting friendship. Telling the story of how together they struggled against the effects of, and overcoming the stigma of, mental illness and turned the disease from holding his life back, to one that was full of fun and adventure.