The latest novel in my crime series featuring DCI Jack Harris will be published by the Book Folks, a Joffe Books imprint, on November 9, 2026, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon in Kindle with further formats to come.
| In the book, a wildfire is tearing across the North Pennines when a burning man staggers out of the flames. Detective Chief Inspector Jack Harris races to help him. He’s too late. The dead man is a local firefighter Barry Mayhew but beneath his burns, the pathologist discovers two shotgun wounds. One in each leg. A former soldier, Harris has seen punishment shootings before. This was meant to end in death. Yet the man everyone knew as Barry Mayhew proves remarkably difficult to trace. At the classic-car garage where he worked, he claimed he was visiting his sick mother — but this woman doesn’t exist. The trail leads instead to a hospital children’s ward, a desperately ill baby — and a woman terrified of anyone coming through the door – and she knew Barry by a different name. With the raging fire threatening the hillside cottage he shares with his two rescue dogs, Harris must uncover what the firefighter was hiding. Then he hears of another dead mechanic, also shot in the legs.They say just six handshakes connect any two people. Harris needs to trace the connections between a dead man’s different lives – and every hand the dead man shook leads him to another victim. And one of them will lead Harris and his team to the killer and a dark secret. |
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