David R. Ewens
1) Turncoat
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Frank Sterling, private investigator, is going through a bad patch. Business is hard to come by and friendships are strained. Relief comes in a commission to investigate a murder and protect a reputation in nearby Canterbury.
Applying his tried and trusted strategy of 'shaking things loose', he is soon embroiled in the city's dark, corrupt underbelly. With the police on the case baffled and danger steadily escalating, will Sterling and his capable...
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When Frank Sterling sets up on his own account as a private detective, his first client, the enigmatic Gloria Etchingham, asks him to investigate a curious line of text and numbers among her disappeared husband's papers. The mystery takes him on a journey to Ypres and the Flanders battlefields of the Great War. A series of further clues, and the race to solve them, lead to murder and kidnapping against a backdrop of political extremism and personal...
3) Rotten
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When Frank Sterling is summoned to a behind-the-times college of further education in sleepy Southwood, he has no idea what to expect. The newly appointed college principal asks him to investigate irregularities and 'stir things up'. As he gets more embroiled in shady seaside goings-on he discovers an intricate web of criminality. Amidst danger and a growing body count, Sterling has to get to grips with the most lurid case of his short private detective...
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An old woman is beaten to death. A young girl disappears. Taken on to investigate, private detective Frank Sterling is plunged into a desperate and unconventional flight across eastern England and a race against time. Who are his pursuers, and what secret from the distant past are they trying to suppress? From the gentle landscape of Suffolk to the banks of the Thames and back to his native Kent, Sterling has to face challenges and danger that crop...
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The new case was probably just a matrimonial. Sad, because of the girl involved, but inevitable, given the background. When private detective Frank Sterling returns to Belgium, however, things take a darker turn.
Before long, he and his ragtag team are involved in a desperate adventure. With characteristic persistence, and his usual haphazard combination of skill and intuition, Sterling uncovers a conspiracy far beyond the concerns of a jilted lover....