Voted Top 20 in the BooksOffice.com search for the Next Killer TV Series, Jonathan Cox's novel is the first in an 8-book series spanning 40 years:
"A naïve Constable starts work at a hectic East London police station; he is being puppy walked by an experienced female colleague. The young officer struggles to find his way through a series of moral dilemmas, but pursues his career with a combination of innocence and relentless determination."
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From Green to Blue
Naïve and solitary, Chris Pritchard joins the Metropolitan Police in search of a family, friends and a regular income. He is posted to a police station in London’s tough East End. Despite barely concealed contempt for her hapless new charge, his experienced instructor, WPC Dawn Matthews, puppy walks him through a journey, which is regularly amusing, frequently sad and occasionally bizarre. You will not read a more accurate account of how London was policed a generation ago.
From Black to Blue
It is February 1985 in east London and probationary Police Constable Chris Pritchard steals five thousand pounds at the scene of an old lady's death. Delighted at first to be out of his dire financial situation, it soon dawns on the young officer that he has committed an act of dreadful dishonesty and he sets out to make amends. Within hours however his complicated private life draws him ever deeper into the epidemic of police corruption engulfing Stoke Newington police station.
From Blue to Brown
Promoted to DS, Christopher Pritchard is posted to Scotland Yard’s elite Complaints Investigation Bureau, where he quickly settles into investigating allegations against serving police officers. His Super assigns him the perplexing case of old mutual colleague, DC Roger Class, who has gone missing after setting off to attend a lodge meeting of the 30th Degree. Christopher becomes increasingly convinced there is more to Roger’s disappearance than some would have him believe, but his admirable tenacity is leading him into a spider's web of deceit.
The Pain of Strangers
The first book in the Eddie Collins series - and the enigmatic, aggressive CSI is called in to investigate the death of a teenager. Is he the latest victim of the Mabgate Murderer? Eddie risks his marriage and his career to pursue the truth - and gets in too deep with a local gang and a sinister, sadistic killer.
The First Time Ever
You've never met a Detective like Ted Darling. Quiet unassuming, non-smoking, tee-total - and a sharp shooter with black belts in 4 martial arts. Quiet and unassuming, he's also diminutive, but a power pack and laser sharp. After his first 'kill' as part of an elite team, he gets pulled in to Serious Crime to deal with a case - and is so good they ask him to stay. But has he committed career suicide in the process?
Shifting skin
'The Butcher of Belle Vue' has struck again. Like the first two victims, the third has been partially skinned and dumped on waste ground. Uncompromising Manchester cop, Jon Spicer and his new partner, Rick Saville, are approached by a woman who insists she heard 'The Butcher' claiming his latest victim in the next-door room of a run-down hotel in Belle Vue. But all she has to back up her story is an escort’s business card recovered from the empty room the following morning.
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