Allan Jones: 39 books

In this unique and exhilarating autobiography, Allan Jones – Canada’s first blind diplomat – vividly describes how an untreatable eye disease slowly decimated his visual world, most challengingly during his postings in Tokyo and New Delhi, and how he discovered and took to heart the revelatory...

Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on his experiences as a music journalist in the 70s and 80s, a gilded time for the music press. By turns hilarious, cautionary, poignant and powerful,...

A cruise ship officer from Hong Kong disappears during a port stop in Holyhead on the North Wales coast and a missing person investigation turns up no leads. On the same cruise, an international police operation to break an art smuggling ring loses track of three valuable Russian paintings thought...

Allan Jones and Gary Chalk have created a magical steampunk world for their illustrated The Six Crowns books. In the Sundered Lands, animals talk, ships fly, and a set of ancient blocks can be used to tell fortunes.   Hedgehogs Trundle Boldoak and Princess Esmerelda and squirrel Jack Nimble continue...

The seventh Catrin Sayer Mystery. Detective Inspector Catrin Sayer of the Art and Antiques Unit, Metropolitan Police, has her life in order she thinks, before a series of setbacks affecting her personally and professionally prove her quite wrong. In the middle of the upheaval, a call from the...

The Fourth Catrin Sayer Mystery, following immediately the events in THE FALMOUTH MODEL. Detective Sergeant Catrin Sayer returns from a supposedly routine assignment in Malaysia that went disastrously wrong to be assigned to a new case. Two years after an unsolved major art robbery from a merchant...

The second Catrin Sayer mystery. A retired clergyman collapses in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow, right in front of the painting by Salvador Dali called ‘Christ of Saint John of the Cross’. It is thought to be a heart attack until the angina medication he took at the onset of the attack was...

The Third Catrin Sayer Mystery. A second-year student at Falmouth University in Cornwall receives a shocking image ‘hacked’ into her Facebook page; one of her being viciously assaulted at knife-point. Although she is mainly clothed in the image, she realizes later that it is probably derived from...

The Sixth Catrin Sayer Mystery. Detective Inspector Catrin Sayer now leads art investigation within the prestigious Art and Antiques Unit of the London Metropolitan Police. Her team is suddenly assigned to assist Trident, the organized crime unit, at a crime scene in East London where a valuable painting...

Sayer returns to art crime investigation with a promotion to detective inspector in the ‘elite’ Art and Antiques Unit at New Scotland Yard. Her first assignment is to join a major investigation into an international art crime ring. As she begins her new role she is also hand-picked by a senior...

If you are studying forensic science, or a related course such as forensic chemistry or biology, then this book will be an indispensable companion throughout your entire degree programme. This ‘one-stop’ text will guide you through the wide range of practical, analytical and data handling skills...

Trundle doesn't think he's an adventurer. He's a lamplighter. He likes everything safe and cozy, and that's the way things are in his peaceful part of the Sundered Lands. Until Esmeralda barrels through his door. Esmeralda, a princess with a knack for magic and for finding trouble, is...

This is my second book. The first one, The Book of Al, is my bio. On Rock Bottom and Know Where to Turn, my second book deals with the topic of suicide, the do-not-do of all things. I played chicken on the highway but was unsuccessful, and I thank the Lord for that.

After finding the first of six legendary crowns, Trundle the lamplighter thought he could finally return to his quiet life in Port Shiverstones. But Esmeralda has other ideas. A princess with a talent for magic and mischief, she is determined to continue their quest to find the five other crowns,...