Jrl Anderson: 14 books

When a man's body is found on the banks of the Thames with no means of identification, the police enquiry quickly stalls. But Peter Blair has never been one for leaving a case unsolved. And when the wealthy chairman of a London shipping company mysteriously goes missing - along with an enormous...

A routine commercial voyage into Scarborough takes a horrific turn when the crew stumbles across a booby-trapped corpse afloat on a life raft - and the resulting explosion has fatal consequences. Shocked by the news, the Home Office urgently calls for their trusted detective, Peter Blair, who...

When an eighteen-year-old boy is accused of murder, the jury unanimously believe he is guilty. Chief Constable Piet Deventer does not. Drawn towards an ongoing case involving an arsonist setting fire to letter boxes, and startled by the appearance of a local charity chairman swearing that the...

Old Mr Quenenden seems not to have an enemy in the world: having retired to a cottage in Berkshire, he leads an idyllic life breeding tropical plants. Which is why it comes as a complete shock when his body is discovered in his greenhouse - murdered. In London, Peter Blair is hard at work on...

Vital information is being leaked from top British companies, and with the Cold War intensifying, the Home Office suspects it is travelling east. The leak is traced to the Oxfordshire headquarters of a large scientific engineering group. Thanks to his new-found reputation as an amateur sleuth,...

Since leaving the army, Peter Blair has embraced a quiet life of solitude and sailing off the Salcombe coast. So it's an unpleasant shock when he stumbles across a body on the rocks off Prawle Point. The case seems simple, if sad - the woman is identified as Edna Brown, a mousy London secretary...

A classic English murder mystery from a master of 1970s crime A family holiday takes a dreadful turn when the Boyce family stumble upon the body of a young archaeologist crushed underneath a fallen rock. Detective Inspector Revers declares it was murder. Dr Arbolent, the head of the...

When the Caribbean island of Nueva is struck by an earthquake - with near fatal consequences - Peter Blair is suspicious that this supposedly natural disaster might have a very unnatural origin - especially when the body of a government scientist is discovered in caves underneath the island. Joined...

For fans of Agatha Christie and Midsomer Murders, Redundancy Pay is a crime-lovers must-read. Having recently been made redundant, thirty-one year old David Grendon relocates to the coast to become a fisherman. But when a priceless gold chalice, bestowed by Sir Francis Drake, goes missing,...

Up-and-coming painter, Sandra Telford, races down the platform to catch her train to London. Two hours later she's found dead at her seat. At her feet is a portfolio containing millions of pounds worth of unlisted artwork - and a single sprig of sea lavender. Inspector Piet Deventer,...

For fans of Agatha Christie and Midsomer Murders, Reckoning in Ice is a crime-lovers must-read. When accountant Richard Garston is summoned to Scotland to meet with the chairman of a multi-million pound company that he is auditing, he has no idea of the danger that lies ahead. Paul Villeneuve,...

Chief Constable Piet Deventer, recently married and now a father, is thrown into turmoil by twin tragedies - a young woman is murdered at a music festival, only hours after Piet's own baby daughter is abducted. Forced to put aside his personal woes and focus on the murder, Piet finds himself...

When the deputy chairman of a world-leading oil company gets kidnapped in Hamburg, Peter Blair is urgently called in to lead the rescue mission. The captured Dr Braunschweig is a wealthy and powerful man, and a sizeable ransom demand seems certain. So it seems very strange when all the kidnappers...

When a Cambridge undergraduate room is broken into, the police's firm belief is that it's mere petty theft. But this is no ordinary student - Mike Rawlinson has recently hit the headlines for surviving a near-death experience in the Carminian desert. When poison is found in the burgled room,...