Bernie Fazakerley Publications: 25 books

Bernadette Fazakerley (“Our Bernie” to her friends) left her home city of Liverpool for Oxford in 1976. There she gained a first Class degree in Mathematics and a fiancé, Stephen. That was the point in her life when things started going wrong. Stephen killed himself by jumping from a high building....

Bernie Fazakerley, an eccentric Oxford don with a penchant for marrying police officers, has a habit of becoming involved in murder cases, which often turn out to have a more personal side for her and her long-suffering friends and family. The books are presented here in chronological order of the...

These stories were published between 2015 and 2017. They are police procedural crime novels, set in the university city of Oxford. Bernie Fazakerley, an eccentric Oxford don with a penchant for marrying police officers, has a habit of becoming involved in murder cases, which often turn out to have...

This detective novel follows on from other Bernie Fazakerley mystery stories (Sorrowful Mystery, Mystery over the Mersey, In my Liverpool home, ...) but it is complete in itself. In it we meet old friends, such as disabled police detective DCI Jonah Porter, his personal assistant, Bernie Fazakerley...

These are the first two books about Bernie Fazakerley and her friends. “Llanwrda” is the name of the house in the Oxford suburb of Headington, where Bernie lives with her second husband, Peter, her daughter, Lucy and their great friend Detective Inspector Jonah Porter. You can learn more...

A man lies dead in the Fellows’ Garden at Lichfield College. He’s been seen working there, but he’s not on the payroll. What motivated him to weed the beds and mow the lawns? And who stabbed him in the back and left him to die? When Geology Fellow Martin Riess happens upon this grisly...

Exiled Liverpudlian, Bernie Fazakerley, makes a sentimental journey back to her home city to visit relatives and to take her daughter, Lucy, back to their roots. Before long, events take a sinister turn when they are witnesses to a murder aboard the famous Mersey Ferry. Then the killer strikes again,...

Teenage “joy-riders” mow down a young man on his way home after a night out with his mates. As he fights for his life in hospital, the police struggle to find the culprits. Expert tracker dog, PD Q, follows a scent from the abandoned car, but it leads to a dead-end. Where is the driver of the...

Three young Muslim students are attacked in the street by an assailant on a motorbike who sprays them with acid. What is the motive for this unprovoked assault? Is it a religious hate crime or something more personal? Is the aggressor a lone wolf with a personality disorder or part of an extremist...

Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Porter is a hero: his life was changed forever when he was paralysed by a gunshot from an unknown assailant but, against the odds, he has succeeded in resuming his career in the Police Service. To the outside world he appears confident and capable, almost unaffected...

When Detective Superintendent Richard Paige is killed while pursuing a suspect, his pregnant wife, Bernie, is determined to find out more about his background for the sake of their unborn child. His mother, Eleanor, is strangely reluctant to speak about Richard’s early life and Bernie becomes suspicious...

A second marriage after the first ended in tragedy is bound to have its challenges. In the case of DI Peter Johns, his new wife, ‘Our Bernie’, is very different from Angie, the love of his life. Angie was a nurse from Jamaica. Bernie is an abrasive Liverpudlian and a Mathematics don at an Oxford...

This is the final part of the memoirs of Detective Inspector Peter Johns. In it, he tries to tell the story of his beloved first wife, Angie and how she affected his own life and those of other people around her. Angie comes to Britain from Jamaica, intent on finding help for her brother, who has...

Peter Johns is an ordinary Bobby on the beat, but everything changes when a child goes missing and the only witnesses seem to be concealing vital information. This is the first short story in the series: The Criminal Career of DI Peter Johns. Peter also features in five full-length novels, alongside his wife, Bernie, and collegaue, Jonah.