Close9 Publishing: 10 books

A collection of thirty-two very short stories for those moments when you don’t have time for a more heavy-weight tome. From a demon hair-dresser to a dangerous hand-bag and some wise advice from Humphrey Bogart, some of these stories will make you smile, some will make you frown, maybe one or two will even make you sad.

She’s lost in the land of the living. He’s desperate to keep her from the land of the dead. An unscheduled visit to church sees London based PI David Good sign up for what appears to be a straightforward missing person case. But it's not long before he lands up in hospital and finds his...

She's blonde. She’s clever. She’s in his office. London based PI David Good doesn’t stand a chance. South London. The 1980s. David Good, a morally confused and womanising private investigator, is hired by a ridiculously beautiful blonde to help her fend off the attentions of a serial...

When you’re dressed for living and full of beans, a run-in with death might not be all that is seems. London based PI, David Good, only went out to get his hair cut and to pick up a few bits and bobs at the local shops but, somehow or other, he’s finished up with a murder case on his hands....

Meeting the perfect woman can have its downsides, as London based PI David Good is about to find out. Good girls can seem ten-a-penny at times and some people would have you believe they're sweet little things that wouldn't harm a hair on a squirrel's back. And in 1980s south London, private...

Meet, for the first time, David Good, Private Investigator. Plying his trade in 1980s South London, the PI with pliable morals, a taste for blondes and a full-on sense of humour, turns out to be a big softie as he takes up the challenge of sorting out yet another domestic mess. Having discovered...

She’s Queen of the dancefloor and would-be Queen of the con and she’s about to give London based PI David Good a right old run-around. It seems to private investigator, David Good, that he might well have come face-to-face with the hottest claimant yet for the title of Queen of the Con...

London based private investigator David Good has been asked by a new client to track down his wife, who has walked out on him with fifty thousand pounds in her handbag and not been seen since. Easy enough, thinks Good, but he’s about to find himself part of a magic show, where more than his sense...

Thirteen fabulous crime stories from Ben Westerham’s highly popular ‘Shorts in the Dark’ series. It’s time to take a wander into the darker recesses of the mind. The Old Man’s Shed – School-boy Jacob Whistler finds his neighbour’s shed an irresistible temptation. But what is it...

The second collection of very short stories in the highly popular 50for30 series, for those moments when you don’t have time for a more heavy-weight tome. From a problem with stinky feet, to a man with a flamingo obsession and on to a troublesome goldfish called John Wayne, these stories will by turns leave you laughing, horrified and even, in one or two cases, just plain bewildered.