Dle: 10 books

This is the war diary of Sergeant Leslie Todd of the 90th (Middlesex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, TA, from the Battle of Normandy in 1944, through Belgium and Holland to the end of their war near Hamburg, Germany.

The 17-minute flight ended in tragedy when the training aircraft spun into the ground, killing a World War Two veteran and a young pupil who might have become the first woman to gain her RAF pilot’s wings. Barbara Gubbins made her first solo flight at the age of 17 after 5½ hours...

Marion Carter wants her husband back. He won the Lottery, then vanished. Jessie Shafto, a young girl far from home, is looking for her lost love. For Danny Lancaster, wounded Afghanistan veteran turned private investigator, it’s two easy missing person jobs, and the money’s good. But it’s never...

Fred Gubbins’s war was overshadowed by the big bloody battles of The Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele. A country boy born in the reign of Queen Victoria, Fred became a farm worker and later a gardener on a country estate before volunteering in the First World War. He survived the sinking...

When Danny Lancaster gets a call from an old friend it looks like a chance to swap work and women worries in Brighton for a sunshine reunion. Danny hasn’t seen Pogo since they fought together in Afghanistan. They have war stories to retell, beers to drink. But Pogo is broke, sick and in serious...

Danny Lancaster has been missing since the fishing boat Rickyback exploded outside Brighton Marina. The evidence pointed to his violent death and police are winding down their inquiry but Wanda Lovejoy continues her one-woman campaign to find the truth. She told one newspaper, ‘Danny served...

Former paratrooper Danny Lancaster is getting nowhere fast in the detective business but he’s convinced something will turn up. It does, in the breathtaking shape of the widowed Countess Camilla D’Allessi. But Camilla’s “simple” surveillance job leads Danny to a gruesome...

Big Eddie Archer is throwing a celebrity party for the reopening of The Bellerophon public house. When singer Paul Toopen, star of TV reality show Dreamboat, goes missing there is only one man the pub’s guv’nor can call on. But Danny Lancaster is off his game after overdoing Eddie’s free hospitality...

GARGOYLE PIXIE DOG When young homeless street artist Cat goes missing her rough sleeper friend Hooper asks private investigator Danny Lancaster to find her. But how do you trace someone with no address, job, credit cards, no social media – a woman who lives off the grid? Danny’s only clues...

Boredom’s dangerous. The shipwreck is all over the TV news. And Danny Lancaster - former paratrooper turned private investigator - is pretty sure anything washed ashore is fair game. So when the giant cargo ship Margherita sheds her containers in a Channel storm Danny and his mates go beachcombing....