Geoffrey Bird: 4 books

When John Butler learns that his late father’s only bequest is a sprawling coffee plantation in distant Ceylon, he resentfully decides to travel there from his home in Manchester to sign the deeds and take possession of the estate – intending to sell it as soon as possible in order to fund his...

Linden Grove, 1913. An affluent suburb, where residents are respectable and respected. But behind their doors exist a clutch of dark secrets that will bring their well-ordered world crashing down. How can the Hanging Judge bend the law to save a man accused of a vicious murder? Why would...

A breathless story of murders – old and new – and desperate rescues in raging seas against a background of violence and treachery. Only hard men survive along the River and Jim Dagger is the hardest of them all. He makes sure he wins every lucrative job and he crushes anyone who gets in...

An epic story of family loyalties tested to the limit in a fight to realise cherished hopes and dreams. Jack Mainyard knows what’s best for his family. His word is – and always has been – Law. But this is the 1930s. A world of opportunity and excitement beckons to the Mainyard...