Graham Hamer: 25 books

A fight outside a restaurant turns nasty and the odds are stacked against Joseph Adebayo. As his attackers flee the scene, a valuable haul of platinum goes missing and, for some of the thieves, events begin to spiral out of control. The only person who stays calm and collected is the skipper of a...

When he left his cottage to pick a few vegetables from his garden, Reverend Aloicius Quayle hadn't intended lying face down on the cold earth with the morning sun on the back of his head and a vine of runner beans crushed under his chest. He also hadn't intended to have a twenty centimetre bone handled...

In France, since 2013, the authorities will no longer search for adults who have been reported missing by family members. Approximately 15,000 people disappear each year without trace. Tristan Gautier has just become one of them and, when his mother receives a kidnap demand, it has come from someone...

Lynn and Suyin both have good reason to hate Ambrose Carson. When nine wealthy Chinese businessmen include Ambrose in their investment plans, Suyin is nominated to act as their intermediary. But she is secretly driven by events of the past, and Ambrose finds that getting the funds together for the...

The Irish Sea is cold, swarms with stinging Lion's Mane and Portuguese Man O' War jellies and, to add to its ruthless reputation, there's an amphidromic point just south of the Isle of Man which is rife with some of the most dangerous and violent sea currents in the world. Not the sort of place you'd...

Detective Sergeant Sarah Flemons and her new partner, Penny Chakyar, find themselves on a secretive mission in the Dordogne area of France. Fortunately for Sarah, Penny speaks excellent French. So too does The Vicar, who also finds himself on a mission of a different kind. Until now, The Vicar’s...

A valuable painting has disappeared and Penny Chakyar, a slightly-built, dusky young detective is tasked by her chief constable with finding it. Penny is teamed with Josh, a tall, well-proportioned constable with a washboard stomach and abs you could grate cheese on. Josh is not all he seems to be,...

Amy's on the run and scavenging in waste bins for her next meal. It's cold, it's raining, she has no money, nowhere to live, and her aunt wants her dead. If she turns herself in to the police, they will almost certainly imprison her where her aunt can get to her. But now she's done what she's done,...

A valuable painting has disappeared and Penny Chakyar, a slightly-built, dusky young detective is tasked by her chief constable with finding it. Penny is teamed with Josh, a tall, well-proportioned constable with a washboard stomach and abs you could grate cheese on. Josh is not all he seems to be,...

While excavating for a new sewage treatment plant, Jimmy Quayle discovers a large, curved object buried in the rock. It looks like plastic, but it wasn't buried intentionally; it had lain there while the sediments had formed into rock around it, nearly 400 million years ago. Not only that, the object...

When the body of a woman is found with a knife through her eye, the island's law enforcement officers have a major problem. The killer has left no fingerprints, no DNA, and no other leads. Nobody saw him come or go, and there is no apparent motive. However, he or she has left behind a series of clues....

Sean Legg, the Chief Minister of the Isle of Man Government is taken prisoner and the kidnappers' demands are, to say the least, unusual. Sean's partner, Sandy, is in no mood to acceed to their wishes and enlists the help of a small group of former Special Services operatives to rescue Sean. Meanwhile,...

A three year old boy disappears from his home in England. After weeks of searching with no clues and no demands for money, the police have to give up and the case remains unresolved. Sixteen years later, Florence, the boy’s French mother, is convinced that she has seen her son in the Latin Quarter...

When eight-year-old Jasmine Guichard gets lost in the catacombs of Paris, she triggers a sequence of events that she could never have imagined. And many that she will never know about. While she is trapped in the darkness, a contract killer arrives in the city to wreak revenge on a paedophile...