Len Cooke: 7 books

The McEndrick Option is a fast-moving, psychological and political thriller featuring Len Cooke’s somewhat maverick, Cumbrian police heroine – Kate Hoagan. It is now 1995 and Detective Superintendent Kate Hoagan, the no-nonsense, invariably cynical and iconoclastic Cumbrian detective, is...

For Detective Inspector Harry Wilding, his latest assignment, that of escorting an asylum-seeking alien from another planet, begins in chaos and subsequent events make it seem that life is set to continue that way. Firstly, he has to endure the humiliation of finding himself the intellectual...

Charlie Frank is middle-aged, out of work and for the first time in his life, in trouble with the law. To makes matters worse, his octogenarian father is arrested for mooning out of a bus window and his wife, who no longer loves him, is going through a mid-life crisis. Then he meets and falls in love...

Calum Lachlan, a 40-year-old bachelor, landowner and hero of World War Two, is driving along a lonely Lakeland road when he is flagged down by a highly distressed young woman who appears to have been the victim of a violent attack. The stranger merely introduces herself as September and will say nothing...

A compendium of five short tales of the bizarre and unusual including: 'The Guardian Angel', 'Jennifer', 'The Fixer', 'The Time Traveller's Folly' and 'The Friends'. Featuring the devil, alien invaders and the folly of using time travel to alter history and find a wife. Ever wondered what becomes...

A serial killer is on the loose in Northern England, arrogantly discarding his many victims like so much unwanted garbage in the countryside and meres of the beautiful, but wild and often lonely English Lake District. Detective Chief Inspector Kate Hoagan, feted national heroine and pride of the small,...

For Detective Superintendent Harry (H) Harrington, life is being very unkind. Firstly, his wife is brutally murdered, then, after he nearly dies himself, and his assistant does, he is swept along on a grim journey of government intrigue, duplicity, and political assassination as he tries to uncover...