Oldcastle Books: 197 books

Nick Sharman's daughter Judith has returned to Scotland and nothing will tempt him back into the business again—unless it's Ray Miller. Miller, a lottery rollover double-jackpot winner, wants to find the wife who left him. This should be a simple task for Sharman, giving him easy money and evidence...

Fragments of the rich and complex mythology of the ancient Celts of pre-Roman Europe were preserved in the monasteries of early Christian Ireland and in stories first written down in medieval Wales. The exploits of Cúlchulainn and Fionn mac Cumhaill and of Deirdre and Rhiannon have their roots in...

Too wild to live, too young to die! #YOLO! Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou . . . Oh wait, he's hanging around in the garden again. Will young Romeo and his Juliet ever be able to express their raging hormones? Or will their feuding families make this romance blossom into a poisoned flower? Either way, both their houses are totally plagued!

Bram Stoker's Dracula, still the most famous of all vampire stories, was first published in 1897. But the bloodsucking Count was not the only member of the undead to bare his fangs in the literature of the period. Late Victorian and Edwardian fiction is full of vampires and this anthology of scary...

Advice from an expert, ranging from learning the subgenres to approaching financial partnersAimed at screenwriters, producers, development executives, and educators interested in the crime genre, this book provides an invaluable basis for crafting a film story that considers both audience and market...

Queenie Doyle ruled over south London gangland and her four daughters—Frankie, Mags, Sharon and Roxie—with an iron fist. When Queenie´s death brings the Doyle empire crashing down, the sisters grow apart. Eldest sister Frankie has a lot of love to give but her dreams are stifled when she becomes...

It's the oldest story in the world: Boy meets Girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. But when the boy is Nick Sharman, and the girl has a violent ex-jailbird as an old boyfriend, who promises extreme retribution on anyone who gets involved with her, it's never going to be that simple—and both Sharman...

The only book that gets close to defining who Anne Frank was. Her father Otto Frank initiated this project and the author interviewed 42 people mentioned in her diary. Here too is the story of the betrayal and its disastrous aftermath.

They had so much on Sharman that he couldn't move without their say-so. Stuff he'd done for himself, and things he'd done for them, too. His name was ruined on both sides of the fence. So they came up with one more job, the big one. When he found out they'd snared him in a honey trap, he was ready...

As hardboiled as they come, the fourth in the Nick Sharman series Nick Sharman is in traction, hospitalized for four months, and desperate for a distraction. Then Fiona arrives—a topless model for the tabloids who bullies him into convalescing in her flat. After his last disaster-ridden case, Sharman...

The fifth Nick Sharman thriller—London's answer to Elmore LeonardWhen businessman James Webb asks Sharman to find out who murdered his sister, her husband and two young children, the trail's been cold for over a year; the original police investigators had found nothing—no clues, no witnesses,...

April 1971. Police respond to a call to find Susan Lang bleeding to death, her husband Henry sitting nearby, with a blood-stained knife. Henry claims no memory of the events that led to his wife's death, leaving Schroeder little to defend a potential murder charge. Unknown to his strict Baptist wife...

In Sharman's eighth hardboiled adventure finds him back in the PI game, investigating a radio stationWorking in a bar has proved too dangerous for Nick Sharman, so he's back in the private investigation game. His first job, looking for a lost Highland terrier called Prince, shouldn't be too demanding;...

In Harold Macmillan's Britain of the early 1960s the Bar is dominated by white, privileged, Oxbridge men. Underneath a profession which proudly flaunts its integrity and traditions lies a world of hypocrisy and ruthless self-interest. When scandal threatens, self-preservation is the only goal and...