Graham Ison combines extensive experience in intelligence and police work with a compelling narrative style. His career in Scotland Yard's Special Branch provided him with unique insights into the world of espionage and high-stakes investigations, experiences that deeply inform his writing. He masterfully brings to life the intricate workings of security services and the complex human dramas that unfold within them. Readers are drawn into worlds of intrigue and suspense, presented with a depth of understanding that only firsthand experience could provide.
Has Captain Guy Stoner been murdered? His uncle, the Reverend Percy Stoner, is convinced he has. He recently received a letter, supposedly from Guy, claiming that there had been a fire at his farm in Ditton, Surrey, and asking for money. Hardcastle and Detective Sergeant Charles Marriott are assigned the case, and make a shocking discovery...
August, 1939. As war looms, DI Walter Hardcastle is summoned to the office of Charles Marriot, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of CID at New Scotland Yard. Walter learns that he has been promoted to a senior role at V Division, and is plunged into a top secret case when burglaries occur at the homes of those working on a new type of war submarine.
DCI Harry Brock and DS David Poole receive news that Robert Sharp, a conman wanted by the police, has been found dead in a fire at a nudist club near Harrow. Plunged into a deadly mix of deception, betrayal and fraud, Harry and Dave soon uncover a number of people with a grudge against Robert, but can they unmask his killer?
A wedding ring, a missing woman, a bizarre disappearance... Brock and Poole have one of their most unusual cases to unravel