Ted Darling was about to kill a man. For the first time in his life...

You’ve never met a copper like Ted Darling. He’s small, quiet. He doesn’t smoke. He’s packed in the booze. But he’s a Specialist Firearms Officer. With black belts in four martial arts.

Then a shift in circumstances makes him swap guns for the CID. His first case is the brutal murder of a teenage girl. His new boss thinks he can wrap it up easily. Ted has doubts over the suspect.

Has he made the right choice in switching jobs? Or has he, as his Firearms boss warned him, committed career suicide?

A compelling début crime thriller with a very different sort of detective.

Someone is dumping bodies on DI Ted Darling's patch and he's not happy. Ted's a good solid copper, in an old-fashioned way, with an excellent clear-up rate. He's not at all like your average cop and has his own unique way of dealing with any prejudice his differences bring him. No heavy drinking, no failed marriage, just a steady, long-term relationship. He and his partner have cats, not kids.

But this serial killer seems to be running effortless rings round Ted and his team. Every promising lead just takes them up another frustrating blind alley.

Then it starts to get personal …

opical, dark and disturbing crime thriller featuring a decidedly different type of detective.
In his darkest and most complex case to date, DI Ted Darling has to confront demons from his own past when investigating the brutal murder of a young boy.
As more deaths follow, he realises he’s up against powerful people who believe themselves to be above the law, and starts to feel out of his depth. Just how high up does it go?
At the same time he has to cope with a new boss, much more formal than his old one, who increasingly makes him feel he's not up to the challenge.
It all starts to put an intolerable strain on Ted's long-term stable relationship with his partner, Trevor.

When a killer strikes close to home ...
DI Ted Darling doesn't like coincidences. There are too many for comfort surrounding his latest case. They're spilling over into his private life too, when toxic family secrets are uncovered.
A serial killer appears to be targeting vulnerable elderly people in care homes and despatching them in the most cynical way. Ted and his team are struggling to get a lead on who the killer really is.
It doesn't help that his newest team member is adding to his problems, rather than helping him to solve them.
Then an unexpected phone call brings devastating news for Ted and his long-term partner, Trevor.

A serial sex attacker is spreading fear in Stockport and DI Ted Darling and his team are on the case. The man randomly targets young women and abducts them from busy supermarket car parks. He's armed with a knife and is clearly highly trained in how to handle it.

Ever-dwindling police resources make the manhunt harder, even though the attacker clearly doesn't care whether or not he's caught. All his victims say he's dead behind the eyes.

As the gripping thriller nears its climax, the dangerous predator becomes even more ruthless and his actions threaten the lives of more than one of the team members.

'blind dates end in bleeding hearts'

Ted Darling is back and his boss has news for him. He'll be taking on more responsibility over an expanded area, with a bigger team. Before he even has chance to take stock, he's facing his first body in what could be the most cynical murder he's ever encountered.

The corpse count rises with a separate case developing, where a savage killer appears to be selecting victims from online dating sites and dispatching them in vicious, frenzied attacks.

With potentially two serial killers at work, Ted has plenty on his plate. But then he discovers that not all coppers work like he and his team do. Some of them just want to see someone behind bars, and aren't too fussy if they are guilty or not.

Random, unrelated killings, seemingly without motives? Or the work of a single cold-blooded killer? And are the murders in any way connected to the shocking crimes which RSPCA officers are investigating in the same area?

DI Ted Darling's latest case takes him to the darkest side of the human psyche, where identifying the killer is the least of his problems. Making a case that will stick takes all of his skills and experience.

The last thing he needs while heading up a complex enquiry is anything in his private life to distract him...

Compelling, character-led police procedural crime thriller with a distinctly different type of detective in the lead role.

It's a big operation and a complex one. With the Big Boss out of action, Ted's in charge of one part of the enquiry, a robbery and brutal stabbing of a woman in a car park. But overseeing it all is a senior officer with a serious grudge against Ted. One who'd stop at nothing to take him down.

Then another face from the past turns up, needing Ted's help. One whose presence can only mean trouble of a serious kind.

A teenager is found naked and wandering in a lane near Stockport. He can't answer any questions about the serious injuries he's sustained, only repeatedly recite a biblical passage.
DCI Ted Darling's team take the case and discover he's been missing for six months – and he's not the only young person to have suffered the same fate.
Ted's tied up in an important court case where the father of the young defendant seems prepared to stop at nothing to bring the case crashing down around him.
It doesn't help when he's told his team must lose a member and Ted has to choose who it will be.
Whoever the kidnapper is, he seems to have a set timetable for his abductions. Can Ted catch him before he strikes again?

‘Where does a wise man hide a pebble?’

Home Office Pathologist Professor Nelson’s question marks the beginning of Detective Chief Inspector Ted Darling’s latest case. Not one he was expecting to get for him and his team. The tragic but seemingly straightforward suicide of a young man.

It’s a case where nothing is quite as it seems. There’s no shortage of potential suspects. The trouble is, they all alibi one another. The case is going nowhere. An unexpected change in the police hierarchy isn’t helping. Nor does a phone call from the Infirmary summoning Ted to the bedside of a dying man.

Ted’s detection track record is excellent. But could this enquiry prove to be his nemesis? The one that got away?

Two missing women. One will die.

The pressure’s on for Ted Darling and his team. There’s an inquiry into their last case, still unsolved.

Then a woman disappears. The clock’s ticking to find where she is and what’s happened to her.

A second missing person. A body. But whose?

And why is Ted seeing similarities between the previous crime scene and the one from the last case?

Grab your copy NOW for the gripping latest installment in the Ted Darling crime series.

Young girls are going missing in their search for fame and fortune. Ted Darling and his team are on the case.
But when little Storm Moonchild disappeared without trace years earlier, the system seemed to forget about her.
A chance encounter in a bar abroad brings Ted face to face with her presumed abductor. Ted’s on unfamiliar territory and he makes a grave error. One which could risk his life and that of a member of his team.
Strong, character-driven crime fiction with the decidedly different detective everyone’s talking about.

What happens when dementia, depressed dipsomania and downright dottiness decide to uproot from the UK and move to France together.

Worried by the lack of care for her frail elderly mother in the UK, Tottie decides a new life elsewhere might be the answer. Sell the Pig is a travel tale with a twist, describing with alternating humour and poignancy how a somewhat dysfunctional family decide to uproot and move to rural France. Eccentric Tottie, her manic depressive alcoholic brother, their mother, whose dementia has given her an obsession with bums, and an equally elderly border collie, decide France's Auvergne is to be their new home. This is the story of what led them to make that journey.

It seemed like a good idea at the time. When British healthcare failed her ageing mother, eccentric writer Tottie decided to uproot her dysfunctional family and try again in France.

But was France ready for her depressed dipsomaniac brother, her nearly nonogenarian mother who enjoyed saying “bum” and “bugger” and her elderly collie with a weak heart and his own blog?

Is That Billinge Lump? continues the saga which began with Sell the Pig. With Tottie's candid style to tell a 'life in France tale' with a difference, you'll find chuckles and tears in equal measure.

Did France live up to its reputation for excellence in healthcare? Did Tottie survive sharing living space with her unpredictable brother?

There's only one way to find out ...

Tottie and her eccentric family moved to France in search of a better life for her nearly nonogenarian mother who suffered from dementia.

As her full-time carer, Tottie listened to daily recitations of her favourite saying: 'Mother, mother, it's a bugger, sell the pig and buy me out.”

Catch up now with Tottie in the AM years – After Mother – as she starts her new life in the rural Livradois-Forez region of the Auvergne, living in Tottie's Grottage.

Meet the local inhabitants, from exotic birds to colourful characters like the Bin Pickers, Library Lady and the Bowing Farmer. All are described with Tottie's familiar gently ironic humour. Discover the procedure behind the Frogification of Tottie, and if her bid for French nationality is successful.

In March 2007, Tottie left Britain to follow the dream of a new life in France for herself, her elderly mother and her damaged brother.

Has the dream turned to a nightmare or is Tottie still happily living the quiet life in her little 'grottage' in the Auvergne region of central France?

Come with Tottie now as she takes you on Tottie's Tours of the Auvergne. Enjoy the familiar ironic humour and keen eye for detail that will bring the landscape and the people to life for you.

Be prepared to shed a tear as you say goodbye to some familiar characters. And find out how Tottie took to a life of crime once she retired from her work as a freelance copywriter.

The final installment of the popular travel memoirs series set in France's Auvergne region.

'I doubt my life has any vast sea changes ahead,' Tottie wrote in Book 4 of the Sell the Pig travel memoirs series. Biff the Useless Mention was intended to be the end of the extended trilogy.

But then, one day, a big grey wolf DID come out of the forest. Things were about to change dramatically for Tottie following a phone call. Her quiet and peaceful life in the Auvergne was going to be shaken up.

Will Tottie's familiar ironic humour help her through the difficulties facing her? As with all her exploits, Tottie leads you by the hand with a frankness and candour that will make you laugh and move you to tears in this, definitely the last, of the Sell the Pig series.

'Mother, mother, it's a bugger, sell the pig and buy me out.'

‘frank, funny, sometimes tragic’

The Sell the Pig Series - where it all began

‘Trot on!’ is a familiar phrase to riding instructors everywhere. Why not adjust your stirrups, shorten your reins and join Tottie Limejuice, author of the popular Sell the Pig series of travel memoirs, as she takes you on a ride through more of her adventures.

Even if you’re not horsey, Tottie’s tales of running a holiday riding centre on top of a Welsh mountain will have you alternately laughing and reaching for the tissues.

It’s all told in Tottie’s familiar no-holds-barred style. As reviewers have said, it’s like sitting down for a cup of tea and a natter with the author in person.

So why not put the kettle on and open the book?

‘deadly mind games with a killer’

A series of arsons with a distinctive signature, happening on DCI Ted Darling’s patch. The logical prime suspect has the best alibi of all. Yet he seems intent on entering into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Ted.

Is there any connection between the fires and the body parts being discovered in random locations? They’re identified as belonging to a man badly burned in a firework incident. Someone who was tortured before death and mutilated after it.

Ted has a plan to get the result he so desperately needs. But is he prepared to compromise his principles to bring it off?

A psychological thriller which sees Ted and his team tested to their limits.

But will they succeed?