Ford Ford: 1662 books

Three young mothers take their infants to an Oxford park, but only two of the babies return home. When six-week-old Abigail goes missing from her pram, the race is on to find her before she comes to harm. Who would want to steal a baby girl? And why? Are other children in danger? Is Abigail’s...

When Detective Superintendent Richard Paige is killed while pursuing a suspect, his pregnant wife, Bernie, is determined to find out more about his background for the sake of their unborn child. His mother, Eleanor, is strangely reluctant to speak about Richard’s early life and Bernie becomes suspicious...

These are the first two books about Bernie Fazakerley and her friends. “Llanwrda” is the name of the house in the Oxford suburb of Headington, where Bernie lives with her second husband, Peter, her daughter, Lucy and their great friend Detective Inspector Jonah Porter. You can learn more...

Seven friends decide to band together to campaign to save the environment. They call themselves the Martians, because, as everyone knows, Martians are green! When one of them is struck down by an unknown assailant they all fall under suspicion of murder and Detective Inspector Peter Johns struggles...

The police are reluctant to believe young Lucy Paige when she tells them that she saw two men chasing a woman across a field. They suspect her of inventing a mysterious stranger, who hit her and then ran away, in order to protect her friend, Martin, from accusations of child abuse and assault. But...

Bernie Fazakerley, an eccentric Oxford don with a penchant for marrying police officers, has a habit of becoming involved in murder cases, which often turn out to have a more personal side for her and her long-suffering friends and family. The books are presented here in chronological order of the...

When Vanessa Wellesley is charged with murdering her violent and controlling husband, everyone feels sympathy for her desperate attempt to escape from a deeply abusive relationship. But why does she refuse to admit that she wielded the weapon that killed him? Lawyers, police, and family urge her to...

Teenage “joy-riders” mow down a young man on his way home after a night out with his mates. As he fights for his life in hospital, the police struggle to find the culprits. Expert tracker dog, PD Q, follows a scent from the abandoned car, but it leads to a dead-end. Where is the driver of the...

This detective novel follows on from other Bernie Fazakerley mystery stories (Sorrowful Mystery, Mystery over the Mersey, In my Liverpool home, ...) but it is complete in itself. In it we meet old friends, such as disabled police detective DCI Jonah Porter, his personal assistant, Bernie Fazakerley...

Exiled Liverpudlian, Bernie Fazakerley, makes a sentimental journey back to her home city to visit relatives and to take her daughter, Lucy, back to their roots. Before long, events take a sinister turn when they are witnesses to a murder aboard the famous Mersey Ferry. Then the killer strikes again,...

Peter Johns grew up in a children’s home. On leaving school, he entered the police force. A chance encounter led to his transfer to CID, after which he began slow but steady progress up the promotion ladder to Detective Inspector. Reaching the heights of Detective Sergeant gave him the courage...

Bernie’s Aunty Dot is worried that her favourite member of staff at the Care Home where she lives is being unfairly suspected of murdering another of the residents. She calls on their good friend DCI Jonah Porter to investigate. He discovers that Care Assistant, Jonathan Bates, is by no means the...

Three young Muslim students are attacked in the street by an assailant on a motorbike who sprays them with acid. What is the motive for this unprovoked assault? Is it a religious hate crime or something more personal? Is the aggressor a lone wolf with a personality disorder or part of an extremist...

A second marriage after the first ended in tragedy is bound to have its challenges. In the case of DI Peter Johns, his new wife, ‘Our Bernie’, is very different from Angie, the love of his life. Angie was a nurse from Jamaica. Bernie is an abrasive Liverpudlian and a Mathematics don at an Oxford...