Barleybooks: 5 books

Over many years the British Army taught Jim Tarrent every surveillance technique, orthodox and unorthodox, know to man so it is no surprise that having left the army he starts up a detective agency.  However, it is not until he meets Jenn, an ex-prisoner, that he solves his first case. ...

Thomas is an east going kind of guy with no pressing ambitions and a run-of-the-mill job, then one evening, while out drinking with friends, everything changes.  Change not through some sort of epiphany or psychological reorientation, but because he walked into a toilet and while there was asked...

Jim Tarrent and Jenn Tarrent are settling down to a new routine in their detective agency following their marriage.   They have the usual mix of cases, but also pick up a case for military intelligence involving two dead service personnel discovered in unusual circumstances while...

Peter is a Hospice Chaplain who is dedicated to his work, unfortunately he has a couple of problems; firstly he had really vivid dreams, the sort where you wake up and wonder if it was real and secondly he has a dead body in his freezer.  He has a plan to dispose of the body, but needs to wait...

Stephen Holmes has the reverse Midas touch in that everything he attempts usually turns to dross and you can include in that his uninspiring career and any relationships with the opposite sex.  Then one fine day, out of the blue, he gets a solicitor’s letter informing him he as been bestowed...