Detective Inspector Mike Malone thought that his transfer to the countryside would give him the opportunity to take things easy. However, when a well-loved local philanthropist is found strangled, he realizes that maybe country-life is not so quiet after all. As he wades through wool and blood to find the mastermind behind this dreadful act, two of his friends suddenly disappear. This is the first of a series of tongue-in-cheek crime mysteries featuring DI Mike Malone.

When Mike Malone is called upon to investigate the murder of a cow which has been hanged from a tree, he hopes that this is just a prank that has gone seriously wrong. However, when the mutilated body of a young girl is found, he knows that once again he will have to drag the crime-board up from the basement. As the riddle of the nursery rhyme proves difficult to understand, all of Mike's powers of deduction are put to the test. This novel, which is the third in the Mike Malone series, is once again a light-hearted romp through rural Lincolnshire and many of the familiar faces from the...

In this latest mystery, Mike Malone has to solve a very odd crime. Who exactly is the White Devil who keeps paying night-time visits to the wives of the local farmers? The wives might not be complaining but their husbands are certainly not happy about the situation. While Mike and his faithful Detective Sergeant, Alan Shepherd, put it all down to high spirits in the beginning, once blood is spilled in the farmyard, they realise that maybe the White Devil is trying to throw them off his real goal. Meanwhile, the ghosts from Mike's previous life in London are getting ever closer. The ghosts...