Visiting a small Lancashire town to learn their culinary secrets, a retired detective and his former police dog dream of delicious dishes ... ... what they get is the dead body of a famous TV chef. Instantly plunged into a mystery that threatens to test their limits, Rex and Albert must stay one step ahead of the killer. However, it seems that everyone around them had a motive for wanting the TV chef to meet an untimely end. With no end of suspects, who can they turn to for help? Everyone around them could be the killer and it quickly becomes clear that someone does not want this...

As the Aurelia nears Athens, a new member of the crew is found dead in his cabin. Next to a gun and slumped over a suicide note, it appears tragic but unsuspicious. However, he's the captain's nephew, Julien, onboard for only six days and something about the suicide note makes Patricia's nose twitch. With disobedient dog, Anna, loyal butler, Jermaine, and all her friends in support, your favourite amateur sleuth soon uncovers a web of lies and deceit in the bursary. There's a mystery to solve for sure but a second body muddies the water. Is there more than one killer? Had Julien...

Arriving in the famous English seaside resort, Albert plans only to reminisce about a childhood holiday more than seventy years in the past. While there he will eat the town's most famous creation - the sugary treat known as rock. But when he walks into a shop being shaken down by heavies enforcing a protection racket, all thoughts of relaxation go out the window. Instantly marked when Rex rousts the criminals, Albert must choose whether to leave the town - the sensible choice - or unravel the gang's plans - the option containing the greatest likelihood for mayhem and danger. ...

When she finds a wounded member of British Intelligence in her bedroom, Patricia really isn't that surprised. I mean, it happens all the time, doesn't it? However, she is surprised, and really not delighted, to hear that he has a secret task for her - find his contact, hand over a harmless looking data storage device that just happens to have the details of a superweapon on it, and save the world from certain disaster. Her country needs her. Well, that's just perfect. Throw into the mix a missing grandmother who just might have been grabbed by sex traffickers, foreign agents who all...

Snoozing on the train ride into Dundee, a horrified scream tears both Albert and Rex from their dreams and back to reality where they discover a woman has just witnessed a murder. It would be easy to dismiss her claim; she saw something in the window of a house as the train went by, but when there are dangerous men waiting for her at Dundee station, Albert has to accept she might be onto something. With the Gastrothief trail gone cold, Albert and Rex are in Dundee to sample the famous cake and learn how to make it. That might happen, but stepping in to defend the woman on the train,...

Am I going to get my soul sucked out by a malevolent spirit? That's what BFF and former police colleague Patience thinks will happen. My name is Amanda Harper and I am a paranormal detective with the Blue Moon Investigation Agency. As of today, that is, and my first case is at the local shopping mall where terrified shoppers hysterically claim a ghost attacked them in the elevators. Not just one elevator - all of them. Sounds like an easy enough case, right? That's what I told myself, but nothing in life prepared me for the bedlam I'm about to face. Despite the craziness, the chases,...

Why can't I turn down a woman in distress? I just took a case from the tearful, but very rich, widow Barker, whose husband supposedly died at the hands of a century-old phantom. He was the owner of Barker steel mill and it doesn't take me long to realise that something very weird is going on there. That's not all though, a spectral dog has eaten a bloke at a junkyard and I'm supposed to work out how to get him back. Everyone is lying to me about everything but my toughest test is dealing with the aftermath of my stupid decision to hire Amanda Harper. Not that she isn't talented,...

The paranormal? It's all nonsense but proving it might just get them all killed. When a master vampire starts killing people in his hometown, paranormal investigator, Tempest Michaels, takes it personally ... ... and soon a race against time turns into a battle for his life. He doesn't believe in the paranormal but has a steady stream of clients with cases too weird for the police to bother with. Mostly it's all nonsense, but when a third victim turns up with bite marks in her lifeless throat, can he really dismiss the possibility that this time the monster is real? Joined by an...

On the southeast coast of England, three wines growers have just gone missing and a fourth was found dead at the scene. Could this be the work of the master criminal Albert Smith has been chasing all over the country? You'd better believe it. Rushing back to his home county, Albert hopes to pick up the trail once more. With trusted former police dog, Rex Harrison, at his side, the duo begins to snoop ... ... but they have no idea the perpetrators are still there. Worse yet, the criminals know who Albert is and they're not about to let him spoil their plans again. Will Albert and Rex...