I’m hoping it will not be the essay I proposed to Mrs Morgan. I’m hoping it will be the truth. What really happened to Andie Bell on the 20th April 2012? And – as my instincts tell me – if Salil ‘Sal’ Singh is not guilty, then who killed her? How would a community react […]
The Good Girl’s Guide to Murder — The Book Lovers’ Sanctuary
Through the iron bars I can seeThat tall and sturdy oak tree.Though these bars are rustedAnd my cellmate untrusted,That tree stands tall and meanIn that wild field of green. A remembrance to men like meThat at one point we were free.Tall and sturdy, green and rootedTill one day to jail we were booted.For a crime […]
The Tall and Sturdy Oak Tree — Primitive Poetry
***Reblogged by Francis Barker, poet.
Forced out of the Police, former maverick Detective Inspector Jack Sallt still finds himself drawn back into investigating the mysterious disappearance of long standing colleague and friend, Liv Harris.
Continuing to probe privately, Jack begins to uncover links between her disappearance, ongoing Police and political corruption, along with the high incidence of missing young women in his new home town.
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
In this third outing for DI Jack Sallt the stakes are raised.
Two children have been abducted on their way home from school. Their father, a man in the public eye, wants answers fast and Jack doesn’t have any.
All roads are going to nowhere. He doesn’t know who took the children and he doesn’t know why the children were taken. All that Jack Sallt knows is that it is up to him to find them, and find them alive.
Another story set in the beautiful North Norfolk landscape
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
DI Mike Malone and his trusted partner DS Alan Shepherd are faced with a tricky problem.
They are used to crimes which involve the theft of belongings, of animals so what do they do when the local farmers suddenly find that they are the victims of giving?
As they also have a local drugs operation to keep under surveillance and a friend to help, life is very busy – and interesting.
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
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