'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' WELCOME to the world of reporter RILEY GAVIN and ex-military investigator FRANK PALMER. RILEY and PALMER are the two main characters in my growing series of crime thrillers set mostly in and around London and the south: ‘NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED’ (Nov 2004) - ISBN: 978095476328 ‘NO HELP FOR THE DYING’ (Sept 2005) - ISBN: 978095476373 ‘NO SLEEP FOR THE DEAD’ (Aug 2006) - ISBN: 97809558919 ‘NO TEARS FOR THE LOST’ (July 2007) – ISBN: 9780955158971 and, in June 2008 'NO KISS FOR THE DEVIL' - ISBN: 9780955707810 Riley is basically a loner – tough, tenacious and chasing stories for a living, egged on by her agent, Donald Brask, a sort of commission-earning spider at the centre of his own complex electronic web. But almost from the beginning of ‘NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED’ Riley runs into a raft of nasty gangland murders, and is advised to get some back-up. She reluctantly enlists the help of laid-back ex-military cop, Frank Palmer, a man who likes nothing better than being out of uniform and no longer under orders - anybody’s orders. But he also likes to eat, so he agrees to tag along. After surviving a shaky start (during which Riley saves Frank by fire-bombing a warehouse) they continue their sometimes prickly partnership into ‘NO HELP FOR THE DYING’, where a shadowy church charity is involved in death and blackmail, and a dead girl turns up from long ago in Riley’s journalistic past... In ‘NO SLEEP FOR THE DEAD’, Frank Palmer sees a face on a London street… a face he had thought was long dead, coming back from the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, when he was a green and untested RMP. His burning need to investigate what happened leads him and Riley into the lethal territory of former spies, Russian killers and black gangstas, none of whom are the kind to play games. And Riley learns from Palmer that pulling a trigger is simple, but killing someone is not… ‘NO TEARS FOR THE LOST’ - the 4th in the series - begins with Riley and Palmer working opposite sides of the street. Riley is investigating mysterious email rumours about a former British Ambassador, while Palmer is doing what he does best, which is running Close Protection on… that same former diplomat. Eventually, they team up, because it’s what they do best. But they soon find themselves up against a very nasty Colombian drug gang, a renegade US DEA agent, and a secret going back all the way to the Falklands War. And they come to the realisation that sometimes, you can only fight fire with fire… No 5 - 'NO KISS FOR THE DEVIL' - has Riley helping Frank Palmer when Helen Bellamy, a former girlfriend of his is murdered. Little does Riley know that when she takes on a new assignment, writing a profile of an international businessman, her line of enquiry and the men behind Helen's death are on a collision path. But they have reckoned without Frank Palmer... ORDER THESE BOOKS NOW FROM: AMAZON.CO.UK - click on this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/202-7465964-6918244?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=blended&field-keywords=Adrian%20Magson%20 Or through any good bookshop (see CONTACTS) /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Agency for all titles (world rights): THE MARSH AGENCY - LONDON W1 - http://www.marsh-agency.co.uk ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Adrian Magson is a member of the CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION - http://www.thecwa.co.uk and MYSTERY WOMEN - http://www.mysterywomen.co.uk Publishers: Creme de la Crime Ltd - www.cremedelacrime.com UK distributors: TURNAROUND PUBLISHER SERVICES (See CONTACTS page) US Distributors: DUFOUR EDITIONS (See CONTACTS page) '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''