Alan Tootill

• Oct-2015
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This volume contains five new stories from author Alan Tootill, continuing the Blackpool series of hard-boiled crime fiction, where noir meets pulp. The Second Man and Win Some, Lose Some feature PI Mike Grady, with whom readers of the Blackpool nove...

• Oct-2015
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An omnibus edition of three books of the Martin Cole series - Cole and the Cat Woman, Cole and the Corgi Killer and Cole and the Cactus Thief. Martin Cole is stuck in a rut. But his family and friends have ideas for him. And when Martin's landlord of...

• Jun-2014
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When he walked into my office it took me a while to recognise Charles Foster.Then I twigged. He was a fracking ambulance chaser. I thought the no-win no-fee lawyer was handing me an easy job for good money. All I had to do was carry out basic backgro...

• Jul-2013
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They said fracking would make Blackpool a boom town. They said it would bring jobs and money. It did. For the whores, the drug dealers, the foreign cheap labourers, the local politicians, the ambulance-chasing lawyers. And for me, PI Mike Grady. I’...

• Jul-2013
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Blackpool PI Mike Grady sits back after concluding what seemed an easy matrimonial. Job done. Case closed. But three masked men drag him from his bedsit, beat him and dump him by Marton Mere, with a warning to mind his own business. But into what and...

• Jul-2013
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Steve Latham left Blackpool with a bullet hole in his arm and a determination never to return. He ran to the capital, changed his name, became a PI and never looked back. Now, twenty years later, a chance encounter in a London street leads to a plea ...

• Mar-2013
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Martin is called in by a local businessman to look into a series of thefts from his warehouse. But the investigation is interrupted by the killing of one of the suspects. Are the thefts and the murder related? Are the police right in thinking there i...

• Jul-2012
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Unable to rest on his laurels, Martin finds himself involved in the suspicious deaths of two local councillors. Martin knows the two were linked by the case he was investigating, but was it coincidence they both seemed to have died of heart attacks w...

• Jul-2012
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Martin Cole is stuck in a rut. But his family and friends have ideas for him. And when Martin's landlord offers him a job sorting out a problem for his niece Anna Martino, he finds it hard to refuse. Soon Martin is back in harness, tempted by the pro...

• Jul-2012
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Martin Cole has a new case. Three dogs have been poisoned on a Roselake housing estate. But his mind is soon taken off that problem by a call from a mother whose son has just been charged with murder and who claims he is innocent. Soon Martin and his...

• Jul-2012
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Things are not going well for Martin Cole. He is less than happy about his half-century approaching rapidly. More importantly, recently he lost his job, on top of that his wife Carol divorced him and threw him out of his London home. So when his frie...