Within these pages you will find twenty-five short stories. You will find each different, each hopefully a pleasant little read. Some involve ghostly goings on, others a little detective work and still others are a tad goofy; just a little nonsense w...
Private investigator, Theo Stern, is approached by wealthy businessman, Jacob Levin who suspects a recent find in a Norfolk woodland could be part of an aircraft that, when carrying his uncle, mysteriously disappeared in 1940. Levin reveals that he i...
When a remote farmhouse burglary results in the death of one of the two elderly sisters living there the police are led to believe only a few trinkets were stolen. But then the surviving sister seeks out Theo Stern and admits that during the raid a p...
An anonymous, threatening telephone call demanding information or face the consequence, is not the way Theo Stern likes to start his day. And, worse, the caller refuses to specify the information required, saying only that all would be revealed in ti...
A brutal killing on a cross channel ferry and the arrival of a jazz musician to perform in a sleepy seaside town. Two totally unconnected events? So thinks private investigator, Theo Stern. But sinister happenings indicate otherwise and Stern finds h...
The slaying of a foreign diplomat and a London cabby bequeathed £250,000 by a mother he hasn’t associated with for years. Unconnected incidents? So it seems, but when Frank Barnes, asks where and how his mother died he is drawn into a dark, fright...
A former Intelligence agent disappears and private detective, Theo Stern, is asked to investigate. A woman is found brutally killed, her neck viciously broken, and MI5 agents threaten Stern, warning him off the case. As an ex-London copper, Stern doe...
It’s 2006 and a group of university students enter into a reckless dare which culminates in the death of one of them. A formal investigation classifies the death as being accidental. Fast forward to 2014, and the remaining students who took part in...
A lifetime’s ambition is destroyed in a heartbeat when an Afghan mortar rips off Captain Andy Roper’s leg and robs him of his beloved military career. Now, again a civilian, slowly sinking into a black abyss, depression is destroying him. Can any...
A concerned wife seeking details of her husband's late night jaunts, and a river drowning requiring clarification. Two completely separate and, to Stern Investigations,, seemingly everyday, bread and butter cases.But further investigation slowly reve...
Theo Stern's dreams of retirement are shattered when a threat from his past suddenly rears its head and he's forced to face its life threatening consequences.With a history of over forty years' hard front line detective work, a weary Theo Stern is co...