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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2015
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Banbury Cross Murder Mystery

1 - The Hide and Seek Murders (Oct-2019)
2 - The Club of Death (Nov-2019)
3 - The Hobby Horse Murder (Mar-2020)

A David Good P.I. Novel

0.5 - The Strawberry Girl (May-2015)
1 - Good Investigations (Oct-2015)
1.5 - Good Girl Gone Bad (Apr-2016)
2 - Too Good to Die (Feb-2017)
3 - Smart Way to Die (Jul-2017)
4 - The Good Con (Nov-2017)
5 - Good and the Vanishing Act (Apr-2019)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • Meet, for the first time, David Good, Private Investigator. Plying his trade in 1980s South London, the PI with pliable morals, a taste for blondes and a full-on sense of humour, turns out to be a big softie as he takes up the challenge of sorting ou...



  • South London. The 1980s. David Good, a morally confused and womanising private investigator, is hired by a ridiculously beautiful blonde to help her fend off the attentions of a serial blackmailer. But he's barely got to grips with the woman's keen s...



  • “Just love the way Ben Westerham writes, love his style, the humour and his normalness, is that a word? Don't care.Great book. Great story and lots of humour worth reading again.” Amazon UK review.Good girls can seem ten-a-penny at times and some...



  • The London based private investigator with questionable morals, a taste for blondes and a big sense of humour returns in his latest adventure, 'Too Good to Die'.An unscheduled visit to church sees Good sign up for a case that lands him in hospital an...



  • David Good only went out to get his hair cut and to pick up a few bits and bobs at the local shops but, somehow or other, he's finished up with a new case on his hands. A man he'd spoken to only once earlier that morning has turned up dead on a stree...



  • She's Queen of the dancefloor and would-be Queen of the con and she's about to give London based PI David Good a right old run-around. It seems to private investigator, David Good, that he might well have come face-to-face...



  • Thirteen fabulous crime stories from Ben Westerham’s highly popular ‘Shorts in the Dark’ series. It’s time to take a wander into the darker recesses of the mind.The Old Man’s Shed – School-boy Jacob Whistler finds ...



  • London based private investigator David Good has been asked by a new client to track down his wife, who has walked out on him with fifty thousand pounds in her handbag and not been seen since. Easy enough, thinks Good, but he’s about to find hi...



  • Hide and seek may be child’s play, but murder most certainly is not.Summer 1959. When murder comes to the garden party of the Reverend George Sixpence, the curmudgeonly Inspector Leslie Dykeman and the irascible Sergeant Stanley Shapes are desp...






  • Money can buy you many things but immortality isn’t one of them.Business titan, Henry Graball, has it all. Money, power, status. None dare challenge him, whatever the justification. At least, that is how he sees the world and why not?When his d...



  • An old-fashioned festival where someone’s idea of fun proves nothing short of deadly.As their cosy little weekend of fun and frivolity is blown out of the water by a violent murder, Inspector Leslie Dykeman and Sergeant Stanley Shapes find them...



  • Sun, sea, sand. The perfect setting for a little romance, just so long as you can ignore the blackmail, the kidnapping and the corpses.Looking forward to a few days in the old seaside town of Brighton, private investigator David Good is expecting to ...



  • For one young woman, a sizeable and unexpected legacy comes with the ultimate price-tag; her life.A rural ideal in the depths of the Oxfordshire countryside is shaken to its foundations when the body of a beautiful woman is found at the bottom of a f...



  • A high stakes game of espionage in the best traditions of The Thirty-Nine Steps.  Spring 1912. Trainee solicitor, Alexander Templeman, boards the night-train north from London, feeling guilty at having left it so long since he last visited ...



  • Who would have thought golf could be such a deadly game?When two players stumble upon a dead body in a bunker on the thirteenth hole of their favourite golf club, their discovery is about to set in motion a series of events that will lay bare some of...



  • A revenge sandwich is about to leave more than a bad taste in the mouth of garage owner Harry Minch. Garage owner Harry Minch isn't a nasty piece of works and he's never demanded much from life. However, if he was being entirely honest with hims...



  • A classic tale of espionage on the eve of the first world war. A murdered British civil servant. Stolen Government documents. A fleeing German agent. Events that presage a desperate new assignment for secret service agent Alexander Templeman.&nb...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ben Westerham has published 17 books.

Ben Westerham does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Meyer-Hoffman Affair, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Ben Westerham, The Strawberry Girl, was published in May 2015.

Yes. Ben Westerham has 2 series.