P. F. Ford

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Previously published as “A fatal deception”, currently unavailable until re-published by joffe books on 14th July 2024 with the new title “Death by takeaway”

After the traumatic conclusion of his last case, Detective Inspector Dave Slater is sent off on a dead-end case to get him out of the way. Unknown to Slater, his close friend and former colleague Norman Norman is tasked with finding the whereabouts of his one time girlfriend, former barrister and recent down-and-out Jenny Radstock.

Things quickly take a sinister turn, however, when Norman is asked to go and identify a body lying on a mortuary slab. What looks like a simple case of suicide rapidly starts to unravel, when Norman and sidekick Naomi Darling venture into the homeless community but are then plunged into a dark and grimy world of derelict squats, drug dealers.

Norman begins to get the feeling Superintendent Bradshaw knows more than he’s letting on, but can they untangle the complex web of informants, drug lords, and stolen mobile phones before it’s too late?

Bonus Material Inside!
Included with the main story is Norman Norman’s Christmas Novella, which tells the story of what happens after the main story ends.