West Wales Murder Mysteries
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A Body Out At Sea
by Peter Ford
read by Andy Cresswell
Part 2 of the West Wales Murder Mysteries series
Human remains and a lonely pile of clothes on the beach. Is it murder, suicide...or an impossible conundrum?
Detective Sergeant Norman likes the idea of a permanent home in the small Welsh coastal town. With his reinvented career invigorating him, he finds himself enjoying working for his younger female DI. But when she asks him to investigate a puzzling seaside suicide, his first job is to find the corpse belonging to the discarded clothing left on the sand....
With the deceased man’s remains presumed lost at sea, DS Norman believes his case has run up a blind alley...until local builders dig up a female human skull. And now with a pair of unsolved deaths on his hands, the dogged policeman’s work takes a tricky turn when he discovers an astonishing link between them.
Can the shrewd detective solve a complex puzzle and lay two souls to rest?
A Body of Confusion is the thrilling second audiobook in the Rejoiner mystery series. If you like determined police officers, intriguing crimes and twisted plots, then you’ll love P.F. Ford’s brain-teasing riddle.
Please note this audiobook was previously published as A Body of Confusion.
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A Body Down the Lane
by Peter Ford
read by Andy Cresswell
Part 3 of the West Wales Murder Mysteries series
Serious international crime operations thrive in big cities. They don't occur in tinpot little towns like Llangwelli. Or do they?It's late evening when the Regional Control Centre receives a mysterious 999 call. No-one speaks, but the call location is somewhere along a narrow, hardly used tree-lined stretch of road that leads nowhere. With no uniformed officers free to investigate, they pass the call on to DC Judy Lane at Llangwelli station.Lane informs DS Norman Norman who, concerned it may be a trap, agrees to meet her at the scene. But when Norman arrives, he finds a dead motorcyclist sitting against a tree, and the young detective unconscious nearby. It looks as if he was right to think it could be a trap, but if the biker died when he fell off his bike and hit the tree, who attacked Judy Lane? And who made the 999 call?Next morning an accident investigator suggests this was no accident, and the motorcyclist was a victim of a hit and run. Then, to complicate matters further, they find a young woman's body near the scene of the accident. But who is the young woman, and what's her connection to the motorcyclist? Before long, Llangwelli's finest are drawn into a tangled web of deception and corruption, but someone seems to know their every move and is trying to silence anyone who might know the truth.Norman and boss DI Sarah Southall came to Llangwelli on the understanding crime was very much small time, but now it seems they may have uncovered a serious crime operation right on their doorstep. The idea such a thing could happen in a quiet little town like Llangwelli seems unlikely. But then, perhaps that's what they're supposed to think.Maybe the idea it's so unlikely makes it more likely…A Body In The Lane is the third book in the Rejoiner series. If you prefer mysteries delivered with a lighter touch, you'll love P.F. Ford's latest offering.
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A Body at the Farmhouse
by Peter Ford
read by Andy Cresswell
Part 4 of the West Wales Murder Mysteries series
Detective Norman is out of retirement and back on the beat in a rainy Welsh seaside town. Llangwelli might be short on sunshine, but it's certainly not short on murders . . . Norman is a bit old-fashioned, but he's also willing to learn from his band of misfit recruits.
He's asked to mentor a team of misfits in a sleepy Welsh seaside town. But training has barely begun when a woman's body washes up on the beach at Llangwelli.
It turns out to be local woman Kimberley Lawrence. Missing for over a week, but her husband didn't report her disappearance.
The team's investigation hits a brick wall - no one will talk, and every suspect seems to have an alibi.
Then the discovery of a missing shoe turns the case on its head.
It's going to take all Detective Norman's experience to whip his band of inexperienced misfits into shape to catch a killer.
This absolutely gripping detective mystery full of twists and turns is perfect for fans of Rachel McLean, J.D. Kirk, Pauline Rowson, Elly Griffiths, Matt Brolly and Simon McCleave.
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A Body in the Cottage
by P. F. Ford
read by Andy Cresswell
Part 5 of the West Wales Murder Mysteries series
Detective Norman is out of retirement and back on the beat in a rainy Welsh seaside town. Llangwelli might be short on sunshine, but it's certainly not short on murders . . . Norman may seem a bit old-fashioned, but he's always willing to learn from his band of misfit recruits.
A battered body. A missing handbag. A false confession?
The call comes on Monday afternoon. About to demolish a row of derelict cottages, workmen discover a body in the bedroom of Number 9. A young woman, expensively dressed in designer clothes. It's a mystery what she was doing there.
She's been badly beaten. But with no handbag or phone to be found, her identity remains unknown.
Then an elderly man comes forward claiming to be the killer.
Case closed, it would appear. But there are things about the old man's story that don't add up. Detective Norman isn't convinced.
Then a second body is discovered in a skip behind the cottages - and the case takes a disturbing new twist.
Norman and his team are in a race against time to uncover the truth before more bodies turn up.
This absolutely gripping detective mystery full of twists and turns is perfect for fans of Rachel McLean, J.D. Kirk, Pauline Rowson, Elly Griffiths, Matt Brolly and Simon McCleave.
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A Body Under the Bridge
by P. F. Ford
read by Andy Cresswell
Part of the West Wales Murder Mysteries series
A lonely widower. A body in a stream. An impossible puzzle.
It's an ordinary Tuesday morning when pensioner Alun Edwards turns up at Llangwelli station. He doesn't want to make a fuss but he's worried about his friend Gareth. Every Monday, they meet up for a game of chess. But Gareth wasn't at home yesterday. He's not answering his phone - and he's left his dog behind. He'd never do that.
Detective Norman searches Gareth's cottage - and finds a woman's photograph, torn to shreds and dumped in the bin.
The next day, the body of an elderly man is discovered in a stream under an old railway bridge. The name on his bus pass is Gareth Jenkins. But that's impossible. According to the pathologist, the body has been in the water at least three or four days. And Gareth was seen walking his dog, just two days ago.
Norman is facing an impossible puzzle. And what is the secret behind the woman in the photograph . . . ?
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