Bill Smith
Bill Smith has written the books listed below. All other information about him is irrelevant.
Identity Crisis
Marty South has a nice apartment and a steady well paid job. He had never had any ambition. He had always avoided any kind of responsibility. But now he thinks someone is trying to kill him and neither his girlfriend nor the police believe him. All he really wanted was a quiet life. But that is just what he may never have again.
Sins Of The Past
Mark Furlong is a private detective in a Northern City. He has always avoided any form of personal commitment but now he’s shocked to discover he has a sixteen year old daughter. He very definitely doesn’t want to become involved. Crystal Brown is the sixteen years old daughter of a heroin addicted mother. She has been in trouble with the police and social services for a number of years. Now she has discovered the identity of her father and she wants to know what he’s like. When Crystal’s mother dies from an overdose the social services expect Furlong to take responsibility which is something he is reluctant to do. But the lives of Crystal Brown and Mark Furlong are about to be turned upside down as they become involved in a web of prostitution, rape and murder.
Blood Winter
In seventh century Northumbria life can be short and death can be violent. Raiders from the sea are terrorising villages along the coast and the king is too concerned with politics and war to worry about the welfare of his people. These pirates will take your possessions, your woman and your life. Bryn is a slave in the Anglo Saxon village of Baringham. When the pirates come they kill many of the men and take the village women including Ingrid the woman that Bryn loves. Bryn decides that something must be done to rescue Ingrid but he is from the lowest strata of society so who will he find that will help him?
The Curious Mister Jones Series
Mortimer Jones is a middle aged nobody who works as the manager of an Antiquarian bookshop. He has lived with his maiden aunt ever since his mother died thirty years ago.
Book 1: The Curious Mister Jones
It is the beginning of December and Jones has become suspicious that some rare books that a rather smelly and disheveled man is trying to sell him are stolen. When he investigates he witnesses what he believes may have been a murder. When the police won’t believe him he lets the matter rest until more events begin to drag him into a web of extortion and murder.
Book 2: A Hard Man To Kill
Mortimer Jones has lived with his maiden aunt ever since his mother died thirty years ago. Now a man has turned up and claims to be the father that Jones never knew. But when Jones would-be father is murdered he sets out to discover if this man really was his father, why he has returned now and who killed him. This will turned out to be a dangerous thing to do but then Jones is A Hard Man To Kill.
Book 3: Shadows And Reflections
For the first time in his life middle-aged Mortimer Jones has a girlfriend; at least he thinks he does and he's not quite sure how it happened. The trouble is that Jones new girlfriend Susan is running away from a violent husband who has now discovered where she is. When he returns there will be violence and murder but not quite in the way everyone expects.
Book 4: The Whereabouts Of Daisy Tucker
When Mortimer Jones received a mysteries package from Daisy Tucker a woman he hardly knew with the instructions to "keep this safe until I call for it and don't let anyone else have it", he put it to one side and forgot about it. That was two years ago and now Jones has decided to try to return the package to its owner but she seems to have disappeared. Jones' actions will trigger a series of unexpected events that will end in violence and death. Someone very definitely doesn't want Jones to discover "The Whereabouts of Daisy Tucker".
