Graham Ison. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8238-7
In Ison’s methodical 12th police procedural featuring Det. Chief Insp. Harry Brock and Det. Sgt. Dave Poole (after 2012’s Gunrunner), the London detectives tackle triple murders whose effects are felt in Germany, France, the U.S., and the Bahamas....
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Graham Ison. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8799-3
Ison’s enjoyable 16th police procedural set in London (after 2016’s Suddenly at Home) sends curmudgeonly Det. Chief Insp. Harry Brock, of the Homicide and Major Crime Command, and his cheeky colleague, Sgt. Dave Poole, to a crime scene in Richmond...
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Graham Ison. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8701-6
Set in 1919, Ison’s earnest 14th Hardcastle and Marriott historical (after 2016’s Hardcastle’s Collector) charts the effects of the Great War’s end on England: unemployment, strikes, rationing, and radical changes in expectations of a woman’s place...
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Graham Ison. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8641-5
Ison’s fine 15th Brock and Poole mystery (after 2015’s Exit Stage Left) is as intricate and detail-filled as a police manual. The action opens with the discovery of Dick Cooper’s body in an upscale London apartment. Just who Cooper was is part of...
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Graham Ison. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8557-9
Set in August, 1917, Ison’s solid 13th historical (after 2014’s Hardcastle’s Quartet) takes irascible Det. Insp. Ernest Hardcastle and his long-suffering assistant, Det. Sgt. Charles Marriott, to Hampshire, where 16-year-old Daisy Salter’s strangled
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Graham Ison. Severn, $27.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8484-8
In Ison’s captivating 14th mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Harry Brock and Det. Sgt. Dave Poole of London’s Homicide and Major Crimes Command (after 2014’s Reckless Endangerment), someone sneaks up on stage actor Lancelot Foley while he’s walking
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Graham Ison. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8420-6
Entertaining byplay between the leads enlivens Ison’s 12th historical showcasing Det. Insp. Ernest Hardcastle and Det. Sgt. Charles Marriott of the Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police (after 2013’s Hardcastle’s Traitors). One day in June...
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Graham Ison. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8362-9
Airline hostess Sharon Gregory claims that a burglar tied her up during the break-in that led to the murder of her accountant husband in Ison’s smoothly written 13th procedural featuring Det. Chief Insp. Harry Brock and Det. Sgt. Dave Poole of...
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Graham Ison. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8312-4
Ison throws his readers more than a few curveballs in the 11th mystery featuring irascible Divisional Det. Insp. Ernest Hardcastle, of the Metropolitan Police (after 2012’s Hardcastle’s Frustration). On New Year’s Eve 1915, the DDI’s plans for...
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Graham Ison, Author . Severn $25.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5821-4
This fair-to-middling police procedural from British ex-police officer Ison (Underneath the Arches, etc.) introduces world-weary and acerbic DCI Harry Brock, who likes to correct the English of Det. Sgt. Dave Poole, his long-suffering, working-class
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Graham Ison. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8171-7
Set in March and April 1918, Ison’s workmanlike 10th procedural featuring London Divisional Det. Insp. Ernest Hardcastle and Det. Sgt. Charles Marriott (after 2011’s Hardcastle’s Obsession) centers on the murder of Ronald Parker, a missing gas...
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Graham Ison. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8095-6
A murder at Heathrow Airport propels Ison’s smooth 11th police procedural featuring Chief Insp. Harry Brock and Det. Sgt. Dave Poole (after 2010’s All Quiet on Arrival). Robbery is obviously not a motive in the stabbing death of Kerry Hammond, found
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Graham Ison, Author Severn House Publishers $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6073-6
Det. Chief Insp. Brock and Det. Sgt. Poole look into the murder of a woman whose body has been found near the scene of a traffic accident and is covered with whip wounds. .
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Graham Ison, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6011-8
Detective Chief Inspector Brock and Detective Sergeant Poole investigate a double murder in high-toned Hampstead that has roots in seamy Soho.
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Graham Ison, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-312-04329-2
This run-of-the-mill police procedural by a British ex-personal protection officer delivers an inside look at the guarding of British government officials and the complex workings of Scotland Yard's Special Branch. Otherwise, Ison ( Confirm or Deny )
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Graham Ison, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-312-03803-8
Choosing verisimilitude over excitement, this offering from a former high-ranking Scotland Yard offical will please procedural fans more than it will espionage aficionados. Detective Chief Superintendent Gaffney of Special Branch leads a sting...
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Graham Ison, Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6920-3
Det. Chief Insp. Harry Brock and Det. Sgt. Dave Poole investigate the deaths of James and Diana Barton, a wealthy London couple who are murdered one week apart, in Ison's overplotted 10th Brock and Poole mystery (after 2009's Breach of Privilege)....
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Graham Ison. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8855-6
Set in 1927, Ison’s entertaining 15th mystery featuring Det. Insp. Ernest Hardcastle (after 2017’s Hardcastle’s Runaway) takes Hardcastle, the head of the CID for the Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police, along with his long-suffering...
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Graham Ison. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8963-8
In British author Ison’s diverting 17th Brock and Poole mystery (after 2018’s Deadlock), curmudgeonly yet likable Det. Chief Insp. Harry Brock, of the Homicide and Major Crime Command West, and his team, including his clever sidekick, Det. Sgt....
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Graham Ison. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5034-8
Set on the eve of WWII in 1939, British author Ison’s suspenseful 16th procedural featuring a member of the Hardcastle family (after 2019’s Hardcastle’s Quandary) focuses on Det. Insp. Walter Hardcastle of Scotland Yard. In the first chapter, an...
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