Nick Oldham, Author . Severn $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5700-2
Like everything "good" in life, a fast-paced, old-fashioned shoot-'em-up is hard to find. Fortunately, we have Oldham's (A Time for Justice) latest novel to remind us what it's all about. Actually, as this is a British police...
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Nick Oldham, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5979-2
Det. Inspector Henry Christie, on suspension since his last outing, Substantial Threat, investigates some shady doings among the horse-riding set.
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Nick Oldham, Author Severn House Publishers $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5874-0
Nick Oldham, a real-life police officer and author of Backlash (Forecasts, Sept. 10, 2001), shows just how brutal the British underworld can be in Substantial Threat. DI Henry Christie can't wait to nab gangster Ray Cragg, whose turf includes...
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Nick Oldham, Author Severn House Publishers $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6159-7
In the middling fourth Henry Christie police procedural (after 2004's Dead Heat) by real-life British policeman Oldham, the Lancashire detective chief inspector has just returned to duty after a suspension to find that his provisional promotion...
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Nick Oldham, Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6964-7
A number of implausibilities, including the failure of the bad guys to finish people off when they have the chance, undercut Oldham's 15th police procedural featuring Det. Supt. Henry Christie (after 2010's Seizure). When two teenage boys on a...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8075-8
Set in Lancashire, Oldham’s gritty 16th novel starring Det. Supt. Henry Christie (after 2010’s Hidden Witness) nicely sets up intersecting story lines. While on a walking holiday with his American friend, Karl Donaldson, an FBI legal attaché...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8132-8
Oldham’s solid 17th Henry Christie mystery (after 2011’s Facing Justice) finds the Lancashire detective superintendent living with his 23-year-old daughter and a new love interest way too soon in his mind after the death of his wife—even though,...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8213-4
In Oldham's fast-paced 18th Henry Christie novel (after 2012's Instinct), the Lancashire detective superintendent pursues two cases: the murder of an unidentified Eastern European teenage girl; and the disappearance of Jennifer Sunderland, a...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8266-0
What should have been a relaxing Christmas break for Henry Christie proves anything but in Oldham’s tight 19th novel featuring the Lancashire detective superintendent (after 2012’s Fighting for the Dead). On New Year’s Day, Henry inherits the case...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8333-9
British author Oldham’s entertaining 20th Henry Christie novel (after 2013’s Bad Tidings), a prequel set in 1982, finds the 23-year-old Lancashire police constable back in uniform in Rossendale after a too-brief temporary transfer to the Blackburn...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8390-2
Early in Oldham’s well-crafted 21st Henry Christie novel (after Judgment Call), the savvy Blackpool veteran arrives at the house of diamond merchant Percy Astley-Barnes just after a hit man fatally shot Percy and his girlfriend, Lotte Bowers. The...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8470-1
Oldham’s hard-hitting 22nd series procedural (after 2014’s Low Profile) pits Det. Chief Supt. Henry Christie, who has a “dark, brooding, pain-filled soul,” against psychopathic criminal Charlie Wilder, who leaves prison hell-bent on taking revenge...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8531-9
Oldham’s well-plotted 23rd novel featuring Lancashire Det. Chief Supt. Henry Christie (after Edge) finds him longing for retirement so he can marry his fiancée, Alison Marsh, and settle into married life and running Alison’s pub. Meanwhile, the...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8581-4
Former Royal Marine Steve Flynn, the hero of this rousing series launch from Oldham (Unforgiving and 22 other Henry Christie novels), is enjoying life in the Canary Islands, where he skippers Faye, the sport-fishing boat he co-owns with his friend...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.99 hardcover (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8634-7
British author Oldham’s violent, action-packed sequel to Onslaught finds Steve Flynn leading an idyllic life on the Mediterranean resort island of Ibiza. When he’s not running pleasure cruises for the rich, he’s spending time with his lover, Maria...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8680-4
In British author Oldham’s action-packed 24th Henry Christie thriller (after 2015’s The Unforgiving), Christie has finally realized his dream: running a pub/hotel, the Tawny Owl, with his fiancée, Alison Marsh, in the tiny village of Kendleton in...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8729-0
British author Oldham’s vigorous, violent third Steve Flynn thriller (after 2016’s Ambush) finds the former Marine and ex-cop turned vigilante in the back of an unattended police van in Blackpool. There Flynn delivers his own brand of rough justice...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8767-2
Oldham’s hard-hitting 25th police thriller featuring Det. Supt. Henry Christie of the Lancashire Constabulary’s Force Major Investigation Team (after 2017’s Bad Blood) finds Henry at home recovering from a gunshot wound. Minutes after he rips the...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8959-1
In Oldham’s intricately plotted 26th Henry Christie thriller (after 2018’s Bad Cops), the retired Lancaster policeman who runs “a pub and country house hotel out in the wilds of the Lune Valley” decides to check on John and Isobel York to make sure...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8960-7
British author Oldham’s taut 27th outing for retired policeman Henry Christie (after Wildfire) finds Christie keeping a low profile as proprietor of the Tawny Owl restaurant and lodge in the Lancashire town of Kendleton. Though he’s trying to stay...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5014-0
British author Oldham’s slow-moving 28th Henry Christie thriller (after 2020’s Bad Timing) opens in 1985, when Christie, then a Blackpool constable, is eager to prove himself to his superiors. One day, as Christie hopes to add to his tally of...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0694-7
Oldham’s facile 29th Henry Christie mystery (after 2021’s Scarred) finds Christie, a retired detective-cum–pub owner of the Tawny Owl in the quaint English village of åçKendleton, reluctantly drawn back into his former work upon the murders of two...
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Nick Oldham. Severn, $30.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0695-4
At the start of Oldham’s riveting 30th Henry Christie thriller (after 2022’s Demolition), retired police detective Christie, who now runs a combined pub and hotel in the English village of Kendleton and has been “press-ganged” into manning the...
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