Jack, a builder, meets Penny, a maths professor, on a computer date. Somewhat daunted by her status, he agrees to go on a walk with her rambling group. The rendezvous is at Forest Gate station. The plan...

Jack is jailed for being drunk and hitting a cop. On release, he forks out his last cash to get his van out of the pound. He must get work although he is hobbling on a badly sprained ankle. Willing to...

Jack Bell, a builder, has a local job in a large house with four flats by West Ham Park. He's employed to knock down a garden wall and replace it with a fence, a task made less easy by the tension among...

Bricklaying in a park is not the pastoral interlude Jack hoped for. Possibilities of love with Liz, who runs the greenhouses, are thwarted by Ian, the bullying park manager, who has his own schemes afoot....

Death comes to a quiet street in Forest Gate, London, when Jack Bell takes on a building job in a house squatted by anarchists. Unknown to him, they are planning a robbery. Another job next door involves...

The old lady next door has disappeared. Who in this house is set to join her?Jack points the brickwork high on a scaffolding tower, keeping a wary eye on Mike, a half stoned musician. But Mike wants to...

A standalone novel in the Jack of All Trades crime series (#3). Jack, an East London builder, is working at Bramley, an independent school near Billericay in Essex. The school is in trouble. Graham DeNeuve...

Jack, a builder, is working in a house owned by brother and sister, Paul and Lynn. The hostilities between the siblings are heightened by Paul's two 18-year-olds who are going off the rails. As Jack is...

Jack, a builder, has a job in the local cemetery making a memorial bower. His work is obstructed by the manager, whose brother runs the crematorium. The two brothers are at loggerheads, goaded by Jack's...

Jack, a builder, is working in a seedy hotel where the manager has no qualms what the guests get up to, providing they pay. When a young woman is found dead in one of the rooms, it appears to be from...

It's dirty, dusty work for Jack, a builder, working in a small apartment block after fire damage. His boss, Ben, also employs his own son, Tony.Tony does anything but work, and his dad spends too much...

Jack, a builder, is working at the Lodge guest house. His health isn't good, so should he be digging and laying concrete? The Lodge is full, giving Cleo, who runs it, a headache. The more so, as a guest...

One brother goes bankrupt, owing Jack thousands, but Ace, the slick brother offers Jack lucrative work he can't refuse making a kitchen island and spying on Nadine, his wife. But once in the house, Jack...

Jack is out on Wanstead Flats, late at night, with his telescope. There's a cry for help, some way off. He rushes over to assist, to find, to his amazement, the body of his employer. Jack phones the police....