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Honoring the unique role that grandparents play, this delightfully heartwarming and down-to-earth book offers more than sixty inspiring suggestions for how you can actively participate in your grandchildren's lives, whether they live down the block or across the country.

Six months on from the murders of Kenny Hughes and Harry Whittle, their families are still waiting to hear when the killers will be brought to trial. The end of the COVID-19 lockdown and the re-opening of Crown Courts offers hope, but summer turns to Autumn and Christmas approaches with no end to their ordeal in sight.

Packed with suggestions and reassurance, Wonderful Ways to Love a Child and Wonderful Ways to Love a Grandchild are delightful, down-to-earth guides for parents and grandparents who want to put love into action and give their children and grandchildren the very best start in life.

A body in the river is all in a day's work for Detective Inspector Peter Johns and his sergeant, Paul Godwin. But things start to become more personal when Paul recognizes their key witness as a close childhood friend and Peter's son is detained for suspected child abduction. Peter and Paul discover they have more in common than they realized, and it becomes difficult to keep work and family life separated.

Father Damien is worried that the renovation of the organ in St Cyprian's church may not be finished in time for the important Easter services. That's even before the organ builders discover a corpse concealed beneath it and the police halt the work while they investigate. Who is the young man whose remains have been lying hidden for more than 30 years? And who killed him and then secreted his body in the church?

It’s been more than four months since young PC Kenny Hughes was run down and killed while trying to arrest a suspect, but his parents, Gavin and Chrissie, are still reeling from the shock. To make things worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has closed down the crown courts, and it’s looking as if the trial of Kenny’s killers will be delayed for months.

Veteran Detective DCI Jonah Porter is frustrated at being sent home from work to sit out the COVID-19 lockdown at home. To occupy his mind - and give him some peace from his complaints - his friend, Bernie, suggests that he writes his memoirs. So Jonah delves deep into the past to revisit his very first murder investigation: a case from 1982, when Margaret Thatcher was still fighting the unions and the Greenham Common women were campaigning to stop cruise missiles being based on UK soil.

When Gavin’s son, Kenneth, followed him into the Police Service, neither of them thought that he would make the headlines (or the statistics) as a valiant officer killed in the course of his duty. However, only days before Christmas, a routine raid on a cannabis farm turns into tragedy when Kenny is mown down by a fast-moving motor vehicle while attempting to arrest one of the gang.

Three young Muslim students are attacked in the street by an assailant on a motorbike who sprays them with acid. What is the motive for this unprovoked assault? Is it a religious hate crime or something more personal? Is the aggressor a lone wolf with a personality disorder or part of an extremist organisation? While doctors strive to save the women from death and disfigurement, the police mobilize to hunt down the perpetrator of this hideous crime. Will they succeed? And will the unknown villain strike again?

When Vanessa Wellesley is charged with murdering her violent and controlling husband, everyone feels sympathy for her desperate attempt to escape from a deeply abusive relationship. But why does she refuse to admit that she wielded the weapon that killed him? Lawyers, police, and family urge her to plead self-defense, but Vanessa is adamant that she was not there when the fatal blow was struck. A date has been set for her trial - can her friends discover the real murderer’s identity in time to save her from a life sentence?

Seven friends decide to band together to campaign to save the environment. They call themselves the Martians, because, as everyone knows, Martians are green! Over the years, they go their separate ways, and some of them seem to have forgotten their early ideals. Then, out of the blue, one of their number is murdered: struck down by an unknown assailant. Another of the group comes under suspicion, and yet a third member is implicated. Did geology tutor Martin Riess kill his journalist friend, or was the murderer one of the victims of the reporter's caustic pen?

This is the final part of the memoirs of Detective Inspector Peter Johns. Angie comes to Britain from Jamaica, intent on finding help for her brother, who has cerebral palsy. A murder at the nurses' home where she lives brings her into contact with Peter, who comes in to investigate. Peter is clear that the color of a person’s skin is of no significance, but others do not agree - as Peter and Angie find out to their cost.

Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Porter is a hero: his life was changed forever when he was paralyzed by a gunshot from an unknown assailant but, against the odds, he has succeeded in resuming his career in the police service. To the outside world he appears confident and capable, almost unaffected by his disability. This novel views Jonah’s life through the medium of his favorite hymns, revealing beneath his self-assured exterior his vulnerability and dependence on others.

Bernie’s Aunty Dot is worried that her favorite member of staff at the care home where she lives is being unfairly suspected of murdering another resident. She calls on their good friend DCI Jonah Porter to investigate. He discovers that care assistant Jonathan Bates is by no means the only person with a motive for killing Olive Carter - or, for that matter, the only person with means and opportunity to do so.

What could be more pleasant than a short break on the Algarve with a group of friends? But, when the wheelchair on which he depends is damaged in flight, DCI Jonah Porter wishes that he had never come. Relationships are stretched to breaking point as his frustrations mount. Then a guest falls from the balcony of a neighboring apartment and foul play is suspected. With a puzzling case to solve, Jonah is back in his element.

Peter Johns is just a green young police constable walking his beat in a suburb of Oxford, but when a child goes missing, he becomes involved in a criminal investigation that radically changes the course of his life.

When the bursar of Lichfield College is found strangled in an Oxford hotel, detective chief inspector Jonah Porter rapidly concludes that the killer is one of the nine college staff attending a meeting there, but who is the most likely suspect? Is it mathematics fellow, Tom Carrington, who found the body? Or was it the Master, who was the last to see him alive? Was the bursar blackmailing one of his colleagues? Or could it be a crime of passion committed by his former mistress?

DI Peter Johns was brought up in a children's home. He never expected to know his parents and never wanted to. He is unsure how to react when his mother makes contact with him and asks to meet. Follow his thoughts and feelings as he faces this unexpected development in his life.

The police are reluctant to believe young Lucy Paige when she tells them that she saw two men chasing a woman across a field. They suspect her of inventing a mysterious stranger, who hit her, and then ran away, in order to protect her friend Martin, from accusations of child abuse and assault. But they have to reassess her story, when a woman's body is found a few days later, and Lucy recognizes it as her attacker. Who is the corpse in the graveyard? Why was she running away? And who were the men that Lucy saw chasing her?

A second marriage after the first ended in tragedy is bound to have its challenges. In the case of DI Peter Johns, his new wife, "Our Bernie", is very different from Angie, the love of his life. This short story plots the path of their friendship from first encounters to final commitment.