Bøger af Alfie Robins

A batch of faulty firearms is causing devastation across the city and a local villain's daughter is missing.Greg Warren is waiting to find out if he has a future in the Police Force and once again finds himself dragged into the dark, criminal underbelly of the city. With the help of his young friend and colleague, Jimbo, and burning ambition to prove himself he's prepared to do whatever it takes.When the truth is finally discovered, will it be too late?

Some of the most vibrant and varied crime writing around anywhere is centred on the evocative industrial fishing port of Hull, with its shadowy wind-swept streets, its hard-bitten attitudes, its drugs, its gangsters and yet its underlying humanity that clings like untended weeds amid the cracks of the endemic poverty and the violence. And Alfie Robins' 'Reprisal' is an outstanding example of the genre, a classic police procedural where you can hear the streets, smell the weather, savour the taciturn banter, and feel the four inch nail being driven into the heads of victims by a vengeful, meticulous and psychotic serial killer. This is a criminal environment as real as it gets, and this is how people die if DCI Philip Marlowe and his over-stretched, tight-knit team don't get there first.

Once more it's time to hear the streets and smell the weather. Alfie Robins does it again, with this sequel to the best selling police procedural, 'Reprisal', featuring hard bitten, Hull cop, DCI Philip Marlowe and his tight-knit team. Take one unscrupulous nightclub owner and his psychopathic nephew; throw in a missing bundle of cash and some class 'A' substance. Then toss three small time villains into the equation and what do you get? Trouble! When the body parts start to stack up, it's down to Hull's finest to gather them up.

Once more it's that time of year to hear the streets and smell the weather. Hard-bitten, Detective Chief Inspector Philip Marlowe and his tight knit team are back policing the streets of Hull, in this, the third DCI Marlowe novel. A cash-strapped publican in fear of losing his pub, a friend with a grudge and Robert Arthur Bacuss, a wealthy student who thinks he's God's gift to gamblers. They all have one thing in common - poker. When Bacuss, the stepson of the DCI's ex-wife, goes missing, Marlowe is dragged back from holiday to solve his disappearance. DCI Marlowe must utilise every available resource in an attempt to unravel the case and avert a tragedy. Meanwhile, young DC Tanya Etherington is tasked with a sensitive covert investigation into the theft of drugs from the evidence room. Her findings leave Marlowe with a dilemma that tests loyalty, resolve and professionalism . Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but there can only be one winner.