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For more than a decade, Inspector Jack Mowgley has been keeping a sort of rough-hewn order at Portsmouth Continental Ferry Port. Critics and those who fell foul of his notions of natural and sometimes rough justice say he regarded the port as his personal fiefdom. They are right. But times have changed, and the Police Force has become a Service. The day that a fast-track and very politically-correct female took over as his boss, The Ferry King knew his days were numbered. He was right.After an investigation, Mowgley is invited to jump before he is pushed and to take early retirement. Now he must start a new life in new surroundings. During a visit to Normandy a decade earlier, his wife had lost her heart to a ruined manor house and also to the man selling it. In the divorce she settled for the town house in Portsmouth and left Mowgley with the ruin in northern France.Now he is homeless and jobless, but has been offered a job by a former French policeman who runs a private detective agency in Northern France.Yann Cornec needs someone like Jack Mowgley to take on the agency's rapidly growing portfolio of cases involving British expatriates. He is looking for someone who speaks the same language as the expats, understands their strange ways, and knows how to handle sometimes difficult people and cases. He thinks he has found the right man in Jack Mowgley. In spite of himself, the former policeman finds himself feeling increasingly at home in a land where things are done so differently. But after a gruesome discovery at his ruined property, he also finds himself involved in a bloody territorial struggle involving drug and people smuggling, murders most foul and general mayhem...

High summer in the Balkans and travel writer George East visits a remote Bulgarian mountain village to investigate an apparently potty project set up by an English artist and her husband. The scheme is to save the dying village of Krasiva by forming a colony of creative foreigners. If all goes to plan, potters, painters and writers will buy a home in the village and bring new life to a community where the average age is over 70 and there are more donkeys than people. In his time in Bulgaria, the famously sceptical observer finds himself falling under the spell of a fascinating land where the old ways are followed and a cottage can be bought with a credit card... Extract: I thought Ivalin was reckless when speeding through the village, but off-road he drives faster and, if it were possible, even more recklessly. The potholed tarmac has been replaced by a sun-baked dirt track, riven with deep tractor ruts. It also winds sharply, and slopes alarming steeply downhill into the valley. Before we left, Ivalin told me that his raspberry fields are in secret locations and I jokingly asked if I would need to wear a blindfold. Now I wish I had.

H&D in France follows George's adventures as he makes every mistake in the book about how and how not to buy a second home across the Channel.Subtitled A Year in Purgatory,the book is much more than a list of all the pitfalls awaiting the innocent abroad:it is an hilarious account of how a couple set out with a dream,which turns into a nightmare.