Roy Lewis
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> Roy Lewis was a prominent English crime writer who wrote a total of 68 novels. He is not to be confused with another English novelist with the same name who lived and wrote between 1913 and 1996. Roy Lewis was born in 1933 and passed in 2019. >His real name was John Royston Lewis, and he lived and wrote in Northern England, where many of his novels are set. Roy Lewis was trained as a teacher and throughout his life, he held many educational positions, such as college principal and school inspector. Even though he wrote a number of non-fiction books, the author is most famous for his more than fifty crime novels. >In a relatively short period of time, Lewis managed to win the attention of a large readership by creating and developing a number of iconic characters. Inspector Crow of Scotland Yard, police officer Eric Ward, and archaeologist Arnold Landon are his most memorable creations in the crime genre. Lewis, widely recognised for his firm grasp on character, is also remembered for his realistic accounts of the Welsh and English lifestyles. His novels are a picturesque depiction of the English countryside towards the second half of the 20th century. From
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Embers of the dead
Solicitor Eric Ward's reluctant attendance at an annual dinner leads him to meet Ben Shaw, a merchant banker who seems to know an awful lot about him. Shaw tells Eric that Jason Sullivan QC - the reason for Eric's marriage breakup - is involved in something big and it is up to Eric to find out what. Meanwhile, DCI Charlie Spate's investigation into illegal immigration has revealed a new level of organization, but he is pulled off the case to re-open a cold case: the killing of Michael Podro, whose murder bore a striking resemblance to Nazi death camp killings.
Dead secret
Criminologist Felix Heron and his wife Thelma are called on to investigate the death of Sir Percival Trench on the hunting field. The inquest decided that it was an accident, but Sir Percival's fiance thinks otherwise, especially after his fortune goes missing.
Blood money
British intelligence operative Peter Ashton returns from an out-of-the-country assignment to discover the office in an uproar. An SIS safehouse in Yorkshire has been the site of incredible carnage - three agents have been savagely murdered and another one is missing, as is the man they were guarding. Equally upsetting for Ashton is that it was his own wife who discovered the bodies and "cleaned" the safehouse before notifying the authorities. Now it seems likely that she could be the next one on someone's private hit list. Ashton joins the search for the killers and must sort through a confusing series of leads: one leading to Cuban gangsters, another to Islamic terrorists, and one leading straight to his old nemesis, Russian intelligence chief Pavel Treliser.
An uncertain sound
Crime was the last thing Durham solicitor Frank Hales had ever expected to be embroiled in, yet from the moment he got the news that his senior partner had vanished after milking a trust fund, he was plunged into an unfamiliar world. He found his missing partner dead in a secret love-nest, and there were indications that the prostitute he had been associating with may have been murdered too. In an effort to save his firm, his career and his marriage, Frank engaged a private eye, but his troubles did not diminish and he realised he was being framed ...