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DCI Jack Callum
Series · 4 books · 2016-2019

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#1

No Evil

2016

A FAST-PACED DETECTIVE MYSTERY THAT WILL HAVE YOU GRIPPED FROM START TO DRAMATIC FINISH A girl's body is found. Her eyes, ears, and mouth have been sewn shut DCI Jack Callum leads the investigation into this gruesome crime which shatters the peace of a sleepy 1950s English town. Images of three monkeys are sent to the police to taunt them: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Something very nasty is going on and more victims come to light. Who is doing this and why? DCI Callum looks like he’s closing in on the culprits, but then a team of detectives from London is brought in to take over the case. In a breathtaking finale, Callum must race against time, and break his own rules, to save someone very close to him. If you like Robert Galbraith, Rachel Abbott, Ruth Rendell, or Mark Billingham you will be gripped by this exciting new crime fiction writer. Full of wonderful period detail and twists and turns NO EVIL is the first in a new series of crime thrillers set in the 1950s, featuring DCI Jack Callum. He’s an ordinary policeman in an ordinary English town. The crimes he investigates are far from ordinary. Jack Callum has a keen mind and is passionate about his job and family. He doesn’t believe in capital punishment but has caught a few villains whose life has come to an end on the gallows.
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#2

Prime Evil

2016

A tortured body is found hanging from a tree DCI Jack Cullum leads the investigation into this puzzling crime. The clues lead him tantalisingly close to the answer but without cracking the case. Why was the man killed? What were his links to London gangland bosses? When an unsolved murder is uncovered that seems to be connected, Jack must use his team to their full strength to separate the innocent from the guilty. Jack also faces a challenge he never expected as he is accused of an improper relationship with a colleague. You’ll love the period detail of this fast-paced mystery which reaches a sensational climax in the seedy streets of London. If you like Robert Galbraith, Rachel Abbott, Ruth Rendell, or Mark Billingham you will be gripped by this exciting new crime fiction writer. Full of excitement and twists and turns PRIME EVIL is the second in a new series of crime thrillers set in the 1950s, featuring DCI Jack Cullum. He’s an ordinary policeman in an ordinary English town. The crimes he investigates are far from ordinary. Jack Cullum has a keen mind and is passionate about his job and family. He doesn’t believe in capital punishment but has caught a few villains whose life has come to an end on the gallows.
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#4

Deadly Ambitions

2019

Deadly AmbitionsThe Fourth DCI Jack Callum MysteryIt’s only Rock n’ Roll, but is it? No, this is much more deadly.Music mogul Harry Franks is found brutally murdered in his opulent Hertfordshire home. Initially the finger of suspicion initially points to his young lover Neville Parrish. However, as the investigation continues, Jack discovers that the victim’s dangerous life was one of intrigue and debauchery and the list of suspects begins to grow.
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#6

Into the Fire

2019

Into The FireThe Sixth DCI Jack Callum MysteryA young woman, one of Jack’s daughter’s school friends, is found viciously murdered.Her death triggers an investigation into the colourful worlds of professional wrestling and variety theatre. He discovers layer upon layer of deceit lurking under the showbiz gaiety and glamour of both businesses, and uncovers dark and deadly secrets that stretch back decades.

Authors

Maynard Sims
Maynard Sims
Author · 9 books

MAYNARD SIMS www.maynard-sims.com The DCI Jack Callum series of crime novels - No Evil,Prime Evil and For Her Sins with The Detective Jack Callum Trilogy. The Bahamas series of thriller novels - Touching The Sun, Calling Down The Lightning, and Raging Against The Storm. The Department 18 series of supernatural crime novels - Black Cathedral, Night Souls, The Eighth Witch, A Plague Of Echoes, and Mother Of Demons. The crime novels Let Death Begin, Through The Sad Heart, and Falling Apart At The Edges. The supernatural novels, Shelter, Demon Eyes, Nightmare City, Stronghold, and Stillwater. The erotic romance novels, under a pseudonym, - The Love Project and The Romance Project. One screenplay, based on the first two Department 18 books, won the 2013 British Horror Film Festival Award for Best New Screenplay. Numerous stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines. Collections include, Shadows At Midnight, 1979 and 1999 (revised and enlarged), Echoes Of Darkness, 2000, Incantations, 2002, two retrospective collections of their stories, essays and interviews, The Secret Geography Of Nightmare and Selling Dark Miracles, both 2002, Falling Into Heaven 2004, The Odd Ghosts, 2011, and Flame And Other Enigmatic Tales, and A Haunting Of Ghosts, both 2012. Their tenth collection of ghost stories and strange tales – Death’s Sweet Echo – which includes all their recent and new stories, many of them previously unpublished, is 2016. Novellas, The Hidden Language Of Demons, The Seminar, His Other Son, and Convalescence have been published in 2002, 2003, 2013 and 2015 respectively. All their stories and novellas have been reprinted in eight uniform volumes through The Maynard Sims Library in 2014. An erotic romance novella, First Time Love, 2015 and First Time Arousal, 2016. Devil is a 2016 crime novella.. They worked as editors on the nine volumes of Darkness Rising anthologies. They co-edited and published F20 with The British Fantasy Society. As editors/publishers they ran Enigmatic Press in the UK, which produced Enigmatic Tales, and its sister titles. They have written essays. They still do commissioned editing projects, most recently Dead Water, and the Capital Crimes anthology for the ITW. They do ghost writing commissions. Email contact can be made at ms@micksims.f9.co.uk Find Maynard Sims on most social media - links are on the website

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