


Books in series

#1
Hamelin's Child
2011
Michael Redford died on his seventeenth birthday – the night Eddie picked him up off the street, shot him full of heroin and assaulted him.
Now he’s Mikey and he works for Joss. With streaked blond hair and a cute smile, he sleeps by day and services clients at night. Sometimes he remembers his old life, but with what he’s become now, he knows there is no return to his comfortable middle-class background.
Then he makes a friend in Lee. A child of the streets, Lee demands more from friendship than Mikey is prepared to give. But the police are closing in on them now and Mikey’s not sure anymore who he really is – streetwise Mikey or plain Michael Redford.
Hamelin’s Child was long-listed in the UK Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award. A thriller set in the seedy world of London's drug rings, this book contains strong scenes and adult material.
(approx 85,000 word novel)

#2
Paying The Piper
2013
Michael is piecing his life back together after his time spent as a rent boy. But it's hard and although he's been clean of drugs for months, the nightmares are still too real and he can't come to terms with Lee's death and Eddie's impending trial.
Sometimes other people's troubles can seem easier to deal with. When Michael meets Amanda at the cashpoint, it's a chance to focus on someone other than himself, and finding Amanda's missing husband and baby may just be his salvation.
But the shadows of his past won't let him go. The bank account they've set up for him is full of easy cash and Eddie's old boss Carl can help Amanda. And suddenly Michael is in deeper than he ever imagined possible.
This psychological thriller is a sequel, set six months after the events in Hamelin's Child and contains adult material.
(approx 86,000 word novel)

#4
Rat's Tale
2014
Lenny's turned his back on the past. In return for police protection and a lighter sentence, he's grassed up his old gangland boss and he's hoping that eventually he'll be free to start a new life with Amanda.
But the past isn't giving up on him yet. New man on the block Mick Carlotti fancies himself as a crime lord - he doesn't have the contacts or the business acumen, but he knows a man who does. He also knows exactly how to get Lenny to play ball.
Caught between Carlotti's rock and the hard place of a life sentence for a murder he didn't commit, Lenny's running out of choices. Turning his life around is going to be a lot harder than he thinks.
This thriller is set just after events in Calling the Tune and contains adult material.

#5
Ratline
2014
The DI handling Lenny’s trial seems to think he can control the rest of Lenny’s life too. He’s made him an offer – help the police pull in one of London’s biggest criminals and there might be a way to stay out of prison. Lenny knows that going after Jackson isn’t going to be easy. And finding a way back into his old life will be near-impossible. After putting his gangland boss behind bars, it looks like everybody is out to get him, but at least there’s the novelty of having the cops on his side for once. Jackson and Lenny have history between them, however, and in order to lure Jackson, Lenny has to dig deep into his own past and uncover secrets he’d thought were buried forever. And the chain of evidence he needs to bring Jackson down might just be the noose around his own neck. This thriller is set a few months after Rat's Tale and contains adult material. (approx 55,000 word novella)
Authors

Debbie Bennett
Author · 3 books
I tell lies and make things up. Sometimes people even pay me for it.
D.J. Bennett
Author · 4 books
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