Penny Grubb

Surrey-based Damien Marks has no idea that his wife has employed a private investigator to check up on him. And she has no idea that a police team in York sees his inexplicable behaviour in a far more sinister light. He is the prime suspect in a murder enquiry. Detective Superintendent Martyn Webber is appalled to find private investigator Annie Raymond slap bang in the middle of his case. Not that he takes her seriously, but he has his own secrets that he can’t afford for her to find. Then the death of a peripheral witness turns the investigation on its head. Meanwhile, oblivious to the entanglements of the adult world around her, schoolgirl Olivia Lamb hugs to herself the secret of the ghost hands she saw in the surging waters of a York flash flood. --Amazon.com.

Buried Deep

Her man’s a convicted murderer, but Brittany Booth is determined to save him from incarceration in a secure mental hospital by flushing out the witness who failed to come forward. The murdered man’s lover and friend are equally determined to see his killer declared insane. Unluckily for private investigator Annie Raymond, both sides land in her lap. Annie has her own troubles. Her relationship with Scott has ended and he is engaged to local detective Kate Ronsen. Annie tired of Scott long ago, but Kate does not believe it and is in a position to make life very difficult for Annie. With a boss ready to grab credit for her work when it goes well and lay blame when it doesn’t, Kate’s antagonism could make things impossible. It’s a tangled nightmare, and the last thing Annie needs as she fights to find a way out of a stalled chapter in her own life.

The Jawbone Gang

Syrup Trap City by Penny Grubb is a crime novel featuring private investigator, Annie Raymond, and Detective Ayaan Ahmed. Annie is dismissive of her current assignment. These everyday cases are routine to her these days. She takes time out to visit old acquaintances, at the ramshackle local firm that she worked for years ago. Whilst sharing gossip and coffee with Pat Thompson and Barbara Caldwell, she keeps half an eye on the surveillance she is being paid to do, but her attention focuses on potential betrayal from much nearer home. What is her boss, the enigmatic Mrs Peters, up to now? Shadowing Mrs Peters is a far more tricky business, but while her attention is focused elsewhere, the apparently routine job takes a nasty turn. Annie has misinterpreted events badly and taken her eye off the ball. Suddenly, danger lurks round every corner and nothing is as it seems.

Syrup Trap City

"In rural East Yorkshire, young and untried private investigator Annie Raymond attempts to piece together clues in a man's apparently accidental death. Terry Martin's parents found a video they want Annie to look at. But its contents expose something both unexpected and horrifying--and involve Annie in a case that will make or break her fledgling career"--Back cover.

Like False Money

PI Annie Raymond's dreams of being a successful insurance fraud investigator start to look precarious when she is accused of corruption. She decides that it is time to come clean, both to her aunt who raised her as her own, and to her estranged father, a police sergeant in rural Argyle. However, neither wants to listen. Her father is swamped by a murder enquiry and her aunt is full of conspiracy theories and gossip. Suddenly, news from London has Annie racing south, but the case is not the lifeline she hoped for—or is it? After all, it wouldn't take much to fake the evidence and deliver the miracle. Annie knows she has to clear her head and concentrate, yet echoes from Scotland resonate, and when a witness in London provides a horrifying revelation, the loose ends in her case become entangled with events hundreds of miles north. All at once, Annie realizes that she must get back to her father before it is too late.

The Doll Makers

Armstrong A. Takang

Software systems now invade every area of daily living. Yet, we still struggle to build systems we can really rely on. If we want to work with software systems at any level, we need to get to grips with the way software evolves. This book will equip the reader with a sound understanding of maintenance and how it affects all levels of the software evolution process.

Concepts and Practice

Software Maintenance

Danuta Reah

Textbooks are tools of the trade for many groups, for example students, teachers and researchers. Many people may have the knowledge and ability to write a textbook, but the time consuming mechanics of the whole process deters them. The aim of this book is to take the pain out of the process. It takes the reader step-by-step from the initial shaping of the idea to a detailed plan of the manuscript and a full book proposal, all based around the reader's own particular area of expertise.

How to Establish Yourself as an Academic Author

Writing a Textbook

The first three books in Penny Grubb’s crime series about private investigator, Annie Raymond, have been re-edited and brought together in this fast-moving trilogy, Falling into Crime. - Like False Money (nominated for the John Creasy Crime Dagger) sees fledgling PI Annie Raymond arrive in Hull on the North-East coast of England to take a temporary job in a profession that has been her goal since childhood. Problems start with a boss who hadn’t wanted to hire her, a job she has no idea how to do, and a schoolgirl who is ready to blacken her name to save her own skin. Not only has Annie herself walked into a trap but her inexperience has also led a young girl into mortal danger. If she can’t find her way out of the tangle, it won’t be just her career that is over before it starts. - The Jawbone Gang sees Annie more settled – on the face of it. Her hard work has won her a place in a small agency where she develops her expertise and confidence. But her personal ambitions have stalled and as she plots to get herself back on track, a tangled case full of contradictions lands in her lap and threatens to sour her previously good relations with the local police. She used to be able to leave other people’s problems behind her when she closed the office door. But not this time. - The Doll Makers (winner of an international Crime Writers’ Association Dagger) sees Annie, now a seasoned investigator, working for a successful London-based agency. Not everything is going as well as it should, but it’s the tangle in her family life that’s at the forefront of Annie’s mind as she travels back to Argyll to see her father, unaware that she is stepping into a cataclysm that will change lives. Through it all she clings to her prized professionalism, until faced with a terrible choice; fake the evidence and wreck her prized professionalism or face the consequences to a loved one if she plays straight? Distracted, she takes her eye off the ball and misses vital evidence in a case she thought wasn’t her business. Someone is watching her closely, determined that evidence will never be delivered.

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