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In over twenty years as an author, Mark Timlin has written some thirty novels under many different names, including best selling books as Lee Martin, innumerable short stories, an anthology and numerous articles on diverse subjects for various newspapers and magazines.
Could it be the end for Sharman? For seven years, ex-cop Nick Sharman has lived in ‘exile’ on a Caribbean island with no UK extradition treaty – his life of luxury funded by the proceeds of a bank robbery where he was the last man standing. Then a phone call out of the blue from London changes everything. The voice from the past belongs…
It’s the oldest story in the world: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. But when the boy is Nick Sharman, and the girl has a violent ex-jailbird as an old boyfriend, who promises extreme retribution on anyone who gets involved with her, it’s never going to be that simple….
Nick Sharman’s daughter Judith has returned to Scotland and nothing will tempt him back into the business again… unless it’s Ray Miller. Miller, a Lottery rollover double-jackpot winner, wants to find the wife who left him. This should be a simple task for Sharman, giving him easy money and evidence for Judith that he’s trying to get…
Family trouble! Growing old quietly was never really an option for Nick Sharman. When he takes on a job for a prosperous Manchester businessman looking for his runaway teenage daughter, Meena, he should, perhaps, have known better….
Sharman’s Christmas with his daughter Judith starts with the worst of gifts: news that his ex-wife, Laura, her new husband and their baby son have been killed in a bomb explosion on a plane……
They had so much on Sharman that he couldn’t move without their say-so. Stuff he’d done for himself, and things he’d done for them, too. His name was ruined on both sides of the fence. So they came up with one more job, the big one. When he found out they’d snared him in a honey trap, he was ready to kill……
Harry Stonehouse had been a cop, a good one – and straight, unlike Nick Sharman. After taking early retirement he’d landed a job at a security firm. Now he’s dead, and his wife wants Nick to find out who killed him and why….
Nick Sharman – at last – is living a life of married bliss with his new partner (and ex-stripper) Dawn. The bad boy has settled down, and the booze and the drugs and the guns are but a happy memory – unlike his ex-wife Laura, now married to respectability. Laura’s quite capable of shattering the idyll, but this time it’s serious – their…
When a police officer’s daughter was found raped and murdered, Sailor Grant, the local nonce, was sent down. Sharman always had his doubts, but that part of his life is over. Now, Sailor is out of prison and keeps phoning Sharman to help him get justice, but Nick wants to be left alone. When Sailor is found dead and Sharman is half…
Sharman’s getting married, and down at the nick they’re taking bets on how long it’s going to last. He’s received a call from an American record company who have a letter from a rock star who’s been dead for 20 years – and wants his royalties……
Life as a private detective has proved too much for Nick Sharman, and when a chance run-in with a couple of young thugs secures him a job as a part-time barman, it looks as if he’s found a promising new occupation. Unfortunately the drug squad has other plans…..
Working in a bar has proved too dangerous for Nick Sharman, so he’s back in the private investigation game……
Who massacred a carpet dealer’s entire family? The police have given up on solving the case, but Sharman finds some stones have been left unturned….
For south London private detective Nick Sharman too many things have gone wrong lately. So when he’s offered a job up west, with all the luxury of a posh Knightsbridge hotel chucked in, he doesn’t refuse….
Nick Sharman is in traction, hospitalised for four months, and desperate for a distraction. Then Fiona arrives – a topless model for the tabloids who bullies him into convalescing in her flat in Camberwell……
It starts when Nick Sharman’s eye is caught by a woman in a fashionable West End store. She is young beautiful and classy. And she is shoplifting….
When you’re an ex-cop and an ex-doper scratching a living as a private investigator in the unromantic streets of south London, you take any work you can get. Even a dreary little debt collection job for some toe-rag of a used-car dealer….
Nick Sharman is nobody’s favourite person. Ex-cop, ex-doper, invalided out of the Met after a stray bullet in the foot saved him from an investigation into the missing evidence from a drugs haul. The cops don’t like him. The villains don’t like him. Sharman is unemployable. So he’s hired himself an office and set up shop as a private…
In this shamelessly personal view of the 101 Best TV Crime Series, Mark Timlin has taken the straightforward approach of including any crime show that he’s enjoyed since he was small….