Gerald Hammond Books In Order

Keith Calder Books In Publication Order

  1. Dead Game (1979)
  2. The Reward Game (1980)
  3. The Revenge Game (1981)
  4. Fair Game (1982)
  5. The Game (1982)
  6. Cousin Once Removed (1984)
  7. Sauce for the Pigeon (1984)
  8. Pursuit of Arms (1985)
  9. Silver City Scandal (1986)
  10. The Executor (1986)
  11. The Worried Widow (1987)
  12. Adverse Report (1987)
  13. Stray Shot (1988)
  14. A Brace of Skeet (1989)
  15. Let Us Prey (1990)
  16. Home to Roost (1990)
  17. In Camera (1991)
  18. Snatch Crop (1993)
  19. Thin Air (1994)
  20. Hook or Crook (1995)
  21. Carriage of Justice (1996)
  22. Sink Or Swim (1997)
  23. Follow That Gun (1997)

Three Oaks Books In Publication Order

  1. Dog in the Dark (1989)
  2. Whose Dog Are You? (1991)
  3. Doghouse (1992)
  4. Give a Dog a Name (1992)
  5. The Curse of the Co*ckers (1994)
  6. Sting in the Tail (1994)
  7. Mad Dogs and Scotsmen (1995)
  8. Bloodlines (1996)
  9. Twice Bitten (1998)
  10. A Shocking Affair (1999)
  11. Dead Weight (2000)
  12. Illegal Tender (2001)

Honey Laird Books In Publication Order

  1. Cold Relations (2006)
  2. A Dead Question (2007)
  3. Loving Memory (2007)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Fred in Situ (1965)
  2. Loose Screw (1966)
  3. Mud in His Eye (1967)
  4. The Goods (1985)
  5. Last Rights (1986)
  6. A Very Wrong Number (1987)
  7. Doldrum (As: Dalby Holden) (1992)
  8. Cash and Carry (1992)
  9. Fine Tune (1998)
  10. A Running Jump (1999)
  11. Flamescape (1999)
  12. Into the Blue (2000)
  13. Grail for Sale (2001)
  14. Dogsbody (2002)
  15. The Dirty Dollar (2002)
  16. The Snatch (2003)
  17. Down the Garden Path (2003)
  18. The Hitch (2003)
  19. The Outpost (2004)
  20. Saving Grace (2004)
  21. Dead Letters (2005)
  22. Heirs and Graces (2005)
  23. Cold in the Heads (2006)
  24. On the Warpath (2006)
  25. Keeper Turned Poacher (2006)
  26. Waking Partners (2007)
  27. Hit and Run (2008)
  28. Crash (2008)
  29. Well and Good (2009)
  30. The Fingers of One Foot (2009)
  31. Silent Intruder (2010)
  32. A Dog’s Life (2011)
  33. With My Little Eye (2011)
  34. The Unkindest Cut (2012)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Language of Horse Racing (2000)

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Gerald Hammond Books Overview

In Camera

During a slow summer at the gunshop, Keith Calder begins interviewing a new job candidate, but a series of questions about the applicant’s references reveals a sinister past and an assassination plot.

Give a Dog a Name

During the Three Oaks dog championship in the Scottish Highlands, war hero and gun dog trainer John Cunningham notices evidence of abused dogs and must find the culprit when he realizes he has been framed for the dog beatings.

The Curse of the Co*ckers

A hit and run accident in the Scottish Highlands, which only a frightened cocker spaniel survives, followed by a bloody murder, leads dog breeder Captain John Cunningham to a showdown with a heartless psychopath when he investigates the case.

Sting in the Tail

The latest mystery in the John Cunningham series finds the amateur sleuth sniffing out trouble at the plush Three Oaks Kennel, where a cheerful springer spaniel is mysteriously wounded and an investigation uncovers fraud and murder.

Mad Dogs and Scotsmen

When Jove, a black Labrador, is stolen along with a shotgun and a mysterious briefcase, John Cunningham springs into action to find the culprit and get to the heart of the mystery.

Illegal Tender

It could happen to anyone. An email arrives with an air of authority and a carefully worded request for bank account information. One lapse of caution, and one click of the mouse. Suddenly, the recipient’s entire bank account is emptied. This is precisely what happens to Elizabeth Ilwand, heir to the Agrotechnics fortune a Scottish manufacturer of agricultural technology.A sum of 1.5 million disappears from her accounts when she unwittingly responds to a fraudulent email. Luckily, her trustee is Henry Kitts, friend and associate of the Three Oaks Kennel, board member of Agrotechnics, and sometime amateur sleuth. While Elizabeth searches for ways to recoup the gigantic loss, Henry investigates the email in the hope of tracking down the thief. But matters take a more chilling turn when Henry discovers the body of Maurice Cowieson, a local businessman indebted to Agrotechnics, who appears to have been killed in a car crash while on his way to discuss important matters with Elizabeth. Upon further examination, his injuries tell a much more insidious story…
. Once again, using a backdrop of game hunting, malt whiskey, and sporting dogs in the Scottish countryside, Gerald Hammond evokes the witty and enchanting panache that has become his signature over the years. AUTHORBIO: Gerald Hammond worked as an architect for thirty years, before taking retirement in 1982. He lives in Scotland, with his wife, and has three sons and five granddaughters. He spends his time shooting, fishing, and writing ‘Anything else I do reluctantly and under protest.’He is the author of over forty mystery novels the most recent being A Shocking Affair, Dogsbody, and Dead Weight. He currently writes three mystery series: one set in Three Oaks, one based around the gun expert Keith Calder, and one featuring the angler Walter James.

Cold Relations

Edinburgh’s gorgeous Detective Sergeant Honey Laird had finally cleared her overflowing desk and was looking forward to spending some time with her husband when an email from her old school friend provoked yet another difficult case. Honey soon finds herself trying to babysit her friend s ex husband Andrew: a trigger happy, former SAS officer with a temper, a head injury and a penchant for attractive women. ‘Cold Relations‘ wriggles through twist after turn and guarantees a slew of unforgettable characters led by the delightful Honeypot and her trusty crime solving labrador, Pippa.

A Dead Question

Two weeks away from giving birth, Detective Inspector Honey Laird is at a point when bending down is becoming increasingly difficult and straightening up again almost impossible, when her boss calls upon her to investigate Dr. McGordon…
her next door neighbor. On the outside, Dr. McGordon appears to be the perfect doctor, giving free services in poor areas, providing care in underdeveloped countries and even bringing patients to Britain at his own expense for special treatments. But when officers knock on his door, looking for witnesses to an accident, Dr. McGordon, panicky and pale, reveals a guilty conscience about something but refuses to say anything. While at first Honey’s husband thinks the case is a minor one, designed to keep Honey out of mischief, as she digs deeper it becomes clear that everything and everyone is not as it seems, that the what can be just as mysterious as the who and just as shocking.

Loving Memory

A photograph pictures more than just memories…
DI Honey Laird is enjoying maternity leave when her neighbour, Kate Ingliston, asks for help in tracking down a stolen camera, which contains some rather revealing pictures of her and her lover. Honey feels she has to help, but when the trail leads to the murky shores of the Glaswegian underworld, it seems that all those involved are in real danger…

Fine Tune

After her grandfather died, Jane Faraday was left with his TVR. Overcoming personal tragedy, she fast becomes a skilled racing driver. Her ability and beauty soon bring success and media coverage. But fame is a fickle and dangerous ally, and Jane has already made several enemies on the way up.

A Running Jump

Polly Turnbull is fed up with her mother’s succession of dubious lovers, and when the latest one shows more interest in the daughter than the mother, she decides enough is enough. But running away without money, prospects or a clear idea of what to do next, Polly soon finds herself in trouble. Fortuitously rescued by TV wrestler, Darryl Davidson, Polly helps him out in return by agreeing to work part time as a cleaner at his gym, gaining confidence, friendship and a sense of purpose at the same time. Then events take a turn for the worse…
An elderly man is brutally murdered in a nearby fiat. Polly witnesses a shadowy figure in the gymnasium late at night. And in recovering stolen money from a local thug, she unwittingly takes the one piece of property several people have already killed for…
and will again.

Into the Blue

Tony has been Amy’s best friend since childhood but has always hoped there might be something more between them. Amy looks set to succeed in everything she tries and Tony is jealous. It takes a potentially fatal accident for Tony to realize that Amy is the same girl he fell in love with as a child.

Grail for Sale

When Scottish landowner Jeremy Carpenter comes to the rescue of American Hazel Tripp, whose car has broken down, he little foresees the adventures their new relationship will lead him into. Hazel is a talented restorer of antiques, and Jeremy an expert on the legend of the Holy Grail. Both of them have good reason to bear a grudge against one Gordon McKennerty, a notorious local crook. Between them they pool their resources and their talents, and devise a scheme to ensure McKennerty’s come uppance once and for all.

The Dirty Dollar

Catapulted into the high octane world of the oil business, Jill must fight to survive…
Intelligent and attractive, young graduate Jill Allbright is finding it difficult to get a job in the male dominated world of engineering. In desperation, she takes up a position as late night cleaner in the local Aberdeen offices of global oil company, Oltech. Late one night she answers the phone whilst cleaning the Managing Director’s office, and suddenly finds herself thrust into the high powered, ruthless world of the oil business. She is recruited to uncover an insider plot to bring about the downfall of Oltech and all who work for it. In a search that leads her to Miami and the charms of the CEO’s son, Benjamin Hochmeister, it’s up to Jill to use her headstrong charms and courageous will to seek out the culprits and save the future of Oltech. In so doing, Jill is embroiled in a chain of events which will threaten to alter her life for good as well as for bad…

The Snatch

Two girls are kidnapped for ransom by a pair of desperate but naive builders. But the girls, who are just as anxious to leave home and begin to live their own lives, soon dominate the two men and set up a robbery of their own. When this happens to cut across a bigger enterprise by another gang, they win more than they bargained for…

Down the Garden Path

When May Forsyth goes to work as gardner at Cannaluke House, she doesn’t expect to find a dead body, and she certainly doesn’t expect to fall for the investigating officer, but as the enquiry develops, they get to know each other much better and buried secrets come to life.

The Hitch

A Charming mystery set in the Highlands of Scotland Superstar Mona Lisa plans to marry her film star fianci in style, but her emailed request for a quotation from Castle Angus falls into the hands of ex con Robin Dunwoodie and his daughter. They decide to rip off the star for what deposits they can get. When they find that they in turn have been set up, their only escape is to organize the wedding anyway. But the original instigator of the scam is not going to let it go at that, and the ceremony reaches a climax which is hilarious for those who are not directly threatened.

The Outpost

The illegitimate child of a regimental sergeant major and a NAAFI manageress, Hallelujah Brown named after her Jamaican grandmother grows up with the army, and so develops an intimate understanding of its ways, as well as a very thick skin. Meanwhile, a crisis threatens a small British military post in the tiny African state of Maveria. When Hallelujah, now with Intelligence, is despatched to evaluate the ageing commanding officer’s declining mental powers, events overtake the army’s plans, and she is forced to relieve him of his command and lead the defence of the post against the Liboonese army. Faced not just with superior numbers, but also with the hurdles the army presents to a mixed race female, can Hallelujah possibly win through?

Saving Grace

Agency nurse and physiotherapist Grace Gillespie is long overdue for a break. However, she finds herself unable to resist when she is offered work nursing a patient recovering from an accident, deputy Head of the local high school, Stuart Campbell. He lives near Dornoch, her home territory and birthplace. Grace looks forward to being close to family and on familiar ground; taking on the job seems a rather attractive prospect. But her patient’s case is not as straightforward as it seems. Stuart insists that he cannot remember his accident; it is assumed that he must have fallen off the roof of the school during a function there. Grace has plenty of experience of this kind of accident and knows that her patient s injuries don t match up with this what is he hiding? Who are his enemies? And why is he so afraid of being left alone in the house? Spurred by her growing attraction to her patient, Grace is determined to get answers to her questions. But as her investigations go on, it seems someone is desperate to stop her, no matter what it takes.

Dead Letters

Honoria Potterton Phipps is a dog lover. She is also the heiress to a vast fortune, but when her father threatened to cut her off unless she went to university, she took Criminology and never looked back. Now she finds herself embroiled in the close community of Newton Lauder, which is far from the idyllic rural village it seems and the only thing more worrying than the condition of her new Labrador, is the body hunched in a rowing boat, riddled with bullet wounds…
Solving a murder is hard enough when your superiors don t take you seriously because you re a woman, none of the locals will speak to an outsider and there are two men in your life, but it’s even harder with an ex guide dog to retrain and another to nurse through pregnancy. For D.S. Potterton Phipps, however, it may just be that her dog has a few leads of its own…

Heirs and Graces

Grace Gillespie is constantly assured that Duncan Cameron, her partner Stuart’s cantankerous uncle, was once a charming man, but old age seems to have withered whatever charms he may have had. Shortly before Grace and Stuart s wedding, they receive news that Duncan has suffered a stroke and requires constant care. So as not to miss out on her honeymoon on board a luxurious cruise liner, Grace arranges around the clock care, but it is not long before the unhappy couple are called home when the nurses threaten to walk out on the bitter old man. Just two days after Stuart and Grace arrive home Duncan dies. Suspicions concerning his death are soon roused however, when it is discovered that substantial withdrawals have been made from Duncan s account since the time of his death. Gerald Hammond s tale of intrigue sees the welcome return of Grace Gillespie featured in Saving Grace.

On the Warpath

A feisty veteran hero*ine faces one final battle Helen has always been a fighter. In the chaos of occupied France, she survived marauding German soldiers, the dangers of fighting for the Resistance and finally repatriation to Britain. In a stark post-war economy, she managed to carve out a career in journalism, rising to the heights of success. And when her divorced son left her holding the baby, it seemed like nothing she couldn?t handle. After a long and successful life, at eighty she is making attempts to subdue her energy and settle down to retirement. But when a con artist fixes on her beloved grandson David, then retirement will have to wait. Instead, it is the beginning of a journey into France, her old battlegrounds, and a quest for retribution. For Helen Mercier is no sweet little old lady. She has fought for justice before, and if the criminal thinks he can get away with insulting her and hers, he has a surprise coming to him…

Keeper Turned Poacher

A woman on the run faces a baffling mystery posed by her new lover Anxious the police will blame her for a violent crime she became entangled in, Joan formulates a plan. Being raised by a skilled poacher taught her plenty of tricks; a key to her lover’s unused country cottage is all she needs to lie low. The arrival of handsome gamekeeper Ken on the scene is a welcome surprise, but there’s speculation in the village about the disappearance of his wife. Could she really have been killed? And if so, by whom?

Waking Partners

Everyone has a motive…
When Aubrey Merryhill has a car accident and ends up in a coma, the running of his company pas*ses into the capable hands of his trusted assistant. But when the routine police investigation suggests an attempted murder, there are several potential suspects: an ambitious assistant, a disgruntled wife, a greedy landlord or perhaps a revenge fuelled employee…

Hit and Run

A new novel from this master story teller Luke Grant enjoys his comfortable life with his dog, his outdoor pursuits and his numerous female companions. But when the widowed wife of his grandson is badly injured in a Hit and Run accident, it is down to Luke or G.G. great granddad as hes known to take on looking after his great granddaughters and to try and find out who and why injured his granddaughter.

Crash

A new novel from this master story teller One beautiful Scottish spring day, Julian Custer comes across the devastating scene of a very recent car Crash. Only the passenger has survived: Delia Barrow is confused and badly injured; her name is all she can remember. It seems that Julian is all Delia has. Luckily, Julian is a solicitor, and so begins a voyage of discovery as they try to discover the identity of the passengers in the missing car…

Well and Good

Since the death of their mother in a hit and run accident, Violet and Jane have been living with Luke Grant, their great grandfather and his partner Helena. One evening Violets boyfriend goes missing and is finally found badly injured and unconscious. The police investigation follows the suspects to the island of Madeira and uncovers a bizarre and unscrupulous scam…

The Fingers of One Foot

A new novel from this master storyteller In a gentle village on the Scottish borders, Roland Fox, a young aspiring writer, moves in next door to the equally young and attractive Jane Highsmith, a newly qualified veterinary surgeon. But the growing attraction between them is muted by the recent and mysterious death of her beloved great grandfather. There are all the ingredients present for a traditional village mystery in true Gerald Hammond style and with his usual Scottish flavour.

Silent Intruder

Who d break in and leave the house untouched? When Michael and Hilda return from holiday to find two police officers awaiting them, a chaotic series of events ensues. The police have had an anonymous tip off about child po*rnography being stored on Michael’s computer. It s easy to prove his innocence, but who would do such a thing and why? At the same time it becomes clear that someone was living in the cottage while they were away, and may still be returning. Soon, they decide to take action of their own, with devastating consequences…

A Dog’s Life

A new mystery from a respected author Novelist Tim Russell is out walking his dog one morning when he comes across a young dishevelled woman, camping out in the woods. Tim takes pity on her and offers her shelter, and Ann soon proves herself to be good company. But suddenly, one afternoon while gardening, Tim is brutally attacked. As Ann’s relatives start coming out of the woodwork, Tim and Ann wonder if they ve found the motivation for the attack after all. But then a local man is murdered…

The Language of Horse Racing

In dictionary form but offering much more than dictionary definitions, The Language of Horse Racing presents a guide to the history, development and usage of words and phrases employed on the racecourse, by those who train and look after horses, those who ride them, and those who lose their money betting on them. Here the reader will discover exactly what ‘the distance’ is, and why it is so called; what the ‘cap’ was in ‘handicap’; what relation the ‘wild goose chase’ had to the ‘steeple chase’; what is ‘dead’ about a ‘dead heat’; and what the differences are between ‘getting in’, ‘getting on’, ‘getting out’ and ‘getting up’. The Language of Horse Racing also reveals the language of the racecourse, including the bizarre vocabulary of betting, from the ‘betting boots’ that early bookies put on, to the ‘faces’, ‘heads’, ‘sharks’ and ‘sharps’ who feed off the ‘buzz’ and ‘whisper’ that go round the ring.

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