Sam Turner Books In Order
- Poet in the Gutter (1995)
- Death Minus Zero (1996)
- King of the Streets (1998)
- Walking with Ghosts (1999)
- Shooting in the Dark (2001)
- The Meanest Flood (2003)
Chinese Girl Books In Order
- The Chinese Girl (2000)
- White Skin Man (2004)
Novels
- Winged with Death (2009)
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John Baker Books Overview
King of the Streets
What with tracking her husband’s killer for the woman from Scottish Widows, and investigating the death of a teenage runaway, Sam Turner has enough on his plate. Without a mentally defective King Kong lookalike trashing his office and trying to throw him in the river, car and all. And he could certainly do without Frank Taylor, a bad news gang boss from Manchester with some very nasty habits and even nastier tastes…
‘John Baker brings heart, invention and wit to the business of adapting the tough guy novel to the realities of contemporary Britain…
King of the Streets will depress the local tourist board but bring cheer to crime and mystery readers’ Ian Ousby, Independent on Sunday
Shooting in the Dark
Angeles Falco seemed like something straight from a fifties detective movie when she walked into Sam Turner’s office – beautiful, dark and enigmatic, but made strangely vulnerable by her damaged eyesight. All she would say was that she and her sister were being followed, but by whom and for what purpose she didn’t know. She feared for their lives. Sam was only too happy to help this gorgeous client – but when her sister turns up brutally murdered on a deserted hillside and he starts to feel a growing affection for Angeles, the case seems to be getting beyond even his world-weary experience. And soon he finds himself up against a serial killer whose dark fantasies will try to destroy Sam’s attempt at a new life…
The Meanest Flood
Sam Turner is doing his best to bury his past, but it’s hard when his mistakes keep coming back to haunt him. First his ex wife is brutally murdered in her own home. Then, when another of Sam s exes is murdered, the police are convinced they need look no further to solve the crime. Sam goes on the run, dodging not only the police, but the real killer, and finds himself embroiled in a terrifying mystery where he s both fugitive and detective. To protect the women who used to love him, he must anticipate the moves of a murderer and the killer shows no sign of being satisfied.
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