Butcher Baker Banker

A cold winter’s night in Croydon and pensioner Nelly Raven lies dead and naked on the floor of her living room. The scene bears all the hallmarks of a burglary gone wrong.

It’s just the beginning.

Ron Butcher rose to the top of London’s gangland by “fixing things”. But are his extensive crooked connections of use when death knocks at his own family’s door?

Baker Kit Morris will do anything to keep his family business alive. Desperate for cash, he hatches a risky plan that lands him in trouble. As he struggles to stay out of prison, he forges an unlikely friendship with an aging local thug.

And then there’s the Banker, Lee Meady, a man with personal problems of his own.

Just how does it all fit together?

As DC Jack Rutherford and DS Amanda Lacey uncover the facts surrounding the case, the harrowing truth of the killer’s identity leaves Jack wondering where the human race went so badly wrong.

Butcher Baker Banker is the seventh brilliant and captivating novel featuring DC Jack Rutherford and DS Amanda Lacey by master storyteller Linda Coles. “Move over Agatha Christie, there’s a new dame in town.”

Author Biography

Hi, I’m Linda Coles and I write British crime novels. #GreatBritishCrime. #BritishCrimeDrama I developed the DC Jack Rutherford and DS Amanda Lacey series back in 2017 and have watched them and their colleagues grow over time, via their work as well as their personal lives. Jack, is a bit of a ‘Maigret’, smart and soft-hearted. And as for Amanda? Maybe a younger ‘Vera’, dedicated, honourable and savvy. Unlike Vera, she wears well-polished Dr. Martens boots with her sensible work suit. That should tell you something of her nature. Together the duo work on crimes in Croydon, England, usually featuring ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. I do like to give them modern cases to solve, quite often involving technology or the dark web for a bit of extra intrigue. My other series features newly licensed Private Investigator Chrissy Livingstone who is sassy, the polar opposite of her high maintenance sister Julie, and happy to get her hands dirty. And she does! I hope you get to know and love the characters as much as I do. My outdoor office is next to my vegetable patch in the north island of New Zealand where I now call home. My ‘kids’ consist of 6 beautiful goats, 2 cats and my husband. If you enjoy my stories, please do take a moment to write a review, they really do matter.