Jordan Lacey Books
Someone has to investigate the mean streets of Latching, West Sussex -- and that someone is ex-policewoman Jordan Lacey, now advertising her services as a private investigator and working out of a junk shop in the quiet part of town. But will there really be enough crime to keep her in business? It looks like there is when Lacey discovers the body of a dead nun in an abandoned hotel.
Another string of cases for PI Jordan Lacey… Once a formidable policewoman, Jordan Lacey now runs a knick-knack shop, selling curios and whatnot to make ends meet. And she’s also Latching’s only Private Investigator. It’s a quiet, seaside town so cases as of late have been small things that the police overlook – missing pets, for example. But in the space of a few days, Jordan’s cases have been a little more odd than usual. The WI won an award at a local show – in home catering. But a thief, not only stole the show-stopping wedding cake, but also trashed the tent, food and all. However, the lady who made the wedding cake, Mrs Fenwick, couldn’t care less about the cake. She wants Jordan to follow her husband – the local councillor Adrian Fenwick – as she’s sure that he’s having an affair. But soon Jordan starts to notice thousands of pounds being dumped into her bank account. She charges for her time but not that much. Not only that, but none of her cases are adding up –even the supposed cheating councillor is squeaky clean. Then one night, she wakes up to hear the blearing of sirens and the smell of smoke. Unable to resist her curiosity, she heads to the scene of a doused fire – and instead discovers a body. It’s Adrian Fenwick. And to Jordan’s utter horror, the police’s main suspect for the arson-murder is herself... Can she clear her name and solve the case for good? Wave and Die is a thrilling and suspenseful murder mystery. Praise for Wave and Die “An absolute treat of a novel… (the) story is clever and well-constructed, but it’s Lacey herself who makes the novel so special; she is truly a delightful creation.” - Booklist Starred Review Stella Whitelaw is a professional writer and journalist, with over 55 novels published as well as over 325 short stories in national women's magazines. She was Secretary of the Parliamentary Press Gallery at the House of Commons and lives in Surrey with six beautiful cats.
Private investigator Lacey Jordan may have taken on more than she can handle after she agrees to work a surveillance case, investigate a backhoe incident, and search for a robber, while also helping Christmas shoppers in her store.
The fourth in the much-acclaimed Jordan Lacey series Jordan Lacey, Latching's intrepid and unconventional P.I., has two new cases to solve: a paternity dispute and a weird cross-dressing mystery. Neither case is as simple as it seems and during her roller-coaster investigations, she unearths more than she expects. She becomes entangled in a ten-year-old unsolved murder and it doesn't help when she is held hostage by a bull mastiff, engulfed by a freak tidal wave and poisoned by some suspicious parsley. Her own emotional dramas escalate when Detective Sergeant Ben Evans talks her into a holiday and Detective Inspector James, the object of her unrequited love, has a fit of old-fashioned jealousy.
PI Jordan Lacey's next assignments have her up a tree carrying out nightly surveillance, and protecting a handsome comedian from a female stalker. When she accidentally unearths an international crime racket, the situation gets too dangerous, even for Jordan.
Jordan Lacy, Latching's zany private eye, is thrown in the deep end ? literally ? when fishing rods start disappearing from the pier. Next, stolen pedigree puppies start adding to her case load. But it all gets more serious when one of the anglers is found hanging in the bell tower of a church, his past life shrouded in mystery. Then a cache of diamonds go missing from a raided security box and a revengeful gang member is determined to find out where they are hidden. The personal stakes are upped as a series of planned road crashes shakes Jordan's sense of security. And when the love of her life, DI James, announces his transfer to Yorkshire, she knows she will have to claw her way back to sanity.
Jordan Lacey back by popular demandJordan Lacey has a back-to-front mystery to solve. The lovely Holly Broughton has been acquitted of trying to murder her husband, but she hires Jordan to find out who framed her and why. When Jordan's life is threatened on three separate occasions, she realizes that she may, for once, be on the right track. Jordan finds herself propelled towards a solution that is claustrophobic and totally unexpected.
The new Jordan Lacey mystery back by popular demand! - Jordan Lacey, Latching's zany but intrepid private eye, goes cruising to Norway as the undercover bodyguard of Joanna Carter, a woman who believes that her life is in danger. Then Joanna is murdered . . . Under suspicion for the crime, and hampered by storms, winds, and a cast of mysterious characters, can Jordan solve the mystery before it's too late?
Jordan Lacey, former policewoman-turned-private-investigator, needs work, so when dishy DCI James offers the job of guarding Maddy, unruly daughter of a famous jazz trumpeter, from a stalker, she accepts immediately and heads off to the festival in Dorset in her new sports car, the Wasp. But discovering DCI James’s cold case involves a victim the same age as Maddy, and from the same school, Jordan is sure there is a link. Events escalate, and Jordan must rely on her wits and training to keep Maddy safe. Once again she’s on the heels of a cold-blooded murderer and is unstoppable in her determination to chase the killer down.