Author: Mark Timlin

THEN: Once upon a time in south London, three young men without a future decide to invent their own. The Sixties are starting to swing and Jimmy, J...

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...

Sharman's getting married, and down at the nick they're taking bets on how long it's going to last. His new wife, Dawn (the ex-stripper), isn't goi...

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 tha...

A recently-discovered, long-lost novel and short stories from the 90s featuring private eye Nick Sharman Follow Sharman as he patrols his seedily g...

In this shamelessly personal view of the 101 Best TV Crime Series, Mark Timlin has taken the straightforward approach of including any crime show t...

The Fourth Nick Sharman Thriller Nick Sharman is in traction, hospitalised for four months, and desperate for a distraction. Then Fiona arrives - a...

A recently-discovered, long-lost novel and short stories from the 90s featuring private eye Nick Sharman Follow Sharman as he patrols his seedily g...

Family trouble! Growing old quietly was never really an option for Nick Sharman. When he takes on a job for a prosperous Manchester businessman loo...

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 w...

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, ...

The Fifth Nick Sharman Thriller Disliked by Old Bill and villains alike, South London private eye Nick Sharman attracts trouble like the proverbial...

The First Nick Sharman Thriller Nick Sharman is nobody''s favourite person. Ex-cop, ex-doper, invalided out of the Met after a stray bullet in the ...

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...

The Third Nick Sharman Thriller It starts when Nick Sharman's eye is caught by a woman in a fashionable West End store. She is young beautiful and ...

The Sixth Nick Sharman Thriller For south London private detective Nick Sharman too many things have gone wrong lately. So when he's offered a job ...

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-...

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 ...