New Brighton Rock

Summer 1951. A young boy fishes something sinister out of a river. A ship enters Liverpool carrying a stoker who is n ot who he claims to be. In the fairground, an odd character looking like a down-at-heel Marlene Deitrich, cranks a barrel organ and sings 'Mack the Knife' in a cracked voice and sheds a tear fro her long-dead brother.

DI Charles Vignoles and wife Anna are holidaying in the seaside resort of New Brighton, but all is not well in their boarding house. A fellow guest is missing - and soon they are drawn into a deepening mystery. What does the missing man know about a violent robbery at Bodston station that left a man dead? Did he know too much?

Charles and Anna's quest to discover the truth takes them onto Liverpool's Overhead Railway and acorss the electrified railway lines of Wirral. But as the sun beats down on sea and sand, there are sinister and violent men moving through the holiday crowds...

Stephen Done was born on 3rd August 1960. On his eight birthday he declared he wanted to become the driver of a steam engine. Three days later the very last steam locomotive ran in revenue service on British Railways. 

A museum curator by profession, Stephen worked at the (then) Bristol Industrial Museum and in Merthyr Tydfil before creating from scratch the Liverpool Football Club museum & Stadium Tour, and building the LFC historical photographjic archive, at Anfield. After 27 years at Anfield he retired in 2024. 

Apart from writing the Inspector Vignoles Mysteries, he builds model railways, is abird watcher, gardener, plays a Telecaster guitar and likes a fine English ale...