P.F. Ford

Serious international crime operations thrive in big cities. They don’t occur in tinpot little towns like Llangwelli. Or do they? It’s late evening when the Regional Control Centre receives a mysterious 999 call. No one speaks, but the call location is somewhere along a narrow, hardly used...

Detective Norman is out of retirement and back on the beat in a rainy Welsh seaside town. Llangwelli might be short on sunshine, but it’s certainly not short on murders . . . Norman is a bit old-fashioned, but he’s also willing to learn from his band of misfit recruits.

Meet Detectives Slater and Norman, an unlikely crime-solving duo. They might seem like they have nothing in common, except a love of doughnuts and banter. But they never give up on a case, no matter how tough things get.

Two detectives made into scapegoats for other people's failings get one last chance in a small Hampshire town. But no matter how tough things get, they never lose their sense of humour.