“Grave Expectations” – Out now!

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Posted on January 17, 2025 by Rob Johnson

Book 3 in the Cremains comedy caper series is available now as an e-book and paperback from Amazon.

Following on from The Undertaking (the second book in the Cremains comedy caper series), Grave Expectations picks up the story of Max, Alan and Scratch and their struggling undertaker business.

Once again on the brink of financial disaster, along comes a woman who Max met very briefly in Cremains — a dominatrix with a supposedly foolproof plan to rob a bank.

What they hadn’t bargained for, though, was that the bank job was just the beginning of a catastrophic series of events including blackmail, betrayal, murder and an unwelcome brush with organised crime.

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New novel out now – ‘The Undertaking’

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Rob Johnson

Book 2 in the Cremains comedy caper series is available now as an e-book and paperback from Amazon.

“If business didn’t pick up soon, we’d be staring into the abyss of what economists might call ‘totally screwed’.”

But as chance would have it, Max Dempsey and Partners: Funeral Directors are about to be saved from financial ruin by a mysterious stranger with a wad of cash. It was the first time they’d been asked to collect a body from France, but what could possibly go wrong?

For a start, the body in question isn’t at all what they’d been expecting, and all of a sudden Max and his partners find themselves catapulted into a world of espionage, blackmail, kidnapping, double-dealing and Russian assassins.

The name’s Dempsey. Max Dempsey. Shaken, stirred and totally freaked out.

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‘Dishing the Dirt’ – New novel coming soon

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Rob Johnson

‘Dishing the Dirt’ is the third book in the ‘Lifting the Lid’ series. Available for pre-order from Sunday 18th April

It’s been quite a while since ‘Heads You Lose’, the second book in the ‘Lifting the Lid’ series, so at long last Book 3 is now ready for publication. Trevor and Sandra are still in Greece, running Marcus Ingleby’s taverna, but also doing a bit of detective work on the side.

Perhaps not surprisingly, this leads them into all kinds of trouble, including blackmail, kidnapping and murder, which teaches them the valuable lesson that careless talk costs lives – and with zero chance of a refund.

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‘Quest for the Holey Snail’

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Rob Johnson

When Horace Tweed places an advertisement in a national and moderately well respected periodical, the last thing he expects is to be commissioned to travel back through time in search of the long extinct Holey Snail.

Meanwhile, Detective Chief Inspector Harper Collins has her hands full trying to track down a secret order of monks whom she suspects of committing a series of murders – the same monks who are determined to thwart Horace in his…

…’Quest for the Holey Snail’ – my new novel, coming soon(ish).