by Ted Tayler
The Freeman Files Series
Fatal Decision
Gus Freeman is a retired Detective Inspector who has spent the past three years alone.
Freeman’s wife, Tess, died from a brain aneurysm six months to the day after retirement. He is still coming to terms with his enforced solitary existence.
His old boss wants Gus to head up a Crime Review Team investigating cold cases.
Gus can't resist the chance to enter the fray for one last hurrah.
"It's a mystery that will keep you wondering, with the usual wide array of characters to enjoy that give Tayler's novels their stamp."
Last Orders
A newly-formed Crime Review Team is investigating cold cases that defied their colleagues. Austerity cuts mean that Gus Freeman only has a team of three to assist him.
‘Last Orders’ follows Trudi Villiers' case, a 26-year old barmaid murdered as she walked home from the Ring O’Bells pub in October 2003. Trudi may have been a good-time girl with a string of lovers, but she was someone’s daughter, and Gus wants his team to find the truth about what happened to her on that fateful night.
Pressure Point
Laura Mallinder left home for work on Sunday, 12th June 2011. She walked to ‘Gentle Touch’, a massage parlour in Broadgreen, Swindon. Her boss, Maggie Monk, discovered her body later that evening. Laura, twenty-seven years old, sustained fatal stab wounds to her back.
Gus Freeman’s Crime Review Team has two successful cold case investigations behind them. Will it be the third time lucky? The victim’s profession might make it hard to find someone to speak out. ‘Pressure Point’ has a wide array of characters and offers action, romance, humour and drama.
Deadly Formula
Dr Ian McGuire, a research scientist, was shot dead in his kitchen in 2004
The original investigation found no motive, no leads, and no suspects
Gus Freeman and his Crime Review Team have a tough cold case to solve
In this fourth book in the series, the case becomes the least of their worries.
Final Deal
Will the frantic search for DI Suzie Ferris and her kidnapper have a successful outcome? Can Gus end the careers of the corrupt senior officers behind her disappearance? Despite everything, the Crime Review Team has another cold case to unravel.
Dennis Gates was shot dead in August 2010. His killer was never found. The team members have their own crises to face. Will they buckle under the pressure?
Final Deal has two stories woven together to produce a gripping climax, not to miss.
Barking Mad
Why did pet shop owner Mark Malone die in a hail of bullets in May 2015?
Gus and the Crime Review Team face many questions but have few answers.
Killer Ricky Gardiner is on the run from the police. Who will catch up with him first?
Tragedy and triumph intertwine in another gripping instalment in The Freeman Files
Barking Mad has a variety of characters and story threads that keep you turning pages.
Creature Discomforts
A lone sniper killed Grant Burnside, the leader of a violent gang, in May 2014.
Four years later, Gus Freeman and his team reviewed a case that refused to give up any answers.
Why does every stone they turn over lead to the solving of unrelated crimes?
The Burnside family prides itself on being impregnable. Nobody speaks out against them and lives.
Gus keeps digging away at the foundations until the fortress topples like a house of cards. But will Gus find Grant Burnside’s killer?
Silent Terror
A brutal murder occurred at a remote bungalow in January 2013
Gus Freeman reviews the murder of Ursula Wakeley, a seventy-eight-year-old spinster
Why did the former librarian become a victim? Was it a robbery or something more sinister?
Alex Hardy returns to the fold, and new girl Blessing Umeh joins the Crime Review Team
With a strong cast of characters, this gripping series provides more twists than a corkscrew
Night Train
Ivan Kendall died in a station toilet eighty miles from home in March 2014
Why did the quiet family man travel to Westbury from South Wales so late at night?
The Crime Review Team tackle two cold cases in this intriguing ninth title in the series
The team closes in on Grant Burnside’s assassin an old adversary stands in their way
Suzie Ferris moves in with Gus, and Lydia Logan Barre finds her father.
“It maintains your interest throughout and would make a great TV series.”
“I enjoyed watching the characters develop and the attention to detail.”
All Things Bright
Stacey Read was thirteen and a half when she disappeared
Police found Stacey's body in the canal ten days later
Gus Freeman and his team are reviewing the unsolved case
All things bright and beautiful. Nothing is ever what it seems
Gus has his work cut out in this tenth cold case as the real horror gets revealed
"Stories of cooperation, great investigative skills and an ex-detective with a knack for putting clues together to find the culprit.”
Buried Secrets
Alan Duncan met Maddy Mills at a party. They fell in love and moved in together.
What led to Alan’s murder as he went on his weekly run four years later?
Gus Freeman suspects that both Alan and Maddy were hiding from someone
This intriguing and complex case takes all Gus’s skill to unravel
Life is never dull for Gus, his team, and the other characters in his life
“Well-drawn characters and a story that lays out clearly what at first seems implausible.”
