1963. When a trawler makes dock with a body on ice, the coroner’s man is called in. His name . . . Jim Havelok.
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The redundant man. Jack Havelok palms off unemployment by kicking the grubby underbelly of his once great town. Books in the Jack Havelok series are available on Amazon. Click on the covers below to purchase.
Industrial espionage. Kidnap. County Lines. It used to be such a great town.
Green Ocean is in the grip of an epidemic. Contract after contract lost to local rivals. Jobs slashed on a monthly basis. Now the axe is coming down on Jack’s department, and if he loses his job he’ll have to tell Beth, and that’s not a conversation he’s ready for.
Simon Smith, local journalist, has an uncanny knack of knowing Green Ocean’s business before anyone else does. But where is his information coming from? To Jack, it’s obvious. Green Ocean has a Mole. Someone is getting rich at the cost of good people, and that doesn’t sit right with Jack.
Can one man make a difference? Jack believes so. But when Simon Smith disappears, so does Jack’s best (and only) lead. Suddenly he is drawn into the dangerous world of County Lines, and with Beth’s questions getting increasingly difficult to answer, it will take all of his deceptive ability to hold his marriage together and uncover the identity of the Mole before his time runs out.
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Jack’s back . . . in trouble.
When the County Line loses one of its couriers along with the valuable contents of a little green bag, it turns to Jack Havelok for help – and refusal is not an option. With little choice and and even fewer ideas, Jack follows a trail of dodgy leads through brothels, bad-tempered dogs and backyards, doing his best to navigate the narrow tracks between the Line and the law. It’s not as easy as it reads.
Meanwhile, Beth has decided they should move. She’s found her dream house, but when Jack turns up late to the viewing, it looks like that dream could be shattered. Beth’s resilience is wearing thin and Jack’s lives are running out faster than his redundancy money.
With everything in the balance, one of Jack’s leads throws up an opportune discovery; an item of jewellery that might just provide the solution to his mounting problems. But he’ll have to play the best game of his life to pull all the disparate threads together and tie them into one neat resolution.
Little Green Bag is the second book in the Jack Havelok Files, picking up where The Elusive Mole left off.
About the Author
E. S. Catley is the pen name of Einar Olgeirsson. He lives in North East Lincolnshire with his wife and cats. He graduated from Aberystwyth university (class of 2000) with an honours degree in History, and did a short stint as a teacher before returning home and falling into a job designing packaging for a local food company.
The Jack Havelok Files are inspired by the ghostly, shattered buildings of his home town’s once famous fishing industry. His short story Suns and Mothers was published by Big Finish in their anthology. Dr. Who: How the Doctor Changed my Life.
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