Missing Persons
By David Barry
ISBN: 9781837911233
A young man’s drinking binge sets in motion a sequence of violent and lethal crimes, leading to a suicide verdict that DI Harry Lambert suspects is more likely to be foul play.
A young man’s drinking binge sets in motion a sequence of violent and lethal crimes, leading to a suicide verdict that DI Harry Lambert suspects is more likely to be foul play. Continuing his own investigations, the Swansea detective is soon warned off the case by SOCA… but leaving things be is impossible when his team begin to find links between the suicide and a different murder case they are looking into.
Events take a bizarre turn when three petty criminals become involved in a deadly game of vengeance, and Lambert’s prime suspect disappears, along with a respectable young man who surely can’t be away on business as is claimed.
When Lambert eventually discovers the whereabouts of the missing persons, he knows the game will become even more violent, but should he trust his own instincts that there is an even greater treachery afoot?
About the Author
David Barry is the pseudonym of Meurig Jones, and he was born in Bangor, North Wales. He attended Corona Academy Stage School in Chiswick, London, from the age of 12. As a child actor he worked with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in “Titus Andronicus”, touring Europe in 1957. Also, as a teenager, filmed with Tyrone Power, and worked on stage with Paul Scofield. In his early 20s he played Frankie Abbott in “Please, Sir!” and “Fenn Street Gang”, at which time he wrote his first broadcast script. He also wrote “Keep It in The Family” for Thames TV (3 episodes). His novels include “Each Man Kills”, “Willie the Actor”, “The Ice Cream Time Machine”, “Careless Talk”, “More Careless Talk”, “Muscle”, “A Deadly Diversion” and Walking Shadows”. He has also published a book of short stories “Tales from Soho”.
His favourite authors are Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck and many thriller writers, including Michael Connelly, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Raymond Chandler, James Lee Burke.