NEPTUNE KING - THE GREATEST DETECTIVE SINCE
SHERLOCK HOLMES!
OVERVIEW: The Neptune King books are a detective series set in London in the 1960's, back when detectives still had to rely on their brains rather than forensics. Neptune King is a 26 year old shy, unassuming, nondescript ex Oxford Professor with a secret desire to be a detective just like Sherlock Holmes. When his aunt dies and leaves him her fortune, he finally has the opportunity to follow his dream. He starts his own detective agency and hires a hunky extremely handsome 21 year old Australian called Shark Johnson - a young man with a checkered past, a variety of experience, and with a penchant for a pretty face. Neither are experienced in police work but both are keen to learn on the job. As business improves, Shark convinces him to hire a secretary - a big step for Neptune as he is extremely shy around women. He's also worried that if he hires someone attractive, Shark won't be able to concentrate on his job. Rejecting one applicant after another, he finally settles on a young woman fresh from the country - an ex farm girl who recently completed a secretarial course and on her own after the death of her parents and the loss of their farm and desperately in need of a job. That she looks rather plain and unfashionable is in her favor as Neptune doesn't feel threatened by her and hires her on the spot - little realizing that this decision will change his life. The three of them, Neptune, Shark and Rachel soon become firm friends and an unbeatable team solving cases from the simple to the extraordinary. From finding a missing goat to stopping a cannibal who is terrorizing London. As their experience grows, so does their reputation as super sleuths.
Start with the first book, Introducing Neptune King and follow their progress from beginners to experts; become a part of their lives, their loves, their triumphs and their failures. There has never been a more lovable trio of characters. Every book has one thing in common, they leave you feeling good and eager to move on to the next adventure.
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SHERLOCK HOLMES!
OVERVIEW: The Neptune King books are a detective series set in London in the 1960's, back when detectives still had to rely on their brains rather than forensics. Neptune King is a 26 year old shy, unassuming, nondescript ex Oxford Professor with a secret desire to be a detective just like Sherlock Holmes. When his aunt dies and leaves him her fortune, he finally has the opportunity to follow his dream. He starts his own detective agency and hires a hunky extremely handsome 21 year old Australian called Shark Johnson - a young man with a checkered past, a variety of experience, and with a penchant for a pretty face. Neither are experienced in police work but both are keen to learn on the job. As business improves, Shark convinces him to hire a secretary - a big step for Neptune as he is extremely shy around women. He's also worried that if he hires someone attractive, Shark won't be able to concentrate on his job. Rejecting one applicant after another, he finally settles on a young woman fresh from the country - an ex farm girl who recently completed a secretarial course and on her own after the death of her parents and the loss of their farm and desperately in need of a job. That she looks rather plain and unfashionable is in her favor as Neptune doesn't feel threatened by her and hires her on the spot - little realizing that this decision will change his life. The three of them, Neptune, Shark and Rachel soon become firm friends and an unbeatable team solving cases from the simple to the extraordinary. From finding a missing goat to stopping a cannibal who is terrorizing London. As their experience grows, so does their reputation as super sleuths.
Start with the first book, Introducing Neptune King and follow their progress from beginners to experts; become a part of their lives, their loves, their triumphs and their failures. There has never been a more lovable trio of characters. Every book has one thing in common, they leave you feeling good and eager to move on to the next adventure.
Check out the video and the books below. Get the ebook version for just $2.99. Don't delay: Get Addicted to Neptune.
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REVIEW: 5/5: A surprisingly good and addictive read this one. Bring on Shark and Neptune. November 15, 2013 By Hollobrain
A surprisingly good and addictive read this one. I bought it looking for something new to read and to my surprise I loved it. This author has a real talent for characterization and brings them to life on the page. You just can't help falling for Neptune, Shark and Rachel as the 3 beginners in crime detection work together to form a successful detective Agency. Neptune's an ex oxford professor with a talent for deduction. Shark is an ex biker, ex hardcase and one hundred percent Australian hunk, while Rachel goes from being a gauche country bumpkin to a swish city slicker. As they become more confident in their work, they become closer as friends and Neptune discovers Rachel's assets - her red hair and big green eyes. This is a serial. This is the first in the series and I am definitely going to buy more. I'm hooked. 5/5: A rival for Sherlock Holmes! November 16, 2013 by Cat Sinclair Neptune King's the new detective in town and he's a rival for Sherlock Holmes. He practices the art of detection and his goal is to be better than Holmes. After solving the murder of a fellow professor, he comes into an inheritance and decides to quit teaching and start his own detective agency. His observation and deductive skills come in use, while his off-sider, Australian, Shark Johnson brings his courage and strength to the mix and the secretary Rachel, proves she's no slouch when it comes to detecting either. I loved these characters and I loved the stories. The winning recipe in this book is the characters and the writer's ability to bring them to life. They feel like real people and you're soon tuning in for the next episode in this detective serial soap opera. Got the next book on order already. $2.99
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Book 1: Introducing Neptune King 502 Pages
This is the first book in the Neptune King series set in London in the 1960’s. Neptune is a shy, introverted young Oxford professor who has always had difficulty fitting in. First as an under aged university student, then as the youngest professor on campus. His only solace is in his dream to become a detective as good as if not better than Sherlock Holmes. When Professor Muggins is found at the foot of the stairs with his neck broken, everyone assumes it is an accident. Neptune believes otherwise and sets out to find the murderer. Successful in proving his case, his day gets even better when he learns he is his wealthy aunt’s beneficiary. Now having enough money to take a risk, he quits teaching and starts his own detective agency. He hires a young handsome Australian hunk named Shark Johnson as his assistant and is ready for business. With effort Shark finally convinces Neptune to hire a secretary, which he does reluctantly as he is rather intimidated by women. Fortunately for him one applicant is a young ex farm girl out of her depth in the big city. She seems more timid than him, so he hires her on the spot. Though different in background and temperaments the three soon become firm friends and, with each successive case, gain experience as detectives. From taxidermied stepmothers to German spies to the cut throat world of ballroom dancing, these three tackle them all with the aplomb of professionals. Delightful characters that are sure to win you over, and highly addictive. You can’t just stop at one Neptune book: once you start reading you will want to keep going.
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Book 2: The Casebook Of Neptune King. 374 pages
It starts with our heroes, Neptune King and Shark Johnson starting the New Year full of optimism at the success of King’s Investigations. Once again the team tackles a variety of cases with Shark complicating matters by risking his and the agency’s reputation by stepping over the line of the Agent-Client relationship during his body guarding of their first client, the volatile Dr. Valerie Henderson, who is being threatened by an anonymous letter writer in The Desperate Doctor. Shark finds the good doctor very hard to resist despite their age differences.
Neptune’s detective skills are challenged in The Perfect Murder, where a woman with an unusual medical condition dies of presumed of natural causes. He suspects the husband, only to prove him guilty of a different murder. As always he gets there in the end, catching the real killer whose greed was their downfall. As a side bar he encounters The Scourge of London, a serial killer murdering young women with Rachel as his next target when he drops Rachel off home after a date. The next client to walk through their door captures their interest immediately as he dramatically announces that he fears he is engaged to The Angel of Death. This was the name dubbed on the unfortunate Lucy Hancock, a young Irish girl accused of murdering her entire family and fleeing Dublin. When their client is also poisoned, things look grim for Lucy. Is she the angel of death, and if she is who’s next? |
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Book 3: The Adventures of Neptune King. 290 pages
Neptune’s mettle is tested as he crosses paths with the international jewel thief known only as The Shadow.
Twice he bests him only to win the Shadow’s enmity and the war of nerves begins. Neptune lives in fear as his loved ones—friends and family are targeted. An attempt is made to abduct Rachel, and Shark is assaulted, then his brother-in-law is seriously injured in a hit and run. As a coup de grace Shark and Neptune’s sister Mermaid are kidnapped. He doesn’t hesitate to pay the exorbitant ransom, but is double crossed by the Shadow who tries to kill him. The tension rises as Neptune and Rachel begin a desperate bid to find Shark and the heavily pregnant Mermaid before their time runs out. The suspense and fast paced action in this book will have you on the edge of your seat. |
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Book 4: The Revenge of Neptune King. 314 Pages
We meet Shark’s older brother who has come to London to take up a position on the London Times. He proves his usefulness by sending them new clients, which is fortuitous as Neptune is broke, having paid his entire fortune to Shadow as ransom for his sister and Shark. Their first case sees them initiated into a cult, hypnotizing and using the followers for the leader’s enrichment.
Unable to afford petrol for his car, Neptune borrows twenty pounds from Shark only to see his own initials on the note. NK in the right hand corner. Every note in the ransom bundle was similarly marked. Following the trail of the money leads them to Epsom racecourse and with the cooperation of the track’s manager they eventually get a lead on the punter that paid out the marked money. This leads them to the hit and run driver who critically injured Neptune’s brother-in-law, and eventually to the Shadow himself as they follow a trail that sends them to Paris, where Shark’s dalliance with a couple of French ladies of easy virtue gives them a clue to the Shadow’s true identity. The case comes to a head at the Shadow’s 12th century chateau in Quercy, Bordeaux, where they risk life and limb to capture him in a climatic showdown of good versus evil. |
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Book 5: The Exploits of Neptune King. 370 pages
The Exploits of Neptune King is the fifth book in the series. In their first case our heroes tackle the supernatural, being hired to catch a vampire in Cornwall. In the isolated village of Abernathy, five young women are dead, their blood completely drained and puncture marks in their necks, and if that wasn’t enough the locals are being scared by the spectre of a man that transforms himself into a bat. This is the sort of case that Neptune delights in.
While Neptune is off sick, Rachel begs Shark to give her time off so she can nurse him back to health. Against his better judgment she convinces Shark to give her new friend Rebecca Evans a chance, leading to some volatile scenes thanks to her bad habit of conclusion jumping. Naturally she falls for him, and Shark finds he is irritated and attracted at the same time, but what could they possibly have in common? She, the daughter of an earl and distantly related to the Queen, and he the son of a drunken motor mechanic. Shark figures it’s a relationship doomed from the start. They continue to go from strength to strength cementing their reputation as detectives when the tackle a case multiple murder where residents in a nursing home are being killed for their savings. Rachel goes undercover again as a nursing assistant, and breaks the case wide open, putting herself at risk. |
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Book 6: The Marriage of Neptune King. 438 pages
In this 6th book of the Neptune King Series we start the year of 1963 off with a bang when the two couples—Neptune, Rachel, Shark and Becky attend the Queen’s New Year’s day parade only to spot an Irish dissident bent on assassination. Naturally they can’t let that happen and win the Queen’s approbation for their bravery.
.In The Sound of Death their detective skills are tested when they are called in to investigate the death of Dr. Lennon who was found in his laboratory with no sign of physical injury, but with his bowels melted to a jelly-like substance. In The Case of the Desperate Jeweller, their simple cheating husband case turns into murder when the ‘other woman’ in the case turns up dead and they suspect their client of being the culprit . In the final chapter ex Inspector Thiel escapes from prison with revenge on his mind, determined to destroy Neptune and ruin his wedding. Just as the happy couple are pledging their vows, Thiel bursts in and starts shooting turning the ceremony into chaos. Despite the violent interruption, Neptune eventually manages to get his ring on Rachel’s finger on the most memorable day of their lives. |
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Book 7: Neptune King Investigates. 318 pages
In this the 7 th book of the Neptune King series, Neptune and Rachel return from their honeymoon and it’s business as usual. In The Case of the Ugly Client, Bernie Taylor enlists their help to find the love her life, clumsy well-meaning Homer Heep. After several attempts are made on Heep’s life, one of which is the derailment of the train they’re on at the cost of many lives, the detectives realize this isn’t a simple missing person’s case and look for deeper motives behind the attacks.
In The Case of the Blackmailed Politician, Shark prevents Becky’s father from killing himself. Forcing him to confide, he learns he is being blackmailed to the point of bankruptcy. With Neptune’s help they set out to trap the blackmailers and get Earl Evans’ money back. Intrigue at the Academy sees Neptune and Shark enlist in the police force at the behest of Commissioner Chadworth to ferret out corruption at the cadet level. When Becky’s life is threatened, Shark realizes just how important she is to him and takes the plunge declaring his feelings for her. |
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Book 8: Neptune King Down Under. 384 pages
In this the 8th book of the Neptune King series. Shark’s father is brutally murdered and his younger brother, is arrested for the crime. His motive? His mother was brutally beaten by his father in a drunken rage and Dolph has no alibi.
Despite having a price on his head by the notorious biker gang, The Banderos, Shark drops everything to rush home to Australia, while Neptune stays in England to keep the agency running. It’s Shark’s desire to keep this in the family, but when his elder brother Lance is shot by the bikers in a case of mistaken identity, Neptune and Rachel come out to help. As the evidence continues to pile up against Dolph, Shark concentrates on his only clue and just as he and Neptune make a breakthrough connecting the murder to organized crime, they are kidnapped by the bikers. Death is inevitable until Rachel buys into it with a little detective work of her own and the help of Shark’s sister Suzie and Vessa Kellly. The boys as usual are victorious, but with Shark determined to stay in Australia to look after his mother and his siblings,Neptune is devastated. Is this the end of their partnership? |
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Book 9: A Surprise for Neptune King. 374 pages
In this the 9th book of the series, Neptune is delighted when Shark calls and tells him he is returning to England. While awaiting his return, Neptune tackles a missing person case with Rachel as his able assistant and uncovers a murder instead.
In The Case of the Panicking Princess, Princess Helena of Slovenka is being blackmailed and needs to retrieve a letter before her engagement party to Lord Cumberland. The letter’s trail leads them on a fair chase culminating in unlikely culprits. In The Case of the Baby Snatchers, the boys become persona non grata at Scotland Yard when Commissioner Chadworth suffers a heart attack and is replaced by stiff necked, unfriendly Commisioner Talbot. Initially willing to work with the police, they decide to hell with them and go it alone. This is one case where they don’t plan on sharing the credit with the police, especially when the case takes on international proportions. |
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Book 10: The Friends of Neptune King. 378 pages
This is the 10th book in the Neptune King series. In The Case of the Amnesiac Client Neptune’s maid introduces him to Mary North a troubled young woman working as a maid with no memory and a vague impression that everything is not quite right. He figures it’s a case for K&J. Intrigue, deception and imposters lead them to France and back again to high society in search for her real identity.
In The Case of the French Blackmailer, Shark’s sins come back to haunt him when Monique, the French waitress he met while on the trail of the Shadow in France turns up with a baby, claiming it is his and threatening to tell Lord Evans unless he pays. Shark is shocked and desperate and turns to Neptune for help, while hoping to keep the whole sordid affair secret from Rachel and Becky, but he underestimates the women in his life. In The Case of the Deadly Sleepwalker Lisa Hatherly is arrested for murdering her neighbour in her sleep! Philip Briton, Neptune’s solicitor hires the boys to investigate. The evidence looks black against her—her footprints in the snow to and from the dead woman’s house, the dead woman’s jewels hidden in her wardrobe and her own admission that she’d had an argument with the deceased and was sleep walking that night with her soaked slippers matching the prints. Neptune’s boutique is being robbed in The Case of the Shoplifting Shop Assistant, and it doesn’t take him long to find the culprit. Meantime, Shark’s family have arrived from Australia in time to celebrate Christmas with his friends in his new house. |
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Book 11: Neptune King and the Newly Weds. 278 pages
This is the 11th book in the Neptune King series. In The Case of the Frantic Bride, they are hired by the new bride to find her husband who disappeared on their wedding night. It doesn’t take them long to make the connection between the missing man and a spate of robberies occurring at the hotel and at the homes of the hotel’s clients.
The Buck’s Night sees Shark celebrating his last days as a bachelor only to have his party ruined by a group of female thieves who steal their wallets and their trousers! With half the guests being policemen who have lost their police identity cards along with their wallets, Neptune and Shark undertake to retrieve the loot before Commissioner Talbot finds out and the policemen get in trouble. In The Case of the Foiled Wedding, they hunt for a missing bride who disappeared on her way to her wedding. They suspect an ex-boyfriend known for his temper and stalking tendencies. Trying to find the boyfriend is a whole other matter as time is running out for the hapless bride. In The Wedding, Shark finally gets married, but not without a few minor hitches beforehand, and just when he thinks he can relax on his honeymoon, he gets involved in investigating the murder or one of the hotel guests staying at the same hotel in Hawaii, after the wife of the deceased befriends Becky. Shark soon learns that this is not the way to please a new wife. |
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Book 12: Neptune King and the Psychic Witness. 324 pages
In this the 12th book of the Neptune King series, Neptune and Shark have a 10 year old mystery to solve when Keely Simmonds comes to their office and announces that she has witnessed a murder in a vision. She hires them to search for the body using her description of the place she saw as their guide. Though sceptical they check it out and to their surprise find the skeletal remains of woman. The hunt is on then to identify her and bring her murderer to justice. Meantime, Shark is enjoying married life, except for his wife’s cooking, while Neptune is distracted and at the end of his tether trying to cope with Rachel’s volatile pregnancy induced mood swings. Will the distractions of their private lives interfere with their work? One hopes not, especially when someone tries to kill the psychic to prevent their identity from being revealed. |
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Book 13: The Bizarre Cases of Neptune King. 252 pages
The Bizarre Cases of Neptune King is the 13th book in the series and in this they most definitely encounter the outré. Still banned from Scotland Yard by Commissioner Talbot, Shark undertakes an investigation into a missing man, only to learn that he has become a victim of a murderer that the newspapers are calling The Camden Cannibal because he eats his victims, only disposing of the head, hands, and the remnants of his cooking. Neptune is itching to tackle this case and his chance comes when the editor of The Times hires them to investigate independently of the police. This they do with their usual thoroughness and are close on the trail of the cannibal when Talbot issues the cannibal a challenge to eat him! It’s too good an opportunity for the cannibal and he abducts the commissioner. Shark and Neptune come to the rescue, but almost become the Sunday dinner in the process.
In The Case of the Lovesick Necrophile, they are called upon to investigate why a recently young deceased woman keeps getting violated at the funeral parlour. It all comes to a head when Marjorie’s body is stolen from her grave. With the Necrophiliac located and on the run, the chase is on to catch him. Unfortunately for Becky, he’s seen her and is smitten by her and decides if he can’t have Marjorie he’ll get himself a new body. She’s no good to him alive. Can Neptune and Shark stop him before he can fulfil his sick and twisted fantasies? Start reading and find out. |
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Book 14: The Singular Cases of Neptune King. 360 pages
This is the 14th book in the Neptune King series. In Neptune’s Nightmare, he believes his worst fears are realized when he sees Rachel with another man. He becomes even more disenchanted when he finds that he is missing a large sum of money and even witnesses ‘Rachel’ withdrawing cash from the bank, after she had told him she was going straight home. Is this the end for the pair of lovebirds? All is not what it seems, fortunately, but the solution almost costs Rachel her life.
In The Case of the Phobic victims, Neptune and Shark go undercover at a phobia clinic, Neptune as a Zoophobic patient, and Shark as an orderly. Someone is terrorizing the patients and turning their phobias against them. Finally in The Case of the Unhappy Unicorn, they go to Exeter to discover why a unicorn has suddenly appeared on Lord Bainbridge’s nature reserve. Is it unhappy because he plans to sell ten acres to a furniture factory, or has it something to do with the radical protestors trying to stop the sale. Does a unicorn really exist, or is it a fake? Neptune hopes to prove this one way or the other, and enlists Suzy Johnson’s help. |
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Book 15: The Challenges of Neptune King. 302 pages
This is the 15th book in the series with three new and challenging cases for the detectives to solve. In The Case of the Crooked Politician, Shark’s father-in-law comes to him with a concern that one of his colleagues – the minister for Immigration is extorting money from desperate migrants. The investigation turns out to be a family affair as Shark enlists the aid of his mother, who is still waiting to find out about her own citizenship applications, to help trap the dishonest politician. Once again his little sister Suzy gets involved and shows her courage, mettle and natural aptitude for detective work.
In The Case of the Oxford Terror, Neptune is once again back at Oxford University as a teacher, and Shark goes undercover as a student. This time Neptune is more than a match for the crotchety old professors who made his life hell when he was there before, and is more comfortable teaching. Two professors have been attacked, the art teacher humiliated and the rowing team coach viciously assaulted. They hope that by blending in they’ll be able to catch the culprit, but not before he strikes again and a student is murdered. In The Case of the Uncertain Killer, young Aysha Daniels comes to them terrified that her father is a murderer as every man she has ever gone out with has ended up dead. The father’s behaviour is certainly suspicious, but what their investigation turns up surprises even them. |
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Book 16: Neptune King and the Counterfeiters. 264 pages
Neptune King and the Counterfeiters is the 16th book in the series. K&J are hired to find a counterfeiting ring, but they are not too optimistic about their chance of success. Being a lazy day at work, Neptune decides to take a nap and dreams about the future: of a time when he and Shark’s children are teenagers.
Shark’s sons Link and his brother Leo accidentally get involved with counterfeiters, while Neptune’s daughter Katrina witnesses a murder during a fox hunt. His son Max and Link help to crack down on drug dealers, dealing at their school, while Shark’s daughters Jacqueline and Josephine get involved in a Miss Teen beauty pageant, only for Josephine to be almost killed by someone intent on winning. When Neptune wakes, he realizes that his subconscious mind has given him a clue as to who and where the counterfeiters are and they lead the police straight to the counterfeiter’s headquarters, once again proving that they’re the best in the business. So good in fact, that they can solve crimes in their sleep! |
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Book 17: Neptune King of Baker Street.
 268 pages
This is the 17th book of the series. In A Question of Identity, Neptune King, while on his way home from a fancy dress party with Rachel spots a light on in a bank. He stops to investigate, still dressed in his Sherlock Holmes costume. He spots someone emerging from the side door of the bank a moment before all hell breaks loose as the side wall of the bank is blown out. Neptune is caught in the blast and knocked unconscious. When he revives in hospital, he has no memory of what occurred or who he really is, instead he thinks he is Sherlock Holmes and that Moriarty is out to get him. He escapes from the hospital and returns to his office in Baker St. Deluded, he thinks Shark is Watson and Rachel is Irene Adler. Despite his identity crisis, he still manages to solve the case. Rachel hates Sherlock though, because he is such a misogynist , and takes drastic measures to try and bring him out of his delusion.
In The Hired Killer, a woman hires Shark to murder her lover’s wife, mistaking him for a tough biker. He accepts and then sets about to find out if the woman’s husband is indeed out to kill her. In the meantime, the wife, Lucia Stilton comes to their agency and speaks to their insurance operative, Milo Washington about hiring them to protect her because she is in fear for her life. During their investigation they uncover various facts that just don’t add up and come to an unexpected conclusion. |
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Book 18: Dosvidonia, Neptune King. 467 pages
This book is one of my personal favourites. I enjoyed researching it and writing it and I hope you enjoy it just as much.
Dosvidonia, Neptune King is the 18th book in this series. This time the boys are entangled in the world of espionage when C of MI6 recruits them on a special mission to the USSR. In the year 1963, double agent Kim Philby was discovered working for British Intelligence. Before they could arrest him, he fled to Russia and compromised the British spy network. An informant in Moscow wants to defect and asks the British secret service for help. As an inducement she offers them a list naming all the Soviet spies resident in the UK and USA. Because Philby knows all their operatives they enlist Neptune and Shark to go over to escort Svetlana Roshevsky and her list back to England. Unfortunately for them, they run into Boris Slovinski who recognizes Shark from the time Shark and his brother exposed him as a spy and had him run out of England. Arrested, tortured, with the threat of being shot as spies, their situation is desperate. Incarcerated in the notorious Lubyanka prison, their future looks bleak. Will they be sent to Siberia? Will they get out alive? This is their most dangerous case ever and the stakes are high. Will they survive and make it home? Start reading and find out… |
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Book 19: The Enemies of Neptune King. 312 pages
In this the 19th book of the series, we once again see Neptune and Shark at their sleuthing best. In The Cataleptic Client , they are hired by Ben Korr to find out why his daughter has suddenly become cataleptic. The doctors have found no cause and he is desperate. In trying to find the cause of her catalepsy they discover that his son Jason was murdered and that both his new wife and gardener are suspect. Was the murder the cause of little Mariah’s catalepsy or was it something else altogether?
In The Mysterious Assailant, Neptune and Shark are framed for assault. The evidence looks black against them and conviction looks likely as, despite hunting through their files for a likely candidate, the fail to turn up anyone that has it in for them. Someone clearly has a grudge against them, but it doesn’t seem to be anyone they know. In the Secret Enemy, the mysterious assailant strikes again, this time at Rachel, Becky and their children, almost killing them. Neptune and Shark are still no closer to discovering who their mysterious enemy is until Rachel is abducted. Then the clues come in thick and fast and a desperate hunt is on to find and rescue Rachel before she’s murdered. |
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Book 20: Charity Cases of Neptune King. 382 pages
$The Charity Cases of Neptune King is the twentieth book in the series. While Shark prefers to have paying customers, Neptune, always the soft touch doesn’t mind undertaking investigations for those that can’t pay. The first case, The Money Trail sees pathetic little Nancy Potts come to them willing to pay them her entire life savings of ₤20 to find the unrequited love of her life, Jim Rudford, who quit his job after being tricked into thinking he was dying of a rare disease. She is afraid he will do something drastic, which he does. The same day he gets his death sentence he also learns he’s inherited ₤100,000. Thinking he’s dying he decides to give it all away to deserving cases. Can Neptune and Shark find him before he’s broke or worse, robbed and killed for the money? In Half a Man, they almost hit a body on the highway. They think it’s a dismembered body until it moves and proves it’s well and truly alive. Oscar Barnett, a victim of a landmine has suddenly become suicidal. Shark believes the reason for this is more in their line than a psychiatrists, which proves to be the case.
In The Case of the Desperate Movie Star, Neptune’s boyhood fantasy comes to life when the old time famous movie star, Vivienne Hart walks into their office. He’d had a crush on her when he was a boy. She claims she is receiving obscene letters and is being stalked, and that someone broke into her home. She’s been out of the limelight for a great many years, and now, just as she is about to stage a comeback, she’s being terrorized. Shark is not quite so enamoured with her and hopes Neptune won’t let his admiration for her cloud his judgement. |
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Book 21: The Deductions of Neptune King. 318 pages
There is a serial killer on the loose murdering young, healthy male joggers in and around Battersea Park in this the 21st book in the Neptune King series. Neptune is dying to sink his teeth into the case, but his sister Mermaid insists he stay out of it as it is her husband’s, John Griffiths case and she wants him to have the chance to do it without his help. John on the other hand swallows his pride and comes to Neptune for advice. He would rather accept Neptune’s help than see another man murdered. Neptune undertakes his own investigation and passes on his findings, preferring to stay out of the limelight on this one. Meantime, Shark is working on another case, where a millionaire after a serious car accident is suddenly liquidating his assets. The millionaires brother believes he is being coerced because the new wife and butler won’t let anyone in to see him, not even his own family. Shark soon confirms that the brother has cause for suspicion and with Neptune’s help sets out to save the millionaire before all his assets are sold and he is murdered.
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Book 22: Neptune King and the Lunatic Asylum.
Neptune King and the Lunatic Asylum is the 22nd book in the series. Neptune and Shark are retained by Mrs Cartwright, a distraught mother grieving the loss of her son who supposedly killed himself whilst an inmate in Willow Downs Asylum. Doubtful at first they undertake a preliminary investigation not expecting to find anything much. To their surprise they learn that there have been eighteen suicides in the past year. That is enough to convince them that something serious is going on. Joining forces with a young enthusiastic policeman who also has doubts about the asylum, they go undercover, Neptune as a patient, Shark as an orderly, and from then on begins their terrifying ordeal. Will they survive the asylum with their health and sanity intact? Their only ally is a deranged patient who thinks he is a spy deep undercover.
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Book 23: Neptune King and the Gallant Thief.
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Neptune King and the Gallant Thief is the 23rd and latest book in the Neptune King series.
A charity function that the Kings are attending is robbed by a dozen shotgun wielding men led by a charismatic character calling himself Robin Hood. Robin makes an exception of Neptune and Rachel by not robbing them, citing their generosity to an old beggar outside the venue as his reason. At first Neptune is disinclined to go after him, especially when he learns that Robin is actually giving the proceeds to the poor, and even has a grudging admiration for the man for his proficiency in the art of disguise. However when aspersion is cast on his reputation and comments are made that he wasn’t robbed because he was connected to Robin, he realizes he has no choice but to catch the thief for the sake of his business and reputation. Using his own considerable skills he goes in under cover to the East End as an elderly vagrant and soon picks up some information on Robin and his gang. He also learns that Robin is perhaps not quite as altruistic as he appears, as the poor are only receiving a very small percentage of the take. When one of Robin’s men is found dead after casting doubts about Robin’s integrity and motives, Neptune is even more determined to apprehend him. Neptune and Milo Washington (their employee in charge of insurance investigations) infiltrate Robin’s gang, while Shark, with the help of his dog, Fang, set about recovering the missing jewels. Together, they set a trap for Robin, once again showing why K & J Investigations is not a firm to messed with. |
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Book 24: Neptune King and the Missing People
In the first story - The Case of the Missing Tourists, Neptune and Shark are hired to find a couple of German tourists who went missing in the picturesque Lake's District, meanwhile Shark's brother Lance, is also working on a missing persons case. Homeless people are disappearing from London. He thinks its a serial killer at larger and disguises himself as a homeless person in the hope of picking up a clue. Are the cases connected despite the difference in victimology? Lance sure hopes so when he is also abducted. His only chance of survival is for Neptune and Shark to find him in time. The only problem with that is that they don't know he's missing.
In The Case of the Runaway Girl, Neptune and Shark's protective instincts are aroused when they are hired to find a 14 year old runaway. All is not as it seems when her Muslim background becomes a key factor in her disappearance and find it strange that her mothers is relieved that she is gone. As always they triumph in the end but necessarily to their client's satisfaction. In All in the Family, Shark's elder sister Gwenevere Robinson presents at their office all the way from Australia complete with her two sets of twins - four undisciplined unruly boys. A tornado blowing through the door would have been more welcome as far as Shark is concerned. She is anxious because her doctor husband, Jim, came to London to attend a medical conference and has disappeared without a trace. Shark would have preferred that she just telephoned him instead of coming, but she had an ulterior motive for coming in person. She insists on staying with Shark, who has misgivings about that; worried how his wife Becky will cope with Gwen's volatile moods. Meantime (for reasons of her own) Gwen hates the thought of Neptune being involved in the search for her husband, especially as he astutely deduced the reason behind her motive for coming in person, but they can't do it without Neptune's brilliance. Sparks fly between the two until Gwen comes to realize just why the Johnson clan hold Neptune in such high regard. |
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Book 25: The Miscellaneous Cases of Neptune King
In their first case--A Weighty Problem—they’re hired by Mrs Mabel Corpetant, a rather obese lady who believes her son and daughter-in-law are trying to kill her. While they prove that this is not the case they still end up saving her life under harrowing circumstances.
In their second case--Daylight Robbery—Richard Steele engages them to find the man who killed his pregnant wife during a supposed shop robbery gone wrong. Their solution to the crime is shocking to the extreme and although they are successful in apprehending the killer, their client becomes the ultimate victim three times over. Their third case--The Black Rose—sees them hired by Irene Thompson to prove her brother-in-law’s innocence after being arrested for murdering his wife (her sister). It doesn’t take them long to prove his innocence despite him having the oldest motive in the world. Barry Hall and Irene are in love. His wife was in the way. Their investigation reveals that Jennifer Hall was not exactly faithful either and they are soon on the track of the real killer, the clincher being the black rose the victim had on her when she died. Racially Motivated is the final case in this book. Chief Inspector Waller from Scotland Yard introduces them to Mrs Byron, a Negro woman whose husband he arrested some three years previously for murder. The conclusion never sat well with him, based as it was on circumstantial evidence but he had been under pressure to close it fast. Running into the lady reminded him of the case. As he couldn’t reopen the case, he brought her to K&J in the hope that they could do what he couldn’t—prove her husband innocent. While the lady is distrustful of the police and white people in general, she is somewhat reassured by Milo, their man in charge of insurance investigations. He helps to bridge the gap and point out to their new client racism works both ways. While her husband may have been victimized because of his colour, her judging Neptune and Shark on their colour is exactly the same thing and he urges her to give them a chance. They soon change her mind as it doesn’t take them long to find another more suitable suspect and set about proving his guilt and freeing her husband Jeremiah. |
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Book 26: Neptune King and the Arsonist
Neptune King and The Arsonist is the 26th book in the series. Neptune and Shark are as brilliant as always but is this the case that will ruin their hundred per cent success rate?
Neptune begins to fear that when they’re hired by Mrs O’Shea to catch the person who killed her husband by setting fire to their house. In the course of the investigation they solve three other crimes and let the police take the credit. First they solve the murder of Mrs Humbolt who was attacked in her home and then her house set alight, then Shark comes across a possible suspect for their case only to prove that he was responsible for a house fire in which a whole family perished. They’re down to one suspect and to Neptune’s dismay he proves that this man is guilty of vandalism not arson. Meantime their arsonist is escalating. What started with simple nuisance fires and hedge fires graduated to a house fire with an incidental death, to the burning of a warehouses and the destruction of a priceless ancient Chinese Emperor’s shoulder carriage. When the arsonist steals a flame thrower and begins burning and torturing animals, Neptune is afraid he will escalate and move onto human targets. The stakes are high. This is one time both he and Shark come close to failure, at a time when it is imperative that they succeed. |
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Book 27: Neptune King and the Mysterious Monk
Neptune King and the Mysterious Monk is the 27th book in the series. They’re hired by Friar Luigi, a Capuchin monk from a monastery in Devon. Ever since a collection of rare books, diaries and manuscripts arrived at the monastery there has been strange goings on in the night. Each morning they find the library in disarray; the books scattered about or misplaced and sometimes strange noises in the night. When they go to investigate they find nothing and no one. This is puzzling enough, causing some of the monks to believe there is a poltergeist in their midst, but when elderly Friar Matteo is found dead at the foot of the stairs, his skull stove in, Friar Luigi suspects foul play.
He travels to London to enlist Neptune and Shark’s aid, which they are more than happy to offer free of charge. Neptune is ecstatic at this opportunity to disguise himself as a monk and go under cover in the monastery as Friar Benedict, while Shark backs him as a carpenter doing necessary repairs to the ancient monastery. He brings his dog Fang along with him, who turns out to be a great hit with the monks and useful too as they put him in the library overnight. They have a couple of suspects—two of the newly arrived monks, and when one of them presents the next morning with a torn robe and Fang has a piece of a robe in his mouth, that monk goes to the top of the list, although Neptune has doubts as to his guilt. When an attempt is made on Luigi’s life, they double their attempt to find the culprit in no doubt at all that Friar Matteo’s death was murder. A new suspect emerges after they prove he lied and Shark telephones Neptune’s wife, Rachel to get her to undertake a background check on him. That’s held up when Rachel collapses and is found unconscious in her office by Milo, one of their employees. Neptune rushes back to London to be by her side, learning that she had a very close call and that both she and the baby were at risk of dying. With treatment Rachel improves but is ordered to rest at home and to do nothing strenuous that could put her blood pressure up until the baby is born, which much to Rachel’s dismay is not for another six months. Neptune doesn’t want to return to the case, but Rachel insists upon it. He’s a little distracted with worry and not at his best; despite that they still manage to solve a 160 year old mystery of missing Papal jewels and catch the killer but not without risk to life and limb when they’re entombed in the labyrinth of underground tunnels that start from the crypt at the monastery. |
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Book 28: Neptune King and the Artifact
The threat is real and deadly. No one related to or associated with Neptune is safe as this mystery killer won’t hesitate to kidnap one of them to use as leverage to force Neptune to hand over the artifact. Neptune’s house goes into lockdown, with new security measures and the Griffiths and Shark and his family move in with him for safety. Numerous attempts are made to get at them but to no avail, with several close calls. Neptune knows that this is no ordinary criminal they’re dealing with. He’s a professional. He’s from Italy…draw your own conclusions. |
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Book 29: The Supernatural Cases of Neptune King
The Supernatural Cases of Neptune King is the 29th book in the series. In The Haunted House, the detectives are hired to investigate a unique house belonging to an actor who killed himself, to prove whether it is or isn’t haunted. The actor lost his house to the bank and vowed that if he couldn’t have it, no one else would either before killing himself. They take along their psychic ex-client Keeley Simmonds on their first visit to the house, but none of them stay long enough to make much of an investigation being overcome with sheer terror. Keeley is convinced there is a malevolent presence there. No one, not even paranormal experts have been able to stay more than ten minutes in the house and no one ever dares to return. The only difference is Neptune and Shark plan on going back.
In their second case, The Ghostly Client, they are hired by a ghost who materializes in Neptune’s office asking for help. Neptune is delighted, while Shark is a little put out. After all, this client can’t pay them for their services. Neptune deduces that the man was recently murdered and that his body hasn’t as yet been found. The Man from Nowhere is another case that tickles Neptune’s fancy. Mrs Mabel Porter is distraught because she ran over a man that suddenly appeared on the road in front of her. One minute the road was clear, the next he was there. He materialized out of thin air. The police can’t identify him and no one knows where he came from. It’s a mystery after Neptune’s own heart and he can’t wait to sink his teeth into it. |
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Book 30: Neptune King and the Super Hero
Super Heroes, Super Sleuths and Super villains all come together in Neptune King and the Super Hero, the 30th book in the Neptune King series. Neptune and Shark are rather nonplussed when a man bounds into their office clad in a homemade super hero costume, cape and all and offers his services to help them fight crime. Shark thinks it’s a joke, Neptune thinks it is ridiculous and tells him where to go. They think that is the last they will see of him, but to Neptune’s annoyance he turns up just as he is about to apprehend a thief and interferes with the capture. Again Neptune puts him in his place in no uncertain terms.
Undaunted, the self-styled super hero perseveres wanting to prove Neptune and Shark wrong. Neptune’s fear that he would come up against someone truly dangerous as opposed to the bag snatchers and lechers whom he had been dealing with eventuates and he reaches out to them again in desperation after he ends up in hospital severely beaten with multiple fractures and injuries. He has information on Neptune and Shark’s nemesis, the super villain Sir Reginald Simpson whom they know is guilty of the murders of Percival Jones and Albert Seinfield and whom they were unable to arrest due to lack of evidence (see The Supernatural Cases of Neptune King). Simpson is extremely rich, dangerous and untouchable and hobnobs with the lawmakers and elite of society. With the hapless super hero incapacitated, Neptune and Shark take over and using his information set out to bring Simpson down, with a little help from a demoted disgruntled ex-chief inspector from Scotland Yard who owed his demotion and the destruction of his marriage to Simpson. |
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Book 31: Neptune King and the Mysterious Woman
Neptune lifted the tarp and hunkered by the body for a moment, looking the man over. Near the body was a pair of glasses, its lenses broken, the arms open.” He pulled the tarp back and stood up. “This was murder, not suicide.” With those words, Neptune opens a can of worms. What the police thought were suicides – men jumping from upper story windows in absolute terror, trying to escape their demons, needed a second look. Neptune and Shark are hired by Belinda Hyde to investigate the death of her brother, Stephen. She doesn’t believe it was suicide and wants them to prove otherwise. Collaborating with Sergeant Wolf of Scotland Yard they start to see similarities between Wolf’s suicide investigation and theirs. In both cases there is an unknown mysterious woman involved. Neptune suspects she is behind the deaths. Determining her identity and locating her is relatively simple for the private detectives; proving her guilt though presents a quandary. They know she’s guilty, they just can’t prove it and when potential witnesses start dying, They realize she is cleaning up after herself and destroying her back trail so rapidly that she’s always one step ahead. Can they stop her before more men die? They’ll do their damnedest. . |
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Book 32: Neptune King and the Burlesque Murder
Shark and Neptune are hired by the extremely beautiful Justine Longford, a woman long used to getting her own way with men. She wants them to find her sister’s killer. The detectives tackle the investigation in their usual thorough way but are hindered somewhat by Justine’s demands and interference, driving Neptune to uncharacteristic rudeness. Unlike most men, Neptune isn’t overcome by her beauty and maintains a healthy suspicion about her motives and behavior, meantime Shark, while not smitten, finds it hard to believe ill of her.Rose Longford, Justine’s identical twin sister was working as a burlesque star and thanks to her beauty had numerous suitors, many of whom were quite persistent in trying to win her favors, including the investigating officer who wasn’t making any headway on the case. It is up to Neptune and Shark to narrow the suspect list, find the motive and the real culprit and prevent Justine from also becoming a target.
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Book 33: Neptune King at Home
Neptune and Shark bust an art theft ring, and in the process, Neptune is injured, breaking his arm and leg and becoming home-bound, much to his dismay, while Shark is left to run the office. Rachel makes the most of Neptune’s incapacity to return to work full-time so she can help Shark out on cases.
In their second case, The Cheating Stockbroker, Shark decides to take on a cheating husband case, which turns out to be something far more interesting than mere infidelity. In The Angry Chef, they track down a thief who stole the signature recipe from their client’s restaurant. What starts of as a case of simple theft soon turns to murder. In the third case, The Visiting Corpse, the client insists on Neptune’s involvement, not believing Shark when he tells him Neptune is not available. Despite this Neptune is glad of his bumptiousness when they intrude on him at home. The aspects of the case interest him. Who would dig a rotting corpse up, put it in a wheelchair and park it by a patient’s bed in a rehabilitation hospital? Neptune is keen to get involved despite his disability, only he has to do it on the sly because he doesn’t want Rachel to know. The Missing Corpse is a continuation of their previous case. Having solved why the corpse was dug up and proven it wasn’t who it was supposed to be, leads to a second more involved case. Where is the body of Ronin Carpenter and why was it substituted? Was Carpenter dead or alive? Was this a case of pseudocide, and if so, who was involved in it? The local doc-tor, his brother, or perhaps Carpenter himself? Was he a victim or a criminal? All questions Carpenter’s wife wants answered with Neptune and Shark more than happy to look into it. |
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Book 34: Neptune King and the Murdered Children
Little nine-year-old Carole Beaumont goes missing in Bournemouth and disappears without a trace. Her parents come to K&J Investigations to hire them to find her. Shark thinks it will prove a hopeless case but Neptune is more optimistic.After reading Detective Inspector Olsen’s account of the investigation immediately following her disappearance Neptune notes a few points of interest and he and Shark run with them. It also occurs to Neptune that the perpetrator handled the abduction professionally and deduces that young Carole wasn’t his first.
With painstaking research he and his wife Rachel discover that over the past ten years one hundred and forty-two children had gone missing under similar circumstances. They plot their disappearances out on a map and are awed to see a pattern emerge Neptune is still slightly incapacitated after having broken his arm and leg a few months before, so Shark does most of the running around, while Neptune continues his investigation from the office. With a fair bit of hard work they narrow in on the perpetrator and learn he owns a farm in the country. They go there and with Fang’s (Shark’s dog) help make a grisly discovery of several small bodies buried in shallow graves. They call in the police to take over and more and more bodies are uncovered. They think their work is over as they also give the police the name of the man responsible for this wholesale slaughter. Only they hadn’t counted on DI Olsen’s stupidity. The culprit gets away and so they are back to the drawing board trying to locate the killer who has become the most hated man in England. Will they triumph? Read on and find out. |
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Book 35: Neptune King and the Werewolf
Neptune King and the Werewolf is the 35th book in the series. The detectives meet geneticist Claire Sandhurst who hires them to help a family in Spain who suffer from the genetic disorder hypertrichosis, also known as werewolf syndrome. There had been several deaths in the verdant farming valley of Vasquez that were being attributed to a werewolf. The simple superstitious farm folk turned on the Hernandez family, attacked them and drove them away from their farm.
It is Neptune and Shark’s job to prove their innocence so they can return home, and stop the werewolf once and for all.It doesn’t take them long to connect the murders to a large agricultural farm conglomerate that has been trying to buy up all the valley farms for their use, and they don’t seem to care how they obtain them. As well as the murders there are night raids on farms, their sons and daughters are assaulted, and even the townsfolk are being terrorized. The who is the easy part of their case, proving it is a whole different matter. |
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Book 36: The Many Faces of Neptune King
In this the 36th book in the series, Neptune comes into his own as the master of disguise on four different cases calling for his unique talents.
The Nursing Home – In this first case Neptune goes undercover at a nursing home disguised as an 80 year old man to expose allegations of abuse. He finds more tehan just physical abuse going on and sets about changing the lives of the unfortunate residents. The Fortune Teller – This second case sees Neptune reprising his role as psychic Keeley Simmonds, where he takes her place to trick a superstitious art thief into revealing where he has hidden a stolen masterpiece. The Diamond Dealer – is the third case. A dishonest diamond dealer from Amsterdam acting as a fence to an international jewel thief ring is accidentally killed in a road accident after arriving n England. This puts Interpol’s case into panic mode as they were hoping he would lead them to the jewel thieves. They turn to Scotland Yard, more precisely Commissioner Pickering for help, who immediately spots the resemblance of the dead man to Neptune. He enlists Neptune’s aid to masquerade as the diamond dealer to keep the meeting with the thieves. Working with the two Interpol agents, Neptune pulls it off and brings the case to a successful conclusion. The Actor – Neptune is in his element in this fourth case. An actor is being threatened with several attempts on his life. Neptune goes undercover as one of the cast, while Shark goes as himself to investigate the murder attempts. Neptune loves performing on stage and excels as usual. Working from two different angles they manage to catch the would-be murderer. |
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Book 37: Neptune King and the Lonely Hearts Killer
Business is a little quiet at K&J Investigations, so Neptune and Shark go to Scotland Yard to access their cold case files. They have a long-standing deal with the Commissioner to work on unsolved cases when they’re bored. When they get there, they find the Commissioner had actually left out a pile of random women killing cases for their attention. While he doesn’t expect them to solve them all, he’s hoping, after their recent success in catching a child serial killer (Neptune King and the Murdered Children), that they might notice a pattern that the police have missed. He suspects there might be a serial killer on the loose.
They start off strong, finding a connection—all the murdered women were members of different dating agencies. They also get side-tracked side-tracked solving several other supposed random murder cases that turn out not to be random. Rachel, Neptune’s wife also gets in on the action, having returned to work full time and now taking an active part in crime solving. She’s starting to build her own reputation as a detective much to Neptune’s delight. The case goes forwards in leaps and bounds until they slowly eliminate their suspects and hit a dead end. It’s Rachel that makes the final connection and puts them on the right path to catching the killer before he has a chance to harm his latest victim. |
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