Cobblers

An adult mystery yarn...Stephanie Howe is out of prison after a ten stretch for GBH and more, enjoying a celebratory drink at the local hostelry for dodgy guys and gals, The Bootmakers Arms, a.k.a. The Cobblers. The notorious lady gangster has business to clear up from before her holiday at her Majesty's request.Much has changed in her leafy suburb, north east of London, during the interruption in her life. The pub has new owners; guys who have made their millions in The City of...
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An adult mystery yarn...Stephanie Howe is out of prison after a ten stretch for GBH and more, enjoying a celebratory drink at the local hostelry for dodgy guys and gals, The Bootmakers Arms, a.k.a. The Cobblers. The notorious lady gangster has business to clear up from before her holiday at her Majesty's request.Much has changed in her leafy suburb, north east of London, during the interruption in her life. The pub has new owners; guys who have made their millions in The City of London. Managed by the mercurial Veronica, a mystery herself. A landlady who has calmed the pub from being a scene from the Wild West to simply a den of thieves. They are desperate to redevelop the pub and shed it of its sleazy image. Next door to the pub the once defunct and discredited Prep School, now the magnificent Blue Skies House Retirement Home. Owned by Benny 'BJ' Johnson, a larger than life character of Nigerian origin with an overdraft to match his ego.There is a relatively new Detective Inspector on the block, Mike Griffin. He has a long-term case to solve. The disappearance of sixteen gold bars after a raid on a Spanish Bank in The City of London a decade earlier. Word is that it is in his patch and he has been deployed to solve this, together with an unhealthy spike in crime figures in the area.An area where many know plenty but divulge little. Dodgy pasts are more than the norm. Who really knows what though? Fake news and misinformation are D.I. Griffin's bug bear. An intriguing pool of characters for him and his tenacious team of two to unravel. One of the pub's most frequent visitors is a peddler of goods illegally acquired in London's West End, who certainly, doesn't stand out as being anything other than a punter; but has he a secret to be told? Cobblers is an entertaining, page turning, adult mystery yarn that looks at everyday life of everyday folk in a not necessarily normal society. Much illicit shagging seems to be excepted, or even expected. With the local Constabulary more than contributing to the shenanigans, as well as appearing to carry a stash of nine-bob notes. Or is this more reality than the lives many of us lead?The gold though? The tale attempts to untangle the mystery whereabouts of the bullion.Character and dialogue driven, explosive at times, with many a twist, Cobblers will absorb you into a world that we all live very close to.Prepare to be entertained and if you can second guess the outcome you are one ahead of the author.