Books by Frank Lean

Billy Fox has disposed of 14 women and gruesome evidence provides an open-and-shut case. However, when David Cunane is employed to research Billy's "true life" story, he discovers that nothing is what it seems. Somebody is trying to beat Billy's total - so have the police got the wrong man?

When Fred Travis, multi-millionaire and eccentric political leader, is found with his throat cut and private eye Dave Cunane's card between his fingers, things quickly go downhill for the Manchester detective.

Maverick detective Dave Cunane steps in when he sees a thug knocking Marti King around, but his actions are misinterpreted not only by her heavy-duty relatives but also his own nearest and dearest - Marti's one of those girls you shouldn't get involved with.

A thriller featuring David Cunane, hero of "Red for Rachel". Christmas morning greets Cunane sourly: Manchester's most intrepid private eye is in jail. Often known to take the law into his own hands, he now finds himself in the hands of the law, framed for a cold-blooded murder he hasn't committed.

A baby girl is kidnapped and GBP500,000 is demanded for her return. Due to the unusual nature of her father's work, he refuses to contact the police, but attempts to handle the situation himself. A famous international footballer hires Dave Cunane, head of Pimpernel Investigations, to track down the girl's kidnappers.

and gradually turns into a twisted path right to the heart of police corruption. As Dave find himself drawn further and further into a web of deceit and danger, he realizes that someone will stop at nothing to find Rachel before he does.

When student Meg Hands is found drowned in a Manchester canal, the authorities are only too anxious to classify her death as yet another sad result of alcoholic overindulgence. Dave is unwilling to probe but tentative enquiries reveal a hidden world of vice behind the fashionable screen of Manchester's free and easy drinking scene.