Colin Bateman Books

Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive new novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters

MYSTERY MAN, the first novel in this brilliant new series, was a Richard & Judy choice in 2009 and has sold over 100,000 copies

'You don't say no to Dr. Yes', the charismatic plastic surgeon on the fast track to fame and fortune. But when the wife of obscure and paranoid crime writer Augustine Morrow disappears shortly after entering his exclusive clinic, the Small Bookseller with No Name is persuaded to investigate. As fatherhood approaches, our intrepid hero is interested only in a quick buck and the chance to exploit a neglected writer, but he soon finds himself up to his neck in murder, make-up and madness -- and face to face with the most gruesome serial killer since the last one.

Celebrity scandal, revenge, and a very big mouse...

Dan Starkey returns! An hilarious, compelling, endlessly inventive novel featuring one of Bateman's best loved characters

"Ten-year-old Mohammed Maguire is one of the only survivors when the US Marines destroy a terrorist training camp in the Libyan desert, killing both his parents. He is brought back to Ireland, the land of his mother's birth, where he is treated as a public relations commodity by all sides of an argument he doesn't understand, but which he can see with the clear eyes of a child."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dan Starkey, hero of Divorcing Jack, is back in an entirely wonderful adventure in America.

Cannes, killing and kidnap from the author of MYSTERY MAN, a Richard and Judy choice

A brilliant whodunnit mystery perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton and Richard Osman!

When notorious gangster 'Fat Sam' Mahood is murdered, the chief suspect is arrested nearby. But he seems to have suffered a breakdown. Incarcerated in a mental institution, he's known only as the Man in the White Suit. The suspect remains an enigma until Nurse Brenda calls on Mystery Man, former patient and owner of No Alibis, Belfast's finest mystery bookshop, to bring his powers of investigation to bear... However, before our hero can even begin, the Man in the White Suit is arrested for the murder of a fellow patient. But is he a double murderer or a helpless scapegoat? Intrigue, conspiracy, and ancient Latin curses all combine to give the Small Bookseller with No Name his most difficult case to date.