Bøger af Alan Grainger

Fairy stories for children aged four to eight years old

When Nelson Deep, wealthy tea merchant, is found dead in his study in bizarre circumstances and Detective Chief Inspector 'Foxy' Reynard is called in, a solution seems inevitable. Such an assumption however, makes little allowance for the dysfunctional and self-centred attitudes the D.C.I. quickly uncovers as he attempts to unravel the strange relationships prevalent within the Deep family.

Two brothers fall out after a family secret is revealed and when the dispute turns to violence one of them ends up in prison. On his release, he digs into his background in the hope of resolving some of the issues which have been troubling him. His research takes him to Ireland, where he finds, not only the answers he seeks, but a route to a new life free of conflict.This is the second book in the Templederry Trilogy. The Learning Curves is the first; The Legacy is the last.

Detective Superintendent 'Foxy' Reynard and his team from Sussex CID have to unravel a complicated web of circumstances to get to the murderers of men more associated with wine and frying pans than death. A typical old fashioned, almost genteel, British 'Whodunnit'.

The body of a young woman newspaper columnist is found part buried under the snow, and Detective Chief Inspector 'Foxy' Reynard is called in. As his investigation into her death proceeds, it becomes increasingly apparent there was more to Rosaleen Sommerton than met the eye

When a solicitor who specialises in finding lost heirs turns up looking for Charlie Cassidy, a professional writer of fiction, and finds he'd died four years earlier, he tells Max and Millie, Cassidy's son and daughter, he has information which might connect them, through their late father, to an unclaimed legacy. Millie's husband, who is a solicitor, thinks they should reject the heir hunter's expensive offer, saying he'll process their claim if they trawl through their father's things and come across anything pointing to an obscure family connection of which they had no previous knowledge. The hunt upon which they embark uncovers many of their late father's secrets and leads them to conclude he wasn't the man they'd believed him to have been.This is the third book in the Templederry Trilogy. The first is The Learning Curves, the second is Father Unknown

A myopic look at eighty five years of my life, with a glance at my antecedents, an introduction to a few of my more unforgettable acquaintances, and some recollections of rambling around the world.

A short fat man is found dead in the bottom of a grave freshly dug for somebody else. Nobody knows who he is, or why he is there; but Detective Superintendent 'Foxy' Reynard and his team of detectives, working through the evidence they collect in their slightly outdated way, finally bring his killer to justice. It's a British police detective story, the fifth in the series and it's told in the style of many British classic detective novels where even the criminals seem half decent.

When a young girl's quest to find the father she has never met becomes entangled in a police investigation into a series of seemingly unconnected murders, she has no idea that the information she digs up will ultimately lead to the uncovering of the last bit of the jigsaw the police are struggling to put together. Detective Chief Inspector 'Foxy' Reynard, who makes his first appearance in this murder/mystery story, leads the team from Sussex CID who ultimately solve the mystery and the crimes.

Divided from his father and frozen out of his home in Ireland by his new stepmother, sixteen year old Jimmy O'Callaghan runs away resolving never to return. With no one to guide and support him, he finds himself with little option but to learn about life and love as best he can. He's aided in his quest for enlightenment, success and happiness, by an unlikely collection of worldly people, the sort of people he would never have encountered, let alone befriend, at home in Templederry. Starting off with the few pounds he'd stolen from the till in his father's pub the night before he left, and with little appreciation of how big a risk he was taking, he has only his personality and determination to make sure nothing is ever beyond his reach.This book is the first of The Templederry Trilogy, and is partly set in the rural Irish town of Templederry, County Tipperary. It is followed by Father Unknown and The Legacy

A Foxy Reynard Detective story.When a dead woman is found sitting in a garden chair in a quiet cul-de-sac in Eastbourne with no clothes on; and the Prime Minister's wife chokes on an oyster at a Food Festival at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, nobody gives any thought to the possibility the two incidents are in any way connected. But they are ... as are some other unexplained happenings ... and it needs all the intuitive and logical skills of Detective Chief Inspector 'Foxy' Reynard of Sussex C.I.D., plus a few truths which have lain hidden in an old box for years, to work out what they are.

A chatty autobiographical account of the unlikely adventures of an Old Age Pensioner and his wifewho nearly bit off more than they could chew in Peru.

Two young men, once close as brothers, fall out over a girl when they are in their twenties and go their separate ways. Their vow 'never to meet again', is forgotten though, when they find themselves face to face in the course of an attempted royal assassination.

Billy Orange, pugnacious little Irishman, five foot nothing and afraid of nobody, rescues a young man from a beating in a back alley in Seattle and finds himself caught up in the Great Gold Rush to the Klondike. Arctic midwinter conditions, unscrupulous tricksters, romance, and death, test him but nothing can stop him.

Lands lost to desert may effectively be lost for ever, so desertification is humanity's most obvious despoliation to the planet. This book describes what is happening and where. It also discusses many of the myriad ways in which it is possible to arrest the progress of desertification.

Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species. This book offers an analysis of the causes of deforestation and presents a strategy for controlling it.