Bøger af Paul Stephens

Quirky, office-based British humour of a seriously mild nature, originally published as a magazine series and now in a revised version with extra material. Group Efforts is the fictional (allegedly) diary of Bernard Pierce, a departmental manager in a medium-sized company in the English Home Counties. It's set in the 1990s, a time before iPhones when the Internet was new, CDs were still the latest thing and office stationery cupboards still contained actual carbon paper. As Planning Manager and leader of the Worshipful Company of Line Management All Stars, Bernard's mission is to resist the ruthless imposition of new (and not always beneficial) computer technology by ambitious I.T. manager Chris Llewellyn, a task to which he finds himself uniquely, if inexplicably, suited. He's ably assisted by his comrades George Barker (Purchasing) and Andy Miller (Contracts), as well as his team, including the fearsome Rose and June, ever-organised Sheila, ever-scheming Danny and razor-sharp Amrat, a young man with I.T. ambitions of his own. Computer technology isn't the only thing that's changing in Group Efforts; it's also the story of the last days of an old style of business and its replacement with something more recognisable today. Think of it as a much gentler version of 'The Office' (though written before it!), without the monstrous (but very funny) David Brent character at its centre. Instead we have Bernard Pierce, film buff, diarist extraordinaire and upholder of the Line Management Way. Sit back, marvel at just how slow and clunky computers were back then, and enjoy! Group Efforts first appeared as a monthly serial in PC Plus magazine (UK), between 1994 and 2001. This edition is based on the author's original manuscript and includes additional material that wasn't published in the magazine.

"This is Weston-super-Mare, Love. If we downed tools every time an empty hotel caught fire we'd never get any work done, would we?" A derelict hotel damaged by fire - business as usual for the Weston-super-Mare police, except that this hotel has a corpse in the bar, charred beyond recognition. Detective Sergeant Mary Miller leads the investigation, and soon finds herself unpicking a web of rivalries involving old money, seedy lap dancing clubs, a work of artistic genius and the fight to save Weston's collapsing Birnbeck Pier. In the middle of all this is amateur sleuth Michael Slade, now an official Constabulary Technical Advisor, who as always seems to know more than he's letting on. And who is the mystery woman, living on Weston's once-notorious Bournville Estate and operating under two names in different parts of town? Death in the Deauville is the sequel to The Bodies in the Beach, the hit thriller about life and death in an English West Country seaside resort.

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Faced with an unsolved murder and no clues, Detective Sergeant Mary Miller risks her career by trusting Michael Slade, the eccentric shop worker who seems to know more than he should about the case. There's more to Michael than meets the eye - but does that include being a killer who gets his kicks by playing games with the police? "A rattling good read." "...every time I thought I knew where it was heading, something else would appear to make me think again." - Amazon customer reviews The Bodies in the Beach contains some strong language, and one scene where a character uses sexually disparaging comments as provocation. There are no descriptions of violence or sexual acts.

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