Framed

Johnny Ace #3

by Ron Ellis

'Cracker' meets Quintin Jardine in the third of this gritty, urban contemporary Liverpool mystery series featuring tough but loveable DJ/Private Eye Johnny Ace It's an ordinary Thursday evening in July when Michelle Lunt is found hanging in a flat off Liverpool's Sefton Park. Unfortunately for Johnny Ace - local DJ turned Private Eye - the flat happens to belong to him. Although everything points to suicide, Shelley's sister Linda believes otherwise and, determined to learn more of the mysterious circumstances surrounding Shelley's death, she hires Johnny to investigate. But Johnny barely gets started before he encounters major problems of his own when the police search his flat for stolen goods and find them. Out on bail, Johnny needs to find out who has framed him and why. And whether it's connected with Shelley's death...

457 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1999

About the author

Ronald Walter Ellis