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Ted Darling #1-4
Ted Darling Crime Series: Books 1-4
gripping, original police procedurals with a very different sort of detective
Ted Darling was about to kill a man. For the first time in his life...
Ted's a Specialist Firearms Officer, and a good one. With a promising career in front of him. Then he meets someone who could change everything but who can’t live with his police role. Can Ted find a new opening within the force which is his surrogate family?
Despite being trained to shoot to kill, Ted’s good with people. His skills get him noticed and he’s seconded to help with a big CID operation. It isn’t long before he’s facing his first murder case.
Has he made the right choice in switching jobs? Or is he, as his Firearms boss warns him, about to commit career suicide?
If you’re looking for something fresh and original in police procedurals, why not discover the crime series everyone’s talking about?
Time for a change? Time for Ted.
Ted Darling was about to kill a man. For the first time in his life...
Ted's a Specialist Firearms Officer, and a good one. With a promising career in front of him. Then he meets someone who could change everything but who can’t live with his police role. Can Ted find a new opening within the force which is his surrogate family?
Despite being trained to shoot to kill, Ted’s good with people. His skills get him noticed and he’s seconded to help with a big CID operation. It isn’t long before he’s facing his first murder case.
Has he made the right choice in switching jobs? Or is he, as his Firearms boss warns him, about to commit career suicide?
If you’re looking for something fresh and original in police procedurals, why not discover the crime series everyone’s talking about?
Time for a change? Time for Ted.
1455 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 24, 2018
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About the author
L.M. Krier
27 books110 followersRetired journalist, freelance copywriter and copy editor Lesley Tither writes under various pen names for different genres. Already well known for travel memoirs as Tottie Limejuice, Lesley also writes crime fiction under the name L. M. Krier. Her first children's fiction book, adventure/crime, The Dog with the Golden Eyes, is published under under the pen-name L M Kay.
Writing as L M Krier, Lesley has published twenty-two crime fiction books in the popular Ted Darling Crime Series: The First Time Ever, Baby's Got Blue Eyes, Two Little Boys, When I'm Old and Grey, Shut Up and Drive, Only the Lonely, Wild Thing, Walk on By, Preacher Man, Cry for the Bad Man, Every Game You Play, Where the Girls Are, Down Down Down, The Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird, Dirty Old Town, The End of the Line, It’s Oh So Quiet, A Woman’s Heart, No Way to Say Goodbye
Everybody Hurts Sometime, Sweet Little Lies, Not To Tell.
'Sell the Pig' is the first in a series of travel memoirs describing how Lesley, writing as Tottie Limejuice, decided to make the move from the UK to France to start a new life, taking with her an 89-year-old mother suffering from vascular dementia. The story continues in three further books, 'Is That Billinge Lump?' 'Mother, Was It Worth It?' 'Biff the Useless Mention', and 'Angling Bumateurs'. There's an additional standalone prequel to the series, Trot On!, about her time running a holiday riding centre in Wales, before her move to France.
Lesley is also the not-so-secret writer behind the pen-name of Carl Granger. The book Looking for Lulu is darker crime fiction.
Lesley is a former journalist, working as both a criminal court and coroner's court reporter. She also worked as a case tracker for the Crown Prosecution Service, and for a firm investigating irregularities in offshore finance. Her other jobs have included owning and running a holiday riding centre and acting as a 'charity mugger', lying in wait to sign up shoppers for a wildlife charity.
Lesley's interests centre around nature and wildlife and encompass dogs, wild camping and organic gardening. She lives in the Auvergne region of Central France and holds dual French/British nationality. Her current dogs are two rescued border collies
Want to chat with Lesley? You'll find a Tottie Limejuice Chat Group on Facebook, with lots of photos of the Auvergne.
Writing as L M Krier, Lesley has published twenty-two crime fiction books in the popular Ted Darling Crime Series: The First Time Ever, Baby's Got Blue Eyes, Two Little Boys, When I'm Old and Grey, Shut Up and Drive, Only the Lonely, Wild Thing, Walk on By, Preacher Man, Cry for the Bad Man, Every Game You Play, Where the Girls Are, Down Down Down, The Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird, Dirty Old Town, The End of the Line, It’s Oh So Quiet, A Woman’s Heart, No Way to Say Goodbye
Everybody Hurts Sometime, Sweet Little Lies, Not To Tell.
'Sell the Pig' is the first in a series of travel memoirs describing how Lesley, writing as Tottie Limejuice, decided to make the move from the UK to France to start a new life, taking with her an 89-year-old mother suffering from vascular dementia. The story continues in three further books, 'Is That Billinge Lump?' 'Mother, Was It Worth It?' 'Biff the Useless Mention', and 'Angling Bumateurs'. There's an additional standalone prequel to the series, Trot On!, about her time running a holiday riding centre in Wales, before her move to France.
Lesley is also the not-so-secret writer behind the pen-name of Carl Granger. The book Looking for Lulu is darker crime fiction.
Lesley is a former journalist, working as both a criminal court and coroner's court reporter. She also worked as a case tracker for the Crown Prosecution Service, and for a firm investigating irregularities in offshore finance. Her other jobs have included owning and running a holiday riding centre and acting as a 'charity mugger', lying in wait to sign up shoppers for a wildlife charity.
Lesley's interests centre around nature and wildlife and encompass dogs, wild camping and organic gardening. She lives in the Auvergne region of Central France and holds dual French/British nationality. Her current dogs are two rescued border collies
Want to chat with Lesley? You'll find a Tottie Limejuice Chat Group on Facebook, with lots of photos of the Auvergne.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
February 4, 2023
If you enjoy a realistic crime series, these are the books for you. A brilliant series of books. I am hooked on these.
September 18, 2021
1~ The First Time Ever (****)
2~ Baby's Got Blue Eyes (***)
3~ Two Little Boys (****)
4~ When I'm Old and Grey (****)
2~ Baby's Got Blue Eyes (***)
3~ Two Little Boys (****)
4~ When I'm Old and Grey (****)
December 19, 2019
Brilliant set of four books
I love books involving British crime but I've never come across a leading character like ted darling short in statue gay and with a surname of darling my first thoughts were I bet he gets the Micky taken out of him but being a black belt in multiple martial arts I'm sure he can take care of himself. This is a box set of four books , and number one starts off with a blast literally then slows down a bit so you can get to the characters . I won't bore you with the story lines as you can read them professionally written on Amazon. I will say I really enjoyed them all ,I don't won't to sound to puritanical ( that's a big word ) but it takes a good author to write interesting books without going overboard with to much sex violence or swearing, and this is one of those rare author's that can . The beauty of coming to a series late on is there is no waiting for the next book to come out as it's already written so its off to book five for me .
I love books involving British crime but I've never come across a leading character like ted darling short in statue gay and with a surname of darling my first thoughts were I bet he gets the Micky taken out of him but being a black belt in multiple martial arts I'm sure he can take care of himself. This is a box set of four books , and number one starts off with a blast literally then slows down a bit so you can get to the characters . I won't bore you with the story lines as you can read them professionally written on Amazon. I will say I really enjoyed them all ,I don't won't to sound to puritanical ( that's a big word ) but it takes a good author to write interesting books without going overboard with to much sex violence or swearing, and this is one of those rare author's that can . The beauty of coming to a series late on is there is no waiting for the next book to come out as it's already written so its off to book five for me .
June 29, 2021
DI Ted Darling is aptly named: a complex character who grows on you, so much so that I was compelled to read all four books in this collection without taking a break.
Each novel is a satisfyingly well put together police procedural, but it's Ted and the diverse cast of supporting characters who really sucked me in.
I'll force myself to read something else now, but I'm delighted that there are many more books featuring Ted Darling for me to look forward to.
Just a note: the Kindle collection I read has all four books repeated, so don't be daunted by the seemingly massive page count.
Each novel is a satisfyingly well put together police procedural, but it's Ted and the diverse cast of supporting characters who really sucked me in.
I'll force myself to read something else now, but I'm delighted that there are many more books featuring Ted Darling for me to look forward to.
Just a note: the Kindle collection I read has all four books repeated, so don't be daunted by the seemingly massive page count.
January 12, 2020
I picked this up because I'd been engaging with the author online and it is set near where I live. It is really enjoyable and I mean to read more of this series but I'm not on the edge of my seat about it.
June 3, 2020
It was good due to being written around Stockport
December 4, 2020
Just read all 15 books in the Ted Darling series loved them all and it certainly helped through lockdown. Hopefully book No16 won't be too long coming, highly recommended.
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