Dillon leaned over and placed a large hand on his shoulder. “You didn’t need to, old son. It’s the puppy-eyed look on your ugly face every time you see her, and the lovey-dovey tone that creeps into your voice every time you speak to her, that’s what gave the game away.”
Tyler looked around the room, taking in his remaining colleagues one by one. “They all know?” he said, sounding dismayed.
Dillon nodded.
Jack’s face paled. “All of them?”
Dillon nodded some more. “Between you and me, I think even George has figured it out.”
Tyler groaned. “He hasn’t said anything to me.”
Dillon smiled. “I don’t think he will unless you bring it up and force him to address the elephant in the room.”
Tyler thought about this for a few seconds while the others sat there looking at him in amusement. Eventually, he turned to Kelly. “Does this mean I can finally kiss you in public?” he asked.
She blushed. “I guess so,” she said self-consciously.
“Good,” Tyler said, leaning across to tenderly plant his lips on hers, “because I’ve been wanting to do exactly that for a very long time.”
JACK’S BACK
The first book in the DCI Tyler Thriller series
It’s been over a hundred years since Jack the Ripper terrorised the gas lit streets of Victorian London, but when a night watchman discovers the mutilated corpse of a local prostitute at a building site in Whitechapel, it quickly becomes apparent to DCI Jack Tyler that someone has taken up the Ripper’s mantle and is emulating the terrible atrocities that gained his namesake such notoriety.
Be afraid.
This is only the start…
Jack’s Back.
Written in the victim’s own blood, the chilling message catapults Tyler into a frantic race against time. Can he get inside the mind of a monster and find a way to stop him, or will more women end up on a cold mortuary slab?
With the top brass breathing down his neck and hampered by an interfering reporter, Tyler knows that if he doesn't catch the man the media has dubbed ‘The New Ripper’ soon his career won’t be the only thing that’s left in tatters.
Perfect for fans of gritty London Noir, Jack's Back will keep you turning pages until the bloody end.
THE HUNT FOR CHEN
A DCI Tyler Novella only available from Mark’s website:
Exhausted from having just dealt with a series of gruesome murders in Whitechapel, DCI Jack Tyler and his team of homicide detectives are hoping for a quiet run in to Christmas.
Things are looking promising until the London Fire Brigade are called down to a house fire in East London and discover a charred body that has been wrapped in a carpet and set alight.
Attending the scene, Tyler and his partner, DI Tony Dillon, immediately realise that they are dealing with a brutal murder.
A witness comes forward who saw the victim locked in a heated argument with an Oriental male just before the fire started, but nothing is known about this mysterious man other than he drives a white van and his name might be Chen.
Armed with this frugal information, Tyler launches a murder investigation, and the hunt to find the unknown killer begins.
Glossary of terms used in the Jack Tyler books
AC – Assistant Commissioner
ACPO – Associaltion of Chief Police Officers
AFO – Authorised Firearms Officer
AIDS – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AMIP – Area Major Investigation Pool (Predecessor to the Homicide Command)
ANPR – Automatic Number Plate Recognition
ARV – Armed Response
ASU – Air Support Unit
ATC – Air Traffic Control
ATS – Automatic Traffic Signal
Azimuth – The coverage from each mobile phone telephone mast is split into three 120-degree arcs called azimuths
Bandit – the driver of a stolen car or other vehicle failing to stop for police
BIU – Borough Intelligence Unit
BPA – Blood Pattern Analysis
BTP – British Transport Police
C11 – Criminal Intelligence / surveillance
CAD – Computer Aided Dispatch
CCTV – Closed Circuit Television
CIB – Complaints Investigation Bureau
CID – Criminal Investigation Department
CIPP – Crime Investigation Priority Project
County Mounties – a phrase used by Met officers to describe police officers from the Constabularies
CRIMINT – Criminal Intelligence
CSM – Crime Scene Manager
(The) Craft – the study of magic
CRIS – Crime Reporting Information System
DNA – Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DC – Detective Constable
DS – Detective Sergeant
DI – Detective Inspector
DCI – Detective Chief Inspector
DSU – Detective Superintendent
DCS – Detective Chief Superintendent
DPG – Diplomatic Protection Group
Enforcer – a heavy metal battering ram used to force open doors
ESDA – Electrostatic Detection Apparatus (sometimes called
an EDD or Electrostatic Detection Device)
ETA – Expected Time of Arrival
(The) Factory – Police jargon for their base.
FLO – Family Liaison Officer
FME – Force Medical Examiner
Foxtrot Oscar – Police jargon for ‘fuck off’
FSS – Forensic Science Service
GP – General Practitioner
GMC – General Medical Council
GSR – Gun Shot Residue
HA – Arbour Square police station
HAT – Homicide Assessment Team
HEMS – Helicopter Emergency Medical Service
HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HOLMES – Home Office Large Major Enquiry System
HP – High Priority
HR – Human Resources
HT – Whitechapel borough / Whitechapel police station
IFR - Instrument Flight Rules are used by pilots when visibility is not good enough to fly by visual flight rules
ICU – Intensive Care Unit
IO – Investigating Officer
IPCC – Independent Police Complaints Commission
IR – Information Room at NSY
IRV – Immediate Response Vehicle
KF – Forest Gate police station
Kiting checks – trying to purchase goods or obtain cash with stolen / fraudulent checks
LAG – Lay Advisory Group
LAS – London Ambulance Service
LFB – London Fire Brigade
LOS – Lost Or Stolen vehicle
MIR – Major Incident Room
MPH – Miles Per Hour
MICH/ACH (Modular Integrated Communications Helmet / Advanced Ballistic Combat
Helmet)
MP - Radio call sign for Information Room at NSY
MPS – Metropolitan Police Service
MSS – Message Switching System
NABIS – National Ballistics Intelligence Service
NADAC – National ANPR Data Centre
NHS – National Health Service
Nondy – Nondescript vehicle, typically an observation van
NOTAR - No Tail Rotor system technology
NSY – New Scotland Yard
OH – Occupational Health
OM – Office manager
Old Bill – the police
P9 – MPS Level 1/P9 Surveillance Trained
PC – Police Constable
PACE – Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
PCMH – Plea and Case Management Hearing
PIP – Post Incident Procedure
PLO – Press Liaison Officer
PM – Post Mortem
PNC – Police National Computer
POLACC – Police
