Stephen Puleston Books In Order

Publication Order of Inspector Drake Books

Publication Order of Inspector Marco Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Stephen Puleston is a published author.

He was born in Wales where he grew up off the coast of North Wales on the Isle of Anglesey. He then attended school and graduated from London University with a degree in theology. Once he left university he trained to be a lawyer, and later practiced for some time in a practice that was run in Anglesey by his father. He also worked in a small practice doing divorce work and representing clients in criminal courts, adding to more material that he can use for his books.

Now he is a fiction author on a full time basis and enjoying it quite a bit. He has debuted two different crime series. While they follow different main characters, they both are set in Wales, bringing the reader all of the scenery and the history and richness of the country through the pages. Puleston likes to write mystery and thriller stories that keep readers hooked until the very end, reading on to find out what happens.

The series debuted are the Inspector Ian Drake series of fictional novels. This is about the detective inspector who was born in North Wales and grew up there, who now works there solving cases. While taking on terrible murder cases he also battles his own demons, all while attempting to deliver justice.

Puleston is also the creator and the author of the Inspector John Marco series. This series follows the main character of John Marco. The story takes place in Cardiff, Wales, where he works as an inspector. Hailing from a Welsh-Italian family, he makes his living searching for killers who are doing their best to evade capture in Cardiff, a large and busy city.

In addition to being available in print form, all of the stories in these series are available to the reader in audiobook form. They are also narrated by professional actors with experience to give the listening experience that added level of enjoyment.

Today he resides in Ynys Môn/Anglesey along with his family. He encourages his fans and readers of his books to get in touch with him via either his Reader’s Club or a contact form via his home site. Prior to crime fiction, Puleston had also written three other novels that had gone unpublished. Readers can find out more about Wales and about his writing by going to his home website to learn more.

Brass in Pocket is the first in the Inspector Drake series of novels by Stephen Puleston. If you have been looking for a new story to check out that keeps you entertained all the way through, give this book a try!

Readers are introduced to the main character of Inspector Drake for the first time in this debut fictional work. He’s going to have the job of a lifetime this time around, though, and it turns out that the victims are some of their own.

Two traffic officers are discovered dead in North Wales on an isolated pass on the mountain. Inspector Drake is called to do some work on the scene but is put off when he finds a message from the killer there, which is traffic cones that have been arranged to make the shape of the numeral four.

Things take a turn when the killer apparently starts taunting them or bragging by the way of sending lyrics to the Wales Police Service. All of them are from famous rock songs that have come out over the years, and the inspector is not sure they’re simply messages or there is some type of hidden meaning that is yet to be discovered with them.

Are more killings likely to happen now that the killer has shown that they are definitely still out there and waiting to strike again? A politician is killed next, and now Inspector Drake feels confident that he has the answer.

Then the killer decides to send over lyrics once more, and Drake has to contend with the fact that more deaths might be possible. He also has to deal with the numbers in this case and face down his own particular obsessions and rituals.

When the killer decides to extend their threats to the inspector and his family, it turns personal. Will he be able to track down the killer, or will they have the choice to claim more victims? Can the inspector bring this case to a victorious close? Read this crime fiction book to find out!

Worse Than Dead is the second novel in the Inspector Drake series by Stephen Puleston. If you loved the first book in the series, check out this sequel and see what you think!

When a ferry departs from the city of Dublin, the last thing that anybody anticipated was a chief engineer being dead on the car deck. Just like that, a murderer is found to be on board. Of course, they have no idea who it is.

Who else are they going to call in but Inspector Drake/ He’s attending a cyber crime seminar when he goes to the Holyhead port to see the ferry docking up. The chief engineer is the victim, a man named Frank Rosen with a knife that has been driven through his heart.

Drake suspects he might know where the killer is, even though he is not yet sure who it is. The victim’s house is looked through after being killed, and now the inspector can say that the killer was looking for something. Could it be a data stick his wife found, with codes and numbers on it? Or will that only make things more complex?

The inspector’s cousin gets in touch with him, saying that he has information. Drake doesn’t know whether it’s reliable or whether he’s got an agenda, but they are about to find a link to North Wales drug dealing and more elaborate activities.

His cousin also moves Drake’s family into the case’s center, putting more pressure on the inspector who is currently getting counseling for his OCD habits and also his sick father and the pressure that losing him has been putting on him.

Then he gets demoted against protocol by a superior, and Drake understands it’s a hint that something is off. Now he’s on a case to catch the killer that takes him all over. Will it be successful? Read this book to find out!