Vinyl Junkie : Tony R. Cox

“Simon Jardine is a first-rate protagonist. Dogged, witty, hard-working and obstinate. Vinyl Junkie is tense and absorbing. Plenty of action, racy dialogue and a neat twist in the tail.” - M P Wright, long-listed for the Crime Writers' Association, Ian Fleming Sterling Dagger Award.

England, 1974.

Reporter Simon Jardine and DJ + amateur private investigator Tom Freeman, attend a homecoming gig for a megastar band.

After the show, Jardine and Freeman witness a record company manager threatened and roughed-up, later that night they hear a man was murdered yards from the gig. Thus begins a thrilling chain of events that leaves even the hard-bitten Jardine in fear for his life.

As the stakes rise, Jardine and Freeman are bounced between dishonest record companies, corrupt cops in the pocket of violent criminal gangs, and IRA terrorists who control the drug trade. 

Events race towards a thrilling conclusion when a shipment of drugs sails into a remote Scottish loch where the forces of good and evil face each other down in fatal and bloody finale.

Books in this series.

• First Dead Body
• A Fatal Drug
• Vinyl Junkie
• Deathbeds
• The Straw Men