Judy Ford

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2015
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Bernie Fazakerley Mystery

1 - Two Little Dickie Birds (Sep-2015)
2 - Murder of a Martian (Jan-2016)
3 - Death on the Algarve (May-2016)
4 - Mystery Over the Mersey (Dec-2016)
5 - Grave Offence (Jul-2017)
6 - In My Liverpool Home (Nov-2017)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Changing Scenes of Life

    Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Porter is a hero: his life was changed forever when he was paralysed by a gunshot from an unknown assailant but, against the odds, he has succeeded in resuming his career in the Police Service. To the outside world he ...

  • Two Little Dickie Birds

    A Bernie Fazakerley Mystery - 1

    This is a detective novel that also explores social and ethical issues. A body in the river is all in a day’s work for Detective Inspector Peter Johns and his Sergeant, Paul Godwin. But things start to become more personal when Paul recognises thei...

  • Murder of a Martian

    A Bernie Fazakerley Mystery - 2

    Seven friends decide to band together to campaign to save the environment. They call themselves the Martians, because, as everyone knows, Martians are green! Over the years, they go their separate ways and some of them seem to have forgotten their ea...

  • DC Johns Meets His Match

    This short story relates an incident that has unexected and long-term consequences for Detective Constable Peter Johns. When newly-qualified nurse, Susan Parry, is found dead in her bed in the nurses’ home, her colleagues call the police to investi...

  • Despise Not Thy Mother

    When Detective Superintendent Richard Paige is killed while pursuing a suspect, his pregnant wife, Bernie, is determined to find out more about his background for the sake of their unborn child. His mother, Eleanor, is strangely reluctant to speak ab...

  • Mixed Feelings

    DI Peter Johns was brought up in a children’s home. He never expected to know his parents and never wanted to. He is unsure how to react when his mother makes contact with him and asks to meet. Follow his thoughts and feelings as he faces this unex...

  • Sibling Rivalry

    Detective Sergeant Peter Johns is resentful of the young PC who catches the attention of his friend and boss, DI Richard Paige. Richard encourages his new protégé to apply for promotion and Peter fears that he is being left behind. They go their se...

  • Death on the Algarve

    A Bernie Fazakerley Mystery - 3

    What could be more pleasant than a short break on the Algarve with a group of friends? But, when the wheelchair on which he depends is damaged in flight, DCI Jonah Porter wishes that he had never come. Relationships are stretched to breaking point as...

  • My Life of Crime

    These short stories have previously been published as individual e-books. This compendium brings them together and makes them available in paperback for the first time. Peter Johns grew up in a children’s home. On leaving school, he entered the pol...



  • Mystery Over the Mersey

    A Bernie Fazakerley Mystery - 4

    Exiled Liverpudlian, Bernie Fazakerley, makes a sentimental journey back to her home city to visit relatives and to take her daughter, Lucy, back to their roots. Before long, events take a sinister turn when they are witnesses to a murder aboard the ...

  • Sorrowful Mystery

    Three young mothers take their infants to an Oxford park, but only two of the babies return home. When six-week-old Abigail goes missing from her pram, the race is on to find her before she comes to harm. Who would want to steal a baby girl? And why?...

  • Awayday

    Large Print Edition of a Detective Novel first published in 2015 When the bursar of Lichfield College is found strangled in an Oxford hotel, Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Porter rapidly concludes that the killer is one of the nine college staff att...

  • Grave Offence

    A Bernie Fazakerley Mystery - 5

    The police are reluctant to believe young Lucy Paige when she tells them that she saw two men chasing a woman across a field. They suspect her of inventing a mysterious stranger, who hit her and then ran away, in order to protect her friend, Martin, ...

  • In My Liverpool Home

    A Bernie Fazakerley Mystery - 6

    Bernie’s Aunty Dot is worried that her favourite member of staff at the Care Home where she lives is being unfairly suspected of murdering another of the residents. She calls on their good friend DCI Jonah Porter to investigate. He discovers that C...

  • Organ Failure

    Father Damien is worried that the renovation of the organ in St Cyprian’s church may not be finished in time for the important Easter services. That’s even before the organ builders discover a corpse concealed beneath it and the police halt the w...

  • Rainbow Warrior

    Teenage “joy-riders” mow down a young man on his way home after a night out with his mates. As he fights for his life in hospital, the police struggle to find the culprits. Expert tracker dog, PD Q, follows a scent from the abandoned car, but it ...

  • Admission of Innocence

    When Vanessa Wellesley is charged with murdering her violent and controlling husband, everyone feels sympathy for her desperate attempt to escape from a deeply abusive relationship. But why does she refuse to admit that she wielded the weapon that ki...

  • Lethal Mix

    Three young Muslim students are attacked in the street by an assailant on a motorbike who sprays them with acid. What is the motive for this unprovoked assault? Is it a religious hate crime or something more personal? Is the aggressor a lone wolf wit...

  • A Secret Gardener?



  • Weed Killers

    When Gavin's son, Kenneth, followed him into the Police Service, neither of them thought that he would make the headlines (or the statistics) as a valiant officer killed in the course of his duty. However, only days before Christmas, a routine raid o...

  • Crowd of Witnesses

    Veteran detective, DCI Jonah Porter, is frustrated at being sent home from work to sit out the COVID-19 lockdown at home. To occupy his mind - and give her some peace from his complaints - his friend, Bernie, suggests that he writes his memoirs. So J...

  • Lost in Lockdown

    It's been more than four months since young PC Kenny Hughes was run down and killed while trying to arrest a suspect, but his parents, Gavin and Chrissie, are still reeling from the shock. To make things worse, the COVID-19 pandemic has closed down t...

  • Victim Statements

    Six months on from the murders of Kenny Hughes and Harry Whittle, their families are still waiting to hear when the killers will be brought to trial. The end of the COVID-19 Lockdown and the re-opening of Crown Courts offers hope, but summer turns to...

  • Just Another Knife Crime

  • Just Another Suicide

    The police are called when a young man is found dead in the garden of his family home. It looks like an all-too-familiar story of depression and despair but when DCI Anna Davenport starts asking questions, a few things don't quite add up. Short-staff...

  • Angie

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  • Our Bernie

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  • PC JOHNS TURNS TO CRIME

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  • Witness Evidence

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Judy Ford has published 29 books.

Judy Ford does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Just Another Suicide, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Judy Ford, Two Little Dickie Birds, was published in September 2015.

Yes. Judy Ford has 1 series.
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