Norm

Take a pinch of Morse, a dash of Lewis, a spoonful of Hathaway ... and there you have Norm. Norman Philip Ducker, Oxford’s latest detective. Science, cosmology, religion, and the mathematics of chaos fascinate him. So do football, rugby, motor racing, and the art of winning. But he still can’t get his head round opera or poetry or Doris Lessing. He likes rock and pop; he drinks lager as well as real ale; he uses public transport, except when he borrows his girlfriend’s little Ford Ka. But he does like crosswords. Norman Philip Ducker is far from the norm. Especially where law and order is concerned. For a start, he’s not even a policeman ... This is the story of how he battles his bosses and political correctness to play a key part in unravelling a complicated web of murder. It’s also a closely-observed human drama and a moving love story.