Bill Wenham Books in Order

A young man’s unexpected visions of the past attract a secret government agency. Recruited to help stop a terrorist, he must put his unusual ability to use against a threat to an essential New York City service.

Sixteen-year-old Michael rides Peggy, a magical flying scooter with the ability to assume other forms. This fantasy for younger readers introduces a remarkable companion whose powers extend far beyond those of an ordinary electric scooter.

Detective Inspector Ken Meacham investigates a series of killings in Greater London. Written in the tradition of Agatha Christie, the mystery keeps its culprit concealed while drawing on the author's experience as a Metropolitan Police officer.

Four teenagers feature in a fantasy inspired by an unusually painted old clock. The story grew from the author’s encounter with the clock at an art show, turning an everyday object into the starting point for magic.

Inspector Bruce investigates two elderly philanthropists whose respectable appearance may conceal something darker. When his daughter is abducted from school, the case becomes personal, and he turns to retired detective Ken Meacham for help.

Unusual robberies and at least one murder lead Inspector Bruce toward a group of retirement-home residents. Their activities present a different kind of investigation, with another apparent crime that did not unfold as expected.

A man receives an email declaring him deleted, then discovers his personal and financial records have vanished before he is murdered. Inspector Bruce and partner Tyler make themselves targets as other employees disappear from the same company.

The hunt for a serial killer intersects with the first successful human brain transplant. A breakthrough in surgery and the search for a murderer form the two strands of this speculative crime story.

Photographers are shot at public events, leaving DCI Bruce unsure whether the killings are targeted or random. A third incident at a fashion show points toward an older Paris case that may connect the deaths.

An obsessive search for a former Nazi spy brings murder to a picturesque English cottage community. Among the deaths is a killing committed before hundreds of people, none of whom recognizes what is happening.

After an explosion during a mission in Afghanistan, a British intelligence agent develops an unusual extrasensory ability. His next assignment takes him to Brazil, where a powerful billionaire is pursuing plans for worldwide domination.

A young businessman discovers that the corporation he and his partner built is actually a front for organized crime. As its money-laundering operation comes into view, a succession of murders strikes dangerously close to home.

Inspector Charrington faces an apparently insoluble murder while receiving distressing news about a friend. An aspiring writer’s plans for an unusual do-it-yourself book add another complication to an investigation already testing her professional and personal resolve.

Four stories explore ghosts, levitation, telepathy, and an unusual form of faith healing. Each ventures beyond ordinary experience, bringing supernatural possibilities and unexplained abilities into a collection shaped by the atmosphere of speculative television tales.

Newly promoted Diana Charrington and DS Bonnie Bannerman investigate their first murder together. Suspicion falls on two Americans whose business serves wealthy clients, while trouble from the men’s past follows them across the Atlantic.

A young man wakes beside a murdered woman on a rural Vermont highway with no memory of her or how they arrived. Unable to explain the scene, he must confront the possibility of his own involvement.

A married couple travels Britain by motorcycle, robbing small shops at gunpoint until a shooting turns their routine into murder. Detective Chief Inspector Meacham and his team investigate crimes that also threaten to transform his own life.

A wartime romance is broken when an RAF navigator is shot down over Holland and presumed dead. His pregnant lover retreats to Cornwall, while captivity and lost memories complicate any hope of finding each other again.

Lonely seven-year-old Meaghan returns a stolen magical pot to its leprechaun owners and receives five wishes. Her travels through enchanted Irish lands bring a mirrored companion and a dangerous challenge involving a dragon and a wicked troll.

A prisoner convicted of killing dishonest lawyers receives a letter promising an enormous inheritance. Convinced it is another fraud, he leaves prison planning revenge against its sender, creating a new case for DCI Bruce.

Bill Wenham recalls the first nineteen years of his life, from early childhood in England through his teenage years. Memories of school, family, and wartime experiences form the opening installment of his account of an unusually varied life.

Bill Wenham concludes his three-volume memoir with the thirty-two years leading up to his eighty-fifth year. Looking back on this later chapter, he continues exploring the unexpected experiences behind a life he describes as ordinary.

Bill Wenham continues his memoir from the age of twenty into his early fifties. Following the account of his first two decades, this volume traces the next stage in the life of a self-described average man.

A medieval sword becomes a murder weapon again eight centuries after a killing during Henry III’s reign. Inspector Meacham’s case involves an old document whose discovery threatens the property claims of present-day landowners.

DCI Meacham investigates a suspicious parachuting death and concludes it was murder. His most promising suspect presents a seemingly impossible problem: the man was already dead before the crime Meacham believes he committed.

An Irish immigrant reaches New York shortly before the 1929 stock market crash. Following three generations, this family saga explores love, friendship, courage, and commitment through the promises that connect lives across the years.

Retired policeman Ken Meacham discovers the body of a maid from a house he has been watching and insists on helping DCI Bruce. Further killings suggest that apparently disconnected crimes may have a hidden financial instigator.

Elderly Jack Evans tells a film producer about his involvement in a wartime spy network. His account follows a race to stop a German assassination plot targeting Winston Churchill and Britain's royal family during World War II.

In the 1950s, an elderly wizard visits deserving people with Peggy, a magical flying horse able to change form. This adventure gives Peggy a temporary new identity as the wizard’s extraordinary companion returns in another guise.

An elderly woman is murdered for her money, although her killer is far away when she dies. Changes within Inspector Charrington’s team complicate the case, and danger reaches her own vulnerable sister at home.

A mutilated body found near a horse seems to belong to the animal’s owner, but the identification proves wrong. When that man is also murdered, Inspector Charrington and her sergeant face an increasingly tangled investigation.

Five wealthy businessmen develop a clandestine system to record human thoughts, kidnapping people for experiments and planning to sell it to governments. Their research creates seemingly indestructible, murderous subjects whose escape unleashes violence beyond the compound.

Two young women are killed with an axe and their faces disfigured with acid. As Inspector Charrington investigates, doubts about her newly assigned sergeant force her to consider whether someone inside her team could be responsible.

DCI Bruce and his new sergeant, Jerry Corley, investigate four deaths with very different apparent explanations. Accidents, suicide, and violent retaliation become competing possibilities as the detectives try to understand the connections between the victims.

Waiting at the church for his wedding, a young man learns that his bride has died in a police shootout. Grief drives him into a campaign against the police, focused on the officer he holds responsible.

A historic ownership dispute divided a family into wealthy and penniless branches. Generations later, resentment over control of a major English company fuels a determination to reverse that injustice, even at the cost of murder.

Inspector Bruce investigates wealthy vigilantes who consider the courts too lenient toward violent criminals. Treating punishment as a game, they randomly assign both targets and participants, creating a private system of justice outside the law.

Three schoolboys grow up to become a businessman, a police officer, and a powerful London gang leader. Their diverging lives form a crime story in which friendship and revenge meet the violence of the criminal underworld.

A London gang leader's private plane crashes in the Pyrenees, apparently killing everyone aboard, but only three bodies are found. Subsequent murders raise questions about whether Konny Romanski survived and why he has not reappeared.

Inspector Bruce and his new detective sergeant investigate a killing with an unusual weapon. She recognizes its resemblance to a device used in a London play, while the victim's wife's lack of concern deepens the mystery.

Inspector Charrington and DS Bonnie Bannerman juggle three investigations: seemingly motiveless murders, a gangland killing, and a twenty-year-old case that has resurfaced. Each demands attention as old questions and fresh violence compete for the detectives’ time.

As retirement approaches, Inspector Meacham investigates the apparent kidnapping of a local company's chief executive. The executive's strained family relationships provide numerous suspects, but the circumstances soon suggest that the reported abduction conceals a more complicated crime.

Inspector Diana Charrington investigates a succession of brutal razor killings that seem designed to implicate one particular person. As more women die, she must uncover the purpose behind the staged evidence and identify the real murderer.

The murder of a High Court judge leaves Inspector Brompton facing an unusually large field of suspects. His harsh and unjust sentences gave many prisoners reasons for revenge, but another motive may explain his death.

A vigilante sniper treats murder as a pastime, earning a notorious nickname from the press. Detective Sergeant Booker and his younger partner must track him down before his campaign reaches the president of the United States.

Someone carries an apparently wrapped body into a cemetery on a bright moonlit night. The mysterious visit raises questions about what is being concealed, what the visitor intends, and whether anyone witnessed the arrival.

An accidental extraterrestrial arrival on Earth in the early twentieth century prepares the way for a larger invasion in 2038. This science-fiction story links the earlier encounter with an impending alien presence whose gentle appearance raises questions about belonging.