Jack Benton Books in Order

Sent to college in Japan, troubled British student Jack forms an unlikely alliance with Miyu, who is searching for the mother who abandoned her. Their journey from Tokyo to Nagano challenges what each believes they need to find.

Singer Chiaki Hasegawa struggles under a controlling manager determined to revive her fading career. Meeting British traveler Ben Wilson offers the possibility of a life beyond music, but her manager refuses to relinquish his grip on her future.

Haunted by a fire and a child's cry, Erika drinks to suppress memories of a devastating night. A friendship with British teacher Patrick prompts her to reconsider the past and uncover a secret that could change her chances of survival.

While holidaying on Bodmin Moor, private investigator Slim Hardy finds a damaged clock still ticking beneath the peat. The discovery leads him to a clockmaker's decades-old disappearance and a village where buried secrets resist his questions.

Disgraced soldier turned private detective Slim Hardy investigates an investment banker who visits a lonely Lancashire cove every Friday to read aloud from an old book. What seems like possible infidelity becomes a stranger case of hidden motives and betrayal.

Forty-two years after a nurse disappeared while walking home through a blizzard, her daughter asks Slim Hardy to investigate. A photograph of footprints offers a slender lead, drawing the private detective into a cold case with unexpected consequences.

A wealthy Devon landowner hires Slim Hardy to identify a blackmailer threatening to expose his past. The apparent culprit is a former employee the landowner claims to have killed, leaving Slim to untangle an impossible accusation and concealed family secrets.

Returning to investigation after a long absence, Slim Hardy examines a schoolgirl's unexplained eight-day disappearance. Though Emily returned apparently unharmed, her mother's growing doubts about her identity send Slim searching for what happened during the missing days.

Hoping a fishing holiday in South Devon will help him escape his drinking problems, Slim Hardy seeks quiet along the River Dart. A violent tragedy involving another guest instead draws him into an investigation of a possible killer.

Trying to rebuild his life on the Cornish coast, Slim Hardy is drawn into a fourteen-year-old death. The victim's sister seeks answers, but the only witness was his young daughter, whose troubled present may conceal more questions than explanations.

A chance meeting leads Slim Hardy to investigate the sabotaged fall that ended a trapeze artist's career decades earlier. With her former boyfriend missing and the circus long dissolved, a modest inquiry develops into a case involving multiple murders.

Slim Hardy investigates why a woman's son leaves handmade teddy bears at the memorial of a girl who drowned before he was born. His questions expose long-kept secrets in a Dartmoor community determined to keep its past undisturbed.

A friend insists puppeteer Bob Harker has died, yet the body has vanished. Searching Weston-super-Mare for evidence, Slim Hardy finds that Harker's life is as elusive as his supposed death, complicating even the most basic facts of the case.

Asked to assist police with a seemingly random murder, Slim Hardy encounters an unidentified victim and few reliable leads. His investigation reaches into the past and toward a secluded family's estate, where a hidden tragedy offers a possible explanation.