THE NATHAN COLE THRILLERS
Some crimes begin inside the mind.
Psychological crime and manipulation collide
in modern London.AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON & KINDLE UNLIMITED

THE ASHMERE PINES MYSTERIES
Small town. Long memory.
Chief Andrew Mercer investigates the deaths, secrets and old grudges hidden beneath
an apparently peaceful American town.AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON & KINDLE UNLIMITED

THE MENTON MYSTERIES
Crime beneath the Mediterranean sun.
Commandant Julien Ferrand investigates murder, secrets and old loyalties
along the French Riviera.AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON & KINDLE UNLIMITED

THE BRUNO SERRA FILES
Rome, 1984. Everyone owes someone.
Former detective Bruno Serra investigates crimes buried beneath politics,
corruption and silence.AVAILABLE NOW ON AMAZON & KINDLE UNLIMITED

THE PENDRAGON RELICS

THE MOROZOV FILES

STORIES BUILT AROUND PLACE, CHARACTER AND CRIME.L.K. Bowers writes mystery, crime and thriller series built around distinctive places, recurring investigators and cases designed to keep readers turning pages.From the Mediterranean streets of the French Riviera to the shadows of 1980s Rome and the darker corners of contemporary London, each series offers a different world to enter — and another investigation waiting beyond the last page.New books and new story worlds are continually being added to the L.K. Bowers collection.

Set between the glittering French Riviera, the quiet streets of Menton, and the shadowed borderlands of Monaco and Italy, The Menton Mysteries is an atmospheric police procedural series featuring Commandant Julien Ferrand.
Ferrand is a thoughtful, methodical investigator with a deep knowledge of the town he serves — its old families, seaside cafés, hidden villas, seasonal festivals, and secrets carried across generations. With his small but determined team, he investigates murders that disturb the beauty of the Mediterranean coast and reveal the tensions beneath its elegant surface.Each book follows a complete standalone mystery, while a deeper story from Ferrand’s past slowly unfolds across the series.Elegant, human, and suspenseful, The Menton Mysteries is perfect for readers who enjoy character-driven European crime fiction, Mediterranean atmosphere, realistic investigations, and mysteries where the landscape itself seems to hold the truth.

The Body at the Old Port - The Menton Mysteries - Book 1

A body at the old port. A town full of secrets. A detective who knows the Riviera has a darker side.In the sunlit town of Menton, on the French Riviera, the discovery of a body at the old port shatters the illusion of peace.Commandant Julien Ferrand is called to investigate a death that soon reaches far beyond the waterfront. At first, the case appears contained: one victim, one crime scene, one quiet corner of a Mediterranean town known for lemon trees, pastel façades, sea air, and postcard beauty. But Ferrand knows Menton too well to trust appearances.Behind the cafés, villas, family names, and elegant streets of the Riviera, he finds old resentments, carefully guarded lies, and people with powerful reasons to stay silent. As the investigation moves through the narrow streets of the old town and toward the borders of Monaco and Italy, Ferrand and his team must separate truth from performance in a place where reputation matters, memory lingers, and the past is never as far away as it seems.For Ferrand, the case is not only a question of evidence. It is a test of patience, instinct, and understanding: of what people reveal, what they conceal, and what a town chooses to forget.Atmospheric, elegant, and suspenseful, The Body at the Old Port begins The Menton Mysteries, a French Riviera police procedural series featuring Commandant Julien Ferrand.Perfect for readers who enjoy European crime fiction, realistic investigations, coastal settings, slow-burning suspense, character-driven mysteries, and stories where place, memory, and motive are inseparable.The Body at the Old Port is Book 1 in The Menton Mysteries.

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Death at the Lemon Festival - The Menton Mysteries - Book 2

A festival of light. A death in the crowd. A town where celebration can hide old secrets.
Every year, Menton’s famous Lemon Festival transforms the French Riviera town into a spectacle of colour, music, tourists, and golden fruit beneath the Mediterranean sun.But when a death occurs during the festivities, the celebration is shattered.Commandant Julien Ferrand and his team are called into an investigation where nothing is as simple as it first appears. Among festival workers, local families, visiting strangers, business interests, and old rivalries, Ferrand must uncover who had a reason to turn Menton’s brightest event into the scene of a crime.As the investigation moves from crowded streets and decorated floats to quiet back rooms, private conversations, and the hidden tensions beneath the town’s public face, Ferrand discovers that the Lemon Festival is not only a celebration. It is also a stage — and someone has been using it to conceal the truth.In a place where reputation matters, memories linger, and every witness seems to have seen only part of the story, Ferrand must follow the smallest inconsistencies before the killer disappears back into the crowd.Atmospheric, elegant, and suspenseful, Death at the Lemon Festival is the second book in The Menton Mysteries, a French Riviera police procedural series featuring Commandant Julien Ferrand.Perfect for readers who enjoy European crime fiction, realistic investigations, coastal settings, slow-burning suspense, character-driven mysteries, and stories where beauty and danger exist side by side.Death at the Lemon Festival can be read as a standalone mystery, while continuing the larger story of Commandant Julien Ferrand and the secrets hidden along the French Riviera.

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The Last Train to Ventimiglia - The Menton Mysteries - Book 3

A dead man on the last train.
An old ticket from a vanished week.
A border that has kept its secrets for too long.When retired customs officer René Valette is found dead on the last train from Menton to Ventimiglia, the case seems almost too simple: an elderly man, a weak heart, a quiet collapse just before the Italian border.But Commandant Julien Ferrand has learned to distrust simple deaths.The old man’s coat has been buttoned incorrectly. His apartment has been searched. A locked metal box is missing from his private files. His medicine vial has been tampered with. And in his pocket is an old railway ticket, carried for more than twenty years, with a single name written on the back.A name that should have stayed buried.As Ferrand and Lieutenant Camille Roche reconstruct Valette’s final journey, the investigation leads them across the French-Italian border and into Ventimiglia, where they must work closely with Italian investigators, including Maresciallo Luca Bianchi. But in a town shaped by crossings, favors, old customs posts, and unofficial arrangements, every witness seems to know two versions of the truth — one for France, one for Italy, and one for the silence in between.From the old streets of Menton to the markets of Ventimiglia, from railway platforms and forgotten lockers to the polished offices of Monaco, The Last Train to Ventimiglia is an atmospheric Mediterranean mystery about borders, memory, quiet corruption, family guilt, and the cost of keeping the wrong secret for too long.Perfect for readers who enjoy character-driven European crime fiction, atmospheric police procedurals, cold-case mysteries, cross-border investigations, slow-burning suspense, and beautifully rendered settings with dark histories.The Last Train to Ventimiglia is Book 3 in The Menton Mysteries, a French Riviera crime series featuring Commandant Julien Ferrand.

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Murder at Cap Martin - The Menton Mysteries - Book 4

A beautiful villa.
A perfect crime.
A secret that has been waiting fifty years to kill.In the gray chill of a Riviera November, the town of Menton has stopped performing for the tourists. The shutters are closed, the gardens are silent, and at the edge of the sea, a wealthy widow lies dead at the foot of her own staircase.To the local police, it looks like a tragic accident. Commandant Julien Ferrand isn't so sure.In the elegant rooms of Les Cyprès, nothing has been disturbed. Not a rug is rucked, not a vase is out of place. To Ferrand’s experienced eye, the house is too tidy, the silence too calculated. When a second, unexplained injury is found on the victim, the "accidental fall" begins to look like a meticulously staged execution.As Ferrand and his team dig into the life of Isabelle Fournier, they discover a woman who had spent her final weeks obsessed with the past, ordering ancient surveys and unpicking the foundations of her own fortune. She had discovered a truth that someone has spent half a century—and a vast amount of money—trying to bury.From the hidden customs passages of the old border villas to the high-stakes boardrooms of Monaco, Ferrand must pull at a thread that reaches back fifteen years to the case that nearly destroyed his career: the disappearance of Claire Delmas.In a world where reputations are currency and the border between France and Italy hides more than just smuggled goods, Ferrand is about to learn that some doors are meant to stay closed—and some people will do anything to keep them that way.Murder at Cap Martin is Book 4 in The Menton Mysteries, a French Riviera crime series featuring Commandant Julien Ferrand.

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The Monaco Passenger - The Menton Mysteries - Book 5

Six people boarded the yacht.
Only five came back.
Everyone agrees on one thing.
There was never a sixth passenger.When a luxury yacht leaves Monaco and arrives in French waters with one passenger missing, Commandant Julien Ferrand is called to what appears to be a tragic accident.But the story begins to unravel almost immediately. Security cameras clearly show six passengers boarding. The yacht’s official records list only five.No one reports a missing person. No family comes forward. No hotel asks questions. It is as if the missing passenger never existed.As Julien and his team investigate the polished world of Monaco’s marinas, discreet wealth and carefully protected reputations, every answer creates a new contradiction. Witnesses remember the same evening differently. Electronic records have been altered. Someone has erased an entire person from the official story.Working alongside Lieutenant Élodie Marceau of Monaco’s Sûreté Publique, Julien discovers that the missing man had been investigating a long-forgotten Monegasque company. What begins as an impossible disappearance soon leads to hidden property deals, buried financial secrets and a truth powerful enough for an entire group of respectable people to lie about murder.Some crimes are committed for money. Others are committed to protect everything money has already bought. Because the hardest crime to solve is the one everyone has agreed never happened.The Monaco Passenger is Book 5 in The Menton Mysteries, a French Riviera crime series featuring Commandant Julien Ferrand.

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The House Above Garavan - The Menton Mysteries - Book 6

A sealed room.
A missing man.
And the first physical trace of a woman who vanished fifteen years ago.High above the Mediterranean, an old villa in Garavan is being restored when workers uncover a room hidden behind a wall for years.There is no body inside. But beneath the skirting board lies a small wristwatch engraved with two initials:C.D.Commandant Julien Ferrand recognizes them immediately. The watch belonged to Claire Delmas, the woman whose disappearance has haunted him for fifteen years.The villa’s owner, Laurent Beaumont, has been digging into the property’s complicated past. He tells Julien that someone has been pressuring him to sell—and that he has uncovered documents that may explain why. He promises to bring everything to the police the following morning.He never arrives. When Julien returns to the villa, he finds blood, signs of violence, and part of Beaumont’s private archive missing.Now two mysteries appear to be converging inside the same house: a disappearance from fifteen years ago and a crime committed today.But on the French Riviera, the most convincing explanation is not always the right one. And Villa Aurore has been keeping secrets for a very long time.The House Above Garavan is Book 6 in The Menton Mysteries, a French Riviera crime series featuring Commandant Julien Ferrand.

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THE WOMAN IN THE YELLOW HOUSE

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THE WOMAN IN THE YELLOW HOUSE

Before Commandant Julien Ferrand’s first investigation, there was one case no one ever solved.When an elderly woman vanishes from a quiet house overlooking the French Riviera, the only clues she leaves behind are silence, unanswered questions… and a single yellow dress still hanging by the window.As rumours spread through the town, Ferrand begins to suspect that the disappearance is connected to a secret someone has spent decades trying to bury.A short mystery that introduces the world of The Menton Mysteries—perfect for readers who enjoy atmospheric crime fiction, unforgettable locations, and investigations where every clue matters.

THE NATHAN COLE THRILLERS

THE ASHMERE PINES MYSTERIES

THE MENTON MYSTERIES

THE BRUNO SERRA FILES

THE PENDRAGON RELICS

THE MOROZOV FILES