Constable Along the Riverbank

The brilliantly entertaining and heartwarming books behind the hit 90s TV series Heartbeat, one of the top ten most watched shows of the decade.

Most police officers contemplate promotion, and Constable Nick of Aidensfield is no exception. As he ponders leaving the village in a bid for higher rank, his wife begins her new job but she doesn't want to leave their happy moorland home.

Despite Nick's personal dilemma, his rustic constabulary duties continue apace. There is drama when children go missing. Fourteen-year-old Emily vanishes from home and young Craig plays truant from school and there is more alarm when a man disappears in the river.

More drama unfolds when old Zip is taken ill, and Nick discovers he has a long-lost son, but where is his son now? What is the secret of the toy railway which is always set out in Zip's house? How does Nick persuade a Pyrenean mountain dog to vacate a chair?  It's all part of the daily routine for Constable Nick of Aidensfield.

Constable along the Riverbank was originally published in 2002.