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Bill James (born 1929) is a pseudonym of James Tucker, a Welsh novelist. He also writes under his own name and the pseudonyms David Craig and Judith Jones. He was a reporter with the Daily Mirror and various other newspapers after serving with the RAF He is married, with four children, and lives in South Wales.

The bulk of his output under the Bill James pseudonym is the Harpur and Iles series. Colin Harpur is a Detective Chief Inspector and Desmond Iles is the Assistant Chief Constable in an unnamed coastal city in southwestern England. Harpur and Iles are complemented by an evolving cast of other recurring characters on both sides of the law. The books are characterized by a grim humour and a bleak view of the relationship between the publ...more

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Books by Bill James

Average rating: 3.85 · 225 ratings · 51 reviews · 41 distinct works

	The Lolita Man (Harpur & Iles Mysteries 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Panicking Ralph 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Top Banana 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Roses, Roses 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	You'd Better Believe It 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Halo Parade 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Lovely Mover 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Naked at the Window: A Harpur & Iles Mystery 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Come Clean 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Astride a Grave 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1995	My rating:

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Harpur & Iles (5 books)
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“One of those largish US women writers on the metaphysics of shagging had declared, as if it were a revelation - and a terrible one - that the sex act inevitably entailed violence on the female. Well, of course it did, you well-meaning, trite, benighted duck.”
― Bill James, In the Absence of Iles

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