Calling Sergeant Crockford

It's the dawn of the Swinging Sixties. The Cold War is at its height and support for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is building. The Berkshire Constabulary's Detective Gwen Crockford is promoted to Woman Police Sergeant in Newbury the town at the heart of Britain's atomic weapons programme.

Gwen's initial reservations that her posting in rural Berkshire will be boring soon prove to be unfounded. A serial sex attacker on the loose, an attempted murder at Greenham Common US Airforce Base, and a charismatic heiress with a family secret keep things interesting for the capable sergeant.

Laser-focused on her police career and resigned to the single life Gwen is forced to re-evaluate her plans when a nature-loving war veteran PC walks into the station with an orphaned fox cub, and there's a shocking discovery in a railway station lavatory.

Written by her daughter Ruth and rich in social history, this is the story of a real-life woman police sergeant at the top of her game, guiding her WPCs through the immense societal changes of the early 1960s.

Ruth D'Alessandro is the daughter of police parents and was born and brought up in Shinfield, mid-way between Reading and Wokingham in Berkshire. She studied Modern Arabic at Durham University, and worked for 10 years with Librairie du Liban, the Middle East's largest reference publisher. After having her daughters, Ruth worked as a freelance educational writer, then built up her business as a commercial digital content writer. Ruth is the author of the Crockford trilogy, telling her mother's story as a policewoman in 1950s and 1960s Britain.

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