Nominated for England's Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award in 1986, You'd Better Believe It introduced Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur to reader in England and the United States. Harpur's domain is a small seaport city south of London. It's not unusual for the big-town criminals to consider such a spot as easy prey. At such times a policeman must rely keenly upon his colleagues, to be sure, and also upon his retinue of narks (tipsters). This time it's a Lloyd's Bank branch that's the target. When the heist is postponed, a policeman is killed. One nark, then another, is murdered. As Harpur becomes driven to his limit, he must bypass regulations and settle things once and for all with a vicious crook named Holly. But not necessarily on his own terms.
- ISBN10 0881501972
- ISBN13 9780881501971
- Publish Date 18 December 1996 (first published 1 January 1985)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 17 December 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 157
- Language English