Amanda – a Would-Be Killer

This tale is about the lives of three people who became friends at university and how their lives became a nightmare.

The beautiful Amanda was torn between Harry and Simon, but was she right to marry Harry when Simon took a job in Norway?

When Simon returned from Norway, he had a great idea and went into business with Harry, maintaining the services of a major hotel group.

One night, Harry was called out as the air conditioning in their client’s major hotel had failed and guests were complaining. On this visit, he saw Simon followed by Amanda coming out of a hotel suite. They were gone before he could get his wits together.

Harry finds out from the hotel’s night porter that this is a regular occurrence so he sets about investigating what is going on. He sets up surveillance cameras and is dismayed what he discovers about Amanda and Simon’s undercover relationship.

When Amanda is told how Simon has been using her, she sets out for revenge and her plan nearly works. At the same time Harry has found out how Simon came into money and set up a disreputable ‘Gentleman’s Club’ where they recruited women from abroad to satisfy their members.

What follows is quite dramatic.

Aftershock

When the ground beneath you starts to shake, there will follow an aftershock…

A normal day dawns, but for two people, lives have taken an unplanned and unwanted path.

Anna can’t remember anything about the night before and struggles to piece together what happened. Mark remembers everything but wishes he didn’t. He even wishes that it hadn’t happened at all.

What follows is the inevitable course of revelation, horror, guilt and shame inflicted on two individuals by the actions of others.

This hard-hitting debut novel highlights the ongoing vulnerability of women and explores the devastating impact of misplaced trust and loyalty.

Africa in my Heart

Africa in my Heart encompasses tragedy, bereavements and recovery as well as protection for the environment and endangered species. It is a murder mystery but at its heart are two love stories: love of a place and romantic love. Beginning with a horrific tragedy, Jessica’s story unfolds against a background of the fight against poaching and her search for her own identity and place in the world. As a result of trying to track down the murderers, Jessica becomes involved with anti-poaching organisations. She and Lawrence become especially involved when they hear there is to be a raid on their friends’ safari park. They go on a mission to save the elephants and rhinos together with the police and anti-poaching organisations. Even as they draw closer together Jessica and Lawrence find themselves in great danger. Can they learn the truth about the murders and save the rhinos and elephants from poachers? How do they themselves escape from mortal danger?

Absent

What happens when you find yourself living a nightmare that you thought only happened to other families? Or that you thought only ever happened in a TV drama?The Spencer family are a hardworking, unassuming, contented, ordinary family – a mother, a father, and three offsprings.Nothing different from anyone else. Until one night, a tragedy unfolds, and their ordinary lives are thrust into total disarray.What they all once knew has all but gone, and now their lives are one big sequence of hurt, upset, uncertainty, and, above all … hope.A roller coaster of emotions that seem to have no end.This story expresses courage, strength, love, and what can happen when a family pulls together and never gives up hoping.

A Voice for Rebekah

In the years following the deaths of her parents and brother in a vehicle crash, Australian Anna O’Reilly is surprised to learn her mother, Elizabeth, had been adopted at birth. Curious to know more and, armed only with her mother’s date and place of birth, St Catherine’s Orphanage in Devon, Anna begins her search.

Because of the time that has elapsed and the closure of the orphanage in the 1950s, Anna believes the possibility of finding anything is remote. She is wrong.

Anna discovers her grandmother was a young Jewish girl, Rebekah Kominski, who struggled to survive and escape persecution in war-torn Poland. At the end of the war, she, with other children, is taken to the Lake District and later assigned to a foster family, but questions remain.

What happened to cause Rebekah to be banished from what was to be the start of a new and better life to an orphanage and a harsh existence? While at the orphanage, she became pregnant. Was she raped? Why and how, after giving birth at aged thirteen, did she disappear?

Anna continues her search until she finds the answers and reveals the shocking truth behind Rebekah’s disappearance.

A Vanished Hand

What do you do when the ghost of a serial killer taps you on the shoulder and follows you home? Haunted and accused of her secretary’s murder, Kate turns to her glamorous, psychic friend Jane and the mysterious witch Diana. Can they uncover the identity of the nineteenth century serial killer so that celestial justice may take its course? Snow is falling on the ancient walls of Kate’s home town; darkness descends and time is running out…

A Target for the Good

Fed up with the seemingly lack of justice meted out by the judiciary, two fairly normal, happily married, law abiding citizens decide that they would take the law into their own hands.However, it’s not as easy as it first seemed in the pub. Nobody seems to care too much about the rough justice that’s handed out, not even the overworked police, whose job our heroes have managed to lighten.Somebody cared though, big time, even the wives.

A Stranger's Keep

Michael’s world crumbled the week after his honeymoon; his wife was murdered, his best friend betrayed him, and in his line of work, no trust meant death.

With no one to trust, Michael lived in peaceful solitude, till a stranger stumbled into his home and led him to the truth behind his wife’s murder.

Chased by those who murdered her parents for reasons she couldn’t explain, Abigail found shelter in the house of a stranger, unbeknownst to her, she had just stumbled into the lion’s den.

Could he love her and his late wife together? Could he forgive her connection with the death of his wife? Did they ever have a chance at all?

Life gives us chances, it’s our choice to make use of them, or hold on to the past…

A Story to Tell; A Secret to Keep

Family secrets are never a good thing – or are they?

A Story to Tell: A Secret to Keep is the compelling debut novel by Fiona Rich. This domestic noir is full of emotional depth, that slowly builds suspense leaving the reader hungry to delve deeper into the complex and challenging lives of Tim, Libby and Josh and learn more about the secrets that the family hold. It is a story full of intrigue and plot twists that will keep you guessing until the end.

Each of the main characters have faced something traumatic in their lives, they all have their own dark secret that impacts on them psychologically; a secret that could damage the relationships of those closest to them. But will the choices that each of them make to resolve their personal crisis and overcome their psychological traumas release them from their inner turmoil, or lock them in an endless conflict of guilt and deception?

A Secret Existence

Ben Swan, a young British detective chief inspector working with the Counter Terrorism Command in Ireland, is recruited by the UK Security Service, also known as MI5. His police rank is suspended and he operates as a full member of the Service. He is given a new cover identity. His police background is not disclosed to his new colleagues. In accordance with MI5 policy, all members operate with a cover identity. He is involved in tracking down terrorists intent on initiating a major bombing campaign and a detailed investigation into the activities of a group of international criminals operating in the UK involving ex-KGB personnel. With this dangerous work he relies on the professionalism, loyalty and trust of his fellow officers. Yet, he knows nothing about their true identities, families or background.  If a member is killed on active service, nothing is made public and there is an apparent absence of grieving within the Service. He finds the anonymity of his existence difficult to accept and this is the theme that runs through the novel. Hence the title: A Secret Existence.

A Rainbow In December

Melinda Strigow was excited about starting a new job at Jacob, Ballingsford and Treacher Financial Consultants. While waiting for a bus, a car runs her down, almost killing her. From that moment on her life is changed radically. She is swept into the nightmare of people in the corporate world who have crossed the line from ethical and moral practises to obsession within power and financial gain. Francesca Romonoff Jacob morphs into a demonizing, murderous manipulator driven by her need for success. Hank Baldoni tries to hide from his past by adopting a false persona that puts Melinda in extreme danger. The entangled web created by those who fall prey to these obsessions leads to murder, loss, sexual abuse and pain for those who are innocent and trying to resist temptation.

A Question of Time

It’s November 1967, and when a girl’s body is found in the burning embers of a fire in a farmer’s field in Cheshire, DCI Sheraton begins a complex investigation. When a second body is found a short time later, the hunt now commences for a possible serial killer. Though, are the two really connected?

With murder, hidden secrets and revenge, all combining in this fast-moving thriller, is it just a question of time before the crimes are eventually detected?

There are several twists and turns in this latest entertaining crime thriller by David McCaddon, which is sure to delight his readers and keep them gripped until the very last page.