Pretty Dead Ordinary

Nearly two years after a serial killer let loose with havoc in Brumby Flat, intrigue, unexpressed desires and murder ride back into town.

A long-awaited wedding celebration turns sinister when a bridesmaid nearly drowns in the local dam. Once again, Senior Detective Phillip Duncan is drawn into the initial investigations, but quickly becomes the prime suspect. Gradually the small South Australian town starts to believe he fits the profile of their new deadly threat.

Some familiar characters return from The Big Dead Dry. Raquel Willaston is still living with the charismatic silo painter Phil Proctor and Anabella Williams has returned after serving time in a correctional centre for the accidental death of the local Mayor. Raquel’s son Steve is now the local rookie cop, quickly learning how to cope with the evil circumstances unfolding around him. Then there are the new folks in town, the crafty Tanaka family with their rebellious beautiful daughter ‘Yankee’ who Steve becomes obsessed with.

Pretty Dead Ordinary sums up the order of things to come. Detective Duncan is forced to work harder than ever to prove his own innocence and hopefully bring the real killer to justice.

That Afternoon

Michael Talbot has spent the last twenty-five years working at the tax office, where he is known ironically to his colleagues as Old Sunbeam. Behind the mask of surly efficiency, Michael is in fact a highly sensitive person who was once a charming and lively little boy of six, until the terrible day when his mother unaccountably disappeared, leaving him to the mercies of his father, Eric, a bully of a man with little sympathy for children who indulges his boisterous sense of fun at his son’s expense. Despite this profoundly unsatisfactory relationship, Michael remains attached to Eric in a dutiful slavish sort of way, continuing to meet him occasionally for lugubrious drinks. And so life might have continued indefinitely until early one morning the phone shrills with a frightening message from the local hospital, galvanising him into frenzied and panic-stricken action and launching him into an extraordinary and terrifying adventure. Michael freely admits that his description of this adventure beggars belief, but however real or unreal it may have been, it has freed him from the stranglehold of the past, so that at last he can move forward into fulfilment in a future full of promise.

The Poisoned Pen

In 1942, dead bodies were a common sight after an air raid, so no one was suspicious when a mutilated body of a young woman was found in a bombed-out warehouse. She was just another victim of a war that had claimed thousands of victims. At least that was what Sergeant Timothy Tipping assumed, yet his boss Inspector Ben Bishop was suspicious. Her shoes were missing, and so was her purse. It was the same modus operandi as the other bodies.

Surely it wasn’t murder? Yet as the investigation progressed, it was plain that inspector Bishop had a killer on his patch and the local doctor, Brian Dwyer, became his number one suspect. Even his brother John Dwyer, the Catholic Priest of St Joseph’s Church, believed in his brother’s guilt. Especially after both of Brian Dwyer’s wives died in suspicious circumstances.

Was Brian Dwyer guilty? Inspector Bishop thought so, and he was working hard to prove it, and to send Brian Dwyer to the gallows.

There was only one person who could save him. Only one person who knew the truth. Yet in telling that truth, Ellen Cooper, a complete stranger, put her own life in mortal danger.

Cadaver Crime Unit

Two dogs, Oreo and Trooper, are trained to find bodies in unusual places. They are part of a team that is unique. Watch as they unravel their very first case. They will be joined by their owner who will also go on a journey of his own. This very first book in the series will take you on a journey in their home county of Yorkshire. They might have to travel to find their clues. Why have these people been killed? There's also an international connection, but how are they involved? What is the motive? Its all to do with the keys and a trap door. Will Oreo and Trooper do their jobs well? There will be many twists and turns. Can you guess who the guilty person is before you get to the end? Who? What? Why? Is the key the link? Or is it just a red herring to lead the detectives the wrong way. Read to find out what journey the detective is going on.

Murder Can Kill

When Kirsty Morgan dropped five thousand dollars on Private Investigator Paul West's desk, with the promise of five thousand more if he found her father, he had no idea he was on the cusp of being thrust into a cauldron of lies, deceit and manipulation, orchestrated by the most unlikely of characters... a charismatic televangelist. He gave new meaning to Machiavellian as he orchestrated and manipulated the lives of those who trusted him. It took an acerbic newspaper columnist to trigger the climatic ending which engulfed widows who were coerced into signing away their estates through codicils, all in the name of God. Murder Can Kill is a page turner. It will keep the reader guessing to the very end.

SCAMMED: The Marshals of Richmond

When Nancy Murphy got caught up in a telephone scam, she never dreamed it would lead to murder and the underworld of drug cartels. Reporting the scam to the United States marshals may have cost her life. Her husband, Joe, in a desperate race against time, teams up with his close friend, Albert Smith, to find and rescue his wife. Not to be outdone, one of Nancy’s best friends forces her way into the search. Not realising the danger they were walking into, they set out to bring Nancy home. While this group of well-meaning friends are getting into more danger than they are equipped to handle, United States Marshal, Hershel Bing, springs into action. He recognises a connection in Nancy’s testimony that tied in with an undercover operation being conducted by another office. That operation had been compromised and the agents involved believed to be dead. Fearing a traitor had infiltrated his office, he leaves his fellow marshals behind and follows the leads in hopes of finding Nancy before it’s too late.

Murder Never Sleeps

Victor Madison was a man who never took "no" for an answer and Private Investigator Paul West immediately sensed that he could be trouble the moment he walked through his office door. He didn't ask, he demanded that West find his only daughter, Cindy, who had been missing for over two years. Money was no object. Police Inspector Charlie King, West's former partner, was the lead investigator into Cindy's missing case which was a cold one but was once again active when he was given permission to work on it with West. Their investigation took them to Alabama where they became involved with a collection of fascinating and questionable characters, including a local sheriff who made them his deputies; a bank manager with self-serving interests; a charismatic pastor and cult leader who knew a dark secret; and a besotted enabler who would go to any devious means to protect him… and she did. Madison's daughter was found, but not in the manner the reader could ever guess, or imagine. The suspense, in this page-turning mystery, never wanes right up to the last page and the chilling climax.

Settlement

Former undercover police officer Justin Kell has settled into life as a financial journalist in the City of London. When he comes across a suspicious case of accidental death, his investigation leads him to Henry Gray, an unfulfilled soul whose life is dramatically changed by a series of coincidental events. Driven by his desire to establish the truth, Kell finds himself thrust into the world of organised crime whose cynical and ruthless exploitation of the lives of innocent people reawakens his nightmares from his time in the force.

The Devil's Sandbags

The aftermath of leading a double life; Dorothea was for many years an undercover agent for M16 infiltrating a commune of revolutionary activists linked with the Baader-Meinhof Group in the 1970s. After leaving that work which caused her great distress, she tried to lead a normal life with her family who never knew what she had done. She discovered decades later that the past events and her own actions during those years would return to haunt her. She and her fellow agents learn to find healing, recovery and hope for the future. Dorothea has a second chance at love and happiness.

The Double Edged Sword

Rhia Bryant’s partnership with Jimmy Grant is an explosive affair. Considering their union to be the key to everything her adolescent heart had desired she was mortified when her lover told her he was moving to Germany to unearth a stolen painting. Unhappy with Jimmy’s wish to seek her father’s aid in his search Rhia looks to the past to help with the future.

As the pathway to uncovering the painting grows darker, and her father’s own past comes to light, danger stalks her journey. To keep one step ahead of the challenges she faces, Rhia once more brings deception into the equation.

The twists and turns of her personal life, forged by one Hans Parker, lead her into a year of deceit, lies, and a secret that threatens her very existence.

A rollercoaster of a read that questions the fabric of life.

Can a deceiver be deceived?

When is the moral high ground destroyed?

Time For Revenge

The latest case for DI Keane is personal. A retired policeman is found murdered in amongst his flower beds, a second body turns up in a local church.

How are they intertwined, and what effect does it all have on village life and a mother?

Ray Keane has to work through it all to a conclusion.  

As things finish up, there is a sense of relief and new personnel to get used to.

Fortunately for Ray, his life is moving along nicely, does this all bode well for the future?

Music Murder

The year is 1966, and the world is undergoing a transformation, as it often does. In Britain in the 1960s, its people are trying to adjust to what they have been told is a new and bright generation, with different values and new opinions, however unclear, when asked about them. All to figure out their place and function in this new era.

A death occurs during a party, but it might not have been intentional, maybe it was accidental, no one knows. What becomes clear is that someone wanted to harm the partygoers a lot.

It is up to five people from very different backgrounds to work together, to find out what really happened and why.