The Fire of Mars

At the latter end of 2006, a well-respected, married, church Deacon discovers the possible hiding place of a huge ruby named ‘The Fire of Mars'. He becomes obsessed by it and it drives his every thought, but when he meets and falls under the spell of the beautiful and bi-sexual Julie, his life begins to spiral to depths he never thought possible.
In November of the same year, historic researcher Naomi Wilkes and her husband Carlton, arrive in Charleston, South Carolina,
in pursuit of the same stone.
And nobody has any idea of the horrific discoveries
they will unearth...

The Forgotten Gun

A Metropolitan Police detective about to be dismissed is given a second chance by his old boss, who is now a police commander. He’s given a new unit to run and two misfit detectives to assist him. All three know their status is temporary.

Their first case together is an impossible double murder. Each murder is identical. Both victims are expertly shot in the head from long range, but the post-mortems reveal no bullets were used in the shootings. The CSI teams calculate that in both cases there was no place for the marksman to have fired from, unless suspended over busy roads.

Although it’s a case apparently impossible to solve, DCI Steve Burt reluctantly agrees to investigate with his new team. Their enquiries lead them into the murky world of greed, corruption, fraud and money laundering, but they are no nearer solving the murders.

The team is stumped until the DCI meets a retired army major and a WW2 veteran who unwittingly hold the keys to solving these impossible murders.

The Gargoyle

Major Terry Knight, ex-special forces black-ops specialist, now recently retired due to injuries received during his last tour of duty, buys a very old and isolated manor house deep in the country, close to the sea and moves in with his family to enjoy the peace and quiet.

Unfortunately, things do not go to plan! A series of rumours, innuendos and worrying occurrences and the discovery of a hidden laboratory deep down below the house puts Terry and his family in harm’s way. He follows his intuition and finds that the house and surrounding area hide a terrifying secret kept for the last 20 years.

Persons unknown will stop at nothing to preserve and benefit from this. The body count, already high, continues to grow unabated.

Terry meets up with an old colleague who helps him work out what is happening and with support from a shadowy person from Group, the name of his old command. All of them are put in terrible danger before the truth is finally revealed in the old mine shafts and tunnels beneath the manor house where they confront their enemies and come face to face with the terrifying guardian protecting the secrets.

An explosive finale takes place at a nearby airfield before the plot concludes.

The Gate in the Fence

The book is about two neighbours who live in houses separated by a fence with a gate in it. It was there before either of them moved in. The gate provides easy access between the two properties. One of the neighbours is an ex-war vet who lives alone and is struggling with life and relationships after his combat experiences. The other property houses a family: a bank manager and his wife. The husband, Michael moves in first to take up his new role at the bank, while his wife stays on to sell the old house. In his new role he inherits a PA who sees her new boss as a bit of challenge, in more ways than one. Katie, Michael’s wife finally settles in to life at the new home, until one morning there is an unexpected knock at the front door. Who is it, and what do they want? What happens next will change all of their lives forever. The twists and turns in the storyline will have you wanting to know what happens next. Love, deception, deceit, planning, scheming, strength, courage, murder, revenge – the story has it all. Where will it all end and where will they all end up? Or will it end at all?

The Gathering Place

Thomas Beck has spent many years blaming others, particularly his wife, for what has gone wrong in his life.

When his health takes an unexpected turn and he can no longer drive his beloved classic car, he decides to drive it one more time before he sells it. That drive is going to take him on a journey he did not expect to a place he did not really believe existed. He stops at the scene of an accident and sees some of his neighbours, who do not seem to be aware of him. Thomas, being the man he is, shrugs and moves away waiting for the road to clear. Suddenly everyone has gone and he soon comes to the realisation that he is unable to leave the road

He is on a cold grey road, alone. How can he get off it? And if he does, where can he go? He can not leave the road. Thomas is very frightened but then hears a disembodied voice tell him he will be found and taken to safety, to The Gathering Place. Still very much afraid, he waits. They come but so does something else that will do everything possible to get him.

The Gene Genie

Do you ever escape emotional scars handed down by your parents?

Can you change the path of destiny?

It’s 1978. The winter of discontent brings Britain to its knees, the world’s first test tube baby is born...and the Sex Pistols play their last gig together. In a downbeat London suburb, teenager Emily Enderbie gives birth to twins, Annie and Bea. Separated at birth in shocking circumstances, the girls face very different futures. Raising vital questions about family, identity, pain and loss, the book explores the way the past stalks the present and the enduring heartache passed from one generation to the next.

The Girl Unknown

Luck has never been on Lucie Palmer’s side. She feels her life is a cursed one, full of loneliness and cruel blows. How else can she explain being removed from the family she loved as a child? Or being imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit as a young woman? Her life isn’t fair…

But now it’s time to rebuild her life, to start afresh. Lucie attempts to learn the secrets of her family’s past, about the people she was never allowed to love. But does a curse shadow her existence even now? A curse ready to strike again? Maybe even destroy her for good? Can she finally piece together the emptiness in her life before it’s too late, to no longer be the girl unknown…?

With gripping twists, turns and a shocking ending, The Girl Unknown is unputdownable thriller fiction at its most electrifying.

The Girl with a Parrot

In the second thrilling adventure of The Sloping Meadow trilogy, Lucy continues as the storyteller. She with her friends experience a series of adventures. The story’s exposition involves the saving of a drowning man. He is Bora, a very special man, keen to help his friend, Professor Mendoza; since he is ill, he will be sending his daughter first. This will be by a nuclear submarine.

The enigmatic daughter arrives and is taken by Lucy and her friends to Box Hill, but on the visit to a London museum, North Kortana has already tracked the submarine and now activates its most ruthless spy, Hye Booh. A drone tries to film them all in Sloping Meadow but they are helped by Helen Scott, an MI6 officer. They are all kidnapped when the professor arrives and are dragged to an abandoned airport, where Helen Scott tries to save them…

The Healed

A woman wakes up with her arms and legs tied, realizing almost immediately she is lying on train tracks. And to make matters worse, she has no memory of who she is or how she got there.

As she tries to live her life, still unsure whether she should start fresh or keep looking for information about herself, she can’t shake the feeling that there is something different about her. And, slowly, some memories start coming back to her, but they only bring more questions rather than answers.

The Hunter

Can you ever really outrun your past?

Since meeting Luke, Ali’s life has begun to fall into place. She is finally able to move on from the demons of her past and stop looking back over her shoulder at every turn.

But after a series of strange and disturbing events, her newfound happiness threatens to unravel as Ali begins to suspect that she has unwillingly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

In her attempt to uncover the truth, she is forced to question everything she thought she knew.

With one girl already missing, the past won’t stay buried for long and Ali must decide who she can trust before it’s too late.

The Illusion of Guilt

Roy’s life was not going well. He was clever, very clever, but his boss didn’t like him and finding other jobs in the computer industry at the ripe old age of forty-five could be difficult. He had bought a house with his girlfriend, but she was leaving him because he was “too nice”. He would have the debts of the house plus old debts that he was still repaying. Then there was Rosemary, but she seemed preoccupied with her stalker who had threatened Roy, grabbing by the throat on one occasion. Would he end up like his friend Keith who drove to the top of a car park and jumped off?

However, Roy had done something remarkable: he had saved the life of a man at one of his favourite hiking spots. He didn’t know what this would mean at the time. Then he realised there were other options for the stalker and his boss. What would he do? Would he feel guilt or was guilt just an illusion?

The Jackdaw Detail

Peru, 2005. The towering mountains and deep, forested valleys of La Convención Province provide sanctuary for a dangerous criminal organisation with sufficient military capability to challenge government forces. An elite unit of British SAS are tasked to implement a solution. Their ground-breaking new equipment offers a decisive advantage and enables an unorthodox covert approach, but its untested nature also brings complications. Soon the British team find themselves ensnared in a web of corruption and conflicting interest, where the only way forward is to elevate the crisis to a chaotic conclusion.

The Jackdaw Detail weaves between political, tactical and financial motives, as soldiers and civilians alike are drawn into an ever-thickening plot.