Death at the Ommegang

In this gripping sequel to Karma, Patti Howland, daughter of the U.S. President, attends Cambridge University under an alias, seeking a normal college life. As she navigates her studies and relationship with Lucas Ndlovu, a dangerous web of international intrigue threatens to unravel her secret.

Viktor Rubinsky’s terrorist gang, in league with corrupt African forces, sets its sights on assassinating President Howland and thwarting the democratic aspirations of Thembani Ndlovu, Lucas’s father. With multiple assassination plots targeting a visit to the spectacular Ommegang festival in Brussels, Patti and her friends find themselves in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Patti must confront her deepest fears and risk the ultimate sacrifice to protect those she loves in this explosive novel that will leave readers breathless until the final page. Filled with pulse-pounding action, shocking twists, and richly drawn characters, Death at the Ommegang is a tour de force of suspense.

Murder for A Sideline

In 1960s Ireland, 19-year-old Will Daniels is out hunting rabbits when he comes upon a tinker poaching fish in the river. Thinking to have a bit of fun, Will calls out to the poacher. Things turn nasty when the tinker threatens Will with a knife. Will’s reaction will change his life forever.

Not Another Word!

Lacey and Lloyd Jordan begin a journey no young person should have to embark upon. Their father is serving a ten-year prison term, their mother abandons them.

By the time Lacey is out of foster care, she has been in six foster homes. She has three foster siblings who are missing under mysterious circumstances, each at different times.

She has lost contact with her brother. He ran away from their foster home to search for the missing teens. No one has heard from him since.

A story of perseverance, mystery and suspense, this tale has more twists and turns than a rushing mountain stream.

On One Normal Night

When life takes a cruel turn and everything you knew becomes the unknown.

Macy Reynolds was an ordinary girl with an ordinary life, until one day that life was shattered by a cruel attack on her.

People’s lives spiral out of control as a number of suspects are interviewed and secrets and lies are unravelled.

But will Macy’s attacker ever be exposed?

Pieces of Eight

Eight very different women, each with a secret, are closeted together in strange and unexpected circumstances. As time goes by, tongues are loosened and one by one they confess their various sins. Will tensions rise or can they bond in adversity?

Post Mortem

This new collection of pieces by Alan Blackwood can hardly be called short stories; they are gem-like concentrations or distillations of a series of images erotic, sad, darkly humorous, that Alan calls ‘vignettes.’ They will have the reader turning compulsively from page to page to find out what on earth he’s going to come up with next. It’s literature in a world of its own.

The Conversation Club

Centuries ago, the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten appointed a council of 22 custodians to foster the flourishing of the human spirit through the pursuit of knowledge, the advance of the arts, and covert philanthropy. Today, the London Chapter of that council is known as The Conversation Club. It is helmed by Esau Monk, who guards its activities and astounding wealth with ironclad secrecy, but its very existence and purpose are threatened from within.

60 years ago, in Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Ackerman smuggled 22 boys and a hoard of stolen gold out of the country at the outbreak of the war. Their destination: London, and The Conversation Club. Unknown to anyone but him, he has secretly substituted his own son for one of the boys and is haunted by guilt.

Now, in London, someone is carrying out brutal murders. The security services are convinced Islamic terrorists are behind the atrocities. Former FBI profiler, Dr. Ben Whisker, disagrees. He discerns something far more deadly than meets the eye. His recent fall from professional grace, however, means he is not being taken seriously. Realising that the impenetrable Conversation Club is the focus of the violence, he teams up with the Grand Master of the Club, Esau Monk, to figure out what the connection is.

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 Quickening of Alec Ross

War-time France – intrigue, deception and divided loyalties. Under the Mediterranean sun a shadowy world where ambivalence and compromise test loyalties to breaking point.Alec Ross is an innocent born at the outset of the twentieth century. This gripping novel explores his journey through its first half, as he finds himself almost accidentally drawn into the murky by-waysof espionage.His life has been one of avoided commitment and abandoned relationships. But now he sees young men and women, escapees and their Resistance helpers, rise to heights of bravery. He also sees corruption and squalor and the horrors of Nazism. Amidst the extremes of humanity at both its best and its worst he struggles to work out what matters to him in an existence where nothing is what it seems.Till the very end the question persists: will Alec commit himself to a cause, and to the woman he loves – or will he surrender in the face of demands which are finally too complicated for this simple man? Start reading and you won’t stop till you find out.

Touch of Destiny

Since the moment Lindsay Foxx broke free of District Fifteen, she has had to face many dangers, and had many close encounters with death. She has gone head to head with not only the ravenous zombie-like creatures known as ‘the infected’, but also with skilled humans that wish only to see her demise. But none of those threats come close to this one. Henry Gordon wants to reclaim the power he once had. The power that Lindsay threatens to take from him forever. This war will determine more than just life and death. If Lindsay and the rebels fail, the world will fall back under a Gordon’s tyrannical rein. This war promises to end in blood, as neither one can truly live while the other survives. Who will come out victorious? The Dictator, Henry Gordon, or the freedom fighter, Lindsay Foxx?

CodeX

Sarah, a simple secretary, becomes the involuntary heroine of a story of political corruption together with her old love, Michael, who suddenly reappears in her life. She will find herself fighting to bring out the incredible truth. An ancient family pendant left by him in custody before disappearing again will soon prove to be an object of great importance and be a crucial point of the story.The sequence of events which follow one another at a rapid pace open the doors for Sarah to an unknown world made of intrigues and conspiracies that change her life, bringing her to various risky yet fascinating distant places in the search of Michael, who is soon discovered to be an agent of the secret service.

The Odessa Connection

2008: Almost three years have passed since the tumultuous events outlined in The Mendelssohn Connection, which thrust the unwilling Isaac Menshive into a position of global responsibility as the head of a fabulously wealthy family trust. Isaac now lives quietly, if luxuriously, in a dacha in the west of Russia with his new family: his young wife Sophie, heavily pregnant with their second child, and his infant son. While Isaac’s marital contentment has put paid to his former philandering ways, it is his old friend and most trusted adviser Will MacIntosh who finds himself emotionally unmoored — at exactly the moment when events conspire to put the immense burden of the trust squarely on his shoulders.Still in danger from unknown forces that will stop at nothing to get their hands on the trust’s considerable assets, Will and his team continue to investigate its origins and the extraordinary fortune that it has accrued over the centuries. The team’s researches point them in the direction of the city of Odessa and the early 20th century, and the unexpected involvement of two men: the first a very familiar figure from Russian history; the second hailing from Will’s own backyard on Prince Edward Island…Moving between Russia, the Ukraine, London and the Mediterranean, this second instalment of the trilogy that started with The Mendelssohn Connection finds our protagonists Will and Isaac tested as never before. Now that he has so much to lose, Isaac experiences the extremes of joy and despair, while Will, weighed down by ever more responsibility, finds his stolid self- assurance evaporating as he discovers betrayal lurking around every corner.