The Mysterious Death of a UNR Fulbrighter

Jesus’s lifetime and an ever-memorable trip to Nevada, United States of America, seemed to have been a poisoned chalice. Gabrielle’s phone call from the United States Embassy brought unexpected thunderstorm news which added some more reflexive questions in his mind.

Why did Amber keep quiet for all this period? Why was she or her family taking me to court? Why did they not try to listen to me before taking me to court? Did she also say I raped her? Is it her family’s version? Why would she make a call to the rapist if that is what they allege?

As the judge was speaking … I was even more terrified and totally lost ground when I heard the particulars that sexual assault is prosecuted as Category A Felony, which meant I could be potentially deprived of my freedom and be dragged to serve an abysmal life-sentence-imprisonment if I were convicted.

The Tattoo

Every adventure we embark on shapes who we are, enriching our lives with new experiences and wisdom. In this moving narrative, follow the journey of a hero whose bravery and determination inspire us all. Through trials and triumphs, this hero learns to embrace love and resilience, and we are invited to witness the transformative power of these emotions on the characters around them. Written with love and patience over the course of four years, this is a story that will stay with you long after the last page is turned.

The Twin Behind the Curtain

A group led by American Alan Mackenzie daringly escaped from communist Hungary during the brutal Soviet repression of the popular uprising of 1956.

Twelve years later, at the height of the Cold War, Alan and two of the Hungarian participants, Frank and Maria, are reunited to help organize the defection of a high-ranking East German official who can identify communist moles in the American government. The resources of the American intelligence agencies could not be used to find moles within their own ranks; therefore, the President and the Secretary of State decided to find help elsewhere.

Under difficult conditions, the defector is extricated, concealed in an American tour group of vacationing movie technicians and small-time actors traveling by bus through Austria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Poland.

The operation is flawlessly planned, and yet something goes wrong. The disappearance is discovered within a few hours. Due to the high rank of the missing official, the police investigation turns overnight into a massive manhunt involving the tour passengers in an increasingly dangerous contest of wits with the feared Stasi, the East German secret police. Under pressure from their highest party leaders, the frustrated Stasi escalate their search into obsessive, desperate actions.

What a Wicked Web We Weave

What a Wicked Web We Weave is a novel full of mystery, intrigue, murder, revenge, fraud and betrayal amongst many other things. It has several twists and turns as you get enthralled into each chapter and it will leave the reader in suspense and at the edge of their seat, right up to the end.

After spending ten years working for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), Tony Lodge finally lands the job of his dreams in the fraud department. He gets thrown in at the deep end when they receive an anonymous phone call, asking them to investigate one of their managers. Being the new kid on the block, it was easier for the department to put him on the case, as it was thought to be a hoax.

As Tony gets deeper and deeper into the investigation, things start to unfold and point him in the direction of someone a lot closer to home than he imagined. Tony tracks back in time to when the office the senior manager in question moved to when it opened a few years before. This is when the investigation starts to throw open suspicious deaths and an episode of mystery.

I hope you enjoy reading my first novel, What a Wicked Web We Weave, as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Willingly Captured

Bianca knew one thing: she would do whatever it took to stay alive. Trying to control her own life she fell into a controlling relationship, not wanting to stay in this miserable life she made a run for it. And that’s when her life went from bad to worse. Her motto, “A girl has to do what a girl has to do”, was tested to extreme lengths when she had to choose to kill another innocent to save her own life. Feeling trapped although not wanting to leave, Bianca found love with her abuser as he tested her loyalty and willingness to survive.  

Destiny's Elbow

Working against the background of a campaign for Scottish independence, American undercover narcotics agent, Roz Tattarkowski, has to take over as lead investigator when her chief is killed in a mysterious accident in Edinburgh. From that time on, she receives minimal support from her organization in the U.S.A.Seemingly left alone to operate in a country she dislikes and struggles to understand, Roz relies on skills she learned as an aspiring but unsuccessful actor in New York. These enable her to track through political intrigue and deceit into a world of narcotics production, immigrant smuggling and trade in human organs. In the process, she becomes involved in further intrigue at the international level, when her acting talents are put to a final test: war will be the outcome if they fail.Throughout these events, Roz takes pride in her imagination and improvisation. But what appear to be actions taken freely and on personal initiative turn out to be plots scripted and directed by unseen hands.

Sun Burn

Set on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Ibiza, Sun Burn is a steamy thriller which revolves around the island's drug-fuelled club scene. Leaving behind her dead-end life in London, Stacey follows her dancer friend Lucia to Ibiza, finding work in the island's world-famous nightclub Amnesia. Very quickly she and Lucia get drawn into the dangerous underworld after a mistake involving a large consignment of drugs. The girls fall out and Stacey goes it alone in Ibiza's busy West End district until she reconnects with Aaron, a handsome stranger who helped her on her first night on the island. However, Aaron is not all he seems and the mystery over the drugs consignment comes back to haunt them, eventually threatening their lives.

The Meddling Ghosts

In turns both hilarious and tragic, two worlds collide in The Meddling Ghosts.A cast of inept ghosts, some of them centuries old, and a modern, dysfunctional family, hooked on technology and social media, co-habit Cuckoo House, a former inn. Meet the Berridges: Elaine and Hugh – teetering on the brink of a marriage break-up – and their teenage children, Leah and Jake. Elaine is chronically depressed, and spends most of her time asleep or on Facebook. Hugh has become dependent on alcohol. Leah seeks solace in a perilous online world, Jake on his Xbox.The ghosts – a disparate bunch led by Colonel Pine, who still looks at everything as a military operation – have a mammoth task on their hands to stop the Berridge family from self-destructing. But will their meddling be enough?

The Resurrection

World-renowned scientist and Nobel laureate, Sir Francis MacLeod, is about to make a startling revelation – a revelation that would challenge everything scientists have thought about DNA – when he suddenly collapses.What happens next is a bizarre chain of events that puts science and religion on a collision course and spurs an international murder investigation.Set in Cambridge in the mid-2020s, The Resurrection is a fast-paced mystery thriller that exposes the inner workings of the Catholic Church, corruption within the pharmaceutical industry and proposes answers to some of mankind’s most profound questions. 

My Neighbour Osama Bin Laden

Agents of the world’s most influential special services, American CIA and British MI16, suddenly show up in a foreign country town. After several months of their intensive activities, the main subject of their concern turns up as well – a very wealthy and suspicious foreigner. The peaceful and measured life of the town sees radical changes...

The Dark Side of Innocence

A devastating incident turns Matthew Morgan, a caring and innocent school teacher, into a would-be vigilante. What makes him want to tackle Lawrence Tyburn and his merciless, underworld, criminal gang?

What does a woman do when she falls in love with a man and sees him bent on self-destruction? This is Melissa Reagan’s dilemma, as she becomes infatuated by Matthew. She feels his pain and anguish and comes to a terrible realisation. His obsession has no boundaries, as a need for retribution drives him to desperate measures.

Charles Rydell is a minister at the home office. Why does he make an agreement to move selected inmates to an old Victorian prison? The action is fast and furious with MI6 chasing shadows as they try to unravel an outrageous crime in the highest echelons of government. In the background is a prime minister trying to keep the lid on a scandal that would ruin her career. Two very different worlds collide with spectacular effect!

The Domino Factor

Two worlds collide! It is 1941, eighteen-year-old Katerina documents her harrowing flight from Ukraine and the Nazi occupation in her personnel journal.

81 years later, her grandson Ivan Kross and long-time friend Nikolas, meet after five long years. During a friendly game of chess, discussions turn to Ivan’s preoccupation with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, triggering a chain of events irrevocably changing his life.

Ivan and his family are drawn into a thrilling vortex of political intrigue, cyber-attacks, AI drone surveillance and covert infiltration. From Geneva to London to Moscow, his path crosses, retired British special forces Lieutenant Colonel Roger Aitkens and his SAS Black OPS team, as well as, outlawed, independent Russian journalist, Arianna Nekraslova, who’s audacity and resources will prove invaluable in navigating through the back alleys of Moscow.

The riveting chronicle unfolds into a shattering domino effect, shaking the foundations of the Kremlin and setting in motion ramifications threatening the rule of a Russian Federation on the brink of nuclear armageddon.