novels • short stories • flash fiction
Four different stories
that bring vivid characters
to life, in contrasting ways.
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Novels to intrigue and to thrill,
with suspense and drama that
keeps you turning the pages
until the final twist at the end.
With Only The Waves As Witness
“An obvious assumption leads
to a tortuous trail across three countries
and a surprising conclusion"
Three years believing his wife had died,
in a boating accident, is it time to move on
or risk a dangerous path across the Celtic Sea
seeking the truth?
The story follows Paul Addam's journey across Cornwall, over to Ireland and on to the French coast, in search of his missing, presumed dead wife, Marion. A seemingly hopeless task, he finds help and companionship from the Post Office in the shape of of Kathy McDonnell who is suffering her own trials, stemming from her abusive, alcoholic, and now separated husband, Archie.
Of prime interest is flamboyant Patrick Donoghue, photographer, smuggler and flatterer of women, who plies the Celtic Sea in a luxurious sailing boat. While on home shores Paul has to contend with Stella, Marion's meddlesome twin, spinster, brilliant accountant, and obsessively concerned about the loss of her sister, always laying the fault at Paul's door.
As the truth unfolds, for Paul and for Kathy, will it bring happiness or sorrow?
The Spider Man
"A man on a mission to exorcise
the demons of womanhood"
A tale that weaves its way across England,
leaving behind a trail of death,
parents in anguish, a teenager in distress,
and a bewildered Detective Inspector.
As a young boy Clive O’Shea loved walking with his father down country lanes, intrigued by the multitude of miniature life he showed him: especially the spiders. Then his father disappeared and his mother held him to blame. Though he never knew why.
As he matured, he began to realise that his mother, Margaret, had adopted a lifestyle he despised: and maybe she deserved the blame, not him. Especially when he found out why he would never see his father again. Incensed enough to want his mother dead, and plagued by lurid dreams, he set out to expunge an evil common, so he believed, to womanhood and in so doing set upon a path of fantasy, abduction and death.
When teenager Andrea Courdon failed to return home, one night, DI Linda Warshinton was given the task of finding her, quickly and alive; but what she uncovered was a distressing thread of dismay, spun by the ever-elusive perpetrator, leading to a direct confrontation with The Spider Man.
A Darkness of Voices
"Secrets have consequences
and exposing the truth can bring disaster"
An unfortunate delayleads to a vicious beating
and a threat to three lives
that results in a frenzied chase and a death.
Paul Hewitt believed he had found the perfect partner in Giules Franciotti, unaware of the missions that she and her feisty sister, Maria, kept secret from him - until he, too, was drawn into one, with a disastrous result.
As a consequence, all three lives are threatened by Mark Tynesdale and a malicious Mr Grace, whose legitimate concerns hide an underworld of intrigue, murder, and human misery. Mark, having taken over a family business that he had greatly expanded, has his own dark secret: one known to Mr Grace, who secretly takes advantage of Mark by using Mark's covert courier service for his own nefarious deeds. After sending Paul on a clandestine errand, Giules, is forced to expose the truth of her activities: but not to the police. DI Robert Brown would have to find Paul’s assailants the hard way.
After a tortuous chase that ends in another death, Mark's secret is revealed, while Mr Grace, his illicit operations discovered, plans an escape: but there are those who hope to thwart him - if there’s still time.
Tuna on Tuesdays
"Fate can lead to the strangest of coincidences"
The domineering matriarch of Arden Ash
meets her match in a feisty new resident,
when unexpected past connections are revealed.
When Anne Grant invited her son to a Christmas Lunch at Arden Ash, without telling Edna Gray, all she had intended was to show an independence of spirit and less need for the constant guidance offered by her self-appointed mentor. She didn’t expect the kind of interest his introduction would arouse – or that a train of events among her new acquaintances would lead to such tragic consequences.
Hearing how Anne had found the son she thought was lost to her forever, appealed to Edna's inquisitiveness - and other residents of Arden Ash, too - but it might have been wiser had the full story not been told. A light read, laced with a little humour, tragedy, mystery and intrigue. And a surprising heroine rushing to the rescue in the closing chapters.