Books

"There's a spy in England. Frankie's Letter. Read Frankie's Letter..." Those were the last words said by a dying man to Anthony Brooke, English secret agent, in Keil, the heart of Imperial Germany, in 1915. But who is Frankie? The search takes Anthony to the heart of English society, to forbidden romance and to danger that's very close to home…

A First World War Spy Thriller


Click here to read the an extract from Frankie's Letter.

FRANKIES LETTER
Published August 2010 is available from Amazon as a Kindle download for £3.63 or $4.99
Kindle downloads can be read on almost any ebook reader - ipad, blackberry, sony reader, android etc

A hundred thousand dragons lie, underneath an Arabian sky.

Adler Madison wrote those words and left them in a book in the Savoy. Poetry? Perhaps, but what are the dragons? And who was Adler Madison?

The answer threatens to tear Jack Haldean apart. How does a chance encounter in a London hotel, a death in Sussex, and few lines of poetry lead to a lost city of Arabia, to the tombs of the Whispering Dead?

Jack has evaded the truth for years but now, enmeshed in the web of murder, theft and deception, he must find the answer and face up to the truth – a truth as deadly as any dragon.


Click here to read the an extract from A Hundred Thousand Dragons.

A HUNDRED THOUSAND DRAGONS
is published by Severn House (www.severnhouse.com) on 27th May 2010.

George Lassiter is destitute, ill and desperate. Desperate enough to break into the kitchen of a stranger's house seeking shelter. And there, on that bitterly cold night, he witnesses what seems to be the murder of a beautiful girl. But when the police search the house, the body's disappeared - as if by magic.

It has to be nothing but a nightmare, thinks George and so does his friend and rescuer, Jack Haldean. However, the consequences of the nightmare will plunge George into a a tangle of theft, lies and obsession... and will set Jack off on the hunt for a ruthless killer.


Click here to read the an extract from As If By Magic.

AS IF BY MAGIC
Published June 2009 by Constable and Robinson (UK) (www.constablerobinson.com) and Soho (USA).

It’s the height of summer 1923. Sir Philip and Lady Rivers are celebrating their Silver Wedding with a ball at their country house, Hesperus, in Sussex.

It should have been one of the best nights of the year – until one of the guests commits suicide.

Or did he? Jack’s sure it’s murder. So who’s the murderer?

The danger is only beginning…


Click here to read the an extract from Mad About The Boy?.

MAD ABOUT THE BOY
is published by Constable and Robinson (www.constablerobinson.com) on 29th May 2008.

Jeremy Boscombe was the last person Jack Haldean either expected or wanted to see at the Red Cross fête in the summer of 1922.

Boscombe was cynical, worldly and a complete pain in the neck.

Before the afternoon was over it was clear that somebody else had disliked meeting Boscombe.

Disliked him enough to kill him…


Click here to read the an extract from A Fête Worse Than Death.

A FETE WORSE THAN DEATH
is published by Constable and Robinson (www.constablerobinson.com) on 28th June 2007.
Please note that A Fête Worse Than Death is now available both as a large print and an Audio book from Isis.