Unique and Captivating Thrillers, Suspense Novels, and Short Stories
Suspenseful thrillers with deep and interwoven plots
Below is a brief description of the books available to date. You’ll find a link to an excerpt for each book which I sincerely hope you read and enjoy. You’ll also see options to purchase, either from your favourite retailer–Amazon, Apple, Kobo– or you can buy securely direct from this site and save.
Double Infidelity: a FREE Short Story
Double Infidelity is a short story that for a limited time I’m offering for FREE as an introduction to my stories.
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When a stroll on a desolate, wind-swept Northumberland beach leads to a murder charge, Polly is thrust into a battle to establish her innocence.
The question remains, whom can she trust?
Flank Street: The Sydney Quartet Book 1
When Micky DeWitt sails into Sydney, Australia, his only assets are a run down yacht, his wits, and the skills he’s picked up as a dedicated career criminal. Shiftless, cynical and dishonest, even with himself, Micky takes a job as a barman in Sydney’s seedy red light district of Kings Cross.
Carol Todd is turned on by money and risk-taking. For Carol, there’s no such thing as “enough”. She needs a fall guy for her latest con—someone she can use and lose once she’s done with him. And Micky DeWitt looks like the perfect man to fall into her sultry, seductive honey trap.
Playing to Micky’s twisted sense of chivalry, Carol leads him into a hedonistic free-fall. As Micky’s life spins out of control it doesn’t take long to graduate from burglary to arson, then accessory to murder. And no matter which way he moves, someone’s going to get hurt… or die.
Meet Me at Harry's: The Sydney Quartet Book 2
Ex-Detective Lieutenant Stacia Black knows all about violence and poverty. She grew up with it. As a cop working for the Organized Crime Division’s Narcotics section, she fought against it. Now she’s in Sydney’s notorious Kings Cross, looking to make a score of her own. What she needs is a man with connections.
Nick is balanced on a knife’s edge, torn between his loyalties to his acquaintances and his hunger for something better. He steps off the edge, straight into a world of danger and deceit, where the only thing that matters is making it out alive.
Cerise Noire: The Sydney Quartet Book 3
Six months after his partner was murdered, Rick Stone returns to Sydney trying to pull his life back together.
While he was away, two more women were murdered, each seemingly unrelated to the others. When a third woman is murdered in the same way, and Rick gets caught up in the investigation, he becomes obsessed with finding a link between the murders.
Each night, Joy Stringer steps outside the quiet orderliness of her day job, and hangs out in bars and clubs in Sydney’s Kings Cross to gather material for a book. After one of her main sources dies, she fears for her own safety.
When Joy and Rick meet in a bar one night, they discover that by working together, they can help each other achieve their goals. That decision leads them into more danger than they could ever imagine, and to an outcome that nobody could foresee.
Shadow House: The Sydney Quartet Book 4
Heather Todd’s life had never been easy, but when her sister died as a result of overcut cocaine, everything changed. Now she’s determined to take down Sydney’s notorious organized crime ring, vowing to ensure her sister didn’t die in vain.
Ex MI6 operative turned world sailor, Sam Autenburg is on a bender after his partner died, also as a result of overcut cocaine. When one night things go desperately wrong for Sam, Heather comes to his rescue.
Taunting and goading him, she eventually convinces him to take on her cause and infiltrate the organized crime syndicate responsible for her sister’s, and his partner’s, deaths. Going after the brutal gang will be no easy feat, and in order to stop them, Sam and Heather must put their own lives on the line.
Being Tommy Boronovsk: Tommy Boronovski Book 1
When Mike Bray is grabbed off the street on his way home on an ordinary Friday night, his world is turned inside out.
Coerced by the head of a South London crime gang to impersonate low-level criminal Tommy Boronovski, Mike quickly learns how to lie and side-step in order to keep his family safe. Somehow he must find a way of protecting his family from threats of violence, and maintain his own ethics and morals as he treads a seemingly impossible path.
When the borders between himself and Tommy become blurred, it leaves him questioning his true identity, and hostage to his own temptations.
Waterloo Bridge: Tommy Boronovski Book 2
When a gangster’s wife offers Tommy a lucrative contract, he grasps it with both hands. Little does he know that the risks will end up higher than the reward. And what starts off as some easy money leads him into a life of crime with a price on his head, and wanted by the French Police for murder.
The only way out is to do one big job and then disappear over the horizon. But stealing from a master thief is tougher than expected and gets him even deeper in trouble.
Can he collaborate with two Chinese-Australian grifters and save himself, and them, or will they all end up dead?
The Sydney Dahlia: A Short Story
When a gangster’s wife offers Tommy a lucrative contract, he grasps it with both hands. Little does he know that the risks will end up higher than the reward. And what starts off as some easy money leads him into a life of crime with a price on his head, and wanted by the French Police for murder.
The only way out is to do one big job and then disappear over the horizon. But stealing from a master thief is tougher than expected and gets him even deeper in trouble.
Can he collaborate with two Chinese-Australian grifters and save himself, and them, or will they all end up dead?
The Sydney Quartet: Get All Four Books
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