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Would be rock star, DS Glyn Tudor, gets up close and personal with the genuine article when rock legend, Rik Haymer, is found dead at the bottom of his swimming pool. 
And grieving widower, Harry Paget, has a close encounter of the violent kind when a young burglar steals his late wife’s jewellery. Frustrated by Tudor’s failure to recover the stolen items, Harry mounts a foolhardy investigation of his own. 

While Tudor seeks to uncover the dark secrets that lie behind the rock star’s death, Paget harbours a shameful secret of his own, that in time will come back to haunt him.

Set in the Marches area of South Shropshire, A Stirring in the Blood, builds to an exciting and explosive finale. 

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Set in the early 2070’s, this story gives the reader a taste of what life might be like for young Mars colonists sixty years from now. Having been born and raised on Mars, things such as having to wear pressure suits to go outdoors, night-time temperatures over a hundred degrees below zero, travelling in a pressurized Mars rover, and living on a planet with two moons, are normal for these young people: that’s just what their life is. What we would view as extraordinary is their ordinary. 

During the course of dealing with a medical crisis, Augie utilizes some first aid equipment that doesn’t exist today, but most certainly will by the time of this story. An anesthetic and anti-inflammatory drug that can be taken orally, but only affects the injured area and a splint that can be applied like shrink wrap that turns ridged when a specific radiation is applied are two examples of such developments.

Be prepared to enjoy an adventure with some Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts who are smart, capable, responsible and refreshingly free of pathology.

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When Leah lands in San Francisco, she’s hoping she can leave her past—along with her broken-down life in Seattle—behind. But what she can’t run from is her present reality as an alcoholic on the downward spiral, and the strong future possibility that she might die in the gutter. So, she quits drinking and resolves to live a new life, determined to be a better person and resist the siren song of addiction, staying a few steps ahead of her demons all the while. 

But then Leah takes a job at a P.I. Firm and her resolve is thoroughly tested. Instead of alcohol, she becomes addicted to work and the nonstop demands of the agency. In a desperate attempt to break the cycle, she answers a mysterious online ad calling for writers and ends up working as an assistant to serial entrepreneur Scarlet Monroe, a woman who seems almost too good to be true, and like everything Leah has always wanted to be. But when Leah is hired as Scarlet’s personal assistant and gets in deeper with Scarlet and her cult-like company, the demons from her past come alive again, and this time they refuse to go away.

The sequel to Between the Shadow and Lo and the second installment in the West Coast Trilogy, West Is San Francisco is a surreal ride through the strange secrets—and intangible magic—of San Francisco.

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Innovera Yakov: The Journey of A Thousand Eyes takes you into a world of excitement and danger where thoughts and feelings are overheard and minds can travel to other worlds. Be prepared to immerse yourself in a world where falling in love could cost you your life and nothing is as it seems.

Innovera Yakov: The Journey of A Thousand Eyes is the first book in an action-packed fantasy drama series where characters with powers of healing and destruction live, love, compete and disappear without a trace while they are being prepared for ‘The Journey’.

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A poor orphan, Dan Wilson, gets a surprise present one Christmas in the shape of a big yellow teddy bear, but little does he know that the real surprise is much bigger than he could ever have imagined. The teddy is a magic helper of Santa Claus and must return to his home in the strange World in Between and reclaim his stolen Magic Jumper or risk the evil witch, Blacky, and her unstoppable army of Ex-Men from taking over both the World in Between and Dan’s unsuspecting Common World. Protecting them on this adventure is Ted Friend’s super strong alter ego, Ted Foe, but can they get the jumper back and reach Santa before the bear’s magic energies fade and the witch is victorious? The race for survival is on as two very different worlds collide. The only certainty is that young Dan’s life will never be the same again.

Part one of a new two part fantasy, mostly for children aged 8 to 12.

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A cruel twist of fate, which binds three people together for eternity…

James Hamilton and Emily Matthews have no idea the fate that will befall them both in the not too distant future. A cruel twist of fate, which changes the course of their lives forever. A tragic event which unknowingly binds three people together for eternity. Having already overcome many obstacles in book one the path before them remains an extremely rocky challenge and one that threatens the very foundation of their lives as they know it. Can their love find away…

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In times long past people knew the gods as well as they knew their neighbours; better even! And never more than in ancient Greece, whose history, religion, politics and culture knew them as no other people did for ten thousand years.

Loved them, feared them and prayed to them hopeful their prayers would be answered if they kept faith with them, did nothing to offend or displease them. Knew they watched over them. Walked amongst them, but always unknown to them, but also appeared as elves, sprites, nymphs, goblins, fairies and ghostly Shades. Were known to be capricious, meddlesome, vengeful and kind. Knew they took a great interest in their lives; as we have forgotten they do.  But what interest could the gods have in a twenty-six, years old Parisian French woman working in a provincial town in the north of England in 1962 and can they help her find peace from the sadness that eats at her heart for the love she long ago lost, Pascal and the pain and anguish she has suffered since he left her?

And all the more, now she finds herself caught up in the brutally sadistic murders of three women in the fiercely cold winter that has changed the world to snow and ice and her handsome, demanding lover deeply implicated. And her own life in mortal danger and already once saved by the school boy lover who came to her bed and with only her friends AA, Chief Inspector Tomon Hughes and Sergeant Brian Fasthead to protect her.

This is the story of evil and erotic desire, of Valeria Doucet and her belief in the feminine divine that brings her comfort and men who think women are a second class, inferior sex to use, abuse and discard as they see fit.

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I wanted to see if I could write a Christmas story. I don’t know where this one came from, but it reminded me of all the shopping around for guitars I’d done over the years and in Christmases past.  These shops have always been there, and we go in because of the whiff of danger and excitement we feel as we push through the front door. What will we find today?

The song Shop Around is a different matter – it was a hit for Smokey Robinson and The Miracles in 1960. It’s R’n’B, not Jazz. But, then again, everything’s Jazz if you listen hard enough.

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Set in the early 22nd century, this story gives the reader an idea of what life on Mars was like a century after first being settled. Andrew Smither’s life spanned that century and as he recalled it, we get a feel for the new society that was created. Youth restoring treatments, wingless flying machines, sprawling mining towns and plural marriages were just some of the features on the landscape of this new world. 

Take a high speed trip over thousands of miles of Martian desert in an Ariel Sprite Flyer, a wingless flying machine no larger than the family car. Explore an ancient Martian cave and see the spectacular Crystal Room. And meet some of the colorful characters that populated Andrew Smither’s long life.