Edited in June 2020, this is the final novel in the brilliant Federation series.
Alien university professor and author, Yol Rummy Blin Breganin, continues his research on the planet Earth. He introduces, into this final volume, some stories from the distant past of the Federation, which provide a greater insight into the vast alien empire.
In the only free and independent part of the planet Earth – the United States of America – the populace is becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the growing authoritarianism. With California in revolt, can the USA retain its own independence in this rebellious climate?
Elsewhere on Earth, in the Federation territories, is life becoming too comfortable for the ordinary humans? Will the world be allowed to settle down to its life of luxury or will it turn the new utopia into hell as it has always done in the past?
The final part of the Federation Trilogy includes disastrous Federation actions from yester-millennium and internal galactic civil wars as the Federation develops from a union, through an empire into the Federation the Earth encounters today.
Edited in June 2020, this is the final book in the page-turning Poison Path series featuring DI Hogarth.
DETECTIVE SERGEANT SUE PALMER IS FIRST ON THE SCENE AFTER BUSINESSMAN KURT BLEUWEN IS MURDERED. SHE FINDS THE BODY WITH A CROSSBOW BOLT THROUGH THE HEART. BLEUWEN WAS A GOOD MAN WITH NO KNOWN ENEMIES… SO WHAT KIND OF PAST COULD HAVE LED TO SUCH A BLOODY DEATH?
WHEN DI HOGARTH ARRIVES THE HUNT IS ON…
The ambitions and desires of those who knew Kurt Bleuwen stay hidden. But not for much longer.
Secrets past and present will be exposed.
Hogarth’s main suspect is Bheka Khumalo – the man who helped Kurt Bleuwen found a social enterprise in the nineties when the new South Africa was just being born.
The search becomes a race against time before the killer flees the country.
But there are other serious problems for Hogarth to contend with.
DC Simmons is playing games set to tear the team apart.
And DI Hogarth receives a phone call which changes everything – a call which could well lead to his own demise. With the pressure on Hogarth must crack the Khumalo case before he is finally cracked…
In a thrilling finale, DI Hogarth and his team must track down a killer while Hogarth faces up to the worst of his demons.
Join DI Hogarth as he walks the final leg of his Poison Path… it’s a narrow path. How will he survive?
The fourth novel in the page-turning Harry McNeill series was edited in February 2020.
A death in the family. A man cut down. A cold-blooded killer with no
boundaries.
DCI Harry McNeil wasn’t fond of his stepfather, but he never wished him
dead. And there’s no time to comfort his mother when he’s pulled away to upscale Edinburgh to
investigate a sadistic doorstep stabbing. But despite the victim having lived a perfectly ordinary
life, McNeil suspects a gruesome hit.
When the deceased’s widow witnesses a dark
stranger lurking in the neighborhood, the seasoned detective is certain he has the assassin in his
sights. But when his hunt for the culprit swerves too close to home, McNeil fears the killings
have become personal.
Will he track down the murderer before death knocks on his own
door?
Hour of Need is the fourth book in the thrilling DCI Henry McNeil
mystery series.
Edited in December 2019, this is another beautifully written heartwarming story.
Tucked away in a small New Zealand holiday town is a cooking school where there’s a lot more going on than learning how to fillet a salmon…
Rebecca Loughton’s bumbled her way through her thirty-something years making a few cock-ups along the way. Of course, these wouldn’t be so obvious if it wasn’t for her golden-haired, older sister Jennifer.
In a bid to escape Jennifer’s lengthy shadow and to find her happy ever after Rebecca, high-tails it out of her hometown of Christchurch to the other side of the world landing a legal secretary job in the buzzing city of Dublin. A few drinks later, all she has to show for her new life is an embarrassing one-night stand and a dollop of flirtatious banter with her boss Ciaran, who just happens to have a predatory receptionist in hot pursuit of him.
Amidst plans of preventing such a merger, Rebecca receives news that Jennifer’s picture-perfect life has a big, fat crack down the middle of it in the form of a philandering husband. Summoned home to look after her sister’s children and cooking school while she works on her marriage, Rebecca finds the reality of looking after two young children along with the bizarre array of guests booked into the cooking school grim. The only bright spot on her horizon are Ciaran’s e-mails but then she meets David Seagar whom she thinks might just be the ending to her happy ever after but will he prove to be far from perfect too?
Edited in November 2019, this is a gripping psychological thriller.
DCI Ronald Carlson thought he’d seen it all. Until he hadn’t.
The first victim bled out after castration; the second died of thirst. The third’s throat was torn out.
Are these brutal murders the work of one killer, or many? Are the mutilations some kind of horrific message – if so what, and why? As Carlson and his team uncover the victims’ backgrounds they discover a shocking connection – and – a secret truth that will shake their small town to the core.
But, can they capture the perpetrator of these heinous crimes before more young men lose their lives?
Another wonderful and humorous instalment in the Guesthouse on the Green series as Mammy and Moira travel Vietnam.
I love the series and can't wait for book four!
A quick but emotional read - reading about the cruelty to the dog was heartbreaking but this was a lovely tale of the love and healing that animals can bring to our lives.
I would have given five stars but for the missed typos - a few t...
I get the impression that this could be a nice story but I've had to give up after forcing myself to go as far as 15% of the way through. If this novel has ever been near a remotely professional editor then the author was conned.
Chapte...
Another very enjoyable story but with a few niggles, hence the four stars rather than five. Maybe it's because I was tired but the editing issues grated on me more than in the first story and, do people really generally believe that 'ear...
