Various editions of my books are on the market:
MURDER IN BELGRAVIA – BOOK 1 in the MAYFAIR 100 series
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: 20th May 2021
Formats: Paperback and digital.
Set against the backdrop of WW1, Mayfair 100 is the telephone number for a small specially-formed crime busting team based in a house in Mayfair, London in 1915. Just 10 months into the First World War, the City is flooded with women taking over the work vacated by men who have gone to war.
Chief Inspector Peter Beech, a young man invalided out of the war in one of the first battles, is faced with investigating the murder of an aristocrat and the man’s wife, a key witness and suspect, will only speak to a woman about the unpleasant details of the case. After persuading the Chief Commissioner to allow him to set up a clandestine team to deal with such situations, Beech puts together a small motley crew of well-educated women and professional policemen.
As Beech, Victoria, Caroline, Rigsby and Tollman investigate the murder, they delve into the seedier parts of WWI London, taking them from criminal gangs to brothels and underground drug rings supplying heroin to the upper classes. Will the Mayfair 100 team solve the murder? And if they do, will they be allowed to continue working as a team?
MURDER IN BELGRAVIA – BOOK 1 in the MAYFAIR 100 series – US hardback version
Publisher: Crooked Lane
US Publishing date: March 2019
Format: Hardback
A DEATH IN CHELSEA – BOOK 2 in the MAYFAIR 100 series
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: 20th May 2021
Formats: paperback and digital.
London 1915. A society gossip columnist has been found hanged in her apartment – was it suicide or murder? Her family suspects foul play and, when another death occurs, the case heats up for Chief Inspector Beech and his Mayfair-based team of crime fighters. As WW1 continues to cast its long shadow, their investigation uncovers a sinister web of blackmail, tragic secrets and ghosts from the past. An atmospheric, gripping and poignant murder mystery.
A DEATH IN CHELSEA – BOOK 2 in the MAYFAIR 100 series – US hardback version
Publisher: Crooked Lane
US Publishing date: 10th March 2020
Format: Hardback
THE BODY IN BERKELEY SQUARE – Book 3 in the MAYFAIR 100 series
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: 20th May 2021
Formats: paperback and digital.
London 1915. The body of an unknown woman is discovered, stabbed, in a Mayfair square. She is expensively dressed and yet the autopsy reveals that she had been working in the munitions industry.
The women of the MAYFAIR 100 team begin to try and uncover the woman’s identity through her clothing, whilst their police colleagues investigate the harsh world of manufacturing munitions.
What they become involved with is top level industrial espionage, as well as a murder investigation.
THE CORPSES AT WATERLOO – Book 4 in the MAYFAIR 100 series
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: 16 July 2022
Formats: Paperback and digital.
London 1915. When Constable Billy Rigsby, along with his mother and aunt, goes to The London Necropolis Railway Station at Waterloo, to attend the military funeral of a neighbour’s son, proceedings are interrupted by the unexpected and brutal murder of a young woman.
In a panic, Billy telephones Mayfair 100, to assemble the team, and they descend upon the station to find not only a murder to investigate, but also two empty coffins, plus another coffin containing a headless and heavily tattooed body – obviously not the body of the young Captain whose name is on the coffin lid.
A KILLING NEAR WATERLOO STATION – Book 5 in the MAYFAIR 100 series
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: 13 December 2023
Formats: Paperback and digital.
LONDON, OCTOBER 1915. The British public are up in arms, due to the execution, by the Germans, of a British nurse, Edith Cavell, suspected of being a British spy. Sadly, this leads to riots in London, where shops and businesses with German names, are smashed and looted. Rigsby and Tollman find themselves rescuing a young woman, Mattie Grunwald from the ruins of her family’s haberdashery shop, when Eastenders go on the rampage. Her father is interned as an enemy alien and she is running the business alone.
Meanwhile, the Mayfair 100 team is given the task of investigating the abduction of two women from a train at a disused station outside Waterloo during a Zeppelin raid. This leads them to a grisly discovery on board a vessel moored in the centre of the Thames and plunges them into the highly sensitive area of military intelligence, enemy spies, classified war plans and an involvement with the Romanian embassy in London.
Suddenly, there is a daring robbery at the London Silver Vaults. What was stolen is shrouded in secrecy but it has links to the abduction of the two women and the Romanian royal family. Chief Inspector Beech becomes drawn into a passionate encounter that changes his life irrevocably.
THE HOLBORN MURDERS – Book 6 in the MAYFAIR 100 series
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: 16 December 2024
Formats: Paperback and digital.
December 1915 is rather cheerless for most of the population of Britain, as the war rumbles on into its second Christmas. The department stores of London are still bulging at the seams, however, with shoppers looking for gifts to send to the men at the Front. Nowhere is more popular than Gamages store in Holborn, an establishment that specialises in appropriate gifts for men and entertainment for children, with its toy displays, Christmas Bazaar and magic shows.
However, tragedy strikes in the form of the brutal murder of the store’s magician, in full view of his audience, and the Mayfair 100 team are called in to make some discreet enquiries. There follows a further murder attempt, whilst they are investigating, but nothing is as shocking as the news that, in the same neighbourhood, a young actress, from the Holborn Empire, has been killed and one of their own team is implicated in the death.
SCIENCE FICTION
THE SALAMANDER OPTION
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: 14 June 2023
Formats: Paperback and digital.
At the New Jersey Special Care Facility, they take care of long-term coma patients – those who hover between life and death. Whether they will revive or not is often a mystery – because the power of the human brain has been barely explored. One of the nursing staff says that the brain healing is “like the salamander option. A salamander can choose whether to regenerate a missing limb or not. Maybe some humans have the power to repair their brains, some don’t and some choose not to…”
However, a young professor, working for a large pharmaceutical company, wants to prove that the human brain can be regenerated and he is permitted to use four of the Facility’s patients for his experiment. But it unleashes some strange and powerful results which have terrible repercussions for both the patients and the scientists.
NATHAN FOX: DANGEROUS TIMES (2nd Edition)
BOOK 1 in the NATHAN FOX TRILOGY
Publisher: Iris Books.
UK Publishing Date: December 2016
Formats: Paperback, digital.
Nathan Fox is a young boy actor in the same company of actors as William Shakespeare. Nathan is recruited into the fledgling Elizabethan Secret Service by Sir Francis Walsingham and his adventures, in partnership with England’s most successful agent, John Pearce, will form the basis of many of Shakespeare’s later plays. A swashbuckling action adventure which takes Nathan to Venice and to take part in a huge sea battle with the great General Othello.
NATHAN FOX: TRAITOR’S GOLD (2nd Edition)
BOOK 2 in the NATHAN FOX TRILOGY
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: December 2016
Formats: Paperback, digital
The second book in the Nathan Fox Series. Nathan, a young spy working for the Elizabethan Secret Service is sent, with his partner, John Pearce, to the Netherlands to intercept a secret delivery of Spanish Gold to the Spanish Army. An exciting tale of double dealing involving pirates, mercenaries and witchcraft.
NATHAN FOX: SEAS OF BLOOD (2nd Edition)
BOOK 3 in the NATHAN FOX TRILOGY
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: December 2017
Formats: Paperback, digital
In this third book of the series, England is facing the might of the Spanish Armada, which is gathering to invade. But first, trained espionage agent, Nathan Fox and his partner, John Pearce, must go to Ireland, on a mission that involves sorcery, pirates and decoding a list of Spanish spies. Then they must join Sir Francis Drake to do battle against the feared Armada.
CHRISTINE KRINGLE
Publisher: Booksurge
UK Publishing Date: December 2007
Formats: Paperback, digital
A fun Christmas fantasy book about the lives and working practices of the World’s Christmas Gift Bringers and how the daughter of Kriss Kringle of the USA and her friends save Christmas from extinction in England.
THE ELIZABETHAN WORLD OF NATHAN FOX ~ FACT BOOK 1
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing date: May 2018
Formats: Paperback, digital.
Fact book to accompany the novel Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times. Discover more about the world of Elizabethan espionage; the theatre; playwrights; London and Venice in the 16th century; the real-life personalities like Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir Francis Drake; Schools of Defence; Slavery, and much more, in this fascinating history book.
THE ELIZABETHAN WORLD OF NATHAN FOX ~ FACT BOOK 2
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: May 2018
Formats: Paperback, digital
Fact Book to accompany the novel Nathan Fox: Traitor’s Gold. Discover more about the world of Elizabethan espionage; the war against the Spanish Empire in the Netherlands; the Sea Beggar pirates; Witchcraft trials; the magical legends of the Rhine River and much more, in this fascinating fact book.
THE ELIZABETHAN WORLD OF NATHAN FOX ~ FACT BOOK 3
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: May 2018
Formats: Paperback, digital
Fact Book to accompany the novel Nathan Fox: Seas of Blood. Discover more about England’s battle against the Spanish Armada; the people of the wild west coast of Ireland; the Socttish Gallowglass mercenary soldiers; Dr John Dee, the Queen’s astrologer; Tomas Phelippes, England’s foremost code breaker and forger, and much more, in this fascinating fact book.
EUROPEAN VERSIONS OF THE FIRST EDITION OF NATHAN FOX, BOOKS 1 & 2
NATHAN FOX: IM AUFTRAG IHRER MAJESTAT ~ BOOK 1 in the NATHAN FOX TRILOGY
Language: German
Publisher: Oetinger Freidrich GMBH
Formats: Hardback, audio.
German publishing date: December 2008
NATHAN FOX: IN GEHEIMER MISSION ~ BOOK 2 in the NATHAN FOX TRILOGY
Language: German
Publisher: Oetinger Freidrich GMBH
Formats: Hardback, audio.
German publishing date: December 2009
NATHAN FOX: TIEMPOS PELIGROSOS ~ BOOK 2 in the NATHAN FOX TRILOGY
Language: Spanish
Publisher: La Factoria de Ideas
Format : Hardback, digital.
Spanish publishing date: December 2014
NON-FICTION
CRAFTS & COOKERY
A Lady’s Year 1900~1910
Publisher: Iris Books
UK Publishing Date: 17th April 2023
Formats: Paperback and digital.
A LADY’S YEAR is a compilation of women’s magazines from the first decade of the 20th century, with articles, recipes, useful information, knitting and crochet patterns and fashion plates. The book is a month by month annual that provides a wonderful insight into women’s lives in that period. Highly illustrated with some of the most beautiful artwork, the book is a visual and informative treat.
Gifts From Your Garden: Bumper Edition
Publisher: Iris Books
Your garden is not just your hobby and a place for relaxation, it is also a treasure chest of wonderful fruits, vegetables, herbs and many other plants that you can share with others by making gifts.
128 pages of glorious colour illustrations, recipes, instructions and suggestions for making culinary, health & beauty, craft and party gifts. The perfect present for those who love to garden, be creative and save money!
To buy the Kindle version from Amazon (UK) click here
The 100 Year Old School Cookbook
Publisher: Iris Books
Compiled from genuine domestic science class textbooks. This book is an amazing selection of household tips and recipes that were undertaken by 10 to 14 year olds at school during the period 1900 to 1920. A wonderfully nostalgic piece of social history that is beautifully illustrated.
Cook’s Advent Challenge
Publisher: Iris Books
Prepare for Christmas by cooking one recipe every day throughout December. There are recipes for gifts, party fare, traditional Christmas recipes with a twist and more.
This lavishly illustrated book has festive recipes from around the world plus fascinating facts about every day in December – special festivals and celebrations. Can you rise to the challenge? This is a wonderful way to enjoy the lead-up to Christmas! December is sorted!
To buy the Kindle Edition of Cook’s Advent Challenge from Amazon click the link below
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