The Sleeping and the Dead
In this vivid psychological suspense novel, a diving instructor makes a gruesome discovery in Cranwell Lake - the body of a teenager who has clearly been in the water for many years. Detective Peter Porteous is called to the scene. After trailing through the missing persons files, he deduces that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972. As the police investigation gets under way in Cranwell, on the other side of the country prison officer Hannah Morton is about to get the shock of her life. For Michael was her boyfriend, and she was with him the night he disappeared. The news report that a body has been found brings back dreaded and long buried memories from her past...
The Sleeping and the Dead, first published in the UK in 2001, is now available in the US in a new edition from Bloody Brits Press, introducing the best of British crime fiction to the US market; it is available from Amazon.com, or order it from your local bookshop, quoting the ISBN: 978-1-932859-41-6.
Order The Sleeping and the Dead from Amazon UK:
- in hardback,
- in paperback,
- in a Large Print edition
- or as an audio cassette (read by Gordon Griffin).
Burial of Ghosts
For Lizzie Bartholomew, a holiday in Morocco will change life forever. But not in the way she had hoped... Lizzie had planned her trip to Marrakech as the perfect escape from her life - and her nightmares - in Northumberland. Abandoned as a baby, and having spent her childhood moving between foster homes, Lizzie certainly has much to escape from. And for Lizzie, Morocco is the exotic paradise that she had imagined. Especially when she finds herself on a bus sitting next to a fellow tourist, who is also travelling to fulfil his dreams.
After a brief affair, Lizzie returns to England. In the days that follow, she is distracted by thoughts of her mysterious lover, hoping against hope that Philip might come and find her. But suddenly she receives a letter from a firm of solicitors. Philip Samson has died. In his will, he has left Lizzie a gift of £15,000. But there are conditions attached to this unexpected legacy, conditions that will alter the course of Lizzie's life forever...
Burial of Ghosts was first published in 2003. It is available from Amazon:
- in the original hardback edition,
- in paperback
- or in an Ulverscroft Large Print edition.
The George & Molly books
- High Island Blues (1996)
- The Mill on the Shore (1994)
- Sea Fever (1993)
- Another Man's Poison (1992)
- A Prey to Murder (1989)
- Murder in Paradise (1988)
- A Bird in the Hand (1986)