In the past couple of weeks three separate people have asked
me what my books are about. I don’t mind telling them, in fact I love talking
about them but, just in case any of you are too shy to ask, here’s a brief
synopsis of each of them:
Dean and Steph Witton, are private eyes based in the Teays Valley
area of West Virginia .
They seem to be my readers’ favorite characters and appear in a series of five
books;
“Guilty?” begins the series. It’s the story of their first
case, how they came to be together and how they nearly lost each other due to a
deranged killer.
In “Beneficiary” they’re trying to protect a young girl from
a clandestine organization that seeks to control America . They find themselves
hunted by the law and they nearly pay with their lives before the case is
closed.
“Traitor” brings the investigation closer to home as Dean’s
sister’s husband, who they’d thought to be dead, suddenly reappears and brings
a terrorist plot to assassinate the president to their doorstep.
A man is accused of murder in “Innocent?” and Dean and Steph
are hired to prove he is guilty of more than one killing. Instead they find
he’s innocent and they have to risk their lives to unmask the real killer.
“Cheating” starts as a simple divorce case. Their client
asks them to prove her husband is having an affair but when she turns up dead
it becomes a murder investigation that leaves a trail of bodies before they
find the true killer.
Ian McCloud is the hero of both “The Lichfield Conspiracy”
and “Da.” In the first of these books he is a major in the Royal Military
Police and he suspects there is a plot to assassinate the President of the United States
and the Prime Minister. No one except an aging civilian policeman agrees with
his suspicions and he has to fight his own side’s skepticism while trying to
prevent an atrocity.
In “Da” there is a serial killer on the loose. Soldiers are
dying in a very brutal way and McCloud has to work fast to find the murderer
before he too becomes a victim.
We meet Nicky Houseman and Alex Mitchell, a cousin of Dean
and Steph, in “Hunted.” Alex sees something he shouldn’t, accidently involves
Nicky, and the two of them are chased across two continents before they nearly
meet their deaths at the hands of an assassin who also appears in
“Beneficiary”.
“Weoley” is the story of a place. Won by the sword in a
bloody battle that changed England 's
history, it is a place that evolves over nine hundred turbulent years. It’s a
story full of heroes and villains; the good, the bad, the beautiful, the wicked
and the ordinary. Peasants and their lords, nobles, commoners and kings; Theirs
are stories of seduction and romance, of adultery, forgiveness and passionate
love that defies understanding. Bloody battles pit brother against brother,
fortunes are made, and lost, while unfaithful wives and political intrigue stir
the mix, all of it set against the background of a great fortress.
“Hessians” is a Revolutionary War novel set in the winter of seventeen seventy-six. The defeated remnants of George Washington’s Continental Army are retreating into the wastes ofPennsylvania
while their British and Hessian enemies take up winter quarters in New Jersey .
The Americans need time to rest and re-equip but supplies are scarce. They know there are stores hidden inNew Jersey and Washington decides to
send inexperienced militia to fetch them with Lieutenant James Holte’s company
of veteran riflemen accompanying them.
It should be an easy task but there is a traitor in their midst and the quest for stores turns into a desperate fight for survival against the might of the Hessian army.
“Hessians” is a Revolutionary War novel set in the winter of seventeen seventy-six. The defeated remnants of George Washington’s Continental Army are retreating into the wastes of
The Americans need time to rest and re-equip but supplies are scarce. They know there are stores hidden in
It should be an easy task but there is a traitor in their midst and the quest for stores turns into a desperate fight for survival against the might of the Hessian army.
“Liberty ” is set in Boston , in April of 1775,
a time when the American colonies are on the eve of revolution. For the army
the course they must take is clear, but the civilians have to choose loyalty to
the king or to their country. For some the choice is easy because they are
patriots who love America ,
but some patriots also have another love and when that one wears the red coat
of the enemy the decision is harder. She cannot have both so which will she
choose, America
or the love of her life?
“The Prince’s Puzzle” is the tale of a Prince, far from home
and leading an army in a bloody civil war. He meets a lonely lady, seeks
comfort in her arms and unwisely puts his feelings for her into a series of
letters. Then the unthinkable occurs. She tells him the letters have been
stolen and they have to be found quickly before her husband returns and goes over to the enemy. Captain Richard Croxall is
dispatched to hunt for them. He has just three days but before the time is up
blood will be spilled and people will die.
“Tapestry” begins in 1937. Joanne Mason is nearly fourteen,
she’s bored with school and her life in the quiet city of Lichfield . Twenty miles away Barry Sullivan is
the same age but he likes learning until he has to leave it behind when tragedy
strikes his family. At the same time across the Atlantic
the snow is deep but Jimmy Woodall doesn’t mind. He hates the life he’s leading
and at seventeen considers himself already grown up.
These are the threads of three young lives. Each has reached
a place where they are ready to change and the weavers of all our fates take
them, twist them together, tear them apart again and then cross and re-cross
them until they have created the tapestry of their lives
Finally we have Missing. This is another Dean and Steph
novel due for release in the next few weeks. In this one they are on vacation
in England
to attend Nicky and Alex’s wedding. Unfortunately the bride’s brother has gone
missing and the trail of bodies leads them from one end of Britain to the
other and then back again in an effort to rescue him from international
terrorists.
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