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This intriguing detective story introduces DI Ambrose in the first of a series of tales of murder most foul. Foul Play happens in a fog bound theatre with a cast of eccentric actors to keep the reader engaged until the very last page. We also meet popular team members DS Waters and WPC Meadows for the first time This novel is the first cooperation by mother daughter duo Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers writing as PJ Quinn.Set in a partially bombed ...

Suni has always known she is different. She and her mother Mata make their living weaving baskets, and selling herbs they harvest secretly at night. Her father abandoned them to work in the tyrannical king's crystal mines. Mata follows the old ways of the Mantra, which the king has outlawed. He demands people worship him and the power of the crystals. Mata and Suni keep their beliefs to themselves.Tragedy strikes, and with no warning, Suni is ...

Most of the world's major cities are inundated, a tsunami has wiped out houses, shops and schools along the Hartlepool shoreline. And now the authorities are walling in the flood zone…Seventeen-year-old Zoe, knocked unconscious during the sudden flood, cannot recall her name and can only summon flashes of her immediate past. Zoe meets Alma, who has a mysterious link to global entrepreneur & opportunist Volk Volkov, himself a refugee: of his ow...

It is a cold morning in AD 71: a small galley clumsily docks at the Place of the Yews in Brigantia, Northern Britain. Gaius Sabinius Trebonius has arrived at the confluence of what will become known as the Ouse and the Fosse to survey the site for a new Ninth Legion fortress. Cethen Lamh-fada is reluctantly hosting the Briganti king, Venutius, along with a small force of warriors and a bard. Unaware, Gaius goes about assessing and laying out t...

In May 1888 thirteen year old Sammy Smyle decides to leave the orphanage where he lives and to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.Set at the turn of the Twentieth century, Sammy Blue Eyes tells of a boy following the popular maxim to "Go west and live your dream." Orphan Sammy takes this to heart as he abandons the orphanage and his friends to sail to America.This story of a young runaway of White English and Native American heritage is a diff...

A small town is just a jail with no bars. Trapped, always watched, always watching, and the question is: are you the jailer, or the inmate? In Abernathy, Claire Patel-Campbell's debut novel, you're dropped into Small Town America: which could be small-town England, small-town anywhere. You feel the frost in your bones, your breath freezes, and you shiver with dread. You become one with the residents: walk the same streets, drink the same bad c...

Edith Jerram, Rita's grandmother, left her rural Derbyshire village in 1884 to join her fiancé in Canada. Edith kept extensive journals graphically describing her life on the Canadian prairies, documenting the hardships and heartbreak of rural living. Rita has transformed the journal entries which reflect the joys and hardships of nineteenth century life, and also reveal the growing maturity of a young woman becoming a mother and widow, marryi...

Four men at the end of their ropes gather together for a road trip taking in some of the country's favourite suicide spots. Brought together and chauffeured from bridge to bridge by The Priest, each one has a story to tell and a decision to make. A successful writer haunted by his own success and them from the returns department. A retiree with a drink problem and a bit of a temper reveals his inner coward with fatal consequences. A journalist...