You'd probably categorise me as a multi-genre author.
A retired professional who has worked in three continents, I started writing 20 years ago. It's been a long journey and producing work of publishable quality is a steep learning curve. It has been well worth while.
My available e-books are detailed below.
Originally published as one large volume under the title 'THE DESERTER'S DAUGHTER,' the 'VICTIMS' series is an exciting adventure story that tells of a fugitive from the Vietnam war and his adopted daughter. How he escapes from the scene of an atrocity, together with the young girl whose life he saved, is described in the first novel, along with their subsequent flight to Hong Kong where they go to ground. Books 2 and 3 in the series tell of how a vengeful brother-in-arms discovers his whereabouts and tracks him down, leading to a sensational climax. It's a heart-stopping and sensual story with many poignant moments.
Two novels are romances. One, 'THE BUDDHA THAT CRIED', is obvious from the cover design; it's a cross-cultural love story, a gentle tale of heartbreak and spiritual discovery with a revelatory ending. The other, 'HIGHWAYS OF THE EARTH', is more modern in its style and aspirations. It tells of a confident and arrogant young Romeo who's in multiple relationships. Torn between his beautiful Spanish stepmother and a shy single mum in her forties, the novel describes how the tangled situation is ultimately resolved from all three points of view. A poignant and perceptive novel, it is available as an e-book and paperback, but will not be found on Amazon's KDP listings.
'IN PASSING' is a collection of dramatic short stories that surround the centrepiece, a gripping medical drama set in the African bush where a mission hospital is seized with a creeping sense of doom and foreboding. Things are starting to go wrong – the malign monsoon has come early, independence is just round the corner, a new recruit has turned out to be a twisted predator, and the hospital’s treasured theatre sister has died on the operating table after a mysterious illness.
As if that weren’t bad enough, a brutal tribal chief has signalled his intention to come in for treatment.
Stress levels escalate as the medical team prepare to face him, his armed enforcers – and his witchdoctor.
Amongst the other stories are: the spirit of a murdered concubine haunts an American family in Hong Kong; when extreme sports go badly wrong; an Inuit legend of the world's ending; how to sink an aircraft carrier in 10 seconds; and two horror stories to wrap up.
Coming soon; a crime thriller entitled 'HOUSE OF RAPTORS'.
You'd probably categorise me as a multi-genre author.
A retired professional who has worked in three continents, I started writing 20 years ago. It's been a long journey and producing work of publishable quality is a steep learning curve. It has been well worth while.
My available e-books are detailed below.
Originally published as one large volume under the title 'THE DESERTER'S DAUGHTER,' the 'VICTIMS' series is an exciting adventure story...
Originally published on Amazon KDP under the title ‘The Highways of the Earth’. Only the title and cover text has changed. A romance with a difference. Josie Madden’s a shy and reclusive single mum in her mid-forties whose weasel of a husband has left her for his assistant. She’s innocent, sweet-natured and very attractive – but also...
The story so far: Karn knows someone has tracked him down, but has no idea who and is powerless to act. He and journalist Tom Bellamy are locked into a precarious and sinister collaboration, neither fully trusting the other. Tom’s been enlisted to help write Karn’s next story. But Karn’s motives are suspect at best… Tom is now a lodger in...
Book two in the series. Originally published together with parts one and three as the single volume ‘The Deserter’s Daughter.’ That novel has now been depublished and replaced by the series as stated. The story so far: Karn, as he’s now known, is living under the radar in Hong Kong with his adopted daughter Isobel after escaping from Vietnam,...
