This is how the dead boy tells the story. Yes, Jane loved Henry in her way. Yes, Jane was driving the car in which Henry was mortally wounded. Yes, on the road, on the run, Jane did pick up a hitch-hiker. And, yes, Jane loved Carter too. But, in a different way, and, somebody else died.

In an adhoc family of survival and love, four kids fight and rob their way across civil war-ravaged Denver. At the end of the 20th century the USA has collapsed under the crush of Christian fascism and rapacious corporations. As the UN abandons efforts to stabilize the former-United States, the kids desperately push on through a fiery cityscape toward a twilight mirage of the American Dream.

A well-paying working vacation in picturesque New Mexico. Two women, on assignment to kill someone else's irritant, end up playing a near deadly game of race and gender, just to get breakfast.

A blind woman, a semiautomatic pistol and an incendiary device.

Crawling in his suit, crawling in his ratty gray briefs with his ankles tightly bound together with two rosaries, or crawling wearing only those sunglasses. Just crawling.

Catching spies is hard work, so when a deal is struck before a question is even asked of their new prisoner... the director decides to take matters into his own hands.

Sid Envenburg has been promoted in the realm of Heaven. His new position could perhaps bring him the happiness he has lost and has been waiting for. But there is only one thing that could possibly bring him down to a breaking point…the past.

The Needed Killing Series: When James F. Crawford retired from the university he didn't expect to become a private investigator. But Provost Rufus George wanted Crawford to investigate a suspicious death--and he wouldn't take no for an answer. Turns out, Crawford has a knack for solving crimes. With his dog and cat as the perfect sounding board, he talks through the specifics of each case--posing questions to Tan and The Black and answering them himself. If you like your mysteries with a s...

Everyone wanted to know about her. The scariest thing of all was that she also wanted to know. Eve Summers was lost in her own dead mind. All she knew was the day before. Her whole life had disappeared after she woke up in a tiny cabin on a hillside. Befriended now by a kind woman, but harassed by a police chief, she also wondered about the man that had owned the cabin. So many questions and not one answer to who she was or where she came from.

During a business trip to Cambridgeshire Lucy Harlow has a strange experience, similar to one she'd had in childhood. She hears the sound of the dead mingled with a TV news bulletin. Malcolm Margarson a deceased solicitor and pillar of the local community is being tortured in Hell by a vicious teenaged girl he calls "Angel". Lucy learns that nineteen years ago Margarson was found dead in a lay-by off the nearby A10 with an axe buried in his skull. In the years that have passed no clues hav...

A clever psychopathic serial killer, who leaves no clue or deliberately misleading clues, has successfully caused two innocent police officers to be imprisoned for the murders of a dozen prostitutes in other parts of the country. Now he is killing in Norfolk, Detective Chief Inspector Tony Dyce's home territory. What Dyce does not know is that he is the perp's next intended fall-guy. Intriguing murders, with detailed, intimate forensic science, combined with sex, humour, mystery and schmal...

One of Tony Dyce's friends is viciously maimed by a gang of international crooks in the first move by them to obtain the second half of an antique Chinese chess set, which when complete gives the location of one of the hoards of Nazi gold. After years spent trying to decipher the clues from their half set, without success, the pieces have for maximum security been spread around among the ex-SAS soldiers. Their peaceful civilian equilibrium is destroyed and their lives are at stake, along w...