A serial killer is on the loose in Northern England, arrogantly discarding his many victims like so much garbage in the countryside and meres of the beautiful, but wild and often lonely English Lake District. Detective Chief Inspector Kate Hoagan is charged with stopping the murders by bringing the killer to justice but the perpetrator is clever, very clever and despite her and her team’s best endeavours, Hoagan finds herself confronting not only a ruthless predator and slayer of young wom...

Retired Royal Marine, now Cumbria-based mountain guide, Rory McMcregor, comes to the aid of a young woman threatened by a violent and sexual assault. Unfortunately, at the time of the rescue, he is not aware that the beautiful damsel in distress, and her would-be rapist, are from a distant, totalitarian future. Thus, begins a nightmare sequence of events as the woman's evil and powerful nemesis seeks revenge on both herself and her handsome, unwitting saviour. One thing, however, does seem...

For Detective Inspector Harry Wilding, his latest assignment, that of escorting an asylum-seeking alien from another planet, begins in chaos and subsequent events make it seem that life is set to continue that way.Firstly, he has to endure the humiliation of finding himself the intellectual inferior of Sandy, the alien. A strange and beautiful woman possessing telepathic powers who hails from another world, set in a distant galaxy. Sandy, who, after travelling to Earth, in her ques...

Successful property investor and professional curmudgeon, Martin Cranshaw, has had yet another bad day at the office. The problem is that his appalling driving on the way home reflects it and after entering a roundabout too fast and without due care and attention, he finds himself very seriously dead.His second dilemma is that those charged with what to do with him in the Afterlife are stuck for an answer. However, after some serious deliberation, it is agreed that he can return to...

Calum Lachlan, a 40-year-old bachelor, landowner and hero of World War Two, is driving along a lonely Lakeland road when he is flagged down by a highly distressed young woman who appears to have been the victim of a violent attack. The stranger merely introduces herself as September and will say nothing about how she came to be where she is, where she is going to or from whence she came. It is raining and late on a Sunday evening and, reluctantly, Calum feels it incumbent upon himself to o...

A collection of thought-provoking short stories that range from travelling backwards in time to find a bride to discovering your girlfriend's father is about to assist an alien takeover of the planet.

Former star ship commander, Captain Benjamin David Grayling, is in trouble. His outspoken views on the criminally despotic leadership of the United Coalition of Planets have resulted in his life-exile to Draxos-III, the planetary home of an infamous penal colony where a prisoner’s life is no longer his or her own and where life or death can depend on the whim or fancy of the completely unaccountable and seriously dysfunctional colony guards, some of whom are not even human.Enter th...

Charlie Frank is middle-aged, out of work and for the first time in his life, in trouble with the law. To makes matters worse, his octogenarian father is arrested for mooning out of a bus window and his wife, who no longer loves him, is going through a mid-life crisis. Then he meets and falls in love with Grace, a beautiful police officer and for a troubled Charlie Frank, life will never be the same again.A less than politically correct feel-good story for those who enjoy life but ...

The McEndrick Option is a fast-moving, psychological and political thriller featuring Len Cooke's somewhat maverick, Cumbrian police heroine – Kate Hoagan.It is now 1995 and Detective Superintendent Kate Hoagan, the no-nonsense, invariably cynical and iconoclastic Cumbrian detective, is back; investigating what, at first view, appears to be yet another sexually motivated killing perpetrated on her large and very watery English Lake District patch. However, she soon finds herself em...

The McEndrick Option is a fast-moving, psychological and political thriller featuring Len Cooke’s maverick Cumbrian police heroine – Kate Hoagan.It is now 1995 and Detective Superintendent Kate Hoagan, the no-nonsense, invariably cynical and iconoclastic Cumbrian detective, is back; investigating what, at first view, appears to be yet another sexually motivated killing perpetrated on her large and very watery English Lake District patch. However, she soon finds herself emb...

Charlie Frank is middle-aged, out of work and for the first time in his life, in trouble with the law. To makes matters worse, his octogenarian father is arrested for mooning out of a bus window and his wife, who no longer loves him, is going through a mid-life crisis. Then he meets and falls in love with Grace, a beautiful police officer and for a troubled Charlie Frank, life will never be the same again.A less than politically correct feel-good story for those who enjoy life but ...

The IllusionistsFor Detective Superintendent Harry (H) Harrington, life is being very unkind. Firstly, his wife is brutally murdered, then, after he nearly dies himself, and his assistant does, he is swept along on a grim journey of government intrigue, duplicity, and political assassination as he tries to uncover the truth, find the identity of his wife's killer and save his rubbished reputation from the gutter.The Illusionists is set against the backdrop of the late teens...