Five rich women have diied in June and July in Torbay (known as the English Riviera), one each summer for the last five years. Is there a holiday murderer on the loose? Now, as the sixth midsummer approaches and the area starts to fill up with its annual influx of a quarter of a million visitors, are the wealthy ladies of Torquay once again in danger? What are the chances of finding the killer before the next murder occus?The local CID are struggling to find a way through the huge ...

Philips Sinclair is given a letter from his recently deceased grandmother which tells him he is the direct descendent of Phillipe de Saint Claire, one of the four perfecti who escaped from the castle of Montsegur with the treasure of the Cathars strapped to their backs.The recently discovered journal of Phillipe reveals how he walled up the treasure in a shallow cave in the lowest cellar in the remote castle of le Bezu in the Languedoc region of France.The archaeologist Jac...

Continuing his adventures in The Secret of the Cathars, Philip Sinclair returns to the Languedoc, after a week away, to find that his fiancée, the beautiful archaeologist, Jackie Blontard, has gone missing. His desperate search to discover her whereabouts leads him to put his own life in danger. However that is only the beginning.When the two of them are finally reunited, as a result of his search, they are plunged even deeper into a maelstrom of conflicting events where t...

In the third book of the Languedoc trilogy, tension has arisen betweenPhilip and Jackie. She is in Paris concentrating all her time and energy on her new TV series.She tells him he will have to live his life on his own for the next three months at least. Is this the way it will always be in the future?So Philip is left in Rennes-le-Chateau working on the half-ruined castle they are buying. However, if she has no time for him at present, there are two other women who, for th...

The woman began to bounce up and down like a horse-rider trotting, gasping with pleasure. The man beneath her was jerking in violent spasms. There came an animal howl of hurt which brought their movements to a juddering halt. Caroline knew she had to get away.The ferry´s engines had stopped. The only port they could reach is Dubrovnik. But the Yugoslav Civil War is happening and Dubrovnik is under siege. Will the JNA open fire?She was struck across the face. A vice-like gri...

Extracts from the novel:-She groaned as she slid off the car bonnet and lay in a heap on the ground, panting and exhausted. Tears of humiliation trickled down her face, smearing the mascara over her cheeks. He was wet and dirty and half-naked. She felt utterly spoiled. So this, she thought dumbly, is what rape is really like.If we have any problems with you – anything at all – I don´t think there is a chance we could get to you before the mob had torn you a...

"Andrew Denbury, I will give you until ten o'clock tomorrow morning to come back to me with a set of proposals which will promptly release the bank from its liability to you. You can telephone the local manager with your proposals early tomorrow morning. Otherwise we shall appoint a receiver."Smithson looked as though he was about to explode. "I will not have a young whippersnapper like you come into my own house and insult me. Here." He hurled the papers down the table. "You can g...

The Mafia Emblem – The Wolf of HadesBen Cartwright is flying to Naples. Sitting beside him is a glamorous American called Donna whom he has never met before. His last-minute flight follows the day after he has discovered the gruesome, murdered body of his Italian business partner and the threat he has received to close down his business.Ahead of him, on his innocent rush to "sort things out", are his partner´s sister who hates him, a mafia vendetta between ...

John is forced to give up his course St John´s College, Cambridge by the death of his father and he is thrown out of Riversmeet by Alison Stacey. He sets out to exact his revenge. But he needs to get money and power. He is helped in this, firstly by Sammie Joslin with his carpentry, and secondly by Sarah Grant, who wishes to build a housing development.

When Sebastian Bishop turned into Calle Costera he immediately saw the two Guardia Civil cars parked outside his villa. That meant somebody had already told the police about his contact with the Condesa. They would be waiting to arrest him. When they found that his DNA matched that on and in her body, and on the sash of her dressing-gown that had been used to strangle her, they would undoubtedly charge him with her murder.How had he got into this disastrous position in such a short...

John Tucker loses his father, his place at Cambridge, his family home and his comfortable privileged life. He discovers Alison Stacey is the cause. Is he upset? You bet he is!Alison is descended from an old upper class family and has a strong sense of social superiority. She believes in putting people like John Tucker in their place but she does not know how to cope with the economic disaster which threatens to overwhelm her.Sarah Grant is bored by her role as wife to a loc...

Martin Ferris wakes up on a clifftop on an island off the Cornish coast. It is a stormy autumn evening. He discovers he is marooned, apparently alone on the island. How did he get to be here?He begins to realise that he is in a most dangerous situation. He comes across a young woman who seems to know who he is, although he has never met her before. There is also an army Major, ex-Sandhurst and the Guards, who is apparently expecting him to turn up at the castle on the island. And a...