Ruth Jordan has been a battler all her life - until a surprise inheritance catapults her into a strange new world of affluence. Clinging to her roots, she cautiously uses her unaccustomed wealth and time to support other women doing it tough. And that's how Rachael Anders explodes into her life.Desperate to protect Rachael's three young boys from the destruction swirling around them, Ruth is sucked further and further into their troubled lives. At the same time she's forced to conf...

Unearthed - Book Five.She thinks it's all behind her, that she and photographer Steve can start a serene new life together, now that her nemesis the manic killer Martin Barclay is dead. Wrong! It only takes two phone calls to shatter journalist Annie Bryce's illusions.She's plagued by nightmares after a call from the English detective on the Barclay case. He desperately needs her help to find his daughter, who has gone missing in Australia. Annie's home country. When a mino...

LOOSE ENDS (BOOK 1)She's smart, she's nosy, she's versatile ... but young Australian journalist Annie Bryce doesn't bargain for becoming part of the story. That's what happens when the shadows of Australia's part in World War Two suddenly darken her life.It's the whale research on the Pacific coast of Queensland that triggers a mystery: the tight-lipped young English scientist who turns up to volunteer on the project, and the Australian soldier dead in World War Two. Why do ...

Destination Tribulation - Book Four.Journalist Annie Bryce might be savvy and spirited but right now she's scared stiff. Her nemesis Martin Barclay is coming to kill her. His murder conviction overturned on a technicality, the police are powerless to stop him. She knows Barclay's revenge for the death of his son, and her testimony that put him behind bars, will be brutal. And final. A hasty move to steamy North Queensland with partner Steve is no escape - Barclay is hot on their tr...

This anthology has been amassed over a decade. It's designed for the 'dipper', for the reader who likes, in fact, to 'pick and choose'.The twenty two pieces in this collection cover a variety of genres: short stories; short pieces of fictionalised history; some reflections on travel and our changing world; and some conversations, all of which could one day find themselves at the core of a novel – these give the reader a glimpse of how and where authors find their plots. Writers are...

Intrigue in Paradise (Book 3)Annie Bryce's life is in turmoil. She's haunted by fears of revenge by a known killer and despairs over breaking up with partner Steve. And it's all downhill from there.Desperate to earn money, she agrees to help out with some work with retirees on Australia's glittering Gold Coast, exploring times past with them. This is how she meets the ageing industrialist Jack Riversdale. The irascible Jack has no interest in nostalgia – he wants action. Hi...

ROCKHOUND (BOOK TWO)Australia's past is littered with the broken dreams – and sometimes the bones – of fortune hunters digging for treasure, gambling everything on one big win.Young Australian journalist Annie Bryce is on the run from a killer who wants her dead before she can testify in a murder trial in England: this is the trial of the killer's father, and Annie is a key witness for the prosecution. After one narrow escape too many, she and photographer Steve are hustled...

These eighteen stories are about crime. That means they're essentially about love, hate, greed, revenge and power. So they are, of course, also about relationships. Most of them explore how ordinary people can be driven to extraordinary behaviour. The characters in these stories are just that: they're not gangsters, or terrorists, or professional crooks; they are simply ordinary people with ordinary lives – until stuff happens to them.Most of the stories were written for the seven ...

This short story travels into the supernatural, where a disembodied spirit looks down on to a crime scene and recognizes the dead body as her own. Overcome by disbelief that anyone would want to kill her, she speculates about all the people in her life who simply adore her.Or do they?

"Jumpers," McCallum was saying. "Jumpers are - well, in my experience jumpers are always badly disturbed. They choose to jump because it's so violent." Niall Howley has been spending night after night playing an interactive computer game when he's found dead at the bottom of the Telstra tower in Canberra. From a graphic left on his computer, it is apparent that his actual death mimics in an eerie way the death already scripted for him in the game. The police and the cor...

Rubbed OutRobin Light has had better days. Business at her pet store is painfully slow. Syracuse has had twenty-three consecutive days of snow. And she's trying to quit smoking. . .again. So when ex-cop Paul Santini calls, offering a cakewalk of a job finding some rich lawyer's runaway wife, Robin takes the case--without getting all the facts. She gets her first clue that something isn't right during a visit to the worried husband, Walter Wilcox. His story--that hi...

An intricately plotted story with red herrings galore. The corking-good plot will keep you turning the pages until the very end. An outstanding addition to a wonderful series. --BooklistBlowing SmokeGetting involved with the rich and their problems is never a good idea, as far as amateur P.I. Robin Light is concerned. But when the mercury is rising to a steamy level, the bills are unpaid, and the investigation promises real money, the only answer i...