A list of easy conversation starters for events with familiar and new people as well as games that include and involve. A very short and easy to reference guide.

Detective Chief Inspector Jack Buchanan, whose wife, Karen, calls him an anachronism in the 21st century, a comment he whole heartily endorses, is a 35-year veteran of policing in Glasgow, which some observers call “The Mean City”.When he walked the beat in the Gorbals area of Glasgow as a young PC, his idea of street justice was to take the miscreant down a dark alley, thump seven bells of hell out of them and send them on their way with a warning never to do it again. Now 35 years...

Hey daddy to be, it takes a lot more than sticking out your chest and being a proud papa to become a good daddy. The Daddy Survival Guide is the first in the series to help the first time dad to be understand what is really expected of him, without all the fluff and touchy feely contents of most mom-to-be books. You need to understand the changes of the pregnancy phases, what you should be doing to prepare for this new baby and how to get yourself in gear for the road ahead. To make things...

In this psychological thriller, we follow the life of a serial killer from his own point of view. Where did he get his training, is the reason to his madness, is he more than he seems? You will be disturbed by the illusion and watch as it all crashes down.

The if Daddy Spoke Baby series are books designed to be read to infants and toddlers, typically by Fathers to their children. This book is written from the viewpoint of a father who is deployed like a letter home to their child.

Sometimes when boy meets girl, the world is bliss and everything is right in the universe. Other times, there's baggage, pasts, secrets and skeletons that reside in long forgotten closets. Jo has some minor celebrity status as a writer of suspense stories. Her tales typically include women who are wronged and strike back violently. Leo is a handsome and seemingly self made man who finds himself attracted to this bookish and quiet woman. After a whirlwind romance, the two fall in love and ...

The official companion guide to The Box of Rocks too wild to be called Pets. A humorous take on 'Pet Rocks' and humorous childhood anecdotes.

The Ravaged Land is the third suspense novel by noted author Alex Willis. The story revolves around a woman who is haunted by the land she inherits and can't leave. She is possessed by a spirit whose only desire is to have her, forever. Meanwhile, an aging soldier is sent on a mission to collect and store DNA samples to help save a planet where we've allowed so many creatures to become extinct...to the point that mans extinction is eventual.

For Eastbourne guitar maker Jack Nevis, tomorrow is a foreign country. Yet today, living and working on the Osprey, a rust encrusted WW2 tugboat, are memories, safety, and home. Woken by the sound of a gunshot, Jack finds a body in his workshop and is immediately thrust into a world of dead Pharaohs, looted Nazi gold, and a damsel in distress, Nancy. Does Nancy really want to learn how to make a guitar? Or is she being coerced into to finding out if the much sought after falcon figurine of...

On that fateful Saturday morning, when Glaswegian John McDermott left for work for another painting job in Eastbourne, DCI Jack Buchanan was preparing for the first barbeque in his new home thinking his days of being a policeman in Glasgow were over. But it wasn't to be, while Buchanan browned the chicken on his barbeque, John McDermott's body went headfirst through a garage roof on its downwards travel from the scaffolding seven floors above.And so it was, as John McDermott's body...

The Penitent Heart, is one man’s journey from despair to hope. It is the story of Bill, a hapless househusband, who while being under the influence of alcohol causes a road traffic accident, and the subsequent death of the other driver. Overloaded with stress and guilt, Bill suffers a debilitating emotional breakdown. Bill abandons his wife, Ruth, and her three young daughters by her first marriage, to become a cook on a charter yacht bound for the Amazon. Bill may have run away from his w...

DCI Buchanan is on administration leave and is staying at Castlewood Country Club. He’d seen his wife and daughter off to France on the ferry and now planned to spend the week relaxing, reading, horse riding, and sipping his favourite single malt; and come hell or high water nothing was going to get in the way of that. But he hadn’t reckoned on what mayhem the whirlwind called Cynthia Mountjoy was about to cause.