City of Light and La Ville-Lumière refer to Paris being one of the first European cities to adopt widespread street lighting during the Great Exhibition of 1889. Early gas lamps with their soft, romantic glow became bright, electrified updates. These varied and often beautifully crafted historic structures bear long and silent witness to Parisian life by day and night. And at last, they speak!This anthology of short stories and poems tell of love, suffering, art, crime, war, death ...

Juliet is a young solicitor in a small town in southern England. She sings in an all-girl, barbershop quartet.She has just sacked her boyfriend, but all is good in her world.Then the legal practice she works at is taken over by a larger firm ... The way she is welcomed into the new firm makes her think that her old boss might have oversold her skills.Fun, silliness and romance folow

Samantha's school bestie has vanished. Mick has some time and goes in searchIt was deliberate.The car had slammed sideways into my motorbike on a perfectly straight, almost deserted, bit of motorway, on a clear dry summer's evening. After the brief impact, it had eased back into the outside lane and sped away.I had been happily riding along on a warm evening. Then, in an instant, I am sliding along the tarmac at some sixty miles an hour. I can hear my...

Even the Dark Creatures are scaredTen years after they first met Mick Crooke, the mild-mannered computer wizard and biker, and his girlfriend WPC Samantha Loch, are on the trail of a group of criminals.Tasked by Greggory Lord Marchmont, the head of a small Home Office department, to assist the police as they try to track down the source of some exceedingly dangerous synthetic cocaine.This time, they have their group of naturist friends and colleagues ...

Juliet, the singing solicitor, has just played her final performance with her all-girl barber-shop quartet. Sad, but it was at L'Abeille Nue, so it was an extra special gig!Then ...While she and her husband-to-be, Harley, were relaxing after the show, she was interviewed for a job she didn't know existed and hadn't applied for. A life-changing job offer ... should she take it?Well, if Bea Adiscombe was involved, wouldn't you?.The events of this story are bas...

Rags, the Uncovered Policeman, or as the passport office has him listed Sabbath Faversham Adiscombe is doing some clients a favour.He has travelled to the Republic of Ireland to help a couple make choices about investing their savings in a new home. One where they can pursue one of their favourite hobby. A hobby they want to share with friends.Why?Because Rags has experience of the special characteristics that this house will have to possess.Forty Shades of Gre...

Star-crossed lovers, The Summer of the century, then Organised Crime butts in!As Sam came round, a stabbing pain in her chest made her wince. She was hurting everywhere. Her eyes were stuck, swollen shut. She struggled to move and pain shot through her arms and legs."Keep still, love. The ambulance is on the way." She heard a man's voice, friendly, confident and reassuring.Sensing his strength and that he was there to protect her, she allowed herself ...

The second part of the Music, Food of Love trilogy.Juliet, the singing solicitor, and Harley's love story continues.A trip to France beckons, with that a series of encounters that changes everything ...

An attack, a shouted warning and a race to safety!I whirled round putting an arm up defensively, as I did my crash helmet struck an arm and a cosh dropped to the floor with a thud. A curse and heavy boot lash towards me, I put a foot out to block the kick. The reinforced sole of my biking boot crunches against the shin of my assailant. The perfect over the ball tackle. My attacker falls and hits his head on the wall."Get out of here!" It is a skinhead girl, ...

A short story set in the world of Rags to Riches. In the overall timeline it sits between Made for TV (vol 9) and The Long Road (vol 10)

A short story 3000 words.The winter of 1948 has Britain in it's grip. The railways couldn't move the fuel and food piling up at the docks to where it was needed.The government is desperate to find a way to save the people from hypothermia and starvation. The economy is on it's knees there has to be a way out!A number of things come together at the right time, in the right place with a leader with the vision necessary.This, in a slightly steam punk manner and wit...

Jennifer Archer was an ordinary, if academically gifted, young, woman when she won a prestigious Madison Scholarship.At the award dinner, she was introduced to Alan, the son and heir of the Madison dynasty. and discovered they would be studying on the same campus.At the end of the year, Alan disappears.Jennifer is now a cub journalist driven by dreams of prizes and fame.Then Alan returns, traumatised. The world wants his story ... but he will only give the