The year is 1917 on a cold snowbound scenario in Halifax ,Nova Scotia, Canada.The time is 9am and many folks were either getting ready for another working day or still in bed.The snowbound scenery was soon to become blood begrimed as tow ammunition ships collided in the Harbour of Halifax and Dartmouth . Almost two thousand lives were lost on that fateful day and thousands were blinded by flying glass as they ran to office windows wondering if the war had come to them.This is the story of ...

THE BLACK AND WHITE HOUSE.Racism and Terrorism ,two words that were to remain in the hearts and minds of many people.Although it has to be said by the time Joshua Jenks was born Racism had been almost eradicated and folks were living in harmony until Terrorism reared its ugly head and the fear factor returned!.Joshua Jenks was born into a poor coloured family in Memphis, poor family that found themselves somewhat better off than most folks when his mother and father gained em...

Although short fiction my book tells a tale of compassion and sometimes unbelievable strength.This book was published in 1992 by Vantage Press a vanity publisher in the USA that went bankrupt after sending out one copy to each author. Nevertheless the story tells of mans ability to talk to animals and how they affect our daily lives.(Telepathically of Course) This is a story of compassion and belief even though it is 3,825 words it takes its readers on a journey that maybe one day may come...

Hell Bent on Corruption.I suppose I could have called my third book in my series a murder in the mosque had it not been for the murder of a well known respected book publisher called Jeremy Kettle the owner of Kettle Publishing.A murder is committed in a Mosque in the heart of London and once more our intrepid ex cop Jim Bent is asked to assist since his knowledge and expertise becomes invaluable?. With no connection the Director of a leading publishing house is found suffoca...

May I take readers on a journey through time to the year 1919 immediately after the war to end all wars ended?. On a cold snowbound scenery which was soon to become blood begrime, Kinmel Army Camp on the North Wales Coast awaited the arrival of some 20,000 men of the Canadian Expeditionary Force,Men with wounds that might never heal,men who gave us the freedom we enjoy today?. The camp was said to be cold,damp and generally unfit for men who had been fighting in hand to hand combat with th...

Her home town of Belfast Northern Ireland was occupied by the British Army at the time of the troubles,troubles Margot Giligan was well aware of as the day arrived for her to leave the confines of her local all girls Catholic school on the outskirts of her beloved Belfast,she had up until that day been under the watchful eyes of the nuns that ran the school and leaving was somewhat daunting!.It so happened that a kindly lady called Mary Mcginty a local hat shop owner was looking for...

Hell Bent on Murder.After fifteen years as a cop in the met and the last five years spent working at a desk because of part of a bullet still lodged in his back from a failed bank robbery Jim Bent decides its time to move on and take up another career as a private eye. With his expertise of the streets of London and his connections with the underground Jim feels at the age of thirty five its not too late for him to take on a new career?.This is the first in a four books serie...

Hell Bent on Murder #2This is number two in a four books series. Jim Bent sometimes has doubts on whether he made the right decision to leave his desk job in the met and become a private eye.That is until he is faced with more action?. This part of the Hell Bent on Revenge and Jim is finding it hard pressed to keep up with the action as the body count grows and the finger of doubt is wrongly pointed at one of his pals in the Metropolitan Police.Lovers of adult fictional crime...

Hell Bent in Blackmail #4.Hell Bent on Blackmail follows the career of private eye Jim Bent on a trawl through the seedy underworld of London,England. It stands alone as a complex yet compelling adult crime story. Fast paced,racy,tortuous. This book is all of these and more as it swerves in and out of London's club- land,opulent country houses and the world of politics.On one level it is a terrific story that has been constructed with care to keep its readers guessing as parts of an...

Love. What is love?The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive.Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt.Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for an...

‘Immensely talented new author.’ John Marrs, author of The One and When You Disappeared‘Engrossing, compelling and twisty from the first page to the shocking ending. This book grabbed me and didn't let go.’ Michele Campbell author of It’s Always the Husband'Unique and utterly compelling. This twisty psychological ...

'Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k. I am a hooligan...there I've said it...I'm a hooligan. And, do you know why? Because that's my f**king job.'In 1995, a film called I.D., about an ambitious young copper who was sent undercover to track down the ‘generals’ of a football hooligan gang, achieved cult status for its sheer brutality and unsettling insight into the dark and often bloody side of the so-called beautiful game.The film was so shocking it...