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Dust Devil

Two paragliders go missing after being caught up in a Dust Devil in rural NSW.
A prisoner on day release from Cessnock Correctional Centre disappears from his sister’s house in Newcastle.
DCI Frank Bailey and DI Rachel Sharp were part of the team which led to the arrest and conviction of the missing prisoner some years prior. When they open an investigation, they find links to both disappearances with a religious community based on a large property called Babylon. Frank suspects they will find all the answers at Babylon but his superiors
disagree. He needs evidence. Even the deaths of two men linked to his investigation is insufficient to grant him access to Babylon to question those who live there. After all they are just a large group of like-minded people with no record of any issues who live a largely self-sufficient lifestyle in the outback. Or are they?

The Revenge Trail

There’s a serial rapist at large in the city of Newcastle who violently assaults and marks his victims. Detectives Frank Bailey, Rachel Sharp and their team are desperate to find the perpetrator before the violence escalates. One woman, who lay undiscovered for some days, has already died from her injuries. Circumstantial evidence leads the police to focus on a number of potential suspects. Family members of the victims are also keeping their eye on one particular man.

Solid detective work leads them to the real perpetrator, but they lose him in a high speed car chase.

There are some victims who do not wish to report their attack. They want to stop him from attacking anyone else; inflicting their own form of justice.

Who will find him first, and will all the victims receive justice?

A Convenient Accident

A tragic accident on a back country road in New South Wales in 1975 leaves one young woman dead and another with severe head injuries. When Libby Miller regains consciousness in hospital she remembers little of her life before the accident. After weeks of treatment she returns to Sydney with her husband to discover he has plans that don’t include her. She manages to escape to England and settles into a new life surrounded by her English family.

Twenty-five years later the remains of a young woman are found in a disused mine. Detective Inspector Frank Bailey and his team investigate, but make little progress. When another woman dies Bailey decides he needs to track down Libby in England where he hopes she will be able to help him solve the mystery of the deaths. What he uncovers is a web of shocking lies.

A Convenient Accident is set in Australia and the UK. It is available in paperback and ebook.

Drawing Danger

When she was very young, Cate witnessed the murder of her mother.  The killer was never found. Cate’s never forgotten the killer’s face. He haunted her nightmares for many years.

Determined to keep the image of the man who murdered her mother alive in her head, Cate begins obsessively drawing him, which brings trouble for her at home and at school. However she can’t stop and continues her passion in secret, naively confident and determined that when she is an adult, the police will be able to help her trace this killer. Her first police visit brings disappointment. But after spotting the killer years later on a suburban street, she once again approaches the police. This time around, Cate’s visit to the police triggers a series of tragic deaths and puts her life at risk.

Will Cate be able to overcome her grief, feelings of guilt, and fear of endangering the lives of family members, to work closely with the police to catch this ruthless killer?

Set in England and Australia, ‘Drawing Danger’ is about a young woman’s struggle to bring her mother’s killer to justice. It is the first book in the Detective India Hargreaves series.

The Breakdown

How desperate would you be if you lost your only daughter?

Annie Huxley, brought up by her grandparents on a remote cattle station, always believed her parents were dead. While on holiday with her family she decides to visit her parent’s graves in the NSW country town where she was born. There she discovers the first lie. It’s not long before Annie uncovers further riddles.

To discover the truth Annie has to track down her grandmother’s second husband Len in England. What she learns turns her world upside down. Could the impulsive actions by a grieving mother have shattered so many lives? Has Annie’s life been a complete work of fiction?

Returning to Australia, Annie makes contact with Detective India Hargreaves in an attempt to get to the bottom of it all. As things begin to move forward a suspicious death occurs which throws the investigation sideways …

THE BREAKDOWN is a crime mystery novel set in Australia and the UK. It is the second book in the Detective India Hargreaves series and is available to buy in both paperback and digital formats.

Small Sacrifices

Be careful what you wish for.

She wanted to be famous. But not like this.

Ellen Gibson always dreamed of being a star. At a young age those dreams were shattered.

Discovering she holds the winning ticket in a 55-milion Powerball jackpot, Ellen sees it as her opportunity to be in the limelight. But at what cost?

Detective India Hargreaves and her small team are called in to investigate the disappearance of five- year-old Joshua Gibson, but the investigation is taken over by the big guns from Police Headquarters when it turns out to be a kidnapping.

When the media and the lead investigator suspect Ellen of being behind the kidnapping, her fame disintegrates into a nightmare and she seems powerless to stop events spiralling out of control …

Small Sacrifices is more than a crime/mystery story set in Australia. It will be available in paperback and e-book.

The Photograph

In a quiet Sydney suburb, soon-to-be-married Sonny Day sets off on his bike to catch the train to work. He never makes it to the station. After his fiancée Chrys reports him missing, DI India Hargreaves launches a low-key investigation.   

Weeks later, a man’s body is found, mutilated and buried, on a nearby building site, but it’s not Sonny, and with no solid leads, both investigations stall…until a letter arrives from Sonny, claiming he’s met someone else.  

Chrys insists Sonny wrote it under duress. She convinces India to investigate further, beginning with the photograph that came with the letter and ending in Scotland and the discovery of more mysterious deaths. But two questions remain unanswered. 

Whose body was buried on the building site? And where is Sonny Day? 

The Wave

Lucy Jones and Kelly O’Brien each have their problems. When they meet in Phuket in December 2004 and share their troubles, the future begins to look more promising. Lucy devises a plan to help Kelly escape from her controlling, violent partner. But a tsunami sweeps through the resort causing tragedy and chaos. 

After recovering from her injuries, Lucy, whose husband died in the tsunami, travels to Llandudno in Wales to visit her in-laws. Thirteen years later, still in Llandudno and having established a successful business there, an unexpected visitor turns up on Lucy’s doorstep who turns her whole world upside down. She then has to consider how far she will go to protect all she holds dear. 

The Wave is a psychological thriller set in: Phuket, Thailand; Melbourne, Australia and Llandudno, Wales.