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Carter Dean's childhood ambition was to be a comedian. After leaving school and having a couple of uninspiring low paid jobs, his dream becomes a reality when he is signed up by an impresario to tour the clubs of the North of England, practising his craft as a standup comic

His career takes off and he is in demand on the comedy circuit as his reputation grows. However, one day he is interviewed by police when it transpires that three vocalists found strangled, had all appeared on the same bill as Dean.

When several more vocalists are found murdered in the same manner, Dan becomes the number one suspect as the serial killer. He battles to prove he is not guilty of these crimes, but in the process he suffers a huge personal tragedy. In between making people laugh, several attempts are made on his life. Follow his career as he fights to prove his innocence and gets drawn into an ever more bizarre situation, that involves drugs, a police vendetta and murder on a massive scale.

ISBN 978-1979294720

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The Cruise Family Connection

The Lindhurst family had lived at Conacre Lodge for forty years. After his three sons married and left home, widower Charles Lindhurst lived there on his own. When he passed away unexpectedly, bizarre happenings occur at the house, connected to its hidden, sinister past. Paranormal events become the norm, as his three sons investigate these ghostly encounters.

It soon becomes apparent that it is related to the previous owners, the Cruise family. They discover this family had practiced pagan rituals for centuries, some involving the ritual sacrifice of young girls.

When one of the brothers disappears, investigations lead the Lindhurst family to Ireland. They are aware one member of the Cruise family had fled there in 1805 after the abduction and brutal murder of a young girl. Enquiries reveal the last remaining descendent of this dynasty is a ruthless killer, heavily involved with the Russian Mafia and the importation of illegal drugs into Ireland.

A tale of abduction, murder and arson unfolds as they hunt this disciple of the devil to put an end to their nightmare.

ISBN 978-1533266385

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The Hunt for Larry Roberts
Master Forger

Larry Roberts had an amazing gift as an artist, whether he was painting Manchester and the Northwest of England in the childlike manner of L.S. Lowry, or creating a scene in the Cote d'Azur in the style and flair of Monet or Cézanne. He could copy the paining technique perfectly, of any artist, living or dead. However, when he unwittingly gets involved with a criminal family from Ireland, his life becomes a nightmare.

A fast moving action packed situation develops through several European countries that involves forgery, kidnapping, death, and mayhem on a grand scale.

ISBN 978-1515016441

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Colonel Smythe's Daughter

Beautiful socialite Megan, daughter of Colonel Roderick Offington-Smythe, wanted to marry a cabinet-maker, but her father had serious doubts about this union, he felt she was marrying beneath her station.

As usual, she got her way in the end and they were married in extravagant fashion at her family seat, Wigglesworth Manor, the event was the highlight of the social calendar.

However, after a couple of years Megan got bored with married life, and started a string of extra marital affairs, bed hopping from one conquest to another.

When one by one, her former lovers are found murdered in brutal and bizarre ways her husband Luke is the prime suspect.

Was he really responsible for the killings?

Find out in this story of deceit, infidelity, murder and mayhem carried out in an atmosphere of police harassment, corruption and incompetence.

ISBN 978-1503286375

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Sand Dollar Logistics

Veteran SAS soldier Doug McGee, was on sick leave, convalescing after receiving serious injuries when his parachute failed to open fully, on a recent exercise. He is asked by his commanding officer, to return to active duty urgently, after the British authorities become aware of a plot, to mount a military coup in Africa, with the use of nuclear and chemical weapons.     

An arms-dealing company based in Pakistan, are orchestrating the planned coup, after reaching an agreement with a deposed former leader, to supply mercenaries and these deadly weapons. Their aim is to overthrow the government of Zambatu, and restore the previous head of state to power.

McGee is asked to organise a crack team of SAS operatives, and devise a plan to prevent this from happening. They travel out to Africa, to take on these people, however, things do not go entirely as they had planned. A fast-moving action-packed situation develops, as they hunt the mercenaries from country to country throughout Africa. The plotters leave a trail of death and destruction behind them, as they try to elude the SAS in this thrilling adventure.

ISBN 978-1494-710354

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A Day at the Races

Mike Ireland was a happily married man, totally devoted to his wife and two lovely daughters, however when one of his daughters develops a life threatening disease in her liver, his world is turned upside down and he is faced with a huge dilemma.  Her only chance of survival is a life saving operation in the United States, by way of a liver transplant, providing that a suitable donor can be found.

Unfortunately the cost of this operation is astronomical, and far in excess of his financial resources. 

His friend encourages him to use his position as Production Manager at a printing company to produce some counterfeit fifty-pound notes, and along with a group of friends launder this money at various racecourses around the country, to raise the five hundred thousand pounds needed for the surgery.

However things do not go according to plan, and they unwittingly get involved with various underworld criminals and drug dealers, as well as corrupt Politicians, Judges, and Bankers in their efforts to pull this off.

A roller coaster of a ride follows in a trail of drug dealing, corruption, deceit, death and misery that at times knows no end.

ISBN 978-1-909154-21-6

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