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Steve Higgs
When Felicity visits a wedding dress boutique, she finds the owner strangled and posed, and she finds herself unwittingly embroiled in yet another desperate investigation. The dead dressmaker has been…
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When the chef tipped to win this year's Eton Mess competition falls to his death, Albert races to investigate - surely this is the work of the Gastrothief again. However…
When Tempest is called to investigate a Yeti attack in the Alps, he is certain it will just be another fool in a costume - He's going to solve the…
Tempest is having a bad week. When a newspaper ad typo sends a glut of paranormal enquiries his way, he has no sense of the trouble heading his way. In…
A woman whose dead husband is haunting her? That sounds like a routine case. Until she reveals her husband's name and a past event Tempest wants to forget comes back…
In jail, Tempest Michaels, has been enjoying the peace and quiet. But all that is about to change, as the jailhouse golem is more than two hundred years old and…
Someone is re-enacting the murders from a series of horror books, and the evidence points towards the dead author as the perpetrator. The victims are those who were closest to…
Telling your superior officer he is an (insert expletive) was not a good career move, but it sure felt good to do it. I'm tiny and bits of me are…
Whatever it is that makes her special, it's attracting a lot of heat. The demons all seem to want her, but the ancient secret driving them to her might also…
What would you do with your last week? My plans got shot to hell when the police, asked for my help. They have a murder with strange circumstances. I only…
When a single shot rings out to shatter the quiet at a prominent museum, it signals the start of a new mystery Patricia Fisher cannot avoid investigating. An apparent suicide…
When someone starts targeting members of the local vampire Live Action Role Play club, there's only one person they can turn to -Tempest Michaels. Unfortunately for Tempest, he doesn't realise…
Baking. It can get a guy killed.
When a retired detective superintendent chooses to take a culinary tour of the British Isles, he hopes to find tasty treats and delicious…
Visiting a small Lancashire town to learn their culinary secrets, a retired detective and his former police dog dream of delicious dishes ...
... what they get is the dead…
When the chef tipped to win this year's annual Eton Mess competition falls to his death in mysterious circumstances, Albert races to investigate…
Baking. It can get a guy killed. And this time it does.
A murder staged to look like a suicide fools everyone except Albert Smith. He knows better. In Lyme…
The paranormal? It's all nonsense but proving it might just get them all killed.
When a master vampire starts killing people in his hometown, paranormal investigator, Tempest Michaels, takes it…
steve higgs
Unsolvable mystery meets hilarious adventure when a retired detective and his former police dog take a culinary tour of the British Isles.
A humorous cozy mystery in which a retired, widowed, senior police detective tours the British Isles learning to cook his favorite dishes. Accompanying him is his faithful former police dog…
As Patricia nears Athens, a member of the crew the captain’s nephew, is found dead, next to a gun and suicide note. With a disobedient dog, Anna, loyal butler, Jermaine…
When the local goddess of cake is found impaled with her own knife, the victim's husband is found holding the weapon. It's an open and shut case until he calls…
What would motivate a person to damage a ship in frigid waters and what might that person do next? It’s no surprise when Patricia decides to look into it, but…
When an artist boards the ship, no one expects his work to be interrupted by the death of his muse who seemed vibrant and full of life just hours before…
I just took a case from the tearful, but very rich, widow Barker, whose husband supposedly died at the hands of a century-old phantom. He was the owner of Barker…
Gold coins from a centuries-old sunken treasure ship have been found on the beach in Cawsand. This would be no cause for Tempest Michaels to take notice, but a man…
There are crop circles in the fields near Cliffe Woods and unexplained lights in the sky at night. Does Amanda’s latest case have aliens at its core? A farmer hires…
When a climber suspiciously falls to his death and a local artist has her dog stolen, both cases fall into the lap of local sleuth, Patricia Fisher. However, no sooner…
When she finds a member of British Intelligence in her bedroom, Patricia really isn’t that surprised. However, he has a secret task for her - find his contact, hand over…
Fifty-three-year-old Patricia Fisher is a trouble magnet like no other, a sad fact she has come to accept during her three month around the world cruise. Wherever she goes, bodies…
On the train ride into Dundee, Albert and Rex discover a woman has just witnessed a murder. She claims she saw something in the window of a house as the…
The two teams join forces again, but this case will test them to their limits - how do you tackle a criminal who can paralyze you before you get to…
Patricia is a guest of the world’s third richest man, her benefactor, the Maharaja of Zangrabar. At a banquet thrown to celebrate a new peace treaty between his country, and…
Invited to an anniversary party in the suite next door, Patricia is pleased to celebrate the idea that marriage can work. Billionaire Howard Berkowitz and his wife Shandy seem very…
When an organised crime family wants you dead you don’t stand a chance, unless your name is Patricia Fisher. Targeted by the Godmother , for interfering with their operations, Patricia…
As Patricia’s divorce meeting looms, she calls in some favours to arrange a wedding for on-board friends, Lieutenants Bhukari and Baker. Did she ‘accidentally’ arrange for it to be at…
Patricia gets a call from her friend, and zoo owner, saying her husband George is missing and the police are not investigating due to no ransom note or evidence of…
On the southeast coast of England, three wine growers have just gone missing and a fourth was found dead at the scene. Could this be the work of the master…
I am Amanda Harper, a paranormal detective with the Blue Moon Investigation Agency. My first case is at the local shopping mall where shoppers claim a ghost attacked them in…
Tempest is investigating cases that are clearly not paranormal. However men dressed as clowns terrorise the Kent towns with ever escalating and more frequent attacks. The Klowns should be a…
What was she thinking? Quitting her steady job in the police for an uncertain future at a paranormal investigation agency? Not only that, her new boss inexplicably took the week…
Tempest is back! His office burned down, his love life is a joke so it’s the perfect time for a new case then! Is there witchcraft being practiced in the…
When retired cop, Albert, arrives in Stilton for a festival, he has cheese on his mind, but that’s not what he gets … … arriving the morning after the factory…
In Biggleswade, Albert & Rex, are enjoying a peaceful break, until the waitress serving them is arrested for murder. But Albert saw her eyes when the police came for her…
After the drama in Biggleswade, our crime-busting duo head to York for the annual Yorkshire pudding competition and a well-earned rest … … well fat chance of that because they…
A retired detective and his former police dog expect a quiet time in a Cumbrian village. However, when Rex picks up a scent upon arriving at their B&B. The discovery…
On a culinary tour of the British Isles, a retired detective and a failed police dog intend to taste the kippers that made the town famous but when the first…
Visiting Lancashire, Rex and Albert dream of delicious dishes. What they get is the dead body of a famous TV chef. Plunged into mystery, Rex and Albert must stay one…
Upon arriving in Blackpool, Albert walks into a shop being shaken down by heavies enforcing a protection racket. Instantly marked when Rex rousts the criminals, Albert must choose whether to…
