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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…
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 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…
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…
Wedding planner, Felicity Philips wants to plan the next royal wedding. However, the police believe she is responsible for a dead body. Out of custody, but under suspicion, her rivals…
Felicity has an event to run on a private island this weekend. Unfortunately, it's also the perfect setting for a murder. When an unpredicted storm cuts them off from the…
At a wedding fayre, something terrible happens at Felicity's booth and she suspects her arch-rival, Primrose Green. Felicity knows she will have to find the proof and with the help…
It's the day of the wedding and the bride's dog, and ring bearer, is missing. Ernie. Thus starts a day Felicity would sooner forget. Sending Amber and Buster to scour…
On board a cruise, the days are filled exploring places. Unless you are employed as the ship's detective, Patricia is the sleuth whose special skills include attracting trouble, getting shot…
It's not so much the number of dead bodies that Patricia needs to worry about on this cruise, it's how far up the mystery meter they score. Patricia must work…
Reaching the British Unions Isles, the ship arrives for the pirate festival. It's party time! But Patricia finds an eccentric millionaire waiting to hire her and his spooky ghost story…
Cut off from her friends and forced to perform tasks at her enemy, Angela Howard-Box's, beck and call, Patricia is on the run. Multiple criminals are on her tail, plus…
Following clues to a village in the southwest of England, retired detective, Albert, aims to prove his theory by catching the 'Gastrothief's' agents. With former police dog Rex at his…
What lurks in the shadows at the Dockyard? Is it something evil and malignant? Will it suck at your soul? No, because it will be some idiot in a costume…
