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Steve Higgs
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…
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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…
The paranormal? It’s all nonsense but proving it might just get them all killed. When a vampire starts killing people in his town, paranormal investigator, Tempest Michaels, takes it personally…
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…
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…
When Patricia returned the missing sapphire she had no idea the Maharaja would invite her to his son’s coronation. The invite suggests he has a mystery for her to solve…
Now halfway through her trip, the peace is interrupted when another calling card is found. Proof that someone has been breaking into the upper deck suites, but nothing has been…
On the LA to Hawaii leg, a film crew are shooting a new action movie, Barbie has been given a role. It's all great fun and she attention of the…
Can you keep a really terrible secret? A town in America is about to be rocked to its core, as three sisters come to terms with what they are. Being…
Baking. It can get a guy killed.
When the chef tipped to win this year's annual Eton Mess competition falls to his death in mysterious circumstances, Albert races to investigate…
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…
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…
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…
When Michael Michaels finds himself facing off against a giant ghoul, he begins to think he should have listened to his wife and stayed at home. In trouble with the…
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…
She's got a magical hand cannon and is carrying God's sword. That makes her tough to beat, but when the devil himself sends the four horsemen of the impending apocalypse…
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…
Zachary has the shield of God. Anastasia wants it.
Need I say more?
Immortal werewolf meets ... well, whatever Anastasia is, head on.
It's about to get brutal.
On a culinary tour of the British Isles, retired Detective Superintendent Albert Smith and snarky former police dog Rex Harrison find something quite unexpected waiting for them at their B&B…
Every other generation of the Hale line dies on his 80th birthday. Lord Hale turns 80 and has invited Tempest and a whole host of other guests from different fields…
When two bikers are found half-eaten, the coroner states an animal attack. But England doesn't have any large predators? Tempest gets hired to find out what happened and is pointed…
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…
Jane is missing. Taken by a serial killer known only as the Sandman, Tempest and friends must unravel the clues to find her before night falls. However, the Sandman wants…
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…
Called to investigate a mystery at a local mine, Tempest expects to find an explanation for the strange events; instead, he discovers a body and horrified staff. Recent earthworks exposed…
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…
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…
When Felicity Philips gets a panicked call from a friend, there isn't a way that she can turn him down. Edward, the jeweller to the crown, is in trouble and…
Now halfway through her globetrotting around the world trip, Patricia Fisher is feeling relaxed and happy on the arm of Captain Alistair Huntley.
The peace is soon interrupted though when…
When Patricia returned the missing sapphire of Zangrabar she had no idea the Maharaja would consider himself eternally in her debt. Hardly surprising then that she has been invited to…
As the Aurelia nears Athens, a new member of the crew is found dead in his cabin. Next to a gun and slumped over a suicide note, it appears tragic…
When she finds a wounded member of British Intelligence in her bedroom, Patricia really isn't that surprised. I mean, it happens all the time, doesn't it?
However, she is surprised…
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 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…
Snoozing on the train ride into Dundee, a horrified scream tears both Albert and Rex from their dreams and back to reality ...
... where they discover a woman has…
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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…
Arriving in the famous English seaside resort, Albert plans only to reminisce about a childhood holiday more than seventy years in the past. While there he will eat the town's…
On the southeast coast of England, three wines growers have just gone missing and a fourth was found dead at the scene. Could this be the work of the master…
Every journey might start with a single step, but where does it end?
Albert Smith and his faithful dog, Rex Harrison, have been on the road for far longer than…
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…
Marriage? It can be absolute murder
Wedding planner for the rich and famous, Felicity Philips is aiming to land the biggest gig of her life - the next royal wedding…
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…
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…
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…
She's over fifty, overconfident, and in way over her head! It's well known that working in movies can be cutthroat, but no one expected that to be taken literally. It's…
When a chance encounter with a pickpocket leads to something more sinister, avid sleuth Patricia Fisher swings into action.
The Aurelia is on its way to Thailand, but a mystery…
How do I always attract trouble and drama?
When a crewmember takes his own life but hands Patricia a cryptic note and a request to save Anna just before he…
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…
