The peace of a Midlands village is disturbed when local businessman Harry Bowers doesn't return from choir practice. More concerned than the man's own wife, it would seem, investigating officer Detective Sergeant Sunita Roy becomes convinced he has met a sinister end.

      For there is no trace of the man - just a litany of evidence of an ailing marriage and a nose-diving business venture.

      In charge of her first serious case, DS Roy will struggle to win the respect of her colleagues - in particular, her Brummie boss, DCI Gavin Roscoe. All that while fighting off the approaches of an increasingly desperate suitor.

      Can DS Roy unravel the case and find what has happened to the tycoon? And is she tough enough to break down the defences and prejudices of Middle England?

Midlands police chase a serial killer who inflicts death by the new urban weapon of choice.

      Given the targets seem enveloped in love affairs and deceitful liaisons, Chief Inspector Gavin Roscoe suspects a motive of jealousy and revenge. But as the number of victims increases, the connection between them wears thin.

      Is it really a broken heart holding the crossbow? And if it’s not some crazed Cupid, who has their finger on the trigger?

      Plucky Detective Sergeant Sunita Roy doesn’t think they are looking in the right places. Yet without evidence, her theory won’t hold water. With the help of valiant and besotted DI Tom Vickers, she’ll take considerable risks to hunt down the hunter.

      Following multiple leads, the duo will need to collar the right suspect, but nothing is quite what it seems in this exciting police procedural full of twists and turns.

Smile Of The Stowaway is a novel telling the story of Yusuf, a man who emerges from beneath a couple’s motor home when they return to Kent from France.

Teacher Bob Shaw and his wife Anne, a librarian, consider handing him to the authorities, but, despite tensions emerging in the couple’s relationship, they decide to let the friendly Eritrean move in and find him work at a farm. 

When a man is found brutally murdered, suspicion falls upon Yusuf, who has become the farm messenger boy, and he is arrested. Anne battles against a mountain of circumstantial evidence and police bungling to try to find the real killer as she becomes convinced that Yusuf is innocent.

Front cover illustration used for Smile Of The Stowaway. Original is an oil-on-panel painting by artist Ross Marklew from Pontypridd, South Wales.

Bob Shaw is baffled to see a man in a brown coat at a bustling Underground station. Surely it can’t be his friend, the scientist Professor Morley? Morley perished weeks before in a blazing car. Is the man an impostor or did his friend fake his death? This fascinating and ingenious thriller tells of Bob’s battle to find out the truth, helped by his wife Anne. They are confronted by ruthless enemies and forced to flee their home in this fast-paced spy thriller.

Since becoming semi-retired in 2015, I have written four novels and there is a fifth on the way. Three are crime novels set in the Midlands.