Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

Suppose someone pays you a massive bribe, but you know nothing about it. When you find out, what do you do? This all lies ahead for Rob Crichton when arrives from London at a remote Northumbrian pub. He’s looking for rest and recuperation after executive burn-out. However, he’s quickly caught up in a bitter dispute between the likable landlady Catriona and her estranged husband Shaun. Summoned back to London to fight for his job, Rob learns about the bribe. He didn’t ask for it, but the money is there in his bank account. Who paid it, and why? Then to cap it all, he’s implicated in a suspicious death. Ranging between London and the north Northumberland coast, ‘The Inducement’ follows Rob’s fight to clear his name and keep his job, while at the same time he tries to help Catriona keep her pub afloat. As they work together, a warmth...

Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

During a working visit to Cornwall, journalist Mike Stanhope is asked by ex-girlfriend Ashley to help her friend Giles to fend off an online blackmail attempt. Then Giles disappears. What is Mike supposed to do – find him, or find out why he’s being blackmailed? He’s immediately sidetracked by a burglary, a batch of missing paintings, a hint of a long-forgotten murder, and a thwarted company takeover. He senses that a news story must be hovering just beyond his grasp, but can’t work out which angle to pursue. Meanwhile, Mike is surprised to discover dormant feelings for Ashley. Should he rethink his relationship with girlfriend Samantha, or is nostalgia distorting his judgement? Then he starts to wonder if the various story leads could somehow be connected. Surely not?

Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

When a bedraggled woman turns up on Rory Cavenham’s doorstep in the middle of a storm, convinced that the year is 1972, he’s torn. Recent troubling experiences have left him scarred and wary of involvement, yet he can’t help feeling touched by her strange plight. But she claims she’s lost her memory, so she can’t explain her situation. Before he knows it, she’s slipped into his life; but she’s frightened of unspecified pursuers, so he has to keep her presence under the radar. He’s drawn to her, but starts to wonder whether he’s exploiting her or she’s exploiting him. Eventually they identify two women who fit her description – one in the present day, the other in the past. But where do their lives intersect, and how could she be both of them at once, even if such a thing were possible? Their quest becomes more urgent when the imagined...

Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

When journalist Mike Stanhope is accused of libel, he’s determined to clear his name. His crime: he reported that a company was failing. Its owners claim that it's busy and flourishing, and they're not happy with him. Did he get it wrong, or is he the victim of an elaborate deception? The unpredictable Trish, daughter of the company boss and a self-confessed admirer, seems eager to help him, but her real agenda is frustratingly unclear. Matters take a darker turn when Mike stumbles on a body in a wood. But when he returns later, it has vanished. Another illusion? Gradually Mike’s investigation gets entangled in a much older mystery. What happened in the building that once stood at the corner of the factory site? Could it be the scene of an ancient crime … or something even more sinister? Meanwhile, Mike strives to keep his relationship with his girlfriend Sam...

Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

Kirsty Thornhill disappeared three years ago. Is she dead, or just determined to keep her head down? Journalist Mike Stanhope turns detective and scours West Yorkshire and the English North West in search of answers, but it’s no easy ride; the trail is cold and the clues are ambiguous. Kirsty, Mike learns, was a woman of contradictions – firm in her views and quick to anger, yet also warm and oddly reticent. He wants her to be alive, but new evidence keeps pointing the other way. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Sam is worried that his conscientiousness could be sliding into obsession. Mike's breathless trail lurches across the UK as he pieces together Kirsty’s complex story, and in a contemporary twist, he starts to suspect that the ripples around her disappearance could spread much further than anyone imagined.

Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

Mike Stanhope had high hopes for first his self-published thriller, but life intervened and he neglected it. Frustrated with his day job, he decides to give the book a new marketing push. He picks an expensive, high-profile book promotion web site and pays his money … and waits There’s little sign of the breakthrough he hoped for, but the consequences soon threaten to engulf every other aspect of his life. Looming in the midst of Mike’s troubles is the enigmatic Nick Hathaway. He seems to ooze good will … but is it genuine? Mike isn’t convinced; but will his reservations bring him closer to Samantha, the woman he fell for last year, or merely alienate her? Ranging from London to Los Angeles and back, The Concrete Ceiling is the most breathless in this series so far, and also manages to throw in some wry insights into the tribulations of the...

Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

How far might people go to secure the kind of political outcomes they want? That’s one of the themes of this thought-provoking and topical mystery thriller by Peter Rowlands, writing under the pen-name Anders Teller. Released from hospital after a serious car accident that he can’t even remember, Tom Anthony finds himself questioning everything about his life – his girlfriend’s loyalty, his neighbour’s motives, and his own beliefs and aspirations. And then there’s the ebullient but enigmatic Emily. Is she on his side? Can he trust her? Inspired by the events surrounding Britain’s EU membership vote, ‘Never Going to Happen’ broadens out into a classic mystery about an average man pitted against forces he doesn’t understand. The story is not short on wry humour. The scene where Tom accidentally invites two women as his plus-one to the same dinner is just one toe-curling example. As the plot approaches its dramatic...

Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

When a noted public figure invites journalist Mike Stanhope to ghost-write his autobiography, he jumps at it. He needs the money, and his life needs a new direction. But Alan Treadwell is a tough taskmaster, imposing tight deadlines and taking a demanding slant on the way his book should be tackled. Soon Mike is wondering if he’s bitten off more than he can chew. He’d like to learn more from Joe, the original writer he’s been recruited to replace, but Joe is nowhere to be found. It doesn’t help when Mike starts finding out things about the great man that he’d rather not know: things that someone would prefer to keep quiet. Meanwhile, Mike’s hard-won relationship with his girlfriend is faltering badly, and his repeated absences aren’t helping. When he’s drawn to an attractive new woman he starts to question everything about his old life.

Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

Journalist Mike Stanhope has inherited a house from someone he’s never heard of. It sounds too good to be true, and he soon learns it is. Other people were expecting the inheritance, and they aren’t happy. That’s not his only problem. Despatched to the north to look into a local company, he picks up hints of corporate fraud, and has to fend off the advances of the boss’s beguiling daughter. Then he breaks a confidence by publishing privileged information. Before he knows it, his job is in doubt and his relationship with his girlfriend is on the line. Gradually Mike realises he’s contending with ruthless people who are determined to keep him in the dark. Questions pile on answers as he searches for explanations.

Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

What if you self-published a book, and it had unintended consequences? What if people who read it jumped to conclusions about your knowledge of real events? Journalist Mike Stanhope has self-published a mystery novel as a diversion from his day job. One of the key characters is loosely based on a girl he remembers from childhood. Now he's persuaded by well-meaning friends to try and track her down. The trouble is that she is nowhere to be found. As he pieces together the mystery surrounding the girl, fact and fiction start to intertwine. Mistaken assumptions lead him down a variety of false trails, but he gradually starts to unearth some surprises he couldn’t possibly have expected.