The rapture is here!
CHASING THE RAPTURE is out. The story took me by surprise. Once I got to understand Sophie, the main character, and the trauma she suffered as a young girl, she led me into dark and unexpected places. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy exploring those places too.
It’s a Young Adult thriller and a companion book to CONNOR’S BRAIN. Sophie has the same doctor as Connor in CONNOR’S BRAIN so I guess I could have called the new book SOPHIE’S BRAIN but CHASING THE RAPTURE is more exciting. Scroll down for more.
Have you seen THE OUTER REACHES? This is a 4-book series of strange murder stories and it begins with BODY HARVEST. Two 16-year-old detectives – Troy Goodhart and forensic specialist Lexi Iona Four – are faced with a horrible find of three bodies (perhaps four, it’s hard to say) in a wood. Troy is a human like you and me. He’s a major. But Lexi is an outer. She belongs to the other human race that exists alongside majors. This adds tension and humour as they go about their investigation of the bodies which have various organs missing.
The second book is LETHAL OUTBREAK. Three scientists wearing protective suits are found dead in a sealed, high-security laboratory. An accident with a soil sample brought to Earth from Mars, murder or something worse?
In FATAL CONNECTION, four majors die from the gruesome symptoms of mercury poisoning. But they live in different parts of the country and don’t seem to have anything to do with each other. Troy and Lexi have to find the fatal connection before they can solve this one.
In the fourth book, BLOOD AND BONE, Troy and Lexi find a secret stash of blood, bone, brains and other parts from endangered tigers and rhinos. Someone is slaughtering endangered animals to feed the illegal trade in so-called natural medicine. The same gang will threaten anyone who gets in their way.
I hope this series will appeal to fans of my TRACES books.
All of the TRACES novels - including the 7th, MURDER CLUB - are available as ebooks from Amazon right now.
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Prepare yourselves for cyber warfare! Jordan’s new mission in JORDAN STRYKER: CYBER TERROR is an edge-of-your-seat cyber thriller, packed with high-octane twists and turns. He has to track down a cyber-terrorist who’s destroying computer systems, wreaking death and devastation all over the world, threatening civilization itself. And he has to do it fast - before the terrorist scrambles the microchips that control his bionic body.
I’ve written two more novels in the SHADES series. SHADES is a series of short books that are strong on drama, pace and style. The SHADES books are ideal for readers who find traditional novels too long, but still want exciting plots, strong characters and a fast pace. In other words, they’re designed for readers who prefer their stories to be a snack rather than a gut-busting feast.
My second SHADES thriller is ANIMAL LAB, on the theme of animal experiments, animal rights – and animal wrongs. Imagine you’re ill. You want a cure. There’s a medicine in development that will help. But, before it can be given to you, it has to be tested on animals. For some of those tests, animals will suffer and be sacrificed. Do you still want the cure? Are you more important than rats and monkeys? ANIMAL LAB is all about this controversial part of science and medicine.
Malcolm demonstrates a robotic hand from
Touch Bionics at the Newcastle Science Fair
The third book for this series is ASTEROID. For years, I have put individual characters under threat in thrillers and crime stories. In ASTEROID, I decided to threaten the whole of humanity with extinction through an asteroid strike on Earth. Nature is far more powerful than us humans (just think of devastating earthquakes, severe storms, viruses, volcanoes and the like) and this novel shows it!
The sixth TRACES book is BLOOD BROTHER. There’s a serial killer operating in York Hospital and it’s Luke’s job to track him or her down. He also has to figure out a motive for murdering patients. The book contains a fascinating collection of real diseases, like stone man syndrome. But which are natural sicknesses and which have been caused deliberately? The exotic poisons, plants, medical treatments, and research on human body parts are all authentic as well. The Institute of Biomechanical Research is fictional but its gruesome experiments have all been carried out in actual laboratories. And that includes the catapulted human head.
