Feature Books
Featured Standalone Mystery
Where Ravens and Lions Fall
England, AD 872.
Young Viking Eirik Sigurdsson crosses the North Sea seeking land, honour and a future worth fighting for.
Across England, Edmund of Aescford is learning a different duty: protecting the people he loves.
As Viking armies sweep through the kingdom and Alfred fights for survival, both boys become men, husbands and fathers. But years of war, loss and betrayal slowly turn honour into vengeance.
Their separate lives are drawn towards an inevitable reckoning where family, loyalty and revenge collide.
Where Ravens and Lions Fall is an epic Viking-Saxon saga of war, friendship, love and the human cost of conquest.
Different gods. Different banners. The same human cost.
Some kingdoms are written in blood.
West Coast Verdict
Legal Thriller
Peter Fraser has built his career on preparation, instinct and knowing exactly when a courtroom argument is beginning to turn.
When he becomes involved in a case tied to an old San Francisco criminal network, what first appears to be a matter of evidence and procedure begins exposing a much darker history. Prosecutors believe they understand the story. Peter is less certain.
Working alongside Tony Armstrong, he starts pulling apart the assumptions holding the case together, testing witness accounts, old relationships and the gap between what can be proved in court and what may actually have happened.
Outside the courtroom, the shadow of the Moretti organisation still hangs over people who thought that part of their lives was finished. Old loyalties remain powerful, missing men are not always forgotten, and some secrets were buried so effectively that the truth may never reach a jury.
Set against San Francisco, Marin County and the California coast, West Coast Verdict is a character-driven legal thriller about justice, memory and the uncomfortable distance between innocence and certainty.
Because winning a case does not always mean discovering the truth.
Featured Standalone Mystery
The Boy Who Stole Rio
Thirteen-year-old Gabriel Santos is the best pickpocket in Rio de Janeiro. At least, that's what he tells himself.
Growing up in the crowded hills of Rocinha, Gabi survives by staying quick, clever and invisible. But when he steals a tourist's camera bag on Copacabana Beach, he discovers a memory card containing information that powerful people desperately want hidden.
Suddenly, Gabi is caught in a dangerous game involving frightened witnesses, a relentless detective and a wealthy property developer whose influence reaches every corner of the city. As the pressure mounts, those closest to him are drawn into the growing threat.
With his sharp-witted friend Ana at his side and his grandfather João determined to protect him, Gabi must decide whether to keep running or stand up for what is right, even if it puts everything he loves at risk.
Set against the vibrant backdrop of Rio's beaches, favelas and Carnival celebrations, The Boy Who Stole Rio is a fast-paced coming-of-age adventure filled with danger, humour, friendship and courage.
Because stealing the wrong thing can change your life.
But choosing what to do next can change who you become.
Featured Standalone Mystery
Black Summer
Hawke’s Bay is baking beneath a relentless summer.
The paddocks are dry, the rivers have shrunk, and the heat hangs over the region like a warning. Then a brutal murder tears through a close knit community and exposes secrets that have been buried for years.
As the investigation deepens, old loyalties begin to fracture, relationships are tested, and long hidden truths start to surface. In a place where families have histories, neighbours know each other’s business, and memories stretch back generations, every answer seems to uncover another question.
Who is telling the truth?
Who has something to hide?
And how far will someone go to make sure the past stays buried?
Black Summer is a gripping New Zealand murder mystery set against the heat, dust and striking landscapes of Hawke’s Bay. Blending crime, mystery and strong character driven storytelling, it is a story of secrets, loyalty and the dangerous consequences of truths left hidden for too long.
For readers who enjoy atmospheric mysteries, small community tensions and investigations where the setting becomes part of the story, Black Summer delivers a dark and compelling journey into a summer Hawke’s Bay will never forget.
False Orders
The Sentinel Series - Book One
When a series of seemingly insignificant military equipment thefts occur across Finland, Norway and Sweden, intelligence analyst Elina Karhu uncovers a disturbing truth: someone is assembling a sophisticated tracking system capable of locating protected intelligence assets without ever breaking their communications.
As governments react to escalating threats, every sensible decision appears to lead directly into the enemy's hands.
Veteran Finnish operator Elias Laine and his longtime partner Mika Niemi are drawn into a deadly game of manipulation, where accurate intelligence becomes the most dangerous weapon of all. Every warning, every security upgrade and every change of plan reveals exactly what their unseen adversary needs to know.
At the centre lies NORTHSTAR, a high-value defector carrying secrets powerful enough to reshape international security.
To save him, Elias and his team must abandon the rules, outthink a master strategist and learn one terrifying lesson:
The most dangerous orders are the ones that look completely legitimate.
Ghosts of the Savannah
The Dark Stranger - Book One
The vultures were circling long before the bodies were found.
When a ranger patrol investigating a brutal elephant massacre vanishes in Botswana's wilderness, former reconnaissance specialist Kofi Ndlovu is drawn out of the quiet exile he has built near Victoria Falls. Five years earlier, a failed mission cost innocent lives and shattered his faith in the work he once loved.
What begins as a search for missing rangers soon uncovers something far more dangerous. Hidden among the poaching routes is a sophisticated trafficking network moving far more than ivory and rhino horn. Weapons, intelligence and millions of dollars are flowing through the same shadow corridors crossing Africa.
Joined by an intelligence analyst, a former special operations commander and a bush pilot with connections everywhere, Kofi follows a trail stretching from the Okavango Delta to the continent's most dangerous frontiers.
Because everything leaves a trail.
And someone is willing to kill to erase it.
The Quiet Water
Shadows of the Sounds — Book One
An empty boat drifts through the perfectly calm waters of the Marlborough Sounds.
There is no sign of its owner, Alan Mercer. His wallet, phone and keys are still aboard. Nothing appears disturbed, and yet something is very wrong.
Senior Constable Jim Storey begins what should be a straightforward missing-person enquiry, but in the Sounds, distance and isolation can hide more than people. From Havelock’s marina to remote bays and properties reached more easily by boat than road, Jim and Constable Mia Rangi find themselves drawn into a community where everyone knows someone, old loyalties run deep and the past is never quite as buried as people would like.
Set among the waterways, green hills and small communities of New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds, The Quiet Water blends atmospheric crime mystery with believable police work, dry Kiwi humour and characters who feel part of the landscape they inhabit.
It is the beginning of the Shadows of the Sounds series.
Quiet water does not keep secrets. People do.
Ghost List
Dallas Armstrong Series — Book One
For twelve years, nobody in Ohio has called him by his real name.
Mark Ellison disappeared into witness protection, leaving behind the life he once knew and becoming someone else entirely. New name. New history. New rules. But when people connected to protected identities begin dying, it becomes clear that someone has found a way into a system designed to make people disappear.
Retired Deputy U.S. Marshal Dallas Armstrong understands that world better than most. For more than two decades, he tracked fugitives, protected witnesses and learned how easily a person could vanish when the right records were changed. Now, outside the Service, he is drawn into an investigation where names cannot be trusted, official histories may be manufactured and the dead may have more in common than anyone first realises.
What begins as a series of seemingly unconnected deaths leads Dallas into the hidden machinery of identity, protection and betrayal.
Fast-paced, grounded and built around a hero who relies on experience rather than bravado, Ghost List launches the Dallas Armstrong series with a mystery about the people the system was supposed to keep safe.
Some people disappear to survive. Someone is making sure they stay gone.