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Shadows of Cathedral Lane
Series: Detective Sandford Mysteries
Series Number: 1
E-book Price: 4.00
Blurb: Moments after being dumped by the woman of her dreams, a dead man accosts Nikki begging her to solve his case.
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Detective Sergeant Nikki Sandford is having the worst night of her life. Five minutes after the woman of her dreams dumped her in a conversation that will have her questioning her sexuality all over again, a man with a serious injury accosts her. One problem: he is already dead. The knife wound in his abdomen and the fact that nobody except Nikki can see him makes that apparent. He wants Nikki to help solve the mystery of his death so he can move on to the afterlife. Nikki is only too happy to oblige if only so that heโll stop complaining about being stuck in the modern world and leave her to eat the sticky toffee pudding she was going to serve to her date. But something is trying to stop that from happening.
Salmonweird: A Cornish Crime Comedy Caper
Series: Salmonweird
Series Number: 1
E-book Price: 3.00
Blurb: Karl's retirement to Cornwall was quiet and idyllic until the ghosts turned up... and one of them a murderer.
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Is it possible to kill a person who is already dead and has been for hundreds of years? Karl hoped his retirement to coastal Cornwall from Cambridge would be idyllic and quiet. His new home, the picturesque village of Salmonweir overlooking the Cornish south coast between Treen and Lamorna Cove away from the big tourist destinations was seemingly perfect in that respect. Salmonweir, in fact, had nothing to set it apart from any other sleepy Cornish village unaffected by mass tourism. And that was the way Karl preferred it. But Karl's wife Valarie didn't prefer it. What really tipped her over the edge and convinced her to return to Cambridge was the 500 ghosts who appeared from nowhere one Sunday morning in spring. Among them were Iron Age Warrior Queen on the lookout for Romans, a pirate crew on the lookout for rum, an Elizabethan poet on the lookout for a publisher, a Civil War puritan on the lookout for Catholic royalists, and a medieval monk on the lookout for plague. Could it have got any weirder? Ah yes, the "murders", and Karl's un-retirement.
Studio Salmonweird
Series: Salmonweird
Series Number: 3
E-book Price: 4.99
Blurb: Salmonweir hosts the small and big screen through April - and another murderer
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It's spring and the big and small screen are coming to Salmonweir! After spending months filming on location everywhere except Cornwall, silly crime drama Killed in Kernow is returning home to the Duchy. What's more, they've chosen Salmonweir for their latest episode. Karl, despite reservations, has agreed to be an on-location consultant. Also in the village is Guesthouse Guru, a shouty Spanish woman who turns up at small hotels to tell them why they are so rubbish at guesthousing before showing them how to do it properly. If that wasnโt enough, famous Hollywood director Francesca Mondeo Coffey-Pott has arrived in the village to film several scenes for her latest action movie Superpowered Vigilantes: Re-Unite! a movie starring four actors named Chris who nobody can tell apart.
The Residents of James Hotel: A Ghost Story
E-book Price: 1.99
Blurb: Vince is stranded at a bus stop one cold November night when a mysterious stranger offers him a room
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Release date: 6th June. Vince is stranded at a bus stop one cold and wet stormy November evening when a mysterious stranger offers him a lift and a room for the night. The stranger is one Michael James, a local aristocrat, and owner of The James Hotel in the nearby town of Execombe. It's an old hotel of mysterious figures and strange voices. It's a place where the owner and his equally mysterious reception manager repeatedly states "Nobody ever wants to leave!" What is the secret of The James Hotel? Who are the residents? And more importantly, what secrets lurk within the fabric of its historic walls?
The Small Bronze Carriage on the Mantelpiece: A Gothic Ghost Story
E-book Price: 1.99
Blurb: Two men who've not seen each other in decades, an 80-year old tale of newlyweds, linked by one artefact
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It is the 1830s: Two men who have not seen each other in decades encounter each other quite by chance on Advent Sunday, many miles from where they both grew up. Moving their conversation to the home of the younger man, discussion soon switches to the small bronze carriage on his friend's mantelpiece. It has a strange tale, one that goes all the way back to the 1750s and the tale of a young newlywed couple heading to Oxford to spend time with the new groom's extended family.
Phobetor's Children
E-book Price: 5
Blurb: Six gladiators on a secret mission for Emperor Vespasian will find their worst fears are already with them
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It is the AD70s. The tumult of The Year of the Four Emperors is over. Under Vespasian, Rome finally has stability and peace, an emperor with the respect of all classes. Yet beyond the borders of the empire, something dark and unknown stirs. A fort deep in a Germanian forest failed to report to the border town of Mogontiacum. A contact from a friendly tribe reported catastrophic damage to buildings and Roman war machines. The legionaries are gone; what few Romans remain are mutilated dead. Unsure of the size and nature of the threat, the new emperor realises he must act fast and decisively. Rome cannot spare a legion but it can spare six of the empire's most famous retired gladiators. With the promise of riches and prestige, it is down to those six: five men and one woman, to cross the border, travel to the forest, and find out what happened. But the gladiators will find that the greatest horrors are what each of them already carries within their hearts and their minds. Trigger warnings for sexual assault, psychosis, suicide, psychological abuse, sexual humiliation.