Blogs in May 2025

A Death in the Afternoon (The Clapham Trilogy Book 2) 22nd May 2025

Summer 1948 London swelters amid post-war reconstruction, while continued rationing and the black-market fuel the rising crime wave. The empires of gangland bosses grow and thrive, protected by corruption and bribery. During a party in Clapham a student nurse...

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The Midnight Man 21st April 2024

Winter 1946 One cold dark night, as a devastated London shivers through the transition to post-war life, a young nurse goes missing from the South London Hospital for Women & Children. Her body is discovered hours later behind a...

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Opera 4th August 2022

TRUTH NEVER DIES It had been solely personal. Not anymore. Determined to put the ghosts of her past to rest, Cassandra Fortune asks a former head of GCHQ for help, only to receive a message from beyond the grave....

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Oracle 12th March 2021

Justice will be done, but what kind of justice? High on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, near the ancient Temple of Apollo, a group of young idealists protest against the despoiling of the planet outside a European governmental conference....

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Plague 28th May 2020

There are many ways to die. Plague is just one of them. Work on a London tube line is halted by the discovery of an ancient plague pit and, within it, a very recent corpse. A day later another...

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