Someone’s record is going to suffer.
The DCI Jones Casebook: Raymond Collins
A 70-page novelette to introduce Detective Chief Inspector David Jones.
Birmingham, England, a sunny day in the city park. Children play, adults walk—and a man lies dead in a pool of blood. His terrified fiancé screams for help.
The assailant smiles, waves goodbye, and strolls away into the city.
DCI David Jones and his protégé, Detective Sergeant Phil Cryer, are called to investigate the most difficult of crimes—an apparently motiveless and random attack. Hampered by a lack of resources, Jones and Cryer have to act quickly to prevent a murder spree.
The DCI Jones Casebook: Ellis Flynn
When fourteen-year-old Hollie Jardine fails to return home from school, her terrified parents call the police.
It doesn’t take DCI David Jones, head of the Midlands Police Serious Crime Unit, long to discover a link between Hollie and convicted sex-offender, Ellis Flynn.
With Hollie’s chances of survival fading, Jones and his colleague Alex Olganski risk their careers when they ignore protocol to follow Flynn’s trail across the Channel into France.
What they discover in an idyllic backwater will stretch Jones’ detection skills to the limit, and Alex’s loyalty to heartbreak.
The DCI Jones Casebook: Cryer’s View
For more than five years police operations in the southeast of England have been failing. Chief Superintendent Knightly, a senior member of the National Crime Agency suspects someone is selling police intelligence. When one of his junior officers dies before he can attend clandestine meeting with him, Knightly is certain—there’s a dirty cop inside his organisation.
Unable to trust anyone under his command, Knightly turns to an old friend for help—Detective Chief Inspector David Jones.
When Detective Sergeant Phil Cryer, answers his doorbell to find CS Knightly and DCI Jones on his doorstep, he knows things are about to get interesting—and dangerous.
Phil Cryer, on sick leave after suffering an injury in the line of duty, volunteers to go deep undercover inside the NCA to hunt for the dirty cop and faces his most difficult and dangerous assignment.
Alone, injured, and armed only with his phenomenal memory, Phil must identify the rogue cop before he escapes … or kills again.
ACTION ADVENTURE
On Lucky Shores
In an action-packed tale of secrets and lies in small town America, Chet Walker is a man forced to make decisions that will affect his future and the life of the woman he loves.
Witness to a car crash and in receipt of a cryptic message from a dying man, traveling musician, Chet Walker, reaches the picturesque lakeside town of Lucky Shores. He faces hostility and suspicion from the locals and learns that the information he carries could unlock an eight-year-old mystery—it could also get him killed.
Josephine Dolan, owner of the Lucky Shores diner, wants to bury her past. When Walker arrives with a message from her father, she doesn't want to hear it. She cuts him cold.
When his life is threatened, Chet Walker learns the truth behind the saying, “no good deed goes unpunished.”
FANTASY THRILLER
The Transition of Johnny Swift
Before the accident …
Frank Brazier has the perfect life. A contract to drive for a Formula 1 team. A supportive family. A stunning girlfriend.
On the surface, everything is great, but Frank keeps a secret. On race days, Shadow-man visits. He sits on the nose cone of Frank’s racing car, or floats above the grandstand, waving, taunting, distracting, eating away at his concentration. An accident in the making.
After the accident …
Frank starts hearing voices. Strange voices. Impossible voices. He’s losing his grip on reality and Paula, his sister, is dying. Doctors say she is brain dead. They want to pull the plug, but Frank knows she’s still in there, fighting. He can hear her calls.
One day later…
Shadow-man speaks. He says Frank can save Paula, but can Frank pay the price?
SHORT STORIES
The Collection
The Collection includes over two dozen stories ranging in length from fifty word micro shorts to a full-blown novelette. Comedy, drama, crime thrillers, romance, true-life tales, gory horror, historical epic—you’ll find examples of each.
The hauntingly evocative semi-autobiographical tale, Sweet William, and the poignant, The Phone Call, are stories to tug the heart and bring tears to the eye.
In The Long Wait, Ryan Chisholm has spent seventeen years waiting to avenge the death of his father.
A Father’s Tale is a heart-warming story of family life told in short vignettes.
At over 7,000 words, The Chamber is the longest in the book, and perhaps Kerry’s most gruesome tale. Psychopath Porter Robinson holds Robert Forbes captive in a cellar and tells him a tale from Porter’s childhood. Will Forbes survive, or will he go the way of countless other victims? This is definitely not for the people of a timid disposition.
If you enjoy your fiction in short bites and read across many genres, The Collection is sure to delight.
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