Portsmouth is a city on the ropes, a poor, dirty but spirited city, with a soaring crime rate. And it is home for DI Joe Faraday. Faraday has made it in the CID through diligence, an unswerving commitment to principle and an uncanny knack for...
Freshly promoted to the elite Major Crimes Unit Faraday is thrown into the deep end with the investigation into the murder of prison officer Paul Coughlin. Was the violent Coughlin killed by a recently released con he brutalised in prison? Or is his...
With the world in crisis and the Superpowers moving towards confrontation, a UK city is trying to maintain order during a nuclear emergency. Civil rights are suspended and Martin Goodman, a man with a violent secret is put in charge. But unknown to...
On 2nd August 1990, Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait City. The invasion provoked international condemnation and the assembly of the largest task force since D-Day. Yet for two months the huge allied army did nothing. This novel looks at these months...
DI Joe Faraday's Management Assistant, Vanessa Parry, is dead. Killed in a head-on car smash. Her funeral is a bitter end to another grim week in the front line of the ongoing war against Portsmouth's surging crimewave. And now the seemingly...
Keogh, an investigative journalist, stumbles on the story that the Gulf War may have been fought to a pre-arranged script. When he starts asking questions the security forces take notice and an MI5 officer, Sarah, is sent to befriend him and find...
When Ellie's husband is killed in an accident her world falls apart. Her husband's company is in debt and, in order to keep it going, she must learn to fly the World War II fighter plane it was built around. She must also find answers to the...
Features anti-personnel mines, Africa, and the journey one woman makes to find the person responsible for the death of her son in Angola. This book is both an examination of what bereavement means to one character and an indictment of the arms...
The government is running scared. The Sabbathman is killing the people who have gained the most from their policies. His message is clear: "You have ruined this country. None of you are safe". As the public warm to the killer, MI5 are called in to...
"Backstory" is a book-length companion piece to the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful series of crime fiction novels set in Portsmouth and featuring D/I Joe Faraday and D/C Paul Winter. I wrote it in response to literally hundreds of...