The first Crime novel i read was The Black Echo by Michael Connelly. I had never beleived that i would be able to keep my interest going in a book that did not involve hellbeasts or vengeful spirits. It turned out I was wrong and the Crime genre became another of my favourites.   

I should say that i have always loved TV crime dramas, and have had an interest in forensics and Forensic Psychology from an early age. After beginning to read more crime fiction, i came to find that the links between the horror genre and the Crime genre were many. Both dealt with humans facing their fears and facing the dark. Both looked at the struggle of good against evil. Both had heroes and villains.

The genre line has been crossed many times, most successfully by Irish author John Connolly who combines crime with the supernatural. So perhaps, moving to crime writing is not too far a leap to take from where i began.

Works in progress.

Don't Hang Up

"Hang up and she dies."

Arriving home from work, David Thompson believes that the worst thing he will find is his wife's Cliff Richard cd greeting him as he opens the door. He is unaware that his wife has been kidnapped and that his life is about to hurtle out of control.  Then the telephone rings and warns him one thing.

"Don't hang up."

Soon David realises that the faceless voice is not the joke he believed it to be. His wife has been taken, and both of them are in danger.

With blood on his own hands, David has only one person to confide in, only one person he can trust among the shadows gathering over him. Suddenly he is not only trying to save his wife, but also himself from the ghosts that have haunted his career. Working with people on the edge of sanity, rational thought and emotional stability has left a number of skeletons in David's closet and someone is about to put them on show.

As David moves closer to the truth an unexpected ally comes to his aid, and soon everything David believed is brought crashing down around him.

Read parts one and two of Don't Hang Up for free at Harper Collins' Authonomy Website by clicking the link below.

The Artist

DCI Jack Metcalfe is facing the worst day of his career. A killer known as The Artist, a killer thought long dead, is back. A young girl lies dead in Dragonville Cemetary and Jack has to find The Artist before he create another terrible exhibit for his collection.

Jack reassembles the team that almost caught The Artist a year earlier, but one member of the team proves to be elusive. PI Ash Kent, who left the force in the aftermath of the assumed death of The Artist, does not want to be involved in the reopened case.

But the voice in his head, the phantom guide he calls The Chameleon, has begun talking to him again and The Artist is about to strike much closer than either Jack or Ash could imagine.

The Chameleon

Kate Leash is a Private Investigator; successful, beautiful, and being stalked. Joining forces with Ash Kent, Kate attempts to discover the identitiy of her tormentor.

After his encounter with The Artist, Ash has once again fully realised the potential of the voice that speaks to him; The Chameleon. Spookily psychic, and his invisible guide, The Chameleon could hold the key to the case and also to the ghosts haunting Ash.