Showing results by narrator "Robert Sebastian Cooper" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The year is 1881, and the SS Atlantica heads for New York City with first-class passengers expecting the very best of everything but never expecting murder. Among them, quite by chance, is the finest amateur detective in the British Empire. 

Relating the tale of how he identified the Rose Petal Killer, Sebastopol and his faithful colleague Bryers find themselves caught up in a fresh wave of murders. The Rose Petal Killer might be a figure from his past, but Sebastopol is about to find out that buried secrets have a way of resurfacing, and they're clawing their way into the present to threaten his credibility, and perhaps his life. 

This saga is led by that complex character von Tabis, a psychopath, whose monumental ego, and fantasies of power and grandeur, were given fortuitous reign by his unexpected transfer to tranquil Tanganyika (Tanzania) just before World War II. His South African co-conspirators who fell under the spell of von Tabis illustrate how his charismatic and compelling personality stimulated their latent dreams and ambitions. 

While travelling in central Turkey, Joe Grafton stumbles upon some ancient scrolls that contain a secret so devastating it could shake the foundations of the modern world. Soon he and the beautiful Turkish girl he has befriended are fighting for their lives, pursued across the country by enemies who will do anything to get their hands on the scrolls. 

The Ventura Casino - a glittering arena where the super-rich go to pit their wealth against chance and admire the beautiful chicas who deal at the tables. But behind the scenes lurks a corrupt world of credit-fixing, prostitution, and rape - a world that only a few brave employees dare to challenge. 

In accountancy, every debit has a credit. Kevin McAteer, 23, living in London, is about to discover that real life is different. Just qualified as a chartered accountant after years of penury and study, he is flying high with a new bedsit and a new girlfriend Paula. An audit investigation in Maidenhead leads him into danger, with fraud, people smugglers, murderers, and money laundering. His co-worker, 20-year old Abagail, asks Kevin to ruin her reputation to enable her to avoid an arranged marriage within her religious community. 

In 2023, after Britain has exited the EU, immigration is still above target and the NHS buckles under the enormous demands that are placed upon it. In the eyes of many, things hadn’t changed since Brexit. A year earlier, two-party politics was swept aside as a new political order, the English Independence Party (EIP), surged to power.