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Patrick and Gareth fall for each other against the backdrop of the miners strike back in 1984. It is almost an impossible time for a striking Derbyshire miner to let his feelings wrap around those of a serving police officer but neither of them can help it, and they somehow manage to find themselves the time and the space to be together and share the joy that's exploded into the hearts of them both. But the strike isn't the only problem they have to face and one of them has to break the other one's heart. Forty years later and circumstances bring them the two of them back together but on ...

When the father of British writer Peter Cross dies, a devastating family secret is revealed that puts Peter at odds with his two brothers. He’s also executor of his father’s Will and the stress of everything makes him want to get right away. He decides to take a train up to the Fylde coast and checks into a guest house in Lytham. And that’s where his real troubles begin. On his first day there he meets Vicky, the owner of the guest house, and her son Cameron. He’s a grown man but what is it about him that she knows that he doesn’t know himself? And when bisexual Peter and gay ...

You answer a video call on our phone. You see your loved one. Then you watch as they're murdered right in front of your eyes. But there's nothing you can do. And you can't see who their killer is. Detective Jason Farrell and his team investigate a particularly nasty and callous series of murders that all seem to be related in some way to a Kingsbrook businessman who is also suspected of being one of the biggest drug dealers in New South Wales. Can Farrell and his team put a stop to the murders before a drug gang war erupts in the town? And how much danger will it place Farrell's own loved ...

MICK just wants to meet the right woman and be happy. DOMINIC has always said that he doesn't want children because of the darkness that seems to be passed through the male members of his family. RICHARD just wants to be a father to his beloved daughters and can't understand why he has to fight for that right when he isn't the one in the wrong. TYLER needs to escape from having been controlled all of his life by someone who says she needed to 'protect' him and is urged by his cousin BRANDON to get right away. And HARRY feels like he's been forced to waste the last twenty years when he ...

Ready to meet the Third Wife?' Carl and Gina are both thirty. They live in Newcastle. They've been together since the test was positive when they were both fifteen. They now have three kids. Shane has never been on the dole. He's never been out of work. He's a construction worker and he works six days a week to support his family. Gina has never had a job. Her mother told her to make Carl provide because that's what the man does in 'families like ours'. Carl sees her as the mother-in-law from Hell. She constantly interferes in their lives. And Gina always takes her side over Carl. But when ...

PRE-ORDER now the new Detective Jason Farrell Australian Crime Thriller by DAVID MENON called DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE - out on January 31. 2025. THE FINAL HOURS ONE MAN HAS PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE FOR OVER FORTY YEARS. ONE BODY HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND. ONE TOWN HAS BEEN HIDING DEADLY SECRETS FOR DECADES. Wayne Portman is released after spending forty years in prison for a double murder in the town of Kingsbrook, New South Wales, back in 1977 and for which he has always maintained his innocence. One of the bodies, that of his girlfriend at the time, Fiona, has never been found. Wayne had been a ...

When LIAM TOWNSEND disappeared after abandoning his car a year ago, the police put it down to suicide. Then a year later the body of a woman is found in a shallow grave nearby and her DNA matches that which was found on the passenger seat of LIAM’s car. VALERIE GARDNER was a close friend of LIAM’s and walks into the Lytham office of PI STEPHANIE MARSHALL asking if she can find LIAM. STEPHANIE agrees but has no idea about the ulterior motive VALERIE has for finding LIAM and just how many people that will involve, including GRANT WILDE, who works for VALERIE and with whom STEPHANIE starts...

A MANCHESTER CRIME THRILLER CHARGED WITH POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND WITH A LOVE STORY AT ITS HEART When Mark meets Ian near his south Manchester home he has no idea of Ian's past as the member of a loyalist paramilitary gang back in his native Northern Ireland. Nor does he know why his former comrades have put a price on his head, or of the deadly agreement Ian made with the British security services that has led to him having blood on his hands. But when Mark discovers the loaded gun that Ian keeps in his bedside drawer at night, he wants to know what the Hell is going on. And when does learn ...

Sean Matheson has always been close to his nephew and niece. So when their Mum, his sister Nadine, who's brought them up on her own and is now dying of cancer, asks him to adopt them once she passes, he readily agrees without question. The kids want to be with him and he wants to step up and become their 'dad'. But he's shocked by the reaction of his partner Brett. He knew Brett had never wanted kids but he's never told Sean why, and he did think Brett would make an exception given the circumstances. It puts a lot of pressure on their relationship because as far as Sean is concerned, his ...

Old enemies. New danger. One last shot at the truth. Detective Jason Farrell had been enjoying a fairly quiet time of it lately. Crime seemed to have been under control in his corner of Kingsbrook, New South Wales. But then all Hell breaks loose. The brutal murders of two people close to him throw out questions to which no answers can be found, and along with it a decades old family feud brings a sectarian conflict from the other side of the world to the streets of Kingsbrook. Farrell and his team will need all they've got and more if justice is ever going to be served. A Bullet From The ...

A TENSE THRILLER IN WHICH ONE MAN RIPS THROUGH THE HEART OF THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY! Twenty years ago, Paul Foster was a social worker in Salford with a firm but fair attitude to those in his care. But when he discovers connections between criminal activity on the Tatton estate and a titled lady working with a former Nazi war criminal, activity that could have fatal consequences for someone he loves very much and who he finds out is also involved, he has no idea of how explosive things are going to get and the danger he could be in. But a letter from his father not only turns his world even...

***PRE-ORDER now the new Detective Jason Farrells Australian crime thriller by DAVID MENON called DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE - out on January 31, 2025. DESTINED FOR MURDER Detective Jason Farrell of the NSW police is back and the country town of Kingsbrook is rocked by the brutal murder of a retired couple who seemingly had no connection to the criminal world. Or did they? Soon Farrell and his team are drawn into a network involving organised crime and a local Kingsbrook company whose owners cover the darkest of secrets with their business activity. Their family owe their freedom to a time when...

PRE-ORDER now the fourth Detective Jason Farrell Australian Crime thriller 'DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE' - out on January 31,2025. EVERYBODY HAS A COLD BLOODED KILLER IN THEM A man is found sprawled across his bed naked. And dead. He'd been strangled. Evidence shows he hadn't been alone that night. A suspect is quickly identified but are they really guilty? Or are they just an easy target for those who want answers? Detective Jason Farrell and his team at the Kingsbrook, NSW police are intent on finding out. FOR SOME IT'S EASY. NOTHING EVER HAPPENS TO THEM THAT WOULD WARRANT THE TAKING OF ...

A tense politically charged crime thriller in which the community relations of Britain's premier holiday resort are put to the test. A Blackpool hotel in which asylum seekers and refugees have been placed whilst their applications are processed, is deliberately set on fire leading to a high number of fatalities due to the serious overcrowding. A contentious debate is opened in the town and suspicion falls on a far-right group who are planning a march in Blackpool's town centre. Meanwhile, DI Layla Khan and her team investigate the apparently unconnected murder of a retired teacher that also...

A MANCHESTER CRIME THRILLER CHARGED WITH INTERNATIONAL ESPIONAGE AND A POLICE DETECTIVE DETERMINED TO GET TO THE TRUTH. A staunchly right-wing conservative US senator is determined to be her party's candidate for election as US president in 2028. But what has that got to do with a terrorist campaign that rips through the city of Manchester in the UK with devastating consequences and that pushes community relations to their absolute limit? A local MP is trying to heal the divisions but he's being sent threatening mail that grows with deadly intent each time. And the US senator is in league ...

A MANCHESTER CRIME THRILLER CHARGED WITH THE DARKEST OF FAMILY SECRETS AND A MAN WHO FINDS OUT WHAT HE WISHED HE DIDN'T KNOW. Who murdered eighteen-year-old Nigel Slater when he and his best mate Danny Holdsworth were about to start their degree courses at Oxford University? They were from very different backgrounds. Nigel had grown up within a normal, caring, loving family. Danny had been brought up by his aunt Joyce after his mother abandoned him when he was a little kid. He never met his father or even knew who he was. Thirty years later and now an esteemed TV journalist, Danny returns ...

Lethal. Deadly. Dangerous. Fear and loathing. Murder. It all adds up to what the streets of Blackpool's premier holiday resort mean to DI Layla Khan. On the other side of where cheap booze, cheap clothes, slot machines, and fast food reign supreme, DI Khan has to try and sort out the Blackpool that the tourists aren't meant to see. A teenage prostitute is found murdered. A sample of her blood was taken by the killer. Then a second one is discovered with the same MO. Why is the killer taking their blood? Both girls turn out to have been HIV positive. Did the killer know this? Were they ...