A new thriller
The first book of mine both written and set in Spain. The north coast is heaven for the vanlife community, and we constantly see young couples parked up in the beach carparks on their travels through Europe. This book — my publisher hasn't settled on the title yet — was inspired both by these, and the many van trips I've taken too.
Deep Blue Lies
Twenty years ago, two shocking murders rocked the luxurious Aegean Dream Resort on the Greek island of Alythos. The case was closed. The island moved on. Ava Whitaker never did. Now, kicked out of medical school and dumped by her boyfriend, the future she'd counted on is gone. With nothing left to lose, she returns to Alythos — to finally uncover the truth about her past.
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The Lake House Children
My five-year-old son Jack has been saying extraordinary things. "I remember when I was bigger," he says. "Before I died." At first, we thought it was just imagination. But then he started mentioning details about our family's lake house — things he couldn't possibly know. He talks about his "other mommy" and describes the day my nephew drowned in the lake.
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Little Ghosts
"One moment my beautiful daughter, her face flushed from the sun, her curls still wet from splashing in the ocean, was waiting in line for a strawberry ice cream, the next she was gone…" As I sit in her dimly lit bedroom, surrounded by flickering candles, I feel the crushing weight of my daughter's absence. It's been two years since Layla was murdered. The police have searched tirelessly for her killer, but they've found nothing — it's like whoever did it vanished into thin air.
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The Glass Tower
Julia Ottley is the literary world's brightest new star. A record-breaking book deal. A debut novel tipped as a modern classic. Overnight, the woman nobody noticed has become the woman everybody wants to know. But Julia's glittering rise hides a secret so explosive it could destroy everything.
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The Girl on the Burning Boat
Someone put her father in his grave. But they didn't bury his secrets… Alice is the smart and beautiful daughter of a powerful businessman. She lives a charmed life — until her father is killed in a tragic accident. Then she meets Jamie, a young man from a very different background, who has evidence that her father met a much darker end.
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The Desert Run
Two students' impossible debt. One outrageous plan. Jake is just out of university and right out of cash. His former classmates are off on adventures or getting on with their lives, while he's stuck in a dead-end job and can't get a break. Until his best friend comes up with a plan to reverse both their fortunes.
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The Wave at Hanging Rock
Natalie, a young doctor, sees her idyllic existence crumble when her husband mysteriously disappears at sea. Everyone believes it's a tragic accident, but an enigmatic phone call ignites her suspicions. Driven by unsettling discoveries, she embarks on a relentless quest for the truth lurking beneath the waves. Jesse, a schoolboy, finds his life abruptly transplanted halfway across the globe when a science experiment catastrophically claims his father's life, propelling shockwaves through his existence.
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The Things You Find in Rockpools
"I don't really have time to tell you this — I've got my hermit crabs to study, and the treehouse to finish — but since everyone keeps asking about that girl who disappeared, or got murdered, or whatever — I suppose I have to. After all, I was actually there that night…" Billy Wheatley isn't like most eleven-year-olds. It's just him and his dad, in a remote house on the clifftop above Lornea Island's Silverlea beach. But when a teenage girl goes missing one summer night, and the biggest police search the island has ever seen fails to find her, Billy decides to take a break from his more important projects. And catch the killer himself.
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The Lornea Island Detective Club
At fourteen, Billy Wheatley has already solved two murders. Well, sort of. So it's only natural he decides to open a detective agency on the lonely, windswept Lornea Island… Less expected is that he finds an actual client — and a partner. Amber is brilliant, fearless, and a full-on goth. Together they stumble into a case that seems like ancient history: a man who disappeared more than forty years ago.
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The Appearance of Mystery
Billy Wheatley is sixteen. He's outgrown childish detective work and is now a serious scientist. And to prove it he's landed a place on a research ship studying great white sharks a hundred miles off the Australian coast. So it's just unfortunate when he happens to uncover evidence of a serious crime on board, within the first week.
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The Island of Dragons
Billy Wheatley is missing. Presumed dead. When Billy heads off to college, he exchanges small island life for the excitement of the mainland. And while he's able to ignore the temptations of drink, drugs, and sex which preoccupy the less able students around him, when he attracts the attention of a more sophisticated clique, he is far more at risk.
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The Trap
Erica Sands keeps her family legacy locked away — very few people know that her father is in a high-security prison, forever stained by the blood of his many victims. But when the body of a woman is found in an isolated cottage, a cryptic note concealed nearby, Erica is once more dragged into her father's dark orbit.
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The Hunt
DCI Erica Sands is on the hunt for her father, the infamous serial killer Charles Sterling, who vanished without a trace after a daring escape from a maximum-security prison. The trail has gone cold, and the authorities believe he has disappeared forever. But Erica knows her father better than anyone and feels his presence lurking in the shadows.
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Erica Sands #4
Book three in the Erica Sands series does end on a little bit of a cliffhanger — I'm sorry about that — but I have written the next one, and it's working its way through editing now. Again the name is TBC (maybe either The Calm, or The Kill, but maybe something else as well). It's already out in Spanish with the highest reviews of the whole series, so hopefully worth waiting for.
Killing Kind
When a child finds a confession on a park bench, it sounds like a hoax — until DI Beth Jordan links it to a string of unsolved murders. And when more letters emerge, more deaths follow. Free when you join the newsletter.
Falling from Grace
Eddie Rodgers threw himself from the roof of the science block in his final year of school. And his enigmatic classmate, John — who never much liked Eddie — but was nowhere near him when he died. Or at least, that's how everyone remembers it, including Paul — who walked the tightrope of being friends with them both. But how much should we trust our memories? Free when you join the newsletter.
The Hole in Casey's Garden
A children's book I made with the kids, no expense spared (the kids now call it The Hole in Daddy's Wallet). See the project page for the full story.