BOOKS
Recent Releases
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…
The Cove
After the sudden death of her husband, Christine Harvey would do anything to give her precious children Molly and Ryan a fresh start. The huge clifftop house she’s hastily purchased has the most breath-taking ocean view she’s ever seen. Surely here they can someday be happy again?
The Trap
With no streetlights and little light left in the sky, Erica nearly missed the narrow track to the isolated cottage. There was still blue police tape stretched over the front door, and the broken window where the killer had got in was poorly secured with cardboard, sodden from the storm.
The Rockpools Series
The Things You Find in Rockpools
A teenage girl disappears from a beach town on a vacation island. Two months later the police still haven’t found her. And quirky local boy Billy Wheatley steps in to help.
At just eleven years old, he’s too young to tell people what he’s up to, but he’s confident of success.
The Lornea Island Detective Club
At just 14 years old, Billy Wheatley has already solved two murders – well sort of. So it’s only natural he should open a detective agency on the windswept and lonely island where he lives…
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The Appearance of Mystery
Now sixteen years old, Billy Wheatley has given up all thoughts of childish detective work in favor of his emerging scientific career. He lands a coveted place on a research ship studying great white sharks a hundred miles off the Australian coast. But when he manages to find evidence of a crime even out here, he can’t help but investigate. The only problem – in these shark-infested waters – he quickly bites off more than he can chew…
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The Island of Dragons
When Billy Wheatley 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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Standalone Novels
The Wave at Hanging Rock
Natalie, a young doctor, sees her perfect life shattered when her husband is lost at sea. Everyone believes it’s a tragic accident. But a mysterious phone call prompts her to think otherwise. She sets out on a search for the truth.
Jesse, a schoolboy, is moved half way around the world when his father is blown up in a science experiment gone wrong.
The Girl on the Burning Boat
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.
The Desert Run
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.
He’s smart enough to know it’s madness. But then – he’s also smart enough to calculate the odds of getting caught.
The Glass Tower
Julia Ottley has a secret. She’s burst onto the literary scene with the highest ever advance paid to a British debut author. Her novel – featuring a fabulous tower of translucent icy crystal – is garnering rave reviews. But as she embarks upon her new life, she discovers that nothing can be hidden forever, especially when living within walls of glass.
The Hole in Casey’s Garden
In 2018 Gregg decided it would be educational, and kinda fun, to work with his children Alba (6) and Rafa (4) writing children’s stories over the summer holidays. One of those stories – The Hole in Casey’s Garden – seemed too good not to turn into an actual real book…
Killing Kind
A killer is leaving clues about his lifetime of crimes on park benches.
A detective has the chance to solve crimes that have baffled her colleagues for decades.
But only if she finds him – before he finds her.
BACKGROUND
Gregg Dunnett is a British author writing psychological thrillers and stories about travel and adventure, usually with a connection to the coast or to the oceans. Before turning to novels he worked as a journalist for ten years on a windsurfing magazine, briefly owned a sailing school in Egypt, taught English in Thailand, Portugal, Turkey and Italy, taught sailing in Greece and Spain, and also had several rather duller jobs along the way.
His brother is the adventurer Jono Dunnett who in 2015 windsurfed alone and unsupported around the entire coastline of Great Britain, and who is currently windsurfing around the coastline of Europe.
Gregg lives in Bournemouth on the south coast of England with his partner Maria. They have two young children, Alba and Rafa, for whom the phrase “Daddy’s working” has absolutely no effect.
Gregg’s debut novel was an Amazon top 100 best seller in the UK and was downloaded over a quarter of a million times.
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What should I write next?
Just a little celebratory email today to let you know I’ve finished the next Rockpools book The Island of Dragons – Hooray! I think I sat down to work out the plot in early January so this is the quickest I’ve ever finished a full draft. I’m not quite sure what’s made...
The End is Nigh
It’s been a tough few days in my world. At least, about as tough as it gets when your job involves sitting in your underpants and making stuff up. (Note: I don’t really sit in my underpants, my office is far too cold.) And obviously not remotely tough compared to the...