Saturday 10 November 2012

A Small Piece of Flesh and The Charm of the Unicorn are ready to buy ar www.smashwords.com

Shortly you can buy Siren, another story featuring the detectives from A Small Piece of Flesh, Leroy Henderson and Mike Chambers. Forming a new unit put together to identify and catch serial killers, their first case isn't as straightforward as they wouild have preferred.
Brooke Maguire is eliminating the people who wouldn't take her seriously when she went into business. Killing people and not leaving any trace evidence makes the Serial Killer Squad unhappy, but here's the kicker - she kills disguised as famous women so the witnesses only remember the character she plays.

Thursday 28 June 2012

A Small Piece of Flesh is now published online at www.smashwords.com.

URL is http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/169251 and at a mere US$2.99 this is real value for money. Flesh has romance, murder and mystery.

Saturday 24 March 2012

A Small Piece of Flesh

A Small Piece of Flesh, released around April 5th 2012, is about crime and a long love affair, abruptly ended by a fatal heart attack. Stephen Cole is the founder of Kids in Crisis, a New York charity he set up to help young people with problems that they have no control over. He is also an industrialist with a conscience who sees no reason why making money and having a strong sense of ethics can't co-exist.

A long time ago he met and later married Samantha Chapman, a cool blonde with a strong resemblance to Grace Kelly, who shared his enthusiasms and supported the charity whole-heartedly. Together, their profile in New York society is at the very top.

But now Samantha is a widow and suddenly she's news. Where did she come from? What's her background? It didn't seem so important while Stephen was alive but now everyone wants a piece of her.

But Samantha doesn't want to play. 

Do Serial Killers like Cookies?

We assume serial killers are heartless beasts whose all-consuming passion is their next victim, but surely they have to eat. I was thinking about this while my wife was creating a batch of cookies based on a Celtic football team's logo and an iced football. I wondered what a serial killer would like on his cookies and how he would ask the baker to decorate them. I imagined a knife or a gun, possibly red blood dripping off the edge. Maybe a nice flower or the outline of a kitten. But why leave a clue with a total stranger who might remember the unusual request when the cops came around asking questions?

The little details are what the NYPD look for when faced with a series of dead people connected by witness, weapons or forensics.

Sometimes there's nothing. No ideas, no motive, no suspects. That's when luck or intuition kicks in.