WELCOME BACK TO MY WEBSITE

Many reasons for the interval - not least, of course, the pandemic - but I have not been idle, just interrupted my focus on book fiction for a while to work on a screenplay project, and spent time, too, indulging myself with painting, generally working my way through a period of health issues, loss, sorrow and other challenges. PREY drew me back to my ‘real’ job: a story that had been on my mind for a long time, rooted in the past, fuelled in part by old family history, but mostly driven by my imagination and my characters who - as so often - allowed me to put them through all kinds of hell.

Readers old and new, I so hope you enjoy PREY, and then, hopefully, you may be kind enough to browse my backlist: to take a look at the big sagas that started it all - IN LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP and CHATEAU ELLA - at the early thrillers - IF I SHOULD DIE and TOO CLOSE - and at MIND GAMES, which kicked off the Detective Sam Becket series; and at my other standalones, including TWISTED MINDS, GUILT and COMPULSION and, the most recent, WHIRLWIND.

NEW BOOK

PREY

Will history repeat itself?

Moving from a London deep in the terrors of the Blitz to the seemingly safer London of 2019, two women must fight for their lives to survive a ruthless killer in this dual timeline psychological thriller.

London, 1941. Amongst the air-raid sirens and horrors of bombings, artist Harriet Yorke is living in Belsize Park, managing Calla House, a small community of people from different backgrounds - but good friends who pull together in times of crisis. Like most Londoners contending with the Blitz, Harriet has grown used to withstanding danger, but when she goes on a late evening stroll with her dog and finds herself face to face with a murderer, she unleashes a series of events that will put more than just her own life on the line…

London, 2019. Libby, a cartoonist, lives amongst her grandmother’s paintings in Calla House - works of art into which Harriet poured many of the horrors of her wartime experiences. Libby’s Calla House is a comfortable safe haven for her and its other residents - until a crumbling chimney pot sparks an alert. Before long, as her troubles magnify alarmingly, she begins to wonder if the ghosts of Harriet’s past aren’t going to bring more than just the house down around her ears. But far worse is yet to come.

'Will make your hair stand on end.'

'Fans of Charlie Donlea’s The Girl Who Was Taken and Riley Sager’s The Only One Left will thoroughly enjoy this unputdownable creepy and suspenseful novel, filled with unexpected twists and turns and keeping the reader guessing until the very end.’