Work in Progress
Friendly with Murderers
Friendly with Murderers is a psychological thriller based on the author's experiences working in a Category C men's prison.
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Ria, an ex-prison teacher, is hosting an open art exhibition in her house when one of her former students turns up and doesn't want to leave. With a look at their lives inside, and with noises coming from the attic, it's hard to tell who's the cat and who's the mouse in this twisty tale.
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Out for agent submission Spring 2026.
Cinderdown
When life gets out of control, Darren fights for his legacy
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Contemporary book club fiction based on the history of Imber, a requisitioned village on Salisbury Plain, and a man’s need to break from the shackles of modern life.
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Rambo First Blood meets Harold Fry meets Dead Man’s Shoes.
Darren Dean thinks all that is wrong in his life – losing Rebekah, his job, his Mum and his sister in their tiny flat, his drug dealer brother going AWOL, and Gramps being gravely ill – would all be very different if his family hadn’t been removed from their village eighty years before.
Following a run-in with his toxic boss, Darren drives to the village, hidden away on Salisbury Plain. Now a concrete urban warfare centre, in the damp and chill of Autumn, armed with a rifle and basic supplies, Darren sets up camp to take back what's his.
The Cul de Sac
In a quiet cul de sac, Gary and Natalie are almost happily married until he finds a note from her lover and begins an affair in revenge. Natalie cleans at the holiday cottage with its eerie locked door, as well working at the other houses in her road, where she finds herself a confidante as well as employee.
Gary's ex, Zoe, lives two doors away with their daughter, Caitlin. Zoe find herself distracted by her neighbour Jed, husband of Della. Della is an unhappy artist who teaches at the local school and is regretting her move from London.
When a new family, the Grovers, move into the Close, teenager Joe is desperate for some life and befriends a homeless school mate, Sol, who takes him to places far from his sterile new home.
Francis Parker watches them all from his loft room study. Suspicious of the Grovers' story, he begins an investigation. And when a mysterious stranger is seen in the shadows, it seems the quiet, small town life the family were hoping for may still be out of reach.
With social and political themes of contemporary Britain, The Cul de Sac delves into the lives and secrets of the residents of a semi-rural Wiltshire suburb.
See You on the Other Side, Josie Lowe
Suffering from burnout and triggered by a false accusation at work, Josie breaks Covid-19 lockdown rules, leaning her family in Bristol to reunite an old friend she believes is her soulmate. Things don't go to plan and after a tour of the southwest coast, Josie finally settles at a wellbeing retreat on Dartmoor.
At home, Ellis is upset by his mother’s departure but sales for new business from home are going through the roof. In his mum's absence, he looks after his distraught dad and student sister, while trying to hold down a budding relationship and helping a neighbour after the death of her mum to the virus.
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Will Josie find the answers she's looking for hiding out in the country, and will she return to her family home?