"If you like psychological detective stories with a touch of humour and romance, you will love Sam Smith." Love Hurts. For Derwena de Caro, songstress, female icon, teenage dream, success brought drugs, alcohol and a philandering boyfriend. It also b...
"If you like psychological detective stories with a touch of humour and romance, you will love Sam Smith." It had been a week since the incident at the abandoned quarry, a week since I’d shot and killed someone, a week since my ex-husband had been ...
The Big Chill Book Three in the Sam Smith Mystery Series The series in order: Sam's Song Love and Bullets The Big Chill “Emergency!” “Christ! Who shot her?” “Don’t know.” “What a mess.” “Better call Dr Warburton.” Bright lights....
Some people will stop at nothing in their pursuit of wealth and power. Indeed, the greedy will often resort to murder. “You’ve been through a stressful time recently,” my fiancé, Dr Alan Storey, said. “I’m off to Bulgaria to attend a psych...
Secrets and Lies �" Suicide or Murder? Most of the people I encounter are hiding a secret and many of them are adept at telling lies. However, how do you learn the truth about someone who’s no longer with us? Author, Barclay Quinton wrote Fabringj...
When the biggest villain in the country makes you an offer you can’t refuse, what should you do? In my case, I decided to accept that offer, made by Mr Vincent Vanzetti. Vanzetti hired me to find his missing daughter, Vittoria, while threatening re...
Please note: this book runs to 50,000 words and 246 printed pages, not the estimate listed by Amazon.For the first thirty-three years of my life I had no knowledge of my father, no idea what he looked like, his name, whether he was dead or alive. The...
Please note: this book runs to 242 printed pages and 50,000 words, not the estimate listed by Amazon.The man in my office held a dark secret, a secret to kill for. That man was Tony Ryland, husband of local madam, Maria de Costa. Unfortunately for me...
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Sasha Pryce, a teenage chess prodigy, presented me with a problem. She wanted me to track down Steve Chapin, her coaching assistant. Steve had mysteriously disappeared, leaving no clue as to his whereab...
Someone had posted a dead rat through Jana Jakubowska’s letterbox, and scrawled obscene graffiti on her garden wall. Harmless pranks, or something more sinister? Her boyfriend, Tom Renwick, hired me to find out. During my investigation, I met Jana�...
A Parcel of Rogues is book thirteen in the Amazon #1 (private detective chart) Sam Smith Mystery Series. Each book in the series contains a complete story and can be read as a stand-alone. Print length, 236 pages. Also contains two bonus chapters, An...
In her heyday, the critics regarded Dana Devlin as the most beautiful actress in movies. They also regarded her as shallow, lacking emotion. That was strange because Dana Devlin’s life had been a rollercoaster of emotions, with divorces and nervous...
As a teenager, Ros McCarthy offered Mark, her baby son, up for adoption. Now, as an adult and a successful author, she wanted to reconnect. With Faye at my side, our task was to locate Mark.Along the way we learned about Ty Gwyn, a children's home, a...
Aged twenty-one, Rosanna Mee was housebound, severely agoraphobic. Yet, when Faye and I arrived at her flat to deliver legal papers we could not find her. She'd disappeared. How could a woman who had not travelled from her home in three years simply ...
Pregnant in a pandemic. My life is never dull. While Alan and I set about the pleasant task of selecting a name for our baby, Faye interviewed candidates for the role of maternity leave assistant.Our plans were going well until a friend was murdered....
Eight and a half months pregnant. My detective agency was in good hands, Faye and Tamara's hands, so time to put my feet up and await the Big Day. However, Gabe, my private eye friend from Boston, had other ideas.Hired by Alexander Carmichael III the...