Published Work

	Guardians of the Key Headline, Aug 06, Pbk, Jan 07 Guardians moves between the medieval town of Lucca in Tuscany, and 1805 London, and includes a spectacular suicide, several gruesome murders, a nasty bout of arson, and the chase to find the missing, but politically expedient, relics of Lucca as Napoleon hammers on the city’s ancient walls.

	The Roaring of the Labyrinth Headline, Aug 07, Pbk, Jan 08 The book features a fiendish plot winding from the shores of the Black Sea and the founding of the City of Odessa, to the Valley of Eden in the Pennine Hills. Stroop and his adopted family are engaged to find missing bell-founder Uwe Dvoshka. They arrive at Astonishment Hall with its eclectic collections of exotica and weird invention, and trail the missing man through a series of grisly murders and a cold landscape of moors and mists.

	The Envoy of the Black Pine Headline, Aug 08, Pbk, Jan 09 We find Stroop and co on the trail of an entire missing library, taking them from the flooded valleys of Upper and Little Slaughter, to the Printworks of Painswick, and the sea-bound shores of Saareema, a strange group of islands off the Estonian coast. Inevitably murder occurs, plus a little piracy and animal mutilation, and that’s all in the first 50 pages…

	The Brotherhood of Five Headline, Aug 09, Pbk, Jan 10 The Isle of Thanet, 1808. One man is pushed into a kiln of molten metal beneath the looming shadow of the Shot Tower, and another is dug up from the sandy bay beyond. Who they were, and why they died so strangely, is no ordinary mystery, even for Missing Persons Finder Whilbert Stroop. On arrival in this marshy corner of Kent, on the very edge of England, Stroop tries to piece together the puzzle of these deaths, and the significance of the objects each man died trying to protect. It is a conspiracy that began ten years before on the battlefields of Europe, and one that will claim more lives before it is done.

	Types of Everlasting Rest (Short Story Collection) For a quicker read, try this collection of short stories.

Short Stories

I Should Have Listened Harder
Winner of the Scotsman/Orange Short Story Award 2006 & published in the Work anthology 7.06 (ISBN 1904598838)

The Boot-Tree Man
Winner of the Killie Short Story Prize 2004

Damascene Cure
Shortlisted in the Wells Literary Festival Competition & broadcast on BBC Somerset Radio 21st Feb 2005

Hinkelmann Hits the Cellar
Placed in top 20 stories of The New Writer Competition 2004 & published in Sept/Oct 2005 issue

Nil Sorsky & the Walrus
Placed in top 20 stories of The New Writer Competition 2004 & published in Nov/Dec 2005 issue

The Rake-Maker’s Garden
3rd prize in the JBWB Competition Sept. 2004 & published on their website

Of Phlegraean Fields
Shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Prize 2004 & published in the Southword Anthology no.7 shortly afterwards

Stepping on Seals
3rd prize in the 2005 ChapterOne Short Story Competition: publication in the ChapterOne anthology, due late 2007

Private Makar…
Published in TNW Nov/Dec 2006

The Wolf in the Forest
Published in Random Acts of Writing Issue 7 June 2007

Overwind
2nd prize : Speakeasy Competition 2004; to be published in Northwords towards the end of 2007