Thursday 27 September 2018

WITH THE CRIME WRITER HAT ON - THE FIRST THREE INSPECTOR McKINNON NOVELS OUT AS AUDIOBOOKS

We are pleased to say that then first three books are now out as audiobooks, all narrated by David McCallion, for Whole Story QUEST.  He's done a great job on them.
The Gathering Murders came out on 6th September, 

Deathly Wind on 27th September and Murder Solstice comes out on 4th October.



and Murder Solstice comes out on 4th October.



Monday 20 August 2018

THE UNTAMED WEST


Western Fictioneers have produced their third anthology of stories about the Old west. Twenty-nine authors, including moi, have contributed new stories to this one. 





This is a real bumper anthology of over 150,000 words. It isa veritable brick of a book.

Friday 11 May 2018

THE DIME NOVELIST


Ned Buntline is credited as the man who created the mythic West. He certainly brought Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock to prominence. A larger than life character, he crammed several lies into one and was a writer, adventurer, soldier, sailor, temperance lecturer and womanizer. The most popular dime  novelist of his day, a man of many paradoxes and a self-aggrandiser of gargantuan proportions, come and meet him in my short biographical novel.



Available from Amazon:

The Dime Novelist

Thursday 26 April 2018

WE'D BETTER OPEN HIS HEAD!

Over at  THE DOCTOR'S BAG, the monthly blog about 19th century medicine and surgery, I'm talking about trephination and head injuries.



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Tuesday 24 October 2017

BEST OF THE WEST

I am pleased to say that my story LARIAT LAW is in this anthology  BEST OF THE WEST, published by Sundown Press today. 

It is a tale about Doc Marcus Quigley, my itinerant dentist, gambler and occasional bounty hunter.




Why not pop over to Sundown Press and have a look. 


Friday 30 June 2017

DRY GULCH REVENGE

The Large Print edition of dry Gulch Revenge comes out on July 1, 2017, published by Linford Western Library



Hank Hawkins has the opportunity to achieve his ambition of buying a ranch. All he has to do is help a gang rob the stage in the Devil's Bones canyons. But it turns out the bandits never intended to leave anyone alive - including him... Upon regaining consciousness, Hawkins vows to track down the murderers who betrayed him. But when he sets off, he has a companion accompanying him: Helen Curtis, the fiancee of the messenger whose death lies heavy on Hawkins' conscience.

Tuesday 13 June 2017

THE PEST HOUSE





Twisted Knee, Ohio, 1866

Nothing could ever damp down the smell of the pest house.

Especially not in the sweltering heat of summer.

It was a strange, stomach-twisting smell that wafted from the two chimneys that belched smoke most days when the place was full of patients. And even when the smoke was dispelled by the wind the odor hung like a miasma around the old two-storied timber building a couple of hundred yards from the edge of the town of Twisted Knee.

But the smell was only a prelude to the evil that took place in the old building that housed the wounded, the diseased, and the hopeless. Though Doctor Cutler had his own faults, murder was not one of them—and that was going to be the death of him…

The Pest House

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