Trust

Richard West has a bad day. He loses his job at a university. It gets worse: his house is demolished, he is injured and his wife Alex has disappeared. He begins to fight back against his attackers, but who are they? And will Alex be in danger if he retaliates?

Staying Alive

An explosion in the Tui Glen cave traps ten students, Christina Hastings and Kere Hawker, the Department of Conservation guide.  With no hope of immediate rescue, the people underground must find ways of staying alive.  Staying alive is a daily struggle for Brenna and those trapped with her.  Nerves begin to fray and one young man becomes violent, threatening to kill the whole party.

Farm Kill

When the area is cut off from the rest of the country by an earthquake Richard West and his wife Alex and daughter Jo manage to escape and find their way to the Somerville farm. What has happened to the Somervilles?  Who is the strange autistic boy?  Can they survive the dangers they face as a killer hunts them down?

Entrenched Beliefs

Richard West is sent to Middle Creek to investigate a school principal's concerns that a young child is being molested by her father. What is the church leader hiding? Why is there so much secrecy? What has happened to the girl who disappeared when on a pony trek organized by the church leader?  Can Richard West heal the wounds that are ripping Middle Creek apart?

The Stalking of Louise Copperfiled

A New Year's party is the trigger for events that will bring Louise Copperfield and Charlotte Hoar face to face with their high school past.  Now adults, they have reacted in different ways to their experience; one with continuing emotional difficulties and the other with feelings of sexual worthlessness.   Louise’s husband Frank Copperfield is a successful builder and businessman.  He becomes entangled with the corrupt Stuart Larcombe as he attempts to build two new projects, a large shopping mall and a housing estate on land deemed unsuitable for such usage

Blood Money

Simon Standish is asked to defend Jasmin Killian from the United Sultanates of Bagus, known as the USB.  As Standish learns more about Jasmin he comes to believe that the possible successors to the Sultanate of Sungai Utan in the USB  are being hunted down by an assassin.  This appears to be an internet contract but who is paying the murderer? And where is this killer?

ISBN: 9780473597320

Passport to Power

One of Richard West's overseas students disappears.  Her friends think Boon has been forced into the sex trade. They enlist Richard's help in finding Boon, who is believed to be held captive in a remote mountain resort, The Tall Oaks. The lecturer and a friend and two students are themselves captured, leaving Richard, Alex and Police Officer Rebecca Nolan to rescue them before they are disposed of.  Boon is thrown into a raging torrent to drown by one of the merciless criminals.  Richard and Alex attempt to rescue her but to do so, Alex must face her cultural fears of a water monster, the taniwha,  while Richard must attempt to save his wife and the student when previous rescue attempts in the same spot have failed.

ISBN: 9780473537760

Star Crossed

Three families in the past are linked to the present by an old lady's search for the truth about her family fortune; where it came from and what happened to it. While searching for the truth her great grandaughter Kalle discovers her family's history and a White Supremacist plot against New Zealand's Moslem community. 

Falling Star

This is the second part of the Family Fortune trilogy, published as a separate more manageable volume.   This story continues from Star Crossed. It is the second volume of a trilogy. In England in the early 1800s Isabella Blyde continues her life in London as a solo parent while the Pajari family face Philip's intense jealousy. . Samuel Boyd finds his way to New Zealand. and Isabella Blyde and Harriet Millichamp find their feet in London despite the chauvinism of the day. Disaster strikes both women. As Kalle Kennedy prepares to go the USA to find missing Martin Carter. She is attacked by agents of TOPL who seek to take over the government of New Zealand.

ISBN: 9781005178826

The Tontine

This is the final book of the Simpson Family Inheritance trilogy. In the early 1800s, Jenna Pajari travels to England to take up her father's business affairs before her uncle can claim them. She is in love with Peter Field but Fate keeps them apart. Jenna travels to England to unite with the Fields and the Blydes.  She is caught in the Second War of Copenhagen and meets her uncle one fateful last time.
Ivan Schmisek, head of TOPL in New Zealand, implements his plans to take over the country.  His plans include wiping out the Kennedy clan and assassinating the Prime Minister.  Officer Michelle Malcolmson is sent to the USA to verify Kalle Kennedy's claims to have been abducted, but Michelle is captured and interrogated and faces death at the hands of TOPL agents. Superintendent McGlashan has to flee the country ahead of malicious charges. Kalle Kennedy, who is seeking the truth about Jennifer Simpson's claim to a fortune,  and Superintendent Bob McGlashan are hunted down by TOPL agents.  In New Zealand, Luke Norman hides Kalle's family.  He and Kim Yeong try to rescue the Prime Minister to restore him to power. The mystery surrounding the historical fortunes of the Blydes, the Boyds and the Pajaris is finally unravelled in a surprising revelation.

Hidden Killer

Gilbert Hastings and Lucille Dellow take a holiday job to renovate the Old Stone House in Arbor Valley. The owner of the Old Stone House, Elsie Leggat has moved into a rest home and has been persuaded to sell her house by a corrupt Nadine Norton. Nadine has a hidden motive for listing the old lady's house.  The Old Stone House produces a surprise that results in a house fire and Gilbert being charged with murder.. Gilbert does not realise that both he and Lucille are in danger from a hidden killer.

The Fern Valley Conspiracy

Richard West is sent to save a rural Area School from closure and to find what happened to the school's Principal. He meets with resentment and obstruction as farmers and foresters join together to hide an inconvenient truth. There is a gulf between the Maori people and the dominant pakeha, or Europeans. His enquiries place him and a Vietnam War veteran in mortal danger. 

The Pregnant Virgin

Ibrahim saw the body before Ali did. It must have been dead for a while because it had floated to the surface where the birds would get it. He could have saved money on chickens had he known. By the look of the fair hair it was an orang putih, not the first to drown in this treacherous river.  While solving the mystery  Richard becomes a target for a sophisticated international network of criminals.

The Lonely Girl

Lesley Smith is turning twelve and she means to stay in one house and go to a regular school.  Lesley's father takes special photographs on her birthday to record her growing up. She does not want her father to take photographs of her anymore. Lesley's mother died in a car accident when she was three, so Lesley asks for advice from teacher and police officer Fiona Benson. This begins a chain of events that will see John Smith driven to distraction, threatens the lives of Lesley and her friends, and raise questions about who John Smith really is.

ISBN: 9781738590650

Sit Amygdala Sit

Great Grandad George left money to Nic so when he was old enough, Nic could fulfil George's wishes to find Su Ang and Sergeant Abe who saved his life on the Sandakan Death March in World War Two. Like George, Nic is brave and impulsive. He needs to balance his emotions and commonsense. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Arisa Abe, a student visiting from Japan, moves into the Chamberlain household with Nic and his sister Talia. They fall in love but Nic is absorbed with physical fitness, and is fascinated by orangutans and with Gorge's tape recordings about his early life and his experience on the Sandakan Death March. Suddenly Arisa goes home. Nic does not believe her reasons. With school over, Nic sets off on his journey to study orangutans and to follow George's wishes. He also seeks Arisa to find why she left so urgently. ISBN  9781738590650

You Talk You Die

The murder of  a journalist, Dawn McDonald, begins a series of distressing events for Richard West, the Deputy Principal of a girls' high school.   The antagonism of his boss,Millicent Pentecost, and unfounded accusations of sexual misconduct add to his woes. Then his daughter disappears and a threat is issued. Who is doing this?  Why are these things happening?  Dawn McDonald's twin sister, Rose McClune, pulls evidence together and discovers there is a link between her undercover work in Fiji and the happenings in Weatherston. Why have the authorities ignored the evidence?  Why is the Minister of Police in league with an assassin?   Although Richard West is supported by his wife Alex he cannot escape the psychological trauma of events. Neither can his fourteen year old daughter who faces death at the hands of an unscrupulous villain.

ISBN: 9781520634418

Kill Her

A Cold Case Mystery

Eight year old Trisha Herewini is killed by an intruder while her ten year old sister Zoe is in the next bed.  Zoe blames herself for her sister's death. The crime remains a cold case until thirteen years later when Zoe Herewini's treatment for her irrational behaviour threatens to reveal the killer of her sister. Troy Brown is a drunk who is about to be suspended from teaching,  He is asked by a sympathetic colleague to investigate Zoe's violent behaviour towards her lecturer. Extremist members of a protest group plot secretly to kill the Prime Minister, Jennifer Allenby for imposing sanctions on people's freedoms during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Matters come to a head during a protest occupation of the civic centre and the university registry.