Books

Redcar’s finest – The Erimus Detective Agency return in a new, hilarious, and gripping thriller. This time, the boys are heading to Robin Hood’s Bay in search of a fabled cutlass, commissioned by the King as a gift for Captain Henry Morgan. Once again, they must simultaneously juggle their personal lives with the search while attempting to...

Felix has lost everything. On an ordinary evening, he meets a lonely figure at a service station who needs his help. How can Felix be of any assistance to this man, and where is he taking him? Plunged into blackness and faced with demons from his past, he must fight to help save the future of mankind.

Nearhope, a place populated by the damned,...

Hilarious comedy thriller! Private Detective, Bill Hockney is murdered while searching for the fabled – Romanov Eagle, cast for The Tsar. His three nephews inherit his business, setting about, not only discovering its whereabouts but also who killed their uncle. A side-splitting story, full of northern humour, nefarious baddies, madcap...

The boys from The Erimus Detective Agency are back in the funniest adventure to date. The search for an ancient Celtic Cross – The Lindisfarne Liturgy – saved from the marauding Vikings and missing for centuries. Could this cross have somehow ended up on Teesside? Sam, Phillip and Albert assisted by their friends, attempt to discover its...

Prequel: Before Jake Freer arrived in Welham and the true battle for the Chronicle began in earnest, there was another story…

Maggie and Luke assess each other over their primary school desktops. Each acknowledges the power of the other, but their perceptions are poles apart.
Years pass, and a monster haunts Maggie’s dreams. Will facing her fear...

An exhilarating new thriller from the acclaimed author of The Hanging Tree and The Erimus Mysteries.
Six friends, each with their own unique story of how they arrived in the picturesque seaside town, discover that some secrets are impossible to keep hidden forever.
Deep within the shadows of the past lies a tale of deception and treachery. A...

Sandra Stewart and her daughter are brutally murdered in 2006. Stephen Stewart, her husband, is wanted in connection with their deaths, having disappeared on the night of Sandra’s murder. Why has he returned eight years later? And why is he systematically slaughtering apparently unconnected people? Could it be that the original investigation was...

One of the most perplexing cases Inspector Peter Graveney has worked on. A car is dredged from the bottom of a deep pond after twenty years. The grisly remains of two bodies locked inside. Why is Graveney certain that this discovery is linked to a dubious businessman and the murders of the men working for him? And why does a young woman’s name...

Detective Inspector Peter Graveney moves forces and is put in charge of a newly formed cold case unit. It doesn’t take him long to realise that the four seemingly unconnected murders are linked. Despite doubts from his team and superiors, Graveney pushes on convinced that he is right, assisted by a face from his past.
A gripping, exciting, and...

The Master of All Saints College, Cambridge, dies unexpectedly, leaving his body to the University Anatomy Department. Initially, there are three candidates for the vacant mastership, two from the senior common room and one proposed by the government of the day. In the Master’s papers, a further candidate, a Russian academic and friend, is also...

A terrifying story from the author of Tales from the Vicarage and More Tales from the Vicarage.
On his way home one stormy night, Jim Wilson sees a horse-drawn Victorian hearse outside St Stephen’s Church. On investigation, he finds inside a strange internment in progress involving an ancient coffin attended by twelve sinister, black-robed...

When recently bereaved schoolmaster Dr James Wilson retires to Upper Gibbet, he strikes up an acquaintance with Canon Oliver Ball, the local vicar. The Canon, on his own admission, has a tendency to become involved in strange, not to say uncanny, incidents, which he describes to Jim Wilson who, in turn, recounts them to the reader. Further...

Fantastic follow-up to Tales from the Vicarage.
The narrator, Dr Jim Wilson, retired to Upper Gibbet following his bereavement. Here he quickly struck up a friendship with the incumbent of St Stephen’s Church, Canon Oliver Ball.
Canon Ball has experienced many strange events during his career in the Church, and he recounts these to Jim Wilson. The...

Further Tales from the Vicarage is the third collection of short stories featuring Canon Oliver Ball, Vicar of St Stephen’s Church, Upper Gibbet, and his friend and amanuensis Dr James (Jim) Wilson.
During a long career in the church, Canon Ball has experienced many strange, often supernatural, events. As he himself admits, he ‘attracts trouble...

After massive upheavals in her life, Emily decides to write a novel. But as she continues her writing, her real life and fantasy begin to blur. A story about love in all its many guises. A story about loss and bereavement. A story about guilt and redemption, regret and remorse. But mainly, chiefly, it’s about love. The story has been re-edited...

A woman haunted by her past, a scientist linked to a living computer, and two gamers trapped in a deadly contest – their lives are woven together by a technology that blurs the line between memory, reality, and the virtual world. As their stories collide across time and cyberspace, they must confront not only their own demons but also the...

The author respectfully offers these disparate short stories in the hope they will amuse the readers. A Christmas Barrel - A light-hearted tale set in the family brewery, Elgoods & Sons, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. The writer hopes the late Charles Dickens will forgive the gross liberties he had taken with his famous original. Homes for Bones -...

The Old Testament is often neglected in today’s world. Potential readers believe that it is largely made up of difficult material and that it tells stories of a bloodthirsty nature in primitive times and so may safely be ignored in favour of the Gospels, the Epistles, Acts of the Apostles and Revelation.
For those with eyes to see, the Old...

A collection of short bible stories for adults and children. Retold by Roger Elgood.

Random stories from first-time author George Clarke. Some sad, some funny, some thought-provoking, but all hopefully entertaining.