Roger Standing CBE, education adviser to the Prime Minister, and friend of the Chief Constable, is dead.  Was it a mugging gone wrong or will the killer strike again?  Why has MI5 ransacked his apartment, and set out to disrupt the investigation? And why are the widow and her son taking the news so calmly?  Under pressure to get results fast, against the backdrop of the Labour Party Conference in Manchester, Tom Caton and his team set out to find the answers.  This is the second in the DCI Tom Caton series, and sequel to The Cleansing.

The Head Case (Manchester Murder Mysteries)

Rogers, Dr Bill

Literature & Fiction

William Rogers

The Tiger's Cave (Manchester Murder Mysteries)

The fourth in the acclaimed Tom Caton series of Crime Novels. It's the last thing Rob Thornton, up and coming barrister with a reputation for prosecuting rapists and wife beaters, expects. An early morning knock on the door bringing a warrant for his arrest...on a charge of rape. Then the mysterious Angelita Covas retracts her accusation, and disappears. Haunted by her disappearance Rob sets out to find her. The trail leads to London where Rob is threatened at knife point by Angelita's Turkish landlord; warned off in Belgravia by the Russian Dimitri Izmailov, and kidnapped and threatened by James, the softly spoken Old Etonian who owns the Escort Agency where Anjelita worked. These events pale into insignificance when of a series of rhyming text messages arrive. Each message accompanies the death of someone connected to the barrister. It is clear that he is the victim of a vengeful stalker whose acts of apparent kindness are a form of escalating punishment. In subterranean tunnels beneath the heart of the city, where Mancunians sheltered from the Nazi bombs, Rob comes face to face with Angelita, the truth, and his nemesis. One of them must die; the choice is his. Given the current consumer demand for novels in the crime, thriller, and legal genres, the themes in this book have universal marketing appeal. False accusation by a mysterious and beautiful woman; roles reversed; an act of kindness returning to haunt. The plot is believable and suspenseful, the characters strong and sympathetically drawn, the settings vividly described, the psychological themes sensitively explored; everything meticulously researched. The originality lies in the way in which guilt and innocence are turned upon their heads, and sense can only be restored by a final act of intervention that is the ultimate test of the protagonist's courage, and the values that he holds most dear.

A Fatal Intervention

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Semi-Finalist in the Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough Novel Award 2009  Niamh Caton, and Tom Caton.  Two people with a common ancestry, separated by an ocean. Each of them in a city named Manchester.   Neither aware that the other exists, until a sequence of sudden and inexplicable deaths throws them together in a desperate race to catch a killer.  Part of the DCI Tom Caton Crime Fiction Series.  A thriller incorporating an ancestry search that traces historic migration from Ireland to the America. Set in Manchester New Hampshire, Vermont, Kerry in Ireland, and Manchester England.

A Trace of Blood

A group of teenagers from an inner city academy set off for an adventure holiday in the Pennine Hills. Two days later tragedy strikes. Deep below the ground the six survivors struggle to stay alive until help arrives. The stories they tell about themselves will change their lives forever. In so many ways a coming of age/rite of passage novel, The Cave explores themes that affect the lives of young people in the modern multicultural city. A book for adults too. Think Plato's Cave, The Canterbury Tales, and a far more hopeful Lord of The Flies. The first Crossover novel for teens,young adults and adults alike by the Winner of the ePublishing Consortium Writers Award 2011, for The Cleansing.

The Cave

Genre Fiction

The Frozen Contract

Mystery

Thirty-year-old Roger marks time by the gradual shifting of sunlight and shadows outside his Toronto high-rise apartment. As a freelance columnist, he makes about as much money as a twelve-year-old with a lawn-mowing business. With all his hopes riding on the novel he started eight years ago, Roger is clearly not in a hurry to do anything except dodge life’s ups and downs as much as he can. While nurturing a crush on the cute girl at the local coffee shop, Roger notices a leaflet on the table advertising a psychic demonstration. Intrigued, he bribes three caffeine-loving buddies to accompany him to the show featuring Anya Dreamchaser, psychic extraordinaire. Anya turns out to be a fake, but the real surprise comes when Roger’s friend Karl begins displaying his own shockingly accurate psychic abilities. As the friends come to terms with what they have witnessed, they each embark on bizarre personal journeys of enlightenment that take one of them straight into a weird New Age cult and another into a confrontation with a maniacal Scottish churchman. Crystal Balls is a comic tale about the adventures—and misadventures—of four friends who unwittingly change their lives forever after making the fateful decision to step out of their ordinary lives into an extraordinary psychic world.

Crystal Balls

Mueller, Steve

Humor & Satire

iUniverse

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The Head Case (Manchester Murder Mysteries)

The Tiger's Cave (Manchester Murder Mysteries)

A Fatal Intervention

A Trace of Blood

The Cave

The Frozen Contract

The Cave

Crystal Balls