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Contemporary crime noir, hard-boiled private investigator fiction:

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Quake City at night. Smugglers at work. A dockworker found dead in the morning.

Private investigator Danny Ashford suspects foul play. Investigative reporter Deepa Banwait follows a lead to the docks to land a story.
​Somebody brutally kills a postman in Quake City while he’s delivering the mail. A second murder suggests a serial killer is at work.

Laconic private investigator Danny Ashford and sassy investigative reporter Deepa Banwait must track down the fiend with a vendetta against postal workers.
A million dollars of goods are stolen… but the insurance company doesn’t want to pay out.

Private investigator Danny Ashford is hired to investigate. He and sassy investigative reporter Deepa Banwait soon learn the warehouse break-in was no ordinary robbery. 
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Everyone succumbs to the conman… until one of his victims fights back.
Stuart Baker makes a lot of dough from conning people. Broke and desperate, P.I. Danny Ashford thinks his life can’t get any worse. Then Baker is found murdered, and Danny becomes the main suspect. 


​​Contemporary fiction set in an earthquake zone:

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If you enjoyed Bridget Jones's Diary, The Catcher In The Rye, The Rosie Project or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, you will probably enjoy reading STIM.
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Stim
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The sequel to STIM, continuing the story from Chloe's point of view.
Kaleidoscope

Children's interactive fiction:

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Every decision YOU make changes this intergalactic adventure

On your first trip out into space you and your crew are attacked by mutant space pugs.

Will your decisions save the spacecraft and its unusual cargo?

Will your detective skills catch a thief?
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Will you and your crew be stranded forever or will you save the ship?
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It's 1626 in Paris, France.

In this latest You Say Which Way adventure you can choose to be a recruit in the King’s Musketeers or the Cardinal’s Guards. With one of your friends, you’re about to enter a new life, close at hand to the king or the cardinal. There’s conspiracy, political intrigue, dueling and more. Will you risk going to the Courtyard of Miracles? What is the cardinal’s secret? Is the king ill because he’s being poisoned? Where’s the best place to buy bandages for sword wounds? Will you make trouble, or will it find you? It’s never far away. 
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Oh … and watch out for thieves, secrets and the compte de Bouteville!
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In this adventure every decision YOU make changes the story 

Join the crew and cast on a crazy movie set and find out if you have a fabulous future. Will you make movie magic or a fatal flop?
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You’re a smart kid with no future until you win a competition to become a scientist’s apprentice and work on super-advanced secret projects. Every choice you make changes the story in this interactive adventure. There are many ways to succeed, and even more ways to come to a sticky end.

​Oh… and watch out for guardbots. They might be a bit dim but they never give up on a chase!


​Dystopian cyberpunk science fiction:

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In 2065, The Patrons control everything—and everyone. 

Maddie McLeod is a Creative, tasked by her Patron to develop a teleportation device. With help from her brilliant daughter, Cassie, she must succeed before Cassie's 18th birthday when Maddie's Patron will decide on Cassie's future—or if she even has one.

But with Cassie’s behaviour unravelling, Maddie's experiments failing, and The Patron becoming more and more threatening, things look hopeless. 
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Desperation drives Maddie to make an ally of a mysterious character known as the Blacksmith, a dangerous figure from society’s downtrodden Underclass. As Maddie faces the most difficult situation of her life, the Blacksmith helps her see the world as it really is, but will Maddie also see a way to make the teleporter work?
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Non-fiction:

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Books I co-authored with Diane Berry (as K.D. Berry) - NOW OUT OF PRINT

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Only one thing can beat a dragon and that's a bigger dragon. Just his luck that Drewdop is stuck with the job of finding one.


Dragons Away
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Releasing the world's most powerful magic talisman aided by an unwilling thief and with a distinct lack of forward planning. What could possibly go wrong?

Growing Disenchantments
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Time is on the move, mysteriously. Vilnius Baccarat desperately needs some of it. Can the Fountain of Forever save him before his time runs out?

Fountain of Forever