Books published by publisher Adam Carter

A terrible snowstorm sees the small rural village of Barrowville cut off from the rest of the country. When local children discover a corpse hidden within the body of a snowman it becomes clear the storm has trapped a murderer in the village. Forced to deal with a crime she has never before faced, Detective Felicity Hart calls in the services of big city detective John Stoker, now living out his retirement in the small community. Using his experience dealing with the worst of society, Stoker aids Hart in her investigation. With his own daughter murdered years earlier, Stoker fears Hart will become yet another young woman to die due to his own inability to look after the people he loves.Bonus story: Murder While You Wait. When a colleague goes missing, fellow detectives Ruth Hayden and Richard Tremens abandon their workload to investigate. The only clue seems to be the missing detective’s infidelity to his wife. The investigation takes a strange turn when the detectives uncover several oddities which need connecting: a run-down café, an obsession with cleaning products and a woman with a twisted sense of right and wrong.Two detective stories to show Christmas is the perfect time for murder.

Assassin, spy, smuggler; Matthew Redfern has been many things for his government. When someone is needed to sneak into the quarantined dinosaur world to gather eggs for study, Redfern and his partner are sent in. But taking a dinosaur egg from its mother is something Redfern soon discovers is far more difficult than anything he has attempted before.Lost and cut off from his partner, Redfern discovers a primitive, yet obnoxiously sassy girl named Cara. Enduring her coming of age trial, Cara watches Redfern perform magical feats with his superior technology and takes him back to her village as a deity. But Redfern’s reception is far from warm and as he begins to discover anachronisms within the village he soon realises that sometimes people are only as primitive as they want to seem. Eager to return to his shuttle before his partner strands him forever on the forbidden world, Redfern finds himself constantly delayed by his concern for Cara’s welfare. A no-nonsense assassin, Redfern cannot understand his constant frustration around the girl, especially since all they do together is argue. Married to his job and dead to emotion, Redfern fights the possibility that he might be falling in love and that the primitive dinosaur world might be the perfect place for his own coming of age trial.The latest in a series of stand-alone stories set on the quarantined dinosaur world Ceres.

The Second Battalion of Torbalia. Knights, thieves, barons, mercenaries … the Second Battalion is formed of unlikely allies. In each Knights of Torbalia game book, you take on the role of a different soldier. Can you master them all?A jewel is stolen from the palace and the king wants the culprit’s head. Unfortunately, you are the man who stole it. Your only hope of survival is to sneak back into the palace and return the jewel so the king will be fooled into believing the theft never happened. Only then can you avoid the hangman’s noose.Taking the role of Cycleph, you must determine your own course of the story, deciding who to trust, who to fight and above all how to survive.A game book of 56 paragraphs.

Moving from place to place, world to world, the Circuit is a self-contained community of racers with its own laws and rules. Riding whatever animals they find, the Circuit broadcasts races to its fans all across the system. When the Circuit travels to the infamous dinosaur world of Ceres, Glory and her ex-husband Grease compete even more fiercely to be the greatest racers in history. With dinosaurs as their steeds, their viewing figures are like nothing ever known before.However, it is not long before accidents begin to happen and racers are injured. As the attacks continue it becomes clear there is someone on Ceres with a grudge against the Circuit. Glory and Grease are ordered to cease racing, but with the chance of reaching so many more viewers it is something neither wishes to contemplate.With the attacks increasing and the list of suspects growing, Glory and Grease strive to prove to the entire solar system just who is the greatest dino-racer of all time.The latest in a series of stand-alone stories set on the quarantined dinosaur world Ceres.

Doctor Ike Scarman has spent his entire life teaching university students about dinosaurs. When a survey team announces they are to visit the dinosaur world Ceres, he seizes the opportunity to join them. But Scarman is hardly prepared for the political problems which see almost the entire team abandon the world. Trapped in the company of soldiers, Scarman is forced to make a new life for himself in the midst of every palaeontologist’s dream. After sixty years Scarman has grown into the stereotypical image of a stuffy professor, but upon Ceres his every inhibition is released.When he uncovers a secret message from a captured princess, Ike Scarman makes it his personal mission to save her. Rescuing her from a group of poachers, he flees into the dangers of the dinosaur-infested forest. Dispatched to watch out for Scarman, Sergeant Hawke can see what the scientist’s failing mind cannot: that the ‘princess’ is nothing more than entertainment hired by the poachers for their long journey. Fearful of the girl’s influence, Hawke knows she has to find Scarman before the ageing scientist realises all too late that he is not the jungle pulp hero he’s convinced himself he is.