Books published by publisher Charnwood

The Clifton Chronicles: This epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. Harry had been told that his father was killed in the war, but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before he discovers the truth about how his father really died - and that will lead him to want answers to questions: who was his father? Was he Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who worked in Bristol docks? Was he, in fact, even his father?

Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's chief of detectives, whose twin sister Patti also followed in their father's footsteps, Billy would give up everything for the job, including his life. After a brutal shooting, Billy is left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and an ambitious assistant district attorney out for blood. But somehow Billy survives. He remembers nothing about the shootout, and is charged with double murder. Desperate to clear his name, Billy retraces his steps to get to the bottom of what happened. He must find the little black book; it could either set him free or confirm his worst fears.

The story of one of the most carefully guarded intelligence organisations, British Security Co-ordination, instigated by Churchill when Britain stood alone in 1940, and directed from his New York headquarters by a Canadian industrialist, whose codename was Intrepid. This book gives a top-level account of many crucial operatons, including the breaking of the German Enigma code, the truth behind the assassination of Heydrich, the race for the atomic bomb, the BSC strategems which delayed the German invasion of Russia, and the raids on the French coast (including Dieppe) that made the Normandy landings possible.

Set against Argentina's turbulent years following the collapse of the corrupt Peronist regime, this is the story of Juan Salvador the penguin, rescued by English schoolteacher Tom Michell from an oil slick in Uruguay just days before a new term. When the bird refuses to leave Tom's side, the young teacher has no choice but to smuggle it across the border, through customs, and back to school. Whether it's as the rugby team's mascot, the housekeeper's confidant, the host at Tom's parties, or the most flamboyant swimming coach in world history, Juan Salvador transforms the lives of all he meets - in particular, one homesick schoolboy. As for Tom, he discovers in Juan Salvador a compadre like no other...

Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. Amanda has gone missing before and Patrick was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped as a four-year-old. But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl - nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brought up by the world's worst mother, neglected throughout her childhood, she has nonetheless blossomed into a formidably intelligent young woman. A young woman so bright that she can seemingly out-think and out-manoeuvre anyone... For Patrick, the case leads him down Boston's darkest, most dangerous streets - and into a world of shocking secrets that will threaten not only Amanda's life, but also his own and that of his partner Angie Gennaro.

In 1984 the author built a replica Bronze Age galley and with a crew of modern Argonauts retraced Jason's route of thirty-three centuries earlier in search of the Golden Fleece. The 1500 mile voyage took them from present-day Greece, across the Aegean Sea, through the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara, through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea, along the entire northern coast of Turkey, ending up in the state of Georgia in the Soviet Union.

Henry Page, owner of The Northern Light, Tynecastle's oldest and most respected newspaper, refuses a lucrative takeover offer. Rebuffed, the new man from London set up a well-funded rival paper. Soon Henry's belief in honest, unsensational news presentation is challenged and opposed by every dirty, mass-circulation trick in the book. He and his paper are almost brought to their knees. Then, still holding fast to his principles and the point of victory, sudden tragedy strikes at the single most important thing in his life.

In Chicago, a young man jumps from his nineteenth-floor hotel room; in Nebraska, a lake is found littered with snow geese, all of them dead. Meanwhile, in southern Alabama, Ryder Creed and his search-and-rescue dog Grace find the body of a young woman who went missing in the Conecuh National Forest; it appears she filled her pockets with rocks and walked into the river. Before long, Ryder Creed and FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell will discover the ominous connection between these strange deaths. And what they find may be the most prolific killer the United States has ever known...