Novels
The Vale (2024)
A Psychological Thriller
Quint Molko was just your everyday, average guy: brutally attacked whilst defending a teen he has no connection to; wife finding love in the arms of another woman; boss at the broadcasters cajoled into giving a rival all the juice from the squeezer. Yet the good times can only last so long, as Quint is about to find out during another heroic act, for the benefit of an unknown, hysterical woman.
Late spring, weeks into an unprecedented Cornish heatwave, blood-curdling screams rip along Kennall Vale’s serene valley floor. Rushing to the scene, a figure frantically breaches the black surface of a flooded quarry. Diving in, Quint’s attempts at a rescue are shunned by the tortured soul. Repeatedly, she spews a single word in her foreign tongue. Her pleas are desperate… she’s not alone.
Her young son is not the only thing Quint retrieves from the waters on this fateful day. As infection sparks a debilitating fever, his health deteriorates. Hallucinations drag him into the lives of three strangers. The vicious countdown to death has begun. Can reporter Quint Molko piece together cryptic clues brought to him by delirium, in time for one ultimate, selfless sign off?
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Devil's Arch (2023)
A Psychological Thriller
Devil’s Arch, with its sinister past of demonic infamy, robbery, and hangings, has slept soundly over its remote Cornish backroad for centuries. Hoping to christen the new millennium with some backseat action, Austin rolls into the enveloping darkness, a cheeky grin on his face. Playing along, if only to appease his whimsical behaviour and get it over with as quickly as possible, Tamsyn soon realises that something is very wrong. With an ancient need to quell the hunger, and with a side helping of hellfire, the Arch awakens from its slumber.
Fast-forward fourteen years, and an unintentional visit to the enigmatic old bridge forces Talek – awkward, friendless, bullied his entire life despite the protective bubble constructed by his only two remaining family members – to seek answers. How did stepping beneath its jagged underbelly cause such excruciating pain? Who is the hooded figure that enters the dilapidated shell of the Church of Saint Cohan after nightfall? And why does his mother refuse to speak of the father he’s never met?
As answers begin to reveal themselves in macabre turns of event, and with ghosts both dead and alive from the past coming to haunt his every conscious thought, who can Talek truly trust? And who is next in the line of fire in which his short life seems doomed to tread?
Part waking nightmare, part supernatural torment, teenaged Talek dares to dance with the Devil, dreading the realisation of whose final earthly breaths this malevolent archway to Hell conspires to consume next.
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Hell's Mouth (2022)
A Psychological Thriller
When Andrew Tredinnick reported his wife missing at just after 1 o'clock on a dismal February morning, he did not expect to find himself where he stood only hours later: atop Hell's Mouth, the merciless Atlantic below, Shona's abandoned vehicle behind.​
As the months pass and another bleak Cornish winter crawls in over the coves and clifftops, Andrew slowly loses his grip on family life, before an unexpected friendship brings renewed purpose.​
However, with adversities mounting and relationships dissolving within the ranks, does someone know more of Shona’s suicide than they are letting on? And who else might pay the price in a macabre game of twisted obsession?
Hell's Mouth sleeps with one eye open, and it keeps its secrets hidden deep.
