Not Much Else To Do
Two best friends plan to rob their small Michigan town during the fair. Only one of them makes it home.
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Original crime fiction, published twice a month.
Featured in Close to the Bone
Knots of Wood
A darkly comic crime story set in a Brighton shoe shop, where obsession, desire, and murder meet over a wooden shoetree.
Sucker Punch
A boxer is meant to take a dive. Instead his girlfriend smuggles him out in a wig and a dress, with a gangster on their tail.
Battleship Gray
San Diego, 1974. A Navy photographer’s brutal act for his lieutenant leaves him hunted, and unsure who he really hit.
The New Breakfast Club
Two high-school outsiders get drawn into a luxury car-theft ring, and one job could be their ticket out of El Monte.
Featured in Bristol Noir
Laughing All the Way to the Banksy
Two cash-strapped Brighton musicians try to steal a Banksy from their local pub. But it proves harder than they thought.
Snog, Marry, Murder
A trashy make-under show becomes the setting for a locked room mystery where everyone on set is a suspect.
Where There’s Smoke
During Covid, when everyone’s wearing masks, three friends’ thirst for clout and cash escalates into disaster.
Dead Leg
A darkly comic crime story about two flatmates, one nosey neighbour, and an antique razor picked up for a few quid.
Coming soon
Selfie Harm
Two beauty influencers’ friendship curdles into envy and spiteful revenge after one of them goes viral.
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