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Sammy Cooper, a keen runner and registered to run the Raymouth Marathon, goes missing days before her nineteenth birthday and, due to her involvement with a seedy councillor, the details of her uncharacteristic disappearance hit the news, forcing the police to bring forward their standard inquiries. Meddling reporter, Nancy Blaine, is like a dog with a bone, and as more girls disappear and other missing girls are linked to the case, her dwi...

When Hugh finds a scribbled note in Toby's oesophagus during post-mortem, he contacts controversial DCI Thirsk and refers the untimely death to the coroner. In a neighbouring hospital, a ninety year old woman dies, and with a million pound inheritance going solely to one son, the other son suspects foul play and demands a post-mortem. A pulmonary embolism is the cause of death, which is inconsistent with her lifestyle, and the case is also ...

1014 AD The terror of the Viking raids is a fading memory for the people on the Isle of Lewis, and the once dreaded Northmen have now begun settling on the island, living in peace with the natives. But when the settlement of Eanach is attacked and burned to ashes in the dead of night, the slaughter heralds the arrival of a terrible new threat on the island. Something far worse than the sea raiders of years past. 2014 AD Five old friend...

An anthology of short stories and poetry with a dark edge from Elementary Writers.

Alex Taylor is an unhappy and troubled man as he sits in the city park, but when he sees his teenage daughter Ruth walk by he is in turmoil. Ruth has been dead for more than a year. Paralysed by shock he loses the opportunity to pursue her, and she disappears through the gates. Doppelganger, ghost... or something else? Alex is determined to find the girl, he is convinced that doing so will solve for him the mystery of her death, and bring reco...

An Anthology of dark tales from award-winning and best-selling authors. 23 short stories of murder, revenge and the supernatural. Lunatics and fanatics, wicked curses and monstrous creations, supernatural entities and demonic playthings. Savour every morsel. Authors include, Rod Glenn, Ricki Thomas, Poppet, I S Paton, C W Lovatt, Jo Reed, A J Kirby, Mark Sinclair, Tony Wright and Kirsty Neary.

Book 2 of the best-selling Charlie Smithers Collection Flashman's alter ego returns! Four years after Charlie returns from Africa, having survived a charging rhinoceros, ravenous crocodiles, fierce Maasai warriors, and evil slavers (not to mention inadvertently discovering the source of the Nile, ) we find him in India. Yes, that's right, his master, Lord Brampton, accompanied by his beloved guns, appalling aim, and the ever-faithful Cha...

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Following the success of Thrills 'n' Chills, the Elementary Writers group now present a collection of original Gothic horror stories to read by the fireside on a cold dark night.

Book 3 of the best-selling Charlie Smithers Collection Flashman never experienced anything like this, not even remotely! Whether it's because of his gift of the 'sight, ' inherited from his dour old Hebridean mum, or simply a sorely battered noggin (a result of his master's appalling aim)the Australias hold one of Charlie Smithers' most intriguing adventures to date. Pirates, great white sharks, mermaids, scorching deserts, canniba...

They said Cuthbert would never make Act II, but ... Last time around, Cuthbert was up against thieves infiltrating the Valley, planning to steal William Shakespeare's first - and, well, worst - works. This time it is the forces of global exploitation and Big Business who have decided to march into lush pastures and by-waters nobody knew existed, even their inhabitants, and turn them into an out-of-town shopping centre and cinema multiplex. Yes...

At the heart of this riotous laugh-a-paragraph farce that will delight members of amateur dramatic societies everywhere, lies a forgotten village in a remote valley where the 'real valley folk' live, including Cuthbert, the village undertaker, impressario of the shambolic annual theatre production, and holy fool, Margery, the local beauty and mother of the Mafia twins whose constant creative disruption provides a reliable source of hazard and ...

The Cuthbert series continues with hilarious shenanigans when a circus unexpectedly arrives in Cuthbert's yard. This unlocks a spellbinding plot to discover the missing gold reputed to be left to Cuthbert by his enigmatic Aunt Edith. Soon the local council honcho, Marvin, gets an anonymous tip, and he sends the Drains workers to conduct maintenance and digs in a bid to reach the gold first. These men work in a fug and a fog, their funny an...

Trouble in the Valley continues as a reckless statement by Ronald Chisholm that women are genetically incapable of playing golf provokes Arkle, the woman more equine than a horse, to challenge, "Would you redundant hunter-gatherers care to challenge the weaker sex?", and it becomes immediately apparent to the men present in the Mandrake Arms that with Cuthbert and Percy in the team, the men would probably lose a game of golf against the Valley...

Just when the Valley residents think life is getting boring, Nurse Brenda shows up on her squeaky bicycle with syringes planted in her hair. Cuthbert bears Nurse Brenda a grudge for past misdeeds, but this is one fanatical district nurse. When she sees the joker Percy with blue eyes and lips after he chewed on a pen, she goes into action. There is a terrible disease in the Valley, it turns its victims blue! Quarantine! The Valley is soon pitte...

The Valley is a place populated with the eccentric and paranoid. In a continuous series of unfortunate misunderstandings, mixed communication and tomfoolery, Death Valley will have you smiling and laughing out loud. Just when Cuthbert thinks life is becoming dull it turns out he's botched up burying people. Now he's being investigated just as an orchestra rolls into town. As always plans go awry, disasters abound, and a stranger with a horse-d...

A police station in the Valley? Did anyone really believe constable Beeching's reports of a massive crimewave? The locals look on in awe as inevitable chaos prepares to spring. Book #9 in the Cuthbert series

Cuthbert's Valley is abuzz when the ladies decide to take part in a cooking competition! Suddenly everyone makes the best pastry and everyone is suspicious of the other as secret recipes try and remain hush-hush. When Arkle leaves a cube of pastry with Cuthbert to hide her secret formula, Cuthbert and Percy think they must heat it for her and pop it into the oven, with hilarious results. The upshot is tunnels of dough, two rampaging goats,...

The Valley folk are back. This time, there is a rumour of dinosaur footprints in the tunnels. Will the residents cash in on this potential tourist attraction or will they prefer to keep their Valley for themselves? And just what prehistoric surprises are in store for them? Book 10 in the hilarious Cuthbert series.

When little toy soldiers suddenly become men in costume upon a battlefield, Cuthbert's Valley is in trouble. The Great Dragon Droppings require a place to play the war game Sledgehammer, a place to build forts and throw stuff at each other. Percy betrays his friends to play at soldiers and along the way discovers gold miners and a gold mine, and strikes a deal with the crow for the battle to come. Elspeth reveals her talent for espionage and M...