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The Jessie Harper Paranormal Cozy Mystery series is set in 1930s Liverpool, a city the author knows well. They are light-hearted tales with oodles of British humour partly supplied by Khan, the magical, talking cat.

Jessie's past life as a librarian may seem mundane, but her current job as a partner in Dale Street Private Investigations, a private detective agency, has her chasing murderers and solving mysteries. Her business partner, George Jenkins, was a CID Admin clerk at the Liverpool City Police Headquarters. He was a frustrated detective having been turned down by the force owing to an incapacitating World War 1 war wound. Their partnership is a perfect blend of intellect and street-smart experience.

The original trilogy of stories taking you on an emotional roller coaster ride from the pen of a former undercover cop, inspired by his best-selling true crime memoir. Join undercover cop Steve Regan in three stories as he infiltrates organized crime gangs where one mistake could cost him his life. Regan infiltrates a Miami-based cocaine cartel linked to the Mob, acts as bait with $50,000 drug-buy money in Thailand, and poses as a British hitman in Australia, leading to the discovery of a White supremacist plot to overthrow the government of the United Kingdom.

Charlie Deavon is a British author who meets a fan (the sexually troublesome Amelia Heart) in a pub. The following morning she is found dead. The main suspect in the case is Simon, Charlie's agent. Having avoided the police, Charlie, Simon, and the local bartender try to solve the case together. The three men, what with the stress of it all, turn to a new drug called Merlin, which allows them to control and share hallucinations. From then on, they trip and hallucinate their way through to the story's conclusion.

Join Regan in this prequel to the Steve Regan Undercover Cop Thriller series by tagging along with Steven Hanrahan as a young C.I.D. detective in 1970’s Liverpool until his world is shattered by a tragic event involving a fatal car crash. The young detective is hand-picked for a dangerous undercover assignment. On accepting the role, he moves to London - the "Smoke," adopting a new identity.

As Steve Regan goes deep undercover, he starts to have problems separating reality from fiction. Working as an undercover cop, he operates in a world of duplicity. In order to stay alive, he often thinks, How do I know people are who they say they are? Tempted by the riches of drug smuggling so he can help a loved one, Regan wonders whether he can go 'rogue' and cross the line. Regan infiltrates a South American cartel headed up by a Miami-based Mob-connected drug lord, and getting involved in a million-dollar cocaine deal escalates the dangers of working undercover.

Amateur sleuths Jessie Harper and George Jenkins, of the Dale Street Private Investigations Agency, and Jessie’s companion, the mysterious talking cat Khan set off on another murder investigation in 1930's Liverpool, England. Their old friend and mentor, Detective Sergeant Bill Roberts of the Liverpool City Police asks them to take on a cold case, a dockland murder with supernatural elements. They agree and start their own investigation just before the fifth anniversary of the murder on Christmas Eve.

When a wealthy widow's life is put in danger and a mysterious amulet holds the key to the culprit, Jessie Harper and George Jenkins of the Dale Street Private Investigations Agency must use their wits and the help of Khan, a talking cat with magical powers, to unravel the mystery and save her. It's the 1930s in Liverpool, England and Jessie Harper and George Jenkins are partners in the Dale Street Private Investigations Agency, a small but successful business that specialises in solving crimes that the police can't or won't handle usually because of paranormal connections to the crimes.

In 19th century Scotland, surgeon Edgar Price has only days to live. He has become host to a revenant that will corrode both his body and soul. Edgar’s fatal mistake has not only doomed him, but also released six more of these malignant wraiths onto the world. In his remaining time, he has vowed to stop the revenants from claiming other victims. His perilous travels lead him to the Witches’ Wood, a haven for a sisterhood of powerful enchantresses. There he meets Ainsley, a witch with a fiery spirit and strong distrust of outsiders.

The Righteous One is the story of Moshe the cobbler, a gentle, 60-year-old tzaddik - a righteous and saintly Jew - who is called upon to rekindle his divine connection to the Almighty in order to destroy the notorious New York gangster and rasha Solomon Blass, a man who uses his power of foreseeing events via his vivid dreams to advance his own financial interests.

In the depths of the criminal underworld, British detective Steve Regan thrives in the double-dealing world as a no-nonsense undercover cop for the national crime squad. But when a cocaine-smuggling operation stretches from Bolivia to Miami, Regan is thrust deep into the crosshairs of a ruthless cartel led by the enigmatic Enrico Bruno.

Steve Regan is back, and this time, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Tasked with posing as a hitman to take down a liberal Australian politician, Regan quickly realizes his “last assignment” is just the beginning. What starts as a murder-for-hire case spirals into the discovery of a sinister white supremacist plot with global implications—one that could topple the UK government.

The Sicilian Mafia. The Thai Mafia. Even the CIA. Undercover cop Steve Regan is back, deep in the shadows of Thailand, hunting the elusive Texan drug lord, Les Watkins—the mastermind behind Southeast Asia’s deadliest smuggling ring. Using himself as bait, Regan strikes a dangerous $50,000 deal with the Thai mafia, hoping it will lead him to his target. But nothing is as it seems.

Mopstat, a city encased in glass surrounded by merciless jungle on a forgotten continent. Mighty steam-driven machines are built in this place, driven by hyper-intelligent pugs and designed by tireless engineers. Any with the potential to be a steamsmith can rise to glory regardless of who they are, at least that’s the promise. Vought and Emily have tried for years to meet that promise, but haven’t had so much as a passing glimpse at it. Cheated yet again by an attack on the faire of innovation, they are driven to unravel the silent conspiracy behind the attacks.

Join undercover cop Steve Regan in four stories as he infiltrates organized crime gangs where one mistake could cost him his life.