Novels
Finders Weepers – Adventure Thriller
Caveat Emptor, ‘Buyer Beware’: a principle we should apply to anything we seek to buy or possess. Hugh Burroughs puts his life up for sale on eBay – starting bid £100,000 – following the discovery of this wife’s affair with a person unknown. He is offering a one year lease on his Kensington & Chelsea apartment, a three month trial in his job as a buyer at a local art gallery, and six networking introductions within his well connected social circle. His life is bought by Jory Kernow, a Cornish trawler man who is similarly disillusioned with life. Both men are seeking to to escape their circumstances but under-estimate the cost of severing links with the people and places that define them. What follows the sale introduces a disquiet into their lives which neither feels equipped to cope with.
The Daiyaku – Adventure Thriller
Daiyaku – a substitute, stand in, or replacement. When Quinn Roberts arrives in Tokyo, She does not know about Japanese rent-a-family agencies; certainly she is not expecting to be headhunted by one. But then, an agency owner notices her visual similarity to a recently deceased woman. He persuades her to meet the husband – his client, a Japanese businessman who wants a replacement companion for himself and his child. Against her better judgement, Quinn agrees to take on the role. And that is when her problems start. The husband becomes upset when she acts out of ‘his wife’s’ character; the child can be angry and disruptive, and the family’s domestic robots seem to have ‘behavioural’ issues. then, just when she is thinking she might end the arrangement, questions arise about how the wife died. Was the wife’s rock-climbing fall really an accident. Quinn needs to find out.
