Hunger in the Stones
The past is a predator. It uniquely knows its prey. Returning to Ireland from exile Catherine Dorgan has a sense that all is not quite right. She cannot dislodge the feeling that something bad is about to happen. And who is the gaunt man in black who seems to follow her everywhere? Is he really there?
Catherine doesn’t believe in curses though some say her family name is cursed. The nearest to a curse in her life is seeing both sides to any story. That makes a lonely place of wherever she is. Then she again meets a man with whom contact has been forbidden. But she is a woman with a mind of her own.
It is mid-way through 1845 and one of the worst tragedies in the history of Ireland is about to befall the nation in the form of an Gorta Mor, the great hunger, a famine so terrible that it reshapes everything in her country forever, leaving none untouched or unchanged and in the process causing her to question not only what it is be Irish but her own sanity.
This is Catherine Dorgan’s story and the story of that famine.
The Just Not So Stories
The Pupil
The Murder club
The Owned
The Garden of Lost Remembering
An Irish woman and her children sold into Caribbean slavery by Cromwell’s regime.
An historian, working on a TV series on slavery, finds her story compellingly conveyed to him through the randomness of the night. He learns how easily reason is held to ransom by the dark.
He ignores the apparent parallels in their lives till they accelerate to a collision point on the Island of Barbados.
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Memories are tricky. You can’t really trust them. Things only get worse as you get older.
What if the memory is of something that happened more than ninety years ago? When does a memory that won’t leave you alone become a haunting? Who is the tearfully pleading child whose voice she hears time and time again?
Sleepers of the Cave Trilogy
Kingsley Cross
An Inquiry into torture on British soil. The judge's daughter is missing. The time for orthodoxy passed.
Enter Marc Logadon - ex mathematician and ex security services. The Judge is advised at the highest level to consult him. From the start they neither like nor trust another.
A case with no clues is bad enough, but one with too many, including a machine called...
A plot hatched in a small town in the West of Ireland
An improbable alliance. A risk to all of London. And Crucible now has a new case.
No one said it was going to be easy. No one could be sure it was even possible.
But if Marc Logadon and CJ didn’t succeed, thousands would not be saying anything at all.
To prevent the slaughter they must first solve the riddle of...
Imagine waking confused, your head feeling fuzzy.You have no knowledge of who you are.
One of your arms is missing, replaced by a prosthetic limb. You are wearing only a night dress that is not yours.
You do not know where you are or how you got there. You do know you are being held against your will.
Your feeling is of extreme danger but you have no idea why any of this is happening.