The Department of Occult Investigation

It's finally here, my senses-shattering fourth novel. The third to feature that all-too gorgeous mad scientist Teena Rama, and the second to feature that all-too useless whipping boy Danny Yate...

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In Liz Sanford's latest adventure, the nation's official occult investigator finds herself up against a menace that threatens the government itself, as the true power in this land finds himse...

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Hooray! Adventures By Moonlight is my new collection that gathers together all the short stories I published in 2011 and 2012. It also features a specially written story called Adventures In Th...

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NINE Available from: Amazon.Com Amazon UK Smashwords The moment she got back from her interview, Alison Parker strode into Frank's spare room, flung her cases onto the bed, flu...

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EIGHT Available from: Amazon.Com Amazon UK Smashwords Alison stood there in Lou Ferman's office, holding the temperature gauge she'd just been given. 'I don't get it. You're gi...

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SEVEN Available from: Amazon.Com Amazon UK Liz woke with a start. She sat upright. Where was she? She was in Delgado Manor. She was in bed. And she was alive. Being al...

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SIX Available from: Amazon.Com Amazon UK Her day of getting noticed finally over, Liz returned to Delgado Manor. She left her van in the drive and headed for the house. The main d...

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FIVE Available from: Amazon.Com Amazon UK 'I'm sorry but what're we looking for and what does it have to do with Liz not letting me go to my own house?' Alison and Frank were in...

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FOUR Available from: Amazon.Com Amazon UK 'So how's it going with Liz?' 'Don't even ask.' Alison took another shirt from the open case on her bed, put it on a hanger and hung it ...

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THREE Available from: Amazon.Com Amazon UK There was a bell pull. Liz tugged it then took a step back and looked the place up and down. Delgado Manor perched on a wind-gouged pe...

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TWO Available from: Amazon.Com Amazon UK Alison handed the man a cup of tea then sat beside Liz on the settee. They were back in the flat, their mystery doom-monger in the armchair...

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ONE Available from: Amazon.Com Amazon UK Wham! Daniel Robinson flung the outer doors open and, shotgun in hand, strode out into the drive that led to this his so-called ancestral h...

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Getting Out is included in my short story collection Adventures By Moonlight . A tale of seaside resorts and crazy golf, It's a reminder that life has a habit of letting you down. Even aft...

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The Downward Slide is in my short story collection Adventures By Moonlight. In it, a stranger arrives by night in a declining seaside town. But is he saviour or destroyer? THE DOWNWARD SLID...

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Send Me Your Horror is from my short story collection Adventures By Moonlight. In it, a self-declared master of horror makes a bargain - and soon gets more than he bargained for. SEND ME YO...

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This tale from my short story collection Adventures By Moonlight takes a venture into the realms of dark urban fantasy as Billy Morten discovers that the strange and unsettling can reside alon...

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It's another tale from my short story collection Adventures By Moonlight. In this case, we meet a Victorian Super-sleuth who refuses to stick to the script. THE STRANGE CASE OF THE STRANGE CA...

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When Dromgyddru Gets Here is another one from my short story collection Adventures By Moonlight. It tells of what happens when a world on the edge of existence finds itself receiving an uninvit...

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"Now all we have to do is hang around in our flat and wait for Bandage Boy to turn up looking for a good tonguing." It's another adventure for the nation's top occult investigator, as Liz Sa...

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It's, "Grab your spaceship," time as I finally launch myself into outer space with I Need An Earth Girl, the novella that makes Dr Who look like a TV show. Petra 97 was created to rule a plan...

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Here it is, my determined effort to do a Slade-like cash-in of Christmas and achieve festive earnings forever. Don't Make Me Shoot You, Santa tells the story of what happens when the nation's o...

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In Liz Sanford's latest adventure, a bad day somehow gets worse when the nation's official occult investigator is called in to protect an idol of millions. Can she find out just who has it in...

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Whether it be Dr Who, Conan the Barbarian, Sherlock Holmes or one of a zillion other adventurers, we all love a good battler against the forces of evil. And so it was that a few years back I ...

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Carrying is a story I can only regard as being cursed. To a large degree, it's the reason I decided to go into self-publishing. Although I found various outlets willing to inflict it on the wor...

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I've always wanted to do a story that involved Gorgons in the modern world and, at last, I got round to doing it - although itended up nothing like I'd always expected such a tale to be. Stone...

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