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Novel
Where There’s Smoke
Firefighter Jo Wood’s life stopped the night her husband and daughter died. Discovering they were murdered just kick-started it again.
Where There’s Smoke is a mystery/thriller, set within the Fire Brigade in Northern Ireland, with a strong female protagonist and a dark psychological edge.
Jo Woods is fighting to hold on to her job and her sanity. Banished to the backwater town of Mourne Lough she vows to stop making waves, admit her family’s death was an accident and the guilt she feels is just plain old survivor guilt.
Then she finds the roses and everything changes.
The killer hasn’t stopped. He’s here. In the same town. Stalking her. And once again no one believes her.
After seven years of avoiding family and friends, Jo is alone and friendless in a strange town. In order to survive and, more importantly, bring the killer to justice, she must overcome her fears, embrace her new life. And she must do it quickly, because the killer has his sights set on her and he’s willing to kill anyone who gets in his way.
Enter Ian “Coop” Cooper, who sets Jo’s pulse fluttering and her antenna into overdrive.
Does she dare trust him?
One thing Jo is clear about: This killer destroyed her life once before. No way is she going to let him do it again.
No matter what it takes!
THEMA LITERARY JOURNAL VOL 33 2021
Short Story
Sister of My Heart:
A foster family saying goodbye to a little girl with a red suitcase.
Available to buy: Thema Literary Society
The Bramley Volume 2
An Anthology published by Armagh Flash Fiction 2020
Short Story
Heaven And Hell:
Joe finds a novel solution to his wife’s proposal to spend eternity together.
Available to buy: Amazon.UK
Crime After Crime
An anthology published by Bridge House Publishing 2012
Short Story
A Killer Week:
“I like it when they beg.” The killer dubbed ‘The Cutter’ stalks the city streets, playing a sadistic game of hide and seek with their teenage victims. When Sergeant Dickie O’Neil gets too close, The Cutter is furious. Nothing must be allowed to stop the game. Luckily, the copper has a daughter. And she’s just the right age to play!
Available to buy Amazon.uk
A Writer's Christmas
An Anthology published by Salvatore Publishing 2008.
Short Story
A Christmas Miracle:
Clare Miller lives a bleak existence with her abusive husband, Adam. The only bright spot in her life is her five-year-old son Tommy. As Christmas approaches and Adam’s beatings become more violent, Clare prays for a miracle. She gets one in the most unexpected way.
Available to buy at: Amazon.uk
Short Story
The Wicked Weed: Winner of Eason’s Humorous Short Story Award 2007
Giving up smoking and going cold turkey begins innocently enough. You eat the equivalent of your body weight in sweets and, when that doesn’t work, you pick a fight with everyone in sight. Simple. Right? Two weeks later, you’re plotting the demise of your entire family circle, because, to your feverish mind, that makes perfect sense. No one would think less of you if you smoked at such a stressful time. Would they?
Available to buy at: Amazon.uk
Rascals Of The Red Barren Bar
An Anthology published by Lulu 2010.
Short Story
Mother Knows Best:
Living with an overbearing, cantankerous mother doesn’t leave Sue Evans with a lot of time to herself. Every chance she gets she escapes to the library. Lately, though, Sue has a more compelling reason for her library visits.
Available to buy at: Lulu
POETRY
Poem: Scar Tissue
Published by LaVA – literature and verbal arts in their anthology Resonance.
Find out more on the website: https://www.capartscentre.com/2018/03/poetry-in-motion-community-project-stephen-sexton-presents-the-seamus-heaney-award-for-new-writing-to-linda-mckennas-overpainted/
POETRY
Haibun and Art. Haibun: Scar Tissue
The Trees of Kilbroney Park (July 2018) published by Light 2000. The Trees of Kilbroney Park
Nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize. http://light2000.org
