The Order of the DCI Tom
Caton Crime Series
The Cleansing.
The Head Case.
The
Tiger's Cave
A Fatal Intervention
Bluebell Hollow
A Trace of Blood
The Frozen Contract [Due on
Amazon Kindle May 24th; & in Paperback 30th May.
But...they can all be read as stand-alone novels.
THE
CLEANSING
Christmas approaches. A killer dressed as a clown haunts the streets of Manchester. For him the City’s
miraculous regeneration had unacceptable consequences. This is the reckoning. DCI Tom Caton enlists the help of forensic profiler
Kate Webb, placing her in mortal danger. The trail leads from the site of the old mass cholera graves, through Moss Side,
the Gay Village, the penthouse opulence of canalside apartment blocks, and the bustling Christmas Market, to the Victorian
Gothic grandeur of the Town Hall. Time is running out. For Tom, for Kate…and for the City. The Cleansing,
was Short listed for the Long Barn Books Debut Novel competition. Dovegreyreader: Officially The UK's NO 1 Literature Blog.
The Head Case
Roger Standing CBE, Head of
Harmony High Academy Trust, and the Prime Minister's Special Adviser for Education, is dead. DCI Tom Caton is not short
of suspects. But if this is a simple mugging, why is MI5 ransacking Standing's apartment? And why have the widow and her
son taken the news so calmly? Something is rotten in the corridors of power.
The Tiger's Cave
A lorry full of Chinese illegal immigrants arrives in Hull.
Twenty four Hours later bodies are found close to the M62 motorway. A young man and a woman are missing and at risk. Caton
must travel to China to pick up the trail. But the solution lies closer to home, in Manchester's Chinatown. And time is
running out.
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About The Author
Bill has written six crime thriller novels
to date - all of them based in and around the City of Manchester - an anthology of short stories including a novella, and
a crossover novel for Teens, Young Adults & Adults. A former Principal Inspector of Schools for the City Of Manchester,
Head of the Manchester School Improvement Service, and Fellow and judge of the Teaching Awards, Bill has numerous publications
to his name in the field of education. For four years he was also a programme consultant and panellist on the popular live
ITV Television programme Which Way, presented by the iconic Tony Wilson.
A Fatal Intervention
About This Book
A successful barrister; a wrongful accusation; a mysterious disappearance. It's the last thing
Rob Thornton expects. hIs life turned upside down, his reputation threatened, he sets out on the trail of his accuser Anjelita.
Anf then a series of rhyming messages arrive...each signalling a murder. Time is running out to solve the mystery, and face
a dark truth from his past. Deep beneath the city lies a heart of darkness.
Bluebell Hollow
DCI Tom Caton’s world is rocked when he learns he has a son by a former lover.
Then the first of the bodies is discovered at the Cutacre opencast mine. The victims appear to have addiction in common. Suspects
include a premiership footballer, a barrister, and just about everyone working at the Oasis Rehabilitation Clinic in leafy
Cheshire. As Caton digs deeper everything begins to fall apart.
Introducing Caton's
Quickies. Anthologies of short stories and novellas ideal for coffee breaks and the commute to work. Breakfast at
Katsouris is a DCI Tom Caton story adapted from a chapter in A Trace of Blood. The Wren Boy is a ghost story
story adapted from a chapter in A Trace of Blood. The Readers is a novella of 17,000words exploring the
fragile boundary between those who write crime series, and serial killers. To Die For is an Xmas story of a burglary
with a surprising outcome.
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Great News! Bill has just received the ePublishing Consortium
Writers Award for The Cleansing. The award - judged by fellow writers - is for excellence in writing,
cover design, and publishing.
Stop Press. The Cave - a great present for a teenager,
young adult, or yourself, & Breakfast at Katsouris - a short story anthology - were published in December.
The Frozen Contract - the Seventh in the DCI Caton crime series - will be available from 24th May
2012 on Amazon KIndle & 30th May as a paperback.
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A Trace of Blood
Niamh Caton, and Tom Caton. Two people with a common ancestry, separated by three thousand miles, and an ocean. Each
of them in a city named Manchester. Neither aware that the other exists. Until a sequence of sudden and inexplicable deaths
throws them together in a desperate race to catch a killer, before he catches them.
The
Cave
A rite of passage novel. The Cave
explores themes that affect the lives of young people in the modern multicultural city. Think Plato's Cave meets The
Canterbury Tales, and a far more hopeful Lord
of The Flies. Suitable for Teens, Young Adults, and Adults alike
Amazon.co.uk Kindle Popularity Rankings in the Paid Store: 17th May 2012
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