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NEWS  How quickly the past three years have flown.  I have completed six books in that time.  Here is the current state of play: 


The Cleansing
- Buy It Now from Amazon UK

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 mass cholera graves, through Moss Side, the Gay Village,  and 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 Head Case - Buy it Now from Amazon

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 has the widow and her son taken the news so calmly?  Something is rotten in the corridors of power.

The Tiger's Cave - Buy it now from Amazon A flat bed container full of illegal Chinese immigrants arrives in Hull. Three of them escape, the others die, and the hunt is on.  Caton travels to China with and agent from the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, and back to Mancheter's China Town, where he must enter the cave of the tiger. 


A Fatal Intervention  - Buy it Now from Amazon UK
Why is barrister Rob Thornton falsely accused of rape?  Why has his accuser Anjelita disappeared?  And how can he stop the bodies piling up? Above all, can he save Anjelita and himself?  Only if he can confront his past, and right a wrong.  But one of them must die...and the decision is his! 
 

A Trace of Blood  [Available Autumn 2010]
Niamh Caton and Tom Caton, two people with a common ancestry, separated by an ocean.  Each onf them in a city named Manchester. What begins as a partnership to trace their roots becomes a desperate race to find the person who is killing each of their newly discovered relatives, before it becomes their turn to die.    From 10,000 entries, "A Trace of Blood"  reached the SEMI FINAL [final 100] of the Amazon/Penguin BreakThrough Novel Award. 

 Bluebell Hollow [Available Autumn 2010]
 DCI  Tom Caton is faced with the bombshell that he has a son by a former lover.  Then the first of the bodies is discovered at the Cutacre OpenCast mine.  Three of the victims have addiction in common; to sex and alcohol.  The suspects include a premiership footballer, a barrister, and just about everyone working at the Oasis Rehabilitation Clinic in leafy Cheshire.  When Caton digs deeper two people close to him disappear, and there is no way that he can be in two places at once. 
 

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