For fans of Rachel McLean, Angela Marsons, D.S. Butler, Lynda La Plante, Rebecca Bradley and Caro Ramsay.

THE FELLS (Book 1) – May 2024, 290pp. 

• Amazon Australia #8
• Amazon UK #17
•  2024/2025 The People’s Books Prize (Shortlisted)

A MISSING WOMAN. A COLD CASE. A DARK SECRET, BURIED DEEP BENEATH THE YORKSHIRE DALES. SUMMER 1997.

Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote stone cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She won’t wake her friends. Not after the wild night they just had. She scrawls a note, her hand trembling with excitement. Gone to see the sun rise. V xxx

That’s the last anyone ever hears from vibrant twenty-year-old Vicky. Everyone warned her. Of the predator stalking the lush green fells. Convicted killer Terence Bielby.

He strangled three hikers before he got to Vicky. Now he has her blood on his hands, too. It’s only a matter of time until the evidence surfaces . . . 2019. A human skeleton is discovered, down in a dark and treacherous cave beneath the Dales. The final resting place of Vicky Mott? Detectives Leo Donovan and Shan Young think they’ve found the key to this decades-old mystery. But every answer they unearth only leads to more questions. And all Donovan’s instincts tell him that, this time, Bielby’s innocent. But if the Fellside Strangler didn’t do it, then who?

The truth is darker than the twisty network of caves beneath the detectives’ feet.

FIRE ON THE FELLS (Book 2), 8 May 2025, 330pp.

• Amazon UK #59
• Amazon AU #94 

Summer can be murder, out on the sun-scorched Yorkshire Fells.

No one loves the Fells like Tyler Prasad. An eighteen-year-old dreamer who came here to join an eco-protest. But Tyler’s past followed hot on his heels. Now Tyler lies dead in a ditch. His handsome face shot to pieces in a brutal attack that baffles Detective Leo Donovan. There’s no shortage of gunmen roving the land in search of grouse — most of them staying at luxury country-house retreat, Patefield Grange. The shooting party guests tell Detective Leo the victim’s name means nothing to them. But Leo knows a lie when he hears one.

The Grange is a hotbed of smouldering secrets. Which was worth killing for? Detective Leo and his partner Shan must solve the case before it all goes up in smoke . . .

THE DETECTIVES
Detective Leo Donovan is a veteran of the Yorkshire force. A true empath, he’s happily married, but prone to low mood and bouts of arthritis. Compassion motivates him, and a need to see justice done in a flawed world that is seldom fair. Leo’s wayward son drives him to distraction, but working with his partner Shan is a breath of fresh air.

Detective Shan Young is a rising star of Leo’s team. She lands her first case as detective while pregnant. Not that she’s fazed by it. A salt-of-the-earth Yorkshire lass with Chinese heritage, she often feels caught between two cultures — something which makes her appreciate Leo all the more, as a mentor and a friend.

THE SETTING
Welcome to the Yorkshire Dales, an untamed landscape of fells and valleys, waterfalls and ruined barns, deep, dark caves and windswept limestone pavements. Farming and mining have shaped these remote hills over the centuries. But what secrets lie buried beneath the spectacularly beautiful surface?