Joseph Scott became enrolled in the school of life in February1990, the younger brother of two. The school of life; the one big pool of knowledge where one starts to learn from the first breath taken....

A gripping   family saga involving love, heartache, war, crime and retribution. The share market crash in October 1987 affected the lives of many New Zealanders. None more than that of Ted Starling, a...

Ned Newman a potentially retired real estate agent and frustrated writer is an insignificant character in this tale of intrigue  which thrives on the devious and life threatening actions of a select band...

                                                                                                *World War 2, London 1940. For 76 consecutive nights Adolph Hitler unleashed the fury of his Luftwaffe on...

Terror and violent death are loose in the Catlins of the South Island.  An animal's only reason for killing is food. The Catlin's killer is not an animal, but a monster with another reason to kill. What...

Brad Mason had never known a father's love. Whenever he raised the question his mother's answer was always the same. 'He was a good man.'  Tilly Mason was a hooker on Kings Cross.  Brad left Sydney on...

Kidnap and treachery on the streets of Auckland.  Enjoying a respite between marriages TV personality Kris Nevan is reunited with his teenage daughter at the height of the Christmas season. Nevan is rich,...

It was too late for introductions. You don't shake hands with a dead man; especially one whose fingers and thumbs of both hands had been severed at the first joint. Phil Rudolph of Auckland CID knew he...

From London to New Zealand Laurie Davidson spent twenty five years travelling the world with his guitar pumping out his music as a busker on the cobbles and in the markets, wearing the personal injustice...

Charlie Lampton was a star; Master of the House and as he proclaimed on stage, 'the best innkeeper in town,' but he was a slave to his destiny as he lost his wife through a ruptured marriage, his house...

The stirring sequel to The Bringing Down of the Hawk. A gripping story involving industrial espionage in New Zealand and the effect it has on the lives of Auckland business man Ted Starling and his bride...

His dream was Eden Park - Number 10 jersey. His nightmare Mt Eden  Prison - cell  block 10 with a promising All Black rugby career shattered. A sentence of a life behind bars can do much to change a man's...

The dramatic disappearance and subsequent death of socialite and art critic William Bond Walshe when his pleasure cruiser The Owl was wrecked off the Devon coast was neither an accident, nor a random...

In retirement in Winter's Song retirement village Adam Mulberry found each of his aged companions had an untold  story to tell, an anthology of their life  experiences, which he slowly extracted from...

 Retired Chief of Detectives Phillip Maynard finds life difficult to handle following the death of his wife after forty-five years of marriage. After waking in hospital from a near-death experience, he...