What’s That Sound??

If you enjoy Richard Osman’s books, you may also enjoy getting acquainted with another group of unlikely sleuths who live in a retirement community.

In Book One of this cozy mystery series, a morose parrot with a reputation for biting sums up Brookside Retirement Community for reluctant resident, Josephine Bartlett. But when Brookside turns out to be a setting for art theft, dodgy dealings, and naked poker, it becomes vastly more interesting. Josephine investigates the unusual goings on with friend and handwriting expert, Lill Fitzel. And the two befriend a young woman Josephine tries to prevent from making the same mistakes she has made.

Book 1 of 4 in the heartwarming Hummingbird House series.

April needs somewhere to live – and peace and quiet to heal her wounds. The tenants of Hummingbird House have other ideas.

When April moves into Hummingbird House, she is intrigued by her mysterious landlord, Dai.

With a bruised heart and a distinct lack of furniture, she spends the summer getting to know the other occupants. As she smartens up her home and makes peace with her recent past, she befriends Paul, a solitary ex-chef, and Betty, an elderly lady who lives in the basement flat.

But Hummingbird House holds many secrets, and the relationships of the tenants are not as straightforward as they seem. April learns some shocking truths one eventful night and realises that victims and villains can look the same.

The Landlord of Hummingbird House explores unlikely friendships, unexpected love interests, and family relationships. Here, everyone is in need of a second chance – and appearances can be deceptive.

TV skeptic and paranormal debunker, Dr. Barlow thought he knew everything.
Now he knows… better.

Proud, rational, and spectacularly wrong, Dr. Newton Barlow has just lost everything — his career, his reputation, and his marriage. Drinking his way into obscurity, the last thing he expects is a visit from Dr Sixsmith, his old mentor, with an offer he can’t refuse.

There’s just one problem.

Sixsmith is dead.

Dragged into a world he’d spent his life denying, Barlow is forced to confront murderous inquisitors, corrupt developers, heavily armed vicars, and terrible things that refuse to stay buried.

To save this world and the next, he may have to abandon everything he ever believed in.

No wonder he’s unhappy.

In the tradition of Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London — blending sharp wit, supernatural chaos, and darkly comic British storytelling.

IT’S A GAME OF POKER… AND THE CHIPS ARE HUMAN LIVES…

Perennial USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author DAVID ARCHER is at his peak in this suspenseful psychological mystery series!

Thirty years ago, Harry Winslow’s wife and children died in a tragic house fire while he was out of the country on a mission for Uncle Sam — or did they?

Someone has left Harry an envelope containing photos of his wife and children some years after they were supposed to have died. Freshly retired from his years as a Government Agent, Harry turns to Sam Prichard. Sam and Indie managed to track down his family, but the incredible story only gets wilder from there.

An old friend of Harry’s had staged the deaths of his family, while leading his wife to believe that Harry was the one who had died, and that the KGB was coming for her family. In desperation, she allowed him to take her out of the country and create new identities for herself and her children. Now the truth is out, and Harry and his wife are reunited, but then his old friend is murdered and Harry is the only viable suspect.

Will Sam be able to prove his innocence? It’s a game of poker — and the chips are human lives.

From Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author…

A gunshot cost him his job, his leg, and his self-worth. Can this retired ex-cop reclaim his inner strength as the world plunges into darkness?

Oregon, USA. Patrick Edward Dunn has nothing left. Heading home in snowy weather after dropping off his kids, the fifty-something, three-time-divorcé is shocked when cars on the highway lose control and start crashing. And stopping to help a woman trapped in her vehicle, he only has seconds to save her as a logging truck hurtles right at them…

Holly Rebecca Winters doesn’t know what’s going on. Waking up with surprising bandages on her head and no memory of the last twenty-four hours, the psych hospital patient overhears staff worried about a suspicious power outage. So with her keepers distracted, the forty-three-year-old detainee grabs the chance for a desperate escape.

As Patrick’s ancient EMP-immune Chevy inches its way through the mayhem and brutal elements, he tries to help the injured. While Holly runs into rising danger, increasingly at risk of not making it off the frigid streets alive.

Can these two survivors find safety, or is everyone doomed?