Fiction
Crime
Death By Column Inches is set in the north of England in the 1990s. It features a group of schoolchildren from a failing inner-city school who become embroiled in the tangled agendas behind a local murder trial.
The Annie Raymond mystery series & the Webber and Ahmed police procedurals
The first 3 books: Like False Money, The Jawbone Gang and
The Doll Makers were reissued in 2019 as a trilogy, Falling into Crime.
Where There’s Smoke is book 4 in the Annie series.
Buried Deep is book 5 in the Annie series and also book 1 in
the Martyn Webber & Ayaan Ahmed police procedural series.
Tiger Blood is book 6, a sequel to Buried Deep, and follows the
fortunes of Webber and Ahmed.
Syrup Trap City is book 7 in the Annie series and also
features Det Sergeant Ayaan Ahmed.
Boxed In is the 8th book in the series.
Children’s fantasy written under the name Melodie Trudeaux
Horse of a Different Colour – children’s fantasy.
The 93-E Contradiction – science-fiction. Also available as
an audio short read by Penelope McDonald
Writing Guides
How to be a Fantastic Writer is an expanded and updated
version of the book first published as The Writers’ Toolkit.
Writing a Textbook: how to establish yourself as an academic author.
Textbooks
Software Maintenance: concepts and practice is the updated
2nd edition of Software Maintenance: concepts and practice.
