Excitingly, Deadline Vegas is now on Amazon Pre-Order at a discounted price until 18th June 2020, It involves the storyline of Dex Dexter’s obsession with casino revenge and destruction of a cheating casino. This makes it timely to answer one of the questions that I am asked about casinos and casino crime. There are two […]
Have you been catfished?
Have you been catfished? You may not find out for days, weeks or months. I have now been catfished twice on my Facebook pages. The first time was some 18 months back and the second time last month. The strange word arose from the drama documentary made in 2010 – called Catfish! A “catfish” is […]
England Test Match to be FIXED
The headlines in the Daily Telepgraph on 26th May 2018 are a stark warning of the ongoing dangers to cricket and other international sports from gangsters who fix results to win big on the black market for gambling – at the cost of honest punters. No question, bodies who run cricket, tennis and other major […]
Corruption in Sport – Tennis under the Cosh!
Following on from the Australian cricket team being caught cheating in a recent Test match in South Africa has now come the revelation that an Independent Review Panel set up in 2016 has established a tsunami of fixed tennis-matches. In Dead Fix, my thriller about sporting corruption, I touched on tennis as having been infiltrtaed […]
Sir Peter Blake – Terror at Sea
Sir Peter Blake -Legendary Yachtsman – Major Development Sir Peter, who was probably the world’s best-known and successful yachtsman was murdered on the Amazon River in Brazil in December 2001. Overnight, his yacht was moored in the centre of this mega-river when it was attacked by a bunch of thugs known in Brazil as “river-rats.” […]
Dead Fix – now published
Delighted to have supportive reviews from such eminent and renowned authors as Peter James and Simon Toyne. Thanks to them for their support as momentum builds.
The Al-Hilli Murders 5th September 2012 – another for Ratso?
In a location that was even more remote than I had expected, I visited the layby where 21 shots were fired and three members of a UK-Iraqi family were murdered. One daughter was uninjured, hidden beneath her mother’s body in the rear of the family BMW. Her sister was shot in the shoulder and hit […]
Dead Fix
With the ebook version of Dead Fix now on Pre-Order at Kindle for release on 28th January (to pre-order click on this link – http://amzn.to/2ESOjUO ), there is plenty going on beneath the surface! Besides the build-up with interviews and developing PR on social media, nest week I meet the TV production team who are […]
Was it Murder – Send for Ratso?
The picture shows the family home of Barry & Honey Sherman at 50 Old Colony Rd, Toronto. Their fabulous mansion had been for sale. Photos of the house and pool are on the web. The police were still guarding the billionaire’s $5 million property when I visited the location. This month, the elderly couple were […]
Match-Fixing in Cricket
Cricket – Match Fixing Dead Fix –You Bet. They Win My new thriller, DEAD FIX is published in January 2018 and is hugely topical because the theme is about match fixing in sport and cricket in particular. This scourge is not new. A betting scandal in baseball erupted in America around 100 years ago. There […]
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