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White Riot
Joe Donovan's back.
The body is discovered in a rundown area of Newcastle. A Muslim student, savagely beaten to death, then torched. Blame falls on the far right National Unity Party but for once they appear to be innocent...
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Bone Machine
The second Joe Donovan novel
The body is discovered in a disused burial ground. A young woman, ritualistically mutilated, her eyes and mouth crudely sewn shut. Her boyfriend is arrested and charged with the murder...
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The Mercy Seat
Introducing Joe Donovan
Once a renowned investigative journalist, Joe Donovan's life fell apart when his six-year old son disappeared without trace. Now a virtual recluse, Donovan is abruptly thrust back into...
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| | The White Room
Newcastle, 1946. 19-year-old Jack Smeaton returns from the trenches, his hair turned white by the trauma of WWII. He seeks solace in socialism, falling under the spell of the young T. Dan Smith, visionary future leader of the city council, architect of tower blocks and sculpted concrete...
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| Born Under Punches
1984: Thatchers Conservative government in power. The miners on strike. Two Tribes going to war. 2001: Blair's Labour government enters its historic second term. The rail network is collapsing; the National Health Service is descending into chaos. Things can only get better?...
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| Candleland
Third in the Stephen Larkin series
When Newcastle-based journalist Stephen Larkin is called down to London to help find a missing girl, he is unprepared for the violence of life in the capital's underbelly. Caught up in a world of transsexual prostitutes...
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| Little Triggers
Shaking down the politician hadn't given him the righteous kick he thought it would. Coming home to an empty house, he had opened the bottle, flirted with it, kissed it, made love to it, cried into it and, eventually, killed it." Stephen Larkin is back in his native Newcastle and working...
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| Mary's Prayer
Sober and disillusioned with London, tabloid journalist Stephen Larkin reluctantly accepts an assignment to cover a gangland funeral back home in Newcastle. Several years earlier he had left sick and disgusted, vowing never to return, but the pull of the city, and the promise of a juicy story...
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