The New Girlfriend - short stories - 1985

Eleven stories: The New Girlfriend (*Edgar Award), A Dark Blue Perfume, The Orchard Walls, Hare's House, Bribery and Corruption, The Whistler, The Convolvulus Clock, Loopy, Fen Hall, Father's Day, The Green Road to Quephanda
Murder, corruption, blackmail. All these are part of someone else's world, not part of the everyday lives of ordinary people...or are they?

 

Live Flesh - 1986 * Gold Daggar Award.

After ten years in prison for shooting -- and permanently crippling -- David, a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. It's hard to fill the days, but at least there's one blessing -- he was never convicted for all those rapes he committed. Then Victor meets David, the policeman he shot all those years ago, and David's beautiful girlfriend, Clare. And suddenly Victor's new life is starting to look an awful lot like the old one ..