An Anglo-Italian reporter is on the news in the Roman summer, but cannot write the story of violence and murder he’s unearthed…and in the attempt at patching up his marriage, ends up enacting the drama of his life Debby is too critical of the Italian way of life to make do with her husband’s sexual problems. Paul, an Anglo-Italian reporter with a magazine in Rome, does his best to please her. He is well-meaning and intelligent, but a man also needs willpower and emotional stability, and he has got neither. He is a loser; and indeed when the discovery of a dead man in the boot of a car leads him to unearth the cover-up of a murder, he finds himself unable to win back his wife as well as file the outcome of his investigation for fear of endangering the life of his half-sister, Lelia.

   

When Environmentalist and Research Scientist, Macauley Gray befriends Susannah Potter, the mentally disturbed niece of lifelong friends, Lord and Lady Butler, her orderly life is torn savagely apart, and her professional world is threatened. Highly respected for her work with Bradcliff Enterprises, an Australian blue chip company, Macauley becomes the prime suspect in an industrial espionage conspiracy. Bradcliff's formula has been hailed as the world's greatest environmental breakthrough and rocketed James Bradcliff, to the top of the corporate ladder. Shocked when James ends their relationship, Macauley flies to New York where Journalist, Steve Lombard, helps her re-examine the circumstances surrounding the drowning death of Susannah's mother.

   

Hogback is a suspense novel, which explores the age-old dilemma of good versus evil. The story begins recounting two seemingly unrelated events happening in different parts of the world on the same day: The first in Vietnam and the second in the small, eastern Georgia town of Washington. The son of the town drunk was an easy target for an over-zealous lawyer and a weak judge who were manipulated and bought by the ruling family of the county. The teenager’s desire for revenge on the family that framed him was unfulfilled because of their death from car accident just prior to his release from prison. His anger and quest for revenge takes him on a trail of vengeance to seek out any wealthy father and son who controlled small towns in Georgia.

   

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few, and Rudy Sammarco, a British lawyer of mixed Italo-Somali origin and a writer manqué, will soon discover that nothing is what it seems. His wife, who to all appearances is so attracted to him, has dumped him for a fat cat. Then it’s a coup de foudre with Paola, the graceful, enchanting Tuscan girl with a touch of Renaissance glamour who has just showed up at his office for legal advice as a victim of brutal harassment: but he cannot tell if she too feels for him, or is still bewitched by her psychopathic persecutor, or worse, has had a fling with his own father. He cherishes the memory of his mother, because his father walked out on her, or because she loved his uncle, a physician turned herdsman who has downshifted to the countryside?

   

Nineteen-year-old Norman Smith arrives in the East End of London in the summer of 2002. The well educated Art College drop out from Birmingham is to lodge and work with his Uncle Ernest and Auntie Katie. Norman is an indecisive directionless gentle giant of a young man.
Having settled at once into the role of the Son that Ernest and Katie never managed, he continues to drift through life. Within 36 hours of arriving he is seduced by Nancy Trollope, Katie’s best friend. She is twice Norman’s age and their relationship will be the cause of all that happens to him in London and perhaps even thereafter.
Through this relationship, Norman is taken on as the Doorman at a new Stand-up comedy venue in the area, “The Two Buttocks.”

   

When his business partner, Jake Collins, is murdered, Duncan Scott, a successful financial advisor, becomes a prime suspect. Senior Sargent, Tony Vascelli and Senior Detective, Mark Newman, have their work cut out, sifting through the evidence of a blood speared jacket, matching Jake’s DNA, and a threatening letter sent to him, just prior to his death.
Jake’s life passions were women and gambling. After a run of bad luck, his debts had rocketed to half a million dollars and Danny Brewster, the casino boss, got a little jumpy and started yelling for his money. Scott’s son, Zac, throws away college, for life in the drugs-and-brothels fast lane. Brewster, and his associate, Mike Truscott, take the kid under their wings and prime him for a career in their seedy world.

   

An employment advertisement for fisherman to work the Northern Queensland winter season is the catalyst to set the wheel-of-fortune spinning and the saga unfolding.
Attracted by the promise of a tough and lucrative lifestyle, the young Sharp embellishes his resume with a bundle of skills drawn straight from his imagination, and he’s delighted when his creativity is rewarded and he gets the job.
After handing over two hundred and fifty Australian pounds, as a returnable sign-on bond, to Captain McKenna, and his partner Leo, Sharp joins fifteen other young hopefuls and takes his place on the team. The hefty bond money, paid by all the workers, except for Sharp, is designed to deter the crew from jumping ship.