Who Pays the Piper?
A young man’s body is pulled from the river, a blow to the back of the head, his identity a mystery. Not far away, a burnt-out car is found in a field. The two seem unrelated—until whispers of a secretive eco-cult begin to surface.
Detective Sergeant Mulroney is no stranger to dead ends, but something about this case doesn’t sit right, particularly when a cigarette lighter found near the car is traced back to a luxury hotel, under surveillance for drugs and prostitution. And who is responsible for pushing him off the road and firing at him? Add a local church community riven with arguments and short of cash, a woman with strange outbursts of anger and at the centre of it all is Cosimo—wealthy, untouchable, and dangerously persuasive.
So who is the young man? How did he die and who wants the information to remain hidden?
Available from July 2026, the second in the Detective Mulroney series has some characters you will recognise, and some new ones, all set against the backdrop of a small town in the wonderful Cotswold countryside.
It’s An Ill Wind
The first in the Detective Sergeant Mulroney series, set in Gloucestershire and published in April 2025.
What do you do when you discover the man you’re falling in love with is the person who tried to kill you?
For Rachel Thomas, part time photographer, desperate to be the first person to take an image of the legendary black beasts, said to roam the Gloucestershire countryside, the pandemic of 2020 provides a perfect opportunity. When she comes across a people-smuggling gang, she fears for her life. It is now a race against time for the police to find the gang before they find Rachel. It’s An Ill Wind is the first in a crime series where DS Mark Mulroney has his own demons to face in the fight against organised crime, lurking beneath the idyll of the countryside.
Mayflies was published in 2023 and set in the English countryside.
Two women fall in love with the same man while an unexplained murder from the past threatens to smash the web of intricate relationships, opening up bitter memories and revealing pagan beliefs still lurking below the civilized veneer of 21st century life.
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Wild Girls is a novel, set during the hottest summer in memory, in a small village in the Gloucestershire countryside.
When unconventional American Mona flees an abusive relationship for the healing peace of the English countryside, she meets Sheila whose life has followed a more traditional pattern. Add to the mix a disaffected husband, a jealous ex, a potential love interest, the suicide of a friend and the threat of developers despoiling their village. But will the two women have the courage to make the changes they desire and confront the challenges?
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Just what do you do when you’ve got no job, no family, no friends and the world you are plunged into is unfamiliar? This is the challenge for Angie Jarvis.
As Sister Ruth, her warnings about Father Benedict’s unhealthy interest in his young parishioners have been brushed aside for years. She loses her faith in God and humanity and finally leaves the safety and comfort of the convent she joined as a young woman, over thirty years ago.
In her quest to create a new life for herself, there is one certainty, she plans to have sex and plenty of it. Except she soon discovers, it is not just relationships that are a challenge. She is a virgin in more ways than one.
If you are interested in the self help books, coauthored with my husband, Peter Keevil, visit the Peverel Press website or click on the images of the books to take you to Amazon.
