Novels

Soft Metal Lips

The jazz novel

Olivia Bailey is forced to choose between Andrew Delaware, the New York businessman and gangster, and Vincent Williams, the eminent jazz trumpeter.

Her choice will have lasting consequences for all. Too many will die, and some will go mad and yet in time lovers and families will be reunited and she will rise above it all to conquer the New York business world on her own terms.

Beginning in 1945, New York is at the dawn of the jazz age. Olivia’s Choice explores people and their extended families as they negotiate the decades up to 1961.

Ultimately, she will survive the torment of her troubled life to be reunited with her lost lover, Vincent Williams.

The novel is complete at 83,000 words.

Kind of Blue

The crime novel

Late one Saturday evening in Chippendale, Sydney, a car mounts the curb and kills Fern, the teenage daughter of Gurney and Mara Watkins in a hit and run.

Ten years later, Wallace Smith, former prime minister, is murdered at Sandy Point. Later, police find his rehab nurse, Lisa Lime, killed at her nearby Walkerville residence.

Lim Hong, Melbourne Homicide, is brought in to sort out the mess. New to Victoria, she has recently fled Western Australia to escape traumatic events in her past.

Will she be able to hold herself together enough to solve the case?

As the body count grows down the Eastern seaboard, Lim struggles to control her damaged mind and body to solve a string of murders.

By the time she confronts the killer she knows that the historical hit and run has fuelled a series of vengeful murderers across the country.     

This novel is complete at 83,000 words.