Ciaran Reilly is a young novelist who discovers that someone appears to be mimicking the crimes he is writing about in his mysteries. His murder victims turn out to be actual crimes that are currently unsolved. So who is reading his novels and then committing the murders? Or could it be the other way around? The young novelist begins to investigate the cases he has written about chronologically and discovers that none of them seem as they seem. The Paperback Writer takes the listener on a journey into the mind of the wicked and heinous crimes of a killer who has yet to be found. 

Imagine, if you will, that you discover that your Dad is not whom he says he is. That is what happened to young Matt Chandler, an Oxford university student who finds a photograph of his father as a young man wearing a Nazi uniform.

The Imposter follows a maze of lies and distractions that plead with Matt to investigate his own father, a man whom he has trusted and loved his whole life. What will he do? Will he, for the sake of "family harmony", bury the evidence that he might find, or will he expose everything he holds to be safe and secure?

After World War II, many Nazi war criminals faced justice at the Nuremberg Trials, but others slipped through the cracks, vanishing into South America, Europe, and even the United States. Some arrived on forged documents, blending into American society, their horrific pasts buried beneath new identities.

One such man—a former SS officer who oversaw atrocities at Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Buchenwald—built a new life in Detroit, hiding in plain sight for 17 years. Under an assumed name, he established a successful company, his past crimes erased by time and deception. But when a new employee, a Holocaust survivor, recognizes him as his former captor, the façade shatters. The Nazi panics, disappearing overnight, setting off a high-stakes manhunt led by Artemis Securities—a covert organization dedicated to hunting down fugitive war criminals. Armed with multiple identities, caches of money, and an intricate escape plan, the fugitive evades capture across a dozen states, forcing Artemis to play a relentless game of cat and mouse

The Cloister is a yarn about a young "privileged" chap who is accepted to Cambridge University, to study English Literature. Greville's ambitions are to follow in the comedic footsteps of well known celebrities who were also educated at Cambridge. His plans don't work out as smoothly as he had hoped and involve a 25 year old mystery that he vicariously helps to solve. Listen to The Cloister today. 

Sugar and Spice is based on the story of Peter and Alison Spice, who graduate from University with degrees in Early Childhood Development and decide to devote their careers to helping impoverished children in the inner cities. Along the way, and quite by accident, they win a Grammy. 

Anna Marie became an orphan at two years old, and ballet became her life until World War II, when she became a freedom fighter with the resistance. 

The Newspaper Chronicles is the story of a young investigative journalist, Jamie Stroud, who has been assigned to write a piece on a local Chicago businessman who had been accused of inappropriate behavior with a school board member. As she begins her investigation, murky details start to emerge about his life. Upon further investigation, this self-professed family values man appears to be heavily involved with less than savory characters including members of the Russian Mafia. The article she is writing becomes a six-part series called Betrayal and tells the story of a man lured by greed into the depraved world of murder, drugs, kidnap, corruption, and money laundering. 

President Clarke enacts a no-tolerance policy on the southern border to prevent refugees from entering the US.

Jamie Stroud, a reporter for The Chicago Clarion, receives permission to travel to Brownsville, Texas, to interview detained families at the border. She meets Maria Hernandez who fled from Guatemala with her 7-year-old daughter after the death of her husband and son at the hands of a gang who shot them and kidnapped her 15-year-old daughter. Maria and Sofia Hernandez enter the US after being granted asylum and are promptly separated from each other and caged like wild animals. Jamie writes an emotional article for The Chicago Clarion on the plight of Maria, eliciting enormous sympathy from her readers.

At the same time, she is hunting down a serial killer who has arrived in Chicago and has so far murdered nine innocent women. Her private investigation business, TM Investigations, has never been busier, and she and her partners Lucy and Sir Christopher buy a tracker dog named Poirot to help them capture the murderer.

The English Affair is the third book in the Newspaper Chronicles trilogy.

Throughout history, villains have always taken center stage. Jamie Stroud, the investigative journalist for The Chicago Clarion, teams up once again with her friends Lucy D’Tremont and Sir Christopher Fenton to solve a case of the murder of an armored car guard who was a local Chicago hero. The trio is also investigating a crime where a synagogue is attacked and five parishioners are killed.

As the case unfolds, Jamie Stroud is attacked. This time, however, the attack comes from her bosses after a complaint is filed against her. Jamie is suspended for a year. The trio decides to move to London, where Sir Christopher owns a flat in Knightsbridge that they plan to live in. No sooner have they arrived when they are ensnared in an art theft that they are asked to help solve.

This action-packed mystery takes the indomitable trio on a journey of intrigue, beginning with stories about living in the ghettos of Poland and the subsequent capture and survival in Auschwitz. From there, they pursue a lead to a manor house in Buckinghamshire, where they investigate the robbery of an invaluable Monet painting.

The Autocrat is the story of Jenny Harriman, a 10th-grade teacher who inherits her uncle's estate after he dies. She discovers that he was not the person she knew while growing up and decides to find out his real identity.

One of the featured characters is her son-in-law, Stephen, a Secret Service agent tasked with protecting the First Lady of the US. Another one is Stephen’s childhood friend Ron Classon, an NSA operative who uses the weight of his office to look into corruption.

The Autocrat follows the early life and education of the First Lady at the Sorbonne in Paris to a meeting with a Russian GRU agent who arranges a chance meeting for her with the future President of the USA. Two years later, Steven Landrieu Jenny’s son in law overhears the First Lady speaking Russian, and his suspicions are raised.

Annie and Daniel were childhood sweethearts. They'd known each other since they were in kindergarten and lived just three doors away from each other for most of their lives. Annie worked for a haulage company and Daniel was a long distance truck driver.

They began dating in high school, and the day after their graduation, Daniel proposed to Annie. He took her to a fancy restaurant on the edge of town called the Mill, and in front of a full restaurant got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. Annie burst into tears and through them nodded an emphatic yes to his question. They broke the news to their parents who were overjoyed at the prospect of joining their families together with this union, and eight months later, the happy couple wed at the St Gerard Majella Catholic Church in Paterson, New Jersey.

Love is rarely smooth, and the couple had some severe problems that turned them into people they did not recognize and that neither of them would ordinarily associate with. Listen to what happens to this "happy" couple in Murder for Hire.

Hello, my name is John Lennon, and I’m an 80-pound chocolate brown Labrador. I look after a nice, if not somewhat stupid, couple of humans called Robin and Trevor. I have them well trained, and so now, they leave me alone all day to sleep as much as I like. In the morning, I watch my shows, and then around noon, I go for a run down to the lake to chat with my duck friends. Occasionally, a human throws bread at the ducks, which I intercept in order to save them from getting brain damage. My duck friends are always pleased to see me. We play this game called scatter. The rules are simple. Ducks swim, and I jump in the pond. Ducks scatter. Game over. We play it every day, and they love it. Do you speak duck? It’s a mix between Cantonese and grilled salmon.

I always head home before Robin and Trevor get home. When they walk in the front door, I’m lying on my cushion, and it always seems to make them say the exact same thing. “Oh, John Lennon, you look so cute. Who’s a good boy then?” On Wednesdays, every week, the middle school at the end of my road serves pepperoni pizza, and I like to go over there at 12:15 and scrounge some leftovers. I think I can train the kitchen staff to give me my own plate. One day last week, I went over, and the ladies were sitting outside smoking cigarettes, and I put on my sad face, and before I could say Arthur Treacher, one human gave me a plate to myself. It should only take me a couple more visits to have them trained.

The Enchanted Playground is the story of a little girl who is raised by a single father. They arrive in the United States from the United Kingdom and buy a cabin on three acres in the Blue Ridge mountains near Upperville Virginia.

The story was written for children and is a fictional account of Timothy and Emily Tuttle's life and how they stumble across the enchanted playground near their new home, and make friends with the tree trolls and fairies.

A bus driver who drives a London double-decker bus from Fulham to Liverpool Street station every day discovers that a passenger has left his leather satchel behind on his bus. The normal procedure when this happens is, upon discovery, for the driver to turn the item to "lost and found."

On that day, however, because the manager of that department is off sick, the driver decides to take the satchel home with him and turn it in the following morning when he arrives at work. Imagine the man's surprise after he gets home and discovers that the satchel is full of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

His discovery starts an investigation to find who owns the leather satchel. What does he find, and how does he solve this mystifying problem? Listen to the latest short story from Tim Battersby.

Detectives Joe Cotton and Bill Thompson are asked by their superiors at the National Crime Authority, the UK's leading law enforcement agency, to investigate six murders that have been committed around England and Wales. Could the killer be a long-distance lorry driver or a traveling salesman? The killer murders his victims by spraying builders' foam down their airways and suffocating them in the most excruciating manner.

Will DI Thompson and DS Cotton solve this perplexing case, or will the killer strike again?