Welcome to my author website. From the age of ten when I was awarded second prize in a story-writing competition in my home town of Nottingham, I knew I wanted to be a writer. My journey to publication took a while, forty-seven years to be precise, but I’m delighted to say that after self-publishing my first four full-length novels, I signed a publishing deal in 2019 to write a series of three police-procedural crime thrillers for award-winning digital publisher, Bookouture. It is quite mind blowing that my first book with them, Little Girl Missing has been downloaded around the world by a quarter of a million people and has 85% four and five star ratings, way beyond my wildest dreams!
I signed a new contract with Bookouture to write two books which saw me return to the genre of my Liberty Sands trilogy – novels filled with emotion, love, heartbreak, humour and most importantly ‘real‘ people facing ‘real life‘ situations. I’m pleased to say both were very well received with My Mother’s Secret being my bestselling audiobook to date. As a result, I re-signed with them for two further two books in a similar genre, the most recent of which, My Daughter’s Lies was published in May 2024.
If you’d like to keep up with all my book and other news, do check out my blog which I write monthly and on which I often run competitions to win books and other prizes.
Melissa always believed that her daughter, Ruby was perfect until she found a note… She’s not who you think she is
Would you tell your best friend that her husband has cheated on her? Charlotte decides against it until circumstances force her to rethink her decision.
I was so sure I saw Sophie on the beach that day. But it couldn’t be her. Sophie’s dead…
Her voice is little more than a whisper and her eyes search mine. ‘A mother would know if her child had died, wouldn’t she?‘
My Mothers Secret, the first of my emotional women’s fiction books to publish with Bookouture in 2021, touched a nerve with readers who described it as ‘a powerful, emotional and beautifully written book’ and ‘both heartwarming and heartbreaking.’
It was followed by The Woman on the Beach later the same year, The Dilemma in 2022 and my latest release, My Daughter’s Lies in May 2024. They have achieved Amazon Top 20 bestseller status and a collection of orange banners for being chart toppers in their categories.
If police procedural crime thrillers are more to your taste, do try the DCI Rachel Hart series, starting with Little Girl Missing, followed by What He Did and then Why She Died. Written as J. G. Roberts. They can be read as standalone novels, but there is an underlying thread running through the three books which makes more sense if read in sequence.
Last night, Naomi tucked her five-year-old daughter into bed and kissed her goodnight. This morning, the little girl is missing and Naomi’s nightmare begins.
A professional gardener is found dead in what is believed to be a suicide. The manager of a football club lies in a coma following a near fatal car crash. These incidents are not connected… or are they?
Hannah is a bright, beautiful university with a zest for life and a determination to be the youngest woman to conquer Mount Everest. Why would she take her own life? DCI Rachel Hart is searching for answers when another female body is found.
Travel blogger and single mum, Holly isn’t expecting to fall in love when she arrives in Mauritius for her latest assignment. But has bestselling novelist, Philippe truly fallen for Holly or does he have an ulterior motive?
Holly has never told her twenty-year-old son, Harry the name of the man who abandoned her when she was pregnant. He has never wanted to know… until now.
Holly appears to have the perfect life: a beautiful baby daughter, a glamorous new job in television and an adoring boyfriend. Is it all too good to be true?
If you like a mix of thriller and romance then Alice in Theatreland could be the one for you, particularly if you have a love of the 1970s and a passion for West End shows.
Nineteen-year-old dancer, Alice has always dreamed of seeing her name up in lights. But there is a darker side to the sparkle of show business that even her new friend, Gina cannot protect her from.
As well as my full-length books, I have also written two Christmas novellas, Christmas at Carol’s and the sequel, Carol’s Singing, and a short story called… Time for a Short Story. If you would like a taste of my writing style you can download a free romance short story HERE-
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These are all works of fiction with elements of people I know in the characters and some truth in the plots but if I hadn’t written my first book, a memoir entitled One Hundred Lengths of the Pool, published by Random House imprint, Preface Publishing, in March 2013, I may never have gone on holiday to Mauritius and had the inspiration for the first book in the Liberty Sands trilogy.
Just over two years after conceiving the idea, Life’s a Beach and Then was born on 18th May 2015. My goal was to have all three books in the trilogy released within in a twelve month period which I now realise was a little ambitious while also holding down a full-time job as a television presenter at QVC. If He Really Loved Me was published in November 2015, but I missed my own self-imposed deadline by eight days when It’s Never Too Late to Say was released on 26th May 2016. It was worth it not to rush the conclusion of the story. All of the books in the trilogy have received praise in the form of five star reviews but I realise these are opinions and one of the things I love about Amazon is the Look Inside feature which allows you to try before you buy, something I always do when experimenting with an author I haven’t read before.
Life ‘got in the way’ a bit after the final book in the trilogy, It’s Never Too Late to Say…, was published in June 2016 and it was almost two years before my next full-length novel, Alice in Theatreland, came out in April 2017. I did however manage to squeeze in an 8000 word short story, Time for a Short Story, in September 2016.
Christmas at Carol’s, published as an ebook in December 2017 and was the first time I have written in the first person. I really enjoyed ‘being ‘ Carol while I was writing, so much so that I followed it up with a sequel the following Christmas called Carol’s Singing. At a busy time of year, I appreciate that not everyone has time to sit and enjoy a full-length book and personally, I find myself having to re-read chapters if there has been a gap of more than a couple of days, making 20,000 word novellas a bit more manageable.
But if you’re looking for something shorter to try out my writing style, do download The Shadow of her Smile when you sign up for my monthly newsletter.
