The Devil's Point - In the glorious sun-kissed countryside of South West France a deadly game is being played and when the dark history of a French town re-surfaces, can one woman unravel the threads that lead to murder? From a 13th-century abbey to a ruined village in the woods, this murder mystery moves relentlessly to its dramatic conclusion on the hill of Calvary.A thrilling French mystery of murder, intrigue and dark secrets.Weep for the Dead

Weep for the DeadIn the historic and atmospheric city of Bordeaux, a brutal murder shocks the quiet streets. Metalworker Armand Verville is found dead, his skull cracked open and his body discarded in the murky waters of the Gironde estuary. Capitaine Celestine Courbet of the National Police embarks on a relentless quest for justice, navigating a tangled web of secrets that reaches into the shadows of the Vietnamese criminal underworld, old alliances, and police corruption....

CORRUPTION, BETRAYAL, MURDER and REDEMPTION as Capitaine Celestine Courbet fights for justice against those closest to her; the Bordeaux Police Force and the ruthless and deadly Vietnamese mob.The story races from the backstreets and ancient cemetery of old Bordeaux to the treacherous waters of the Gironde Estuary, as the investigation into two brutal murders brings Celestine into conflict with powerful forces who want her silenced.Ostracised by her colleag...

Some explanation is perhaps due from a writer who adopts the title of Comic in relation to a subject which is ordinarily considered to be so essentially grave as that of History. Though the epithet may be thought by many inappropriate to the theme, this work has been prompted by a very serious desire to instruct those who, though willing to acquire information, seek in doing so as much amusement as possible. It is true that professedly Comic literature has been the subject of a familiarity...

JACK IS A YOUNG, recently separated man living in the city of Chicago. The year is 1997 and for some time now he has felt a growing sense of alienation for the era in which he lives and with the culture and people that surround him. One morning, on the way into the office, he is involved in a violent bus crash and suffers a blow to the head. The injury somehow unlocks an innate ability within Jack to travel thru time. His first encounter sets him back two weeks, where he has to come to gri...

Are you looking for more peace in your life? Do you wonder how you can develop the habits and character traits that will teach you when to say, "No" to energy-draining activities and "Yes" to becoming the person you've always longed to be?Then Cultivating Your Character is the perfect guide for you on your path to greater self-esteem, success, leadership, and life-changing new habits.Deanna Becket takes her readers on an incredible journey, first back in time to learn Benja...

The Becket List is a not entirely serious compendium of ‘First World Problems’ the sort of stuff that drives us round the bend on a daily basis.How is it that atonal music, bus stations, cling-film and coat-hangers can bugger us up so comprehensively? Or passport control people, modern poetry, or just about anything you’ll find in a typical hotel bedroom?Embracing both the inanimate from allen keys to Rawlplugs and the animated (well, in some cases) from your fellow-travellers to every thi...

Beautiful DeceptionA Celestine Courbet Crime ThrillerIn the heart of the picturesque French town of Montauban, a shadowy world of art forgery, deception, and murder lurks beneath the surface of its historic streets and revered museums. When acclaimed art historian Dr. Pierre Labrouste falls to his death, in what appears to be an accident, retired detective Celestine Courbet is drawn into a tangled web of secrets and lies that threaten to engulf the town. Alo...

No one dies like that, unless …In a small city in South West France, an art historian falls to his death, a student is murdered, a museum curator is crushed in a freak accident.Celestine Courbet, former detective in the Police Judiciaire, wintering in the small port nearby with her eccentric partner Jacques Lecoubarry, recognises the patterns and is drawn inexorably into a world of art forgery and organised crime, where desperate people take violent measure...

In the tranquil town of Lissac-sur-Tarn, nestled by the confluence of the Tarn and Garonne rivers and shadowed by an ancient 12th-century abbey, a brutal murder shatters the peace. Emmanuel Malraux, a flamboyant Parisian scholar, is found dead, his throat cruelly slashed, setting off a chain of events that will unearth secrets buried for decades.Carpenter Jacques Lecoubarry and former police capitaine Celestine Courbet, journeying the Canal des Deux Mers on their barge, the Incogni...

Time is running out…Jews in South West France are being hunted. As the Nazis close in, a desperate man leaves a coded message for his son.Eighty years later, powerful men will do anything to prevent the deciphering of this code.Former police detective Celestine Courbet is escaping with her partner, Jacques Lecoubarry, from tragedy and betrayal in Bordeaux. When they moor their barge in the small town of Lissac-sur-Tarn they have no inkling that they...

A sequel to the original and highly therapeutic "Becket List"...a compendium of the trivial but oh-so-phenomenally-irritating things that bedevil everyday life. Here you will find that you are not alone in having issues with phrases like - well - "having issues with", as well as supposedly inanimate objects like carparks, newfangled doorhandles and badly translated menus...not to mention other people's behaviour, like the way that French drivers negotiate roundabouts or that dramatic chewi...