Blind Chance
Ex-croupier Kate Redmond is barely out of prison when the past catches up with her. Sean Malone, head of an East End crime dynasty, has gone missing in Amsterdam and his son, Michael, has been found in the Amstel River with half his head blown away.
Kate has history with the Malones; she took them for some serious money before she went down and now it's payback time. Tom Malone, the eldest son, wants Kate to go to Amsterdam and find Sean or her crippled partner, Kenny, will go through seven levels of hell.
Amsterdam proves a nightmare world of assassination, cross and double-cross and Kate learns fast that there are no rules or limits.
With events spiralling out of control, she is forced into an alliance with the most dangerous man in Amsterdam, Jan De Klerk and now it will take every ounce of her wit and nerve if both Kenny and she are to survive.
Steve Jay trilogy 1/3: Thermal Image
Steve Jay is a fireman on the edge. Crippling debts and the recent return of his unfaithful partner Jenny have bent him out of shape, getting between him and the job he loves.
But Jay's problems are only just beginning. A horrific fire in an East London fashion store and workshop tests him and his watch to the limit. And when an old friend offers him serious money to investigate the Sheldon family's history of fires, it sounds like the answer to a prayer.
His decision to accept the case plunges him into a nightmare of arson and murder.
Steve Jay trilogy 2/3: Burn Out
Wales is supposed to be a rest cure, a chance to exorcise the demons of injury, guilt and betrayal. But before Steve Jay has even reached the remote clinic, he has had to deal with a house fire and a clear case of murder. Then he is caught in a forest fire, an elemental force: awesome, destructive, deadly.
Steve Jay, seeking rest and isolation, has landed on an anthill, a vicious eco-war between the Welsh and a multi-national mining conglomerate. By degrees he is drawn into the battle, lured by a beautiful woman with a past: a past that will engulf him. He returns to London not whole, but functional; not healed, but rested, with breath enough to try to regain his position and self-respect.
Steve Jay trilogy 3/3: Blowtorch
Pat O'Keeffe's fire fighter hero is once again on the front line in a vividly real story of arson, drug dealing and murder in modern London.
By the time Steven Jay reaches the screaming woman it is too late - her killers have butchered her, leaving Jay and a young fire fighter to explain themselves to a crowd that won't listen to reason.
But that is only the beginning of the trouble. As London simmers through a heat wave, racial tension mounts across the East End. A religious leader has died; a political leader fans the flames; an embittered immigrant community's anger grows.
Then an arsonist sets fire to an Asian cinema leaving hundreds dead, and the mob goes on the rampage. Their first target is the Fire Brigade - and some of them have picked Steve Jay as their victim.
Jay has stumbled into a whirlwind of violence where big-time drug dealing exploits an embittered immigrant community's alienation. And to get out alive, he will have to nail a ruthless criminal.