Novels

Death in Halfmoon Bay is a cozy mystery about the ruthlessness of politics within a retirement community. Suzanne Rickson knows this first hand, for she’s been framed for poisoning the strata treasurer, Adeline. Suzanne suspects that her long-time rival and the current president, Regina Snow is the murderer because Adeline was expected to overthrow her in the upcoming elections. Suzanne attempts to convince both the police and her own family of Regina’s guilt, but mounting evidence always points back to Suzanne as the killer.

Digital and paperback editions of Death in Halfmoon Bay are now available on Amazon in Canada, USA and the UK. Large print versions are also available.

In the mood for an idyllic escape? Death on the Rocks will transport you right to the sunshine coast, where a community theatre event finds its members dying, and only senior citizen sleuth Suzanne must use her experience and intuition to follow the all too human twists to the real killer, before the company runs out of understudies.

Delightful summer read!– Iona Whishaw, best-selling author of the Lane Winslow mystery series.


The second book in the Suzanne Rickson Mystery series

Every amateur detective secretly believes they are smarter than the police. Suzanne Rickson doesn’t think that. She has faith in Sergeant Bridges’ assessment that the director of their seniors’ theatre troupe, the beloved Wilbur Ghostkeeper, most likely slipped and perished on the rocky shoreline of the Salish Sea.

But Suzanne quickly regrets her naïveté after Wilbur’s widow is violently robbed and assaulted.

Is it too late to investigate the likelihood that whoever attacked the widow may have murdered her husband? Suzanne reluctantly accepts the truth that, yes, she is brighter than the police, and without her, a killer would go free.

Also available in the US and UK.

Sex, alcohol and softcore philosophy.

My first novel, Straight Men in Gay Bars is a semi-autobiographical account of my exploits while living in the gay district of Vancouver. My wife challenged me to write a romantic comedy. And I responded, “I do have this concept in my head. What if I wrote about how I met you and our torrid affair?  I’ll call it CockRocket.”

My wife said, “Wow, not a bad idea. Except make sure you don’t say anything bad about the people we know. And for God sake, change the title.”

I quickly learnt that no one tells the whole truth in their memoirs. It’s self-cannibalism. My autobiography became a work of creative non-fiction. Part true, part embellished, Straight Men in Gays Bars deals with my emotional conflict of loving two women at once and my battle with alcohol addiction.

Note:  The above links will connect you with my Canadian Amazon. Straight Men in Gay Bars is also available at  Kobo, US Amazon and pretty much any other online retailer.