Violent Seed

Book 5

Family, food, and revenge—served cold in the Cotswolds

Detective Superintendent Lord Terrence Reid hopes for a quiet week with his family in the Cotswolds while his wife, Lady Anne, restores Whitethorn Manor’s famous walled garden. The manor’s Summer of Chefs program promises seven nights of haute cuisine from a celebrated mystery chef, just the respite his family needs after his father’s recent heart attack.

But when the mystery chef turns out to be his mother’s former lover—a man whose talent for creating exquisite dishes is matched only by his appetite for cruelty—Reid realizes his family’s invitation was no coincidence. And the chef hasn’t come to dazzle; he’s come to settle old scores with the guests—Reid’s own parents and headstrong sister among them.

After murder disturbs the bucolic calm of the Cotswolds, and his family members become prime suspects, Reid must navigate a tangled web of decades-old grudges and fresh deceits to uncover the truth before another body turns up on the deadly menu.

Most Gracious Advocate

Book 4

Scottish Police Superintendent Terrence Reid and Anne are back in Glasgow, trying to make a go of their patched-up marriage, when a string of nanny kidnappings hits a little too close to home.

Lured by an internet-based trap, a sixteen-year-old American au pair, Lizzie Frost, is snatched from the chilly Glasgow streets, making her the third girl to disappear in similar circumstances in as many months. Terrence Reid’s team is charged with finding the girls and stopping whoever’s behind the abductions before another girl disappears. But that’s easier said than done. There are more questions than answers, and everyone has something to hide. As the complex layers of deceit are unraveled, the betrayals mount up, threatening to destroy families, careers, and lives. After Reid’s own family becomes part of the case, he’s forced to confront moral choices that threaten his most basic beliefs.

Less Than a Treason

Book 3

Scottish Police Superintendent Terrence Reid tears himself away from a murder investigation in Glasgow to return to his family’s ancestral home for a Christmas house party celebrating the christening of his son. Dunbaryn Castle is all decked out for Christmas, but the mounds of beautifully wrapped gifts and delicious smells emanating from the kitchen can’t hide the tensions running between Reid and his estranged wife, Anne. He’s not expecting a very merry Christmas.

Braving snowy roads, guests arrive, bringing along with their presents hidden intrigues whose ominous elements vibrate below the party’s surface. When the murder investigation Reid thought he left behind in Glasgow follows him to Dunbaryn and the murderer strikes again, his holiday gets cut short. Drawn deep into a labyrinth of family scandals and greed, Reid is forced to confront shattering secrets better left buried.

The First Cut

Book 2

Winner of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Award (Mystery)

Scottish Police Superintendent Terrence Reid’s race to derail the money pipeline fueling a string of deadly terrorist attacks suffers a devastating setback when his informant is brutally murdered. Reid’s chief suspect, a ruthless financier, always seems to be one step ahead of him. After one of his men is murdered, Reid suspects he’s got a traitor in his own camp. When Reid’s wife, Anne, becomes deeply embroiled in the investigation, things get dangerously personal.

The cold Glasgow spring isn’t the only thing chilling Anne’s blood when she leaves California to try to save her marriage. The estate gardens she’s renovating are owned by her husband’s enemy, her sister-in-law is trying to get her killed, and her efforts to help Terrence plunge her—and her unborn child—deeper and deeper into peril.

Mermaids of Bodega Bay

Book 1

A Library Journal Self-e Top Book of the Year
Finalist for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold award

Suspecting that his estranged wife is having an affair with a famous artist from a renowned American art dynasty, Scottish Police Superintendent Terrence Reid, heir to a whiskey fortune and Scottish title, travels to the small California seaside town of Bodega Bay to try to win her back—only to discover that her lover’s six-year-old daughter has just been kidnapped.

Anne, a talented historic garden designer, doesn’t know whether to bless or curse the luck that had her husband show up on her doorstep just as disaster strikes the Grainger Art Colony. Moving on after he left her was hard, but she’d done it with Andrew Grainger’s help.

When Anne and her lover become the FBI’s chief suspects, Reid, compelled to exonerate the woman he still loves, steps in to investigate—and in the process, uncovers a shocking web of deceit and danger.