Author: stevehiggs
When other people’s weird is your normal, what do you do when your life gets weird?For Jane Butterworth the paranormal is just a day job. She works at the Blue Moon Investigation Agency, a firm that specialises in cases that no one else will take, cases that start at strange and unexplainable and tier rapidly south from there. Her boss is away dealing with a Yeti in France, but the enquiries keep … France, but the enquiries keep coming so when Chief Inspector Quinn of the local police wants to hire the firm as special consultants, Jane signs them up…
She’s over fifty, overweight, and in way over her head!It’s well known that working in movies can be cutthroat, but no one expected that to be taken literally. It’s party time on board the Aurelia! On the LA to Hawaii leg, a Hollywood film crew are shooting scenes for a new action movie and Barbie has been given a bit-part role. It’s all great fun and Patricia isn’t surprised when her cute, … surprised when her cute, blonde friend attracts the attention of the handsome A-lister male lead. But when he is found murdered in the upper deck pool and…
She’s over fifty, overweight, and in way over her head!What could be worse than having a gangster onboard the world’s finest cruise liner? Having several of them obviously! The Aurelia plays host to an underworld crime boss and his bodyguards, but when the gangster’s reluctant-looking bride-to-be goes missing and a ransom note is left in her place, Patricia puts her sleuthing hat on to help the … sleuthing hat on to help the new deputy captain solve the crime.With new friend, eccentric socialite Lady Mary Bostihill-Swank, gym-bunny Barbie, and her ever faithful butler by her side, Patricia intends to find…
A thirty-year-old priceless jewel theft and a man that really has been stabbed in the back. Can a 52-year-old, slightly plump housewife unravel the mystery in time to save herself from jail?When housewife, Patricia, catches her husband in bed with her best friend, her reaction isn’t to rant and yell. Instead, she calmly empties the bank accounts and boards the first cruise ship in nearby … in nearby Southampton.There she meets the unfairly handsome captain and her appointed butler for the trip – that’s what you get when the only room available is a royal suite! But with most of…
A thirty-year-old priceless jewel theft and a man that really has been stabbed in the back. Can a 52-year-old, slightly plump housewife unravel the mystery in time to save herself from jail?When housewife, Patricia, catches her husband in bed with her best friend, her reaction isn’t to rant and yell. Instead, she calmly empties the bank accounts and boards the first cruise ship in nearby … in nearby Southampton.There she meets the unfairly handsome captain and her appointed butler for the trip – that’s what you get when the only room available is a royal suite! But with most of…
The paranormal? It’s all nonsense, but proving it might get him killed.‘Supernatural overtones with a hint of sexual tension, interspersed with humor make this a fantastic series.’ – Amazon customer.When he is called to investigate a Yeti attack in the French Alps, Tempest Michaels is certain it will just be another fool in a costume – He’s going to solve the case in five minutes and spend a few … five minutes and spend a few days skiing. Yay!Guess again.The mountain, the locals, and above all, the Yeti, have other plans in mind.With the Dachshunds doing their best to avoid…
Tempest Michaels is back! His office burned down, his love life is a joke and he is convinced he is getting fat. It’s the perfect time for a new case then.The client is the son of a man who was killed in a freak accident – struck by lightning. That doesn’t sound very paranormal until you learn that he was inside his house when it happened and his heart exploded out of his chest. There are … chest. There are eldritch runes drawn on the victim’s house and his wife, together with several of her friends, has been seen colluding…
Tempest Michaels is about to have a bad week. When a newspaper ad typo sends all manner of daft paranormal enquiries his way, P.I. Tempest Michaels has no sense of the trouble and danger heading his way. In no time at all, he has multiple cases to investigate, but it’s all ridiculous nonsense like minor celebrity Richard Claythorn, who believes he is being stalked by a werewolf and a shopkeeper … werewolf and a shopkeeper in a nearby village with an invisible thief.Solving these cases might be fun if his demanding mother (Why are there no grandchildren, Tempest?) didn’t insist…
Paranormal investigation takes balls. Amanda will just have to wing it then.What was she thinking? Quitting her steady job in the Police for an uncertain future at a paranormal investigation agency?No time to dwell on it though as she has a new client with a surprising problem – Kimberly Kousins has been cursed by a voodoo priest. Determined to prove to herself, her former Chief Inspector (whom … Chief Inspector (whom she loathes) and everyone else, that she is a capable woman with no need for a man to rescue her, she is going to have to bend the day…
If Jack Reacher was a paranormal investigator… werewolves. Sometimes though, I secretly worry that I might be wrong.People call on me to solve cases too weird for the police to take on. Take today for instance; a third victim was found with a bite mark in her lifeless throat. It’s happening in my town and I take that sort of thing personally. I’ll take the case on without having a client, but one soon arrives in the form of Amanda Harper, a disillusioned police officer who wants the killing stopped just as much as me. Together, and with back up…