David Waine

See what happens when self-interest and complacency take charge. Anna Maria Aitcheson and Dirc Starkey ride roughshod over ordinary people in their quests for personal glory and each other's bodies. They destroy dreams and shatter aspirations without a second thought. That is until one stormy day when an inoffensive little woman decides to fight back...

From the shattered streets of postwar London to the crumbling grandeur of a decaying mansion overlooking a West Country town; from a remote village with a quirky inhabitant to a fetid wintry dock where a broken man contemplates suicide, 'Stella and Rose' is a collection of short stories, of redemption, of hope, and also of consequence. The title story, 'Stella and Rose', tells the story of two sisters struggling to survive in postwar London, and the...

This edition of 'The Author's Manual' expands greatly on the original to include detailed instructions on how to create a Kindle ebook and paperback, using Kindle Create, as well as producing epubs and paperbacks with Word, Atlantis and Sigil, all to professional standards. It is a simple, step by step guide for new authors finding their way in the world of self-publishing. It also includes tips on creating and editing the book as well as marketing...

Nine years have passed since the then Detective Constable Julie Rutter faced a modern-day Jack The Ripper as he made to destroy his final victim, Marie Kelly, in 'Chained in Time'. Rutter, now a Chief Inspector, returns to London to find herself investigating three murders, all committed with the same weapon, but not by the same killer. Letters are delivered from the killer. One of them is to Rutter's closest friend.In this second book in the series,...

Julie Rutter has left the police force and begun her quest to bring down neo-Nazi serial killer and terrorist, Julian Radcliffe, assisted by her friend, Trudi Hammond and the newly-released Terrry Fisher, a hacker.'The Secret Angels' begins where the previous Rutter book, 'Rutter's Revolt' left off: a mere two days later, on Christmas Morning 1998. Rutter is now in isolation, cut off from her partner, Alex Lawson, and most of her friends, lest Radcliffe...

Following on almost directly from the previous volume, 'Rutter, Reborn', 'The Hunted Angels' pits the Secret Angels Private Detective Agency (Julie Rutter, Trudi Hammond and Anna Torrance) against the Russian Mafia. In it, Anna's past, when she was Natalia Nicolayevna Ivanova - also known as Lebed, the hacker - comes back to haunt her as Moscow-based gangsters, whom she has previously attacked, hunt her down to her new home in the UK, thirsting for...