The Latest Masked Man of Cairo Book Out Now!

The Case of the Terrible Tomb, book 9 of my Masked Man of Cairo series, is out.

It finishes up the cliffhanger I left you with in book 8 and has a surprise at the end I think a lot of you will like. A blurb is below. 

A missing boy. A monstrous crime.
Sir Augustus Wall has lost more friends than he cares to remember. Now Faisal, the streetboy he adopted as his son, has vanished without a trace. Has Faisal abandoned his new home—or has something worse happened?
Faisal has returned to Cairo’s streets for a risky mission. A gang is kidnapping children and selling them into slavery, and he and his homeless friends are determined to stop them. Their search leads them to the City of the Dead, where medieval tombs hide a modern horror.
With the Nubian scholar Moustafa Ghani and the resourceful nurse Cordelia Russell, Augustus follows a trail of clues from Cairo’s back alleys into the wasteland of the Eastern Desert. But the kidnappers are preparing to disappear with their captives, and Faisal is getting dangerously close to being kidnapped himself.
Can Sir Augustus rescue the children and bring his son home? 

 

Click here to read The Case of the Terrible Tomb! It's on all the Amazons in ebook, Kindle Unlimited (now called Kindle+) and paperback.

What's Coming Up in the Rest of 2026?

We're three-quarters of the way through the year and the autumn is well and truly here. So what do I have planned for my writing before we crack open the champagne and cheer in 2027?

In late November, I plan to release The Case of the Terrible Tomb, book 9 in my Masked Man of Cairo historical mystery series. I left book 8 on a bit of a cliffhanger, and I've gotten a lot of emails asking when the followup will appear. You don't have much longer to wait and I promise book 9 isn't another cliffhanger!

In other news, I'm also working on a discounted boxed set of the first three books of the Cairo series that will contain a bonus short story. Binge readers like box sets, so that might bring some more people to my little world, plus the set will be in Kindle Unlimited, so KU readers can get the bonus short story for nothing! I'm hoping to have that out in November or December.

Sometime in December, Vinci Books will come out with audiobooks of my Toxic World and Moroccan Mystery series. More on that when I know myself!

That's all that will be published in 2026, but it isn't all that's in the works. For Vinci, I'm working on Book 3 of my Bunker series, due out in the spring of 2027. I'm also working on An Autumn Murder in Berlin, book 4 of my Berlin Murders series. Yes, that was supposed to come out this year, but other projects, and a move to Morocco, got in the way. Sorry, folks. I promise you'll have it by early 2027!

So what else is coming up in 2027? That will remain a mystery for now. . . 

Two New Ebook Boxed Sets!

Vinci Books sure has been busy. Not only have they come out with a new series of mine this season, but they've also repackaged a couple of old ones as discounted boxed sets.

The Moroccan Mysteries Complete Box Set contains all three ebooks of this historical mystery series. Set in Tangier, North Africa's wildest town in the Fifties, it follows a detective solving crimes amid a backdrop of colonial decadence, a rising independence movement, and Cold War espionage. A bit of noir and a bit of humor. Plus you save money if you buy them as a bundle. I'm hoping this series starts doing well because living in Tangier, I'll get plenty of inspiration to write more!

The Toxic World Box Set brings together all four books of my gritty post-apocalyptic series. No zombies, no meteorites, we screwed up the world all by ourselves! Follow the men and women of New City, humanity's last outpost, as they struggle against toxic rains, mad cultists, and their own foibles.

 Both box sets are available as ebooks and on Kindle Unlimited.

 

Breakdown, Bunker Book Two, Out Now

Book two of my Bunker post-apocalyptic mystery series is out now.

Breakdown takes up where Lockdown left off. Jake and friends are on the trail of another murderer in a different bunker. A blurb is below.

 

Jake Holloway is not a detective.
He’s a bartender who survived the end of the world.

Six months after a devastating world war turned the surface into a toxic wasteland, Jake is trying to stay sane inside a luxury bunker that feels more like a prison.

After solving a brutal murder in Bunker One, he and his companions are drawn deeper into the hidden underground network, travelling through secret tunnels that connect the last refuges of humanity.
Their destination: Bunker Eleven.

A billionaire pleasure palace of endless parties, forced smiles, and custom drugs designed to keep its residents happy, obedient, and numb.

But people are dying.

The owner insists the deaths are suicides.

Jake isn’t convinced.

Then someone tries to kill him.

Surrounded by suspects and trapped in a society where every smile is chemically manufactured, Jake must uncover who is behind the deaths before the body count rises again.

The world above is poisoned.

The danger below is human. 

 

I'm having a lot of fun writing these and I'm working on Shutdown, Bunker Book Three, right now. You can watch my progress on the righthand column. 

A New Post-Apocalyptic Mystery Thriller Out Now

OMG, another one? Vinci Books just released Lockdown, book one of my new series post-apocalyptic mystery series, set in one of those survival bunkers the billionaires are all building in real life. And if that doesn't scare you, you're not paying attention!

Only 99 cents until August 12!

 

The world ended six months ago.

Deep beneath the Arizona desert, fifty-six survivors live in a luxury underground bunker built by billionaire inventor Sebastian Crest. While the surface lies poisoned by nuclear war and engineered plagues, Crest’s carefully selected residents struggle to create a new society underground.

Then a man is murdered.

The victim isn’t one of the fifty-six.

He isn’t supposed to be there at all.

As the bunker’s bartender, Jake Holloway knows everyone’s secrets. He also knows when people are lying. When Crest and his security chief hurry to suppress the murder, Jake begins asking questions of his own.

The answers lead to hidden alliances, buried grudges, and a conspiracy that reaches far beyond a single bunker. Crest’s refuge isn’t as isolated as everyone believes.

In a sealed world where no one can leave, Jake must uncover the truth before another resident dies.

Or before the last refuge of humanity tears itself apart.

 

Get it now for only 99 cents! (Or pence!)

The Masked Man of Cairo Book Eight is out Now!

 

The eighth volume of the Masked Man of Cairo series, The Case of the Poisonous Papyrus, is out now in ebook and print! Now I'm hard at work on book nine. . .

 

A fatal delivery. An unspeakable crime.
Moustafa Ghani El Souwaim has always trod a fine line between supporting Egyptian independence and being a law-abiding citizen. When a frame-up job lands him in trouble with the law, he finds that he can no longer keep silent, and that only lands him in greater danger.
Sir Augustus Wall and his adopted son Faisal rush in to help, but Faisal finds he has his own choices to make, and that he cannot escape his past of living on the street.
Will their crime-fighting team split up for good? Find out in the latest adventure of the acclaimed Masked Man of Cairo historical mystery series, which takes you from the sordid back streets of Cairo to the grim fastness of the Citadel!

 

You can get it on all Amazon stores. 

The Case of the Poisonous Papyrus available for preorder!

 

Book 8 of my Masked Man of Cairo historical mystery series, The Case of the Poisonous Papyrus, is available for pre-order and will be published July 29!

Pre-orders really help us authors, because it gets the ball rolling with those all-important algorithms. And it gets delivered straight to your device on publication day!

A blurb is below: 

 

A fatal delivery. An unspeakable crime.
Moustafa Ghani El Souwaim has always trod a fine line between supporting Egyptian independence and being a law-abiding citizen. When a frame-up job lands him in trouble with the law, he finds that he can no longer keep silent, and that only lands him in greater danger.
Sir Augustus Wall and his adopted son Faisal rush in to help, but Faisal finds he has his own choices to make, and that he cannot escape his past of living on the street.
Will their crime-fighting team split up for good? Find out in the latest adventure of the acclaimed Masked Man of Cairo historical mystery series, which takes you from the sordid back streets of Cairo to the grim fastness of the Citadel! 

 

You can order the ebook here. Print edition coming this month, it's just taking a little time with the layout folks!