Two Rocks Please

One of the grittiest, most authentic police thrillers you will read this year.

An edge-of-your-seat crime thriller starts with a vicious stabbing of a pretty teenage girl and her boyfriend on a local bus. She happens to be the mayor’s niece. It’s the final straw for the community. The police are desperate to get results and decide on a risky course of action involving undercover infiltration of the notorious Effingell Estate.

Detective George Elms knows this hellish place extremely well, and his sharp investigative mind is put to work to solve the crime. The police are under immense media pressure and conveniently a local lowlife confesses to the attack. But George is not convinced. There are many layers of criminal and police motivation, and few people are what they seem.

Authentic, fast-paced, and with a touch of black humour, you won’t want to put down BODILY HARM till the nail-biting conclusion.

Who can you trust? And when his family is put at risk will DS George Elms go beyond the law?

If you like Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, Mel Sherratt or Mark Billingham you will be gripped by this exciting new crime fiction writer.

BODILY HARM is book one of a new series of detective thrillers.

THE AUTHOR
Charlie Gallagher has been a serving UK police officer for ten years. During that time he has had many roles, starting as a front-line response officer, then a member of a specialist tactical team and is currently a detective investigating serious offences.

THE SETTING
Langthorne, typical of many smaller seaside towns dotted around the UK’s coastline. Once a thriving tourist destination, where the affluent built grand seafront houses, it has suffered a hard fall from grace. Unemployment has blighted the area and so has crime.

THE DETECTIVE
George Elms joined the police pretty much straight out of school and now in his mid-thirties, he’s been getting in the faces of criminals for over fifteen years. Well known and respected on both sides of the line he is now responsible for running a team who work the crimes that come out of one of the county’s most notorious housing estates. He is married to Sarah and they have a little girl.

Chosen Legends is a 7-book series. Slivers of Memory is the prequel.

He dreams of blood and fire. And he may just be the cause.

Worker by day, volunteer at night. This is fifteen-year-old Arctic’s life. Except he’s far from ordinary, and the print shop he works at is just a cover, a safe base for Metas — people with supernatural abilities.

But when Metas start disappearing one by one, his trail of clues leads him into a web of danger. Trapped between the secrets of a hidden world and his turbulent past, he becomes the target of a treacherous hunt.

And that’s just the beginning.

His encounter with a mysterious girl makes him question everything he’s ever believed in. Together, with her as his only ally, he must risk it all to unearth the truth.

Even worse, his own forgotten past is coming back to haunt him.
Who is kidnapping the Metas? Why? And who are the Chosen Legends with the strange marks on their hands?

To find the answers, he may have to seek the same people hunting him down.
Before time runs out.

Journey alongside Arctic in the first installment of Chosen Legends coming-of-age superhero fantasy series. If you’re a fan of the Renegades Series, Marie Lu’s Young Elites, and Mackenzi Lee, you’ll love this story about friendship, identity, and flawed heroes.

You’re not broken. You’re overwhelmed.

If your mind feels loud, relentless, or impossible to shut off — if you replay conversations, brace for the worst, and carry tension you can’t explain — this book offers a calmer, clearer truth:
Anxiety is often a nervous system that has been under constant pressure… not a personal failure.

You’re Not Broken · You’re Overwhelmed blends modern psychology and neuroscience with timeless wisdom from great thinkers to help you understand what’s happening inside you — and gently guide yourself back into balance.

Rather than pushing you to “fix yourself,” this book invites you to slow down, breathe again, and be guided by voices that understood fear, uncertainty, self-doubt, and the weight of being human.

My immortal existence is all shadows and apathy. And then she comes… and her light threatens everything I thought I knew.

Nicolae

I’ve lived so long in the shadows, can you blame me for not giving a rat’s ass about humanity any longer? This lost village in the middle of the Carpathian Mountains is our latest hideout, lest the enemies of our royal bloodline find us again. And by us, I mean me and my five equally psychotic siblings — except, really, two of them are sweet as angels.

Anyway. Da, we’re vampiri. And not the sparkle and vegetarian kind, either. The last thing we should do is attract attention and risk exposing ourselves. But when my sister falls mysteriously ill, the only person who can help her out is the old healer in town. And when he turns up dead? That leaves me with his way-too-stubborn and modern daughter. Very human daughter.

I need Tassa to help my sister, but she’s got questions of her own about her father’s mysterious death, and our presence here. And an attitude to go with said questions, one that’s reminding me what it’s like to feel.

How much can I reveal, without it affecting the rest of us?

How much will she take, before running away screaming?

And how long until I fall head over heels for her?

When she lost her power, she found her strength.

Lina is one of the most powerful crime-solving psychics in the country.

When a serial killer murders her brother-in-law, Lina rushes back to the South Philly neighborhood she grew up in to find the killer before they strike again.

Then a freak accident strips Lina of her psychic ability permanently. Determined to prove she has worth beyond her supernatural gift, she decides to become a real detective and catch the killer the old-fashioned way.
The closer Lina gets to finding the killer, the closer they get to her and her family.

“In the first pages of Rum Running Queen, I could smell the broken earth, hear the sound of the tractor, and know the compelling characters who would become friends. This book is a hard and fruitful journey you will want to take. Every step was a pleasure.” -Scott Hammond, author of Finding Asher

During Prohibition, most women stayed quiet. Willie Carter Sharpe didn’t.

Based on a true story, Willie — Rum Running Queen follows a fearless young woman in rural Virginia who discovers she has a rare gift — she can drive faster, think sharper, and take bigger risks than anyone chasing her. As bootlegging spreads through the Blue Ridge Mountains, Willie becomes indispensable… and dangerous.

Outrunning revenuers is the easy part. The real threat comes from rival operators, shifting loyalties, and the cost of carving out freedom in a world determined to deny it. With each mile, Willie’s reputation grows — and so does the price of independence.

Gritty, atmospheric, and powered by a heroine who refuses to slow down, Willie — Rum Running Queen is high-octane historical fiction about ambition, defiance, and a woman who took control of the road — and her life.