Tim's latest novel is now available in paperback, kindle, hardback and Audible at Amazon books
Imagine, that you discover that your Dad is not who he says he is. That is what happened to young Matt Chandler, an Oxford University student who finds a photograph of his father as a young man wearing a Nazi uniform.
The Imposter follows a maze of lies and distractions that plead with Matt to investigate his own father, a man whom he has trusted and loved his whole life. What will he do? Will he, for the sake of "family harmony", bury the evidence that he might find, or will he expose everything he holds to be safe and secure?
The Newspaper Chronicles is the story of a young investigative journalist, Jamie Stroud who has been assigned to write a piece on a local Chicago businessman who had been accused of inappropriate behavior with a school board member. As she begins her investigation murky details start to emerge about his life. Upon further investigation, this self-professed family values man appears to be heavily involved with less-than-savory characters including members of the Russian Mafia. The article she is writing becomes a 6-part series called Betrayal and tells the story of a man lured by greed, into the depraved world of murder, drugs, kidnap, corruption, and money laundering.
President Clarke enacts a no-tolerance policy on the southern border to prevent refugees from entering the US. Jamie Stroud a reporter for The Chicago Clarion receives permission to travel to Brownsville Texas to interview detained families at the border. She meets Maria Hernandez who fled from Guatemala with her 7-year-old daughter after the death of her husband and son at the hands of a gang that shot them and kidnapped her 15-year-old daughter. Maria and Sofia Hernandez enter the US after being granted asylum and are promptly separated from each other and caged like wild animals. Jamie writes an emotional article for The Chicago Clarion on the plight of Maria, eliciting enormous sympathy from her readers. At the same time, she is hunting down a serial killer who has arrived in Chicago and has so far murdered 9 innocent women. Her private investigation business TM Investigations has never been busier, and she and her partner Lucy and Sir Christopher buy a tracker dog named Poirot to help them capture the murderer.
The English Affair is the third book in the Newspaper Chronicles trilogy. Throughout history, villains have always taken center stage. Jamie Stroud the investigative journalist for The Chicago Clarion teams up once again with her friends Lucy D’Tremont and Sir Christopher Fenton to solve a case of the murder of an armored car guard who was a local Chicago hero. The trio is also investigating a crime where a synagogue is attacked and 5 parishioners are killed. As the case unfolds Jamie Stroud is attacked. This time however the attack comes from her bosses after a complaint is filed against her. Jamie is suspended for a year. The trio decides to move to London where Sir Christopher owns a flat in Knightsbridge where they plan to live. No sooner have they arrived when they are ensnared in an art theft which they are asked to help solve. This action-packed mystery takes the indomitable trio on a journey of intrigue from stories about living in the ghettos of Poland and the subsequent capture and survival in Auschwitz to a Manor House in Buckinghamshire to investigate the robbery of an invaluable Monet painting and the vivid tales of world war 2 pilot Squadron Leader Pongo Underhill who would fly female operatives behind enemy lines where they would parachute into hostile territory and help the resistance blow up roads and buildings. The English Affair is the third book in the trilogy The Newspaper Chronicles.
The Autocrat is also the story of a US President who becomes corrupted by bribery and illegal business transactions, narrated by Jenny Harriman a teacher who inherits her uncles' sizable fortune after he dies. It chronicles how she not only inherits his large fortune but also his business empire which includes 107 companies that he owns around the USA. In order to understand the way he does business; she chooses to visit a number of his companies and in doing so discovers a side to her uncle she never knew. Jenny’s daughter Molly a young doctor at Walter Reed Medical Center is married to Stephen a Secret Service agent for the White House as part of the First Lady's security detail. After hearing the First Lady speaking Russian on the phone Stephen starts to suspect her of being less than the patriot she claims to be. Stephen then confides this information to his in-laws and a friend who is an NSA agent. In their investigation, Stephen and Ron subsequently discover a plot to unravel the very fabric of American democracy and do their level best to solve this perplexing mystery.
Detectives Joe Cotton and Bill Thompson are asked by their superiors at the National Crime Authority UK's leading law enforcement agency to investigate 6 murders that have been committed around England and Wales. Could the killer be a long-distance lorry driver or a traveling salesman? The killer murders his victims by spraying builders' foam down their airways and suffocating them in a most excruciating manner. Will DI Thompson and DS Cotton solve this perplexing case, or will the killer strike again?
Prudence Gwynne became an orphan at 2 years old and Ballet became her life, until World War II when she became a freedom fighter with the resistance
The Child in Us All is based on the true story of Pete Spice and Alison Sugar who graduate from University with degrees in Early Childhood Development and decide to devote their careers to helping impoverished children in the inner cities. Along the way and quite by accident they win a GRAMMY
Paperback Writer is a collection of 10 short stories, one of which is the story of my mother who in her early life was a ballerina with the Rambert Ballet Company and who when World War 2 broke out in 1939 became a Freedom Fighter in France working with the brave men and women of the french resistance. Available on Audible
1) Precious Friend. The story of the life of an 80 lb brown lab called John Lennon living with a Yuppie family in Arlington Virginia. John during his life gets up to all sorts of wild pranks.
2) The Ballerina. Annamarie became an orphan at 2 years old and Ballet became her life, until World War II when she became a freedom fighter with the resistance
3) Windsor Square. Young Trevor Langdon discovers he can travel through time.
4) The Paperback Writer. Ciaran Reilly, a writer gets caught up in the murder of his parents which he attempts to solve.
5) Set the Table. 5 poems. Set the Table examines all the loved ones that families have lost this year because of Covid.
6) Murder for Hire. A good old-fashioned whodunnit murder mystery that'll keep you on the edge of your seats.
7) A Wonderful World. Tim's musical background comes into play in this entertaining nonsense story that links famous songs to form a cohesive if somewhat odd storyline.
8) Laugh On. Comedy is the genius of comedians like Robin Williams, John Cleese, Monty Python's Flying Circus Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Rowan Atkinson, Eric Sykes, Lucille Ball, Ruth Buzzi, Rodney Dangerfield and Rowan, and Martin’s Laugh-in, and of course Tommy Cooper and so many many more. This is their tribute
9) The Satchel. Joe Wilson is an ordinary bloke. He drives a double-decker bus for a living after he returned from active duty as a sniper in Afghanistan. One day while checking his bus at the end of his shift, he discovers a satchel full of money that was left by mistake. Being an honest bloke he intends to turn it in but before he can he is burglarised by drug dealers looking for their money. How do they know where Joe lives? The Satchel is a compelling mystery that will keep you guessing right until the end.
A Tangled Web is a memoir that Eric Battersby wrote in the latter part of his life. It takes the reader from when he was sent to Burma as a 19-year-old police cadet in 1935 to his transition from young policeman to becoming the aide de camp (ADC) to the Governor of Burma in 1940 and his subsequent exodus on foot from Burma after the Japanese invaded Burma and World War II began in the Far East.
Ciaran Reilly is a young novelist who discovers that someone appears to be mimicking the crimes he is writing about in his mysteries. His murder victims turn out to be real crimes that are currently unsolved. So who is reading his novels and then committing the murders? Or could it be the other way around? The young novelist begins to investigate the cases he has written about chronologically and discovers all is not as it seems. The Scribe takes the reader on a journey into the mind of the wicked and heinous crimes of a killer who has yet to be found.
The Enchanted Playground is a story about a writer from England called Timothy Tuttle who likes to be called Tut by his friends. He comes to live in the United States with his 3-year-old daughter Emily and their Old English Sheepdog named Sadie. Tut buys a cabin on 3 acres on top of the Blue Ridge mountains near Upperville Virginia. Tut Emily and Sadie take daily walks around their new property and after a couple of months of exploring they discover an enchanted playground that sits behind a tall brick wall near their house. Only people with highly vivid imaginations are able to see the enchanted playground and they soon meet the fairies and tree trolls that live in the castle that is adjacent to the playground. The Trolls and the fairies become very protective towards Emily and make sure that wherever she and her father Tut go, they are always safe. The only problem with having magic tree trolls for friends is that you are the only human that can see them. The enchanted playground follows the life and adventures of Tut, Emily and Sadie as they explore their wonderful new life living in a cabin high up in the Blue Ridge mountains nestled on 3 acres in a lovely grove of fir trees.
Hello, my name is John Lennon and I’m an eighty-pound chocolate brown Labrador. I look after a nice if not somewhat stupid couple of humans called Robin and Trevor. I have them well trained and so now they leave me alone all day to sleep as much as I like. In the morning I watch my shows and then around noon I go for a run down to the lake to chat with my duck friends. Occasionally a human throws bread at the ducks which I intercept in order to save them from getting brain damage. My duck friends are always pleased to see me. We play this game called scatter. The rules are simple. Ducks swim and I jump in the pond. Ducks scatter. Game over. We play it every day and they love it. Do you speak duck? It’s a mix between Cantonese and grilled salmon. I always head home before Robin and Trevor get home. When they walk in the front door I’m lying on my cushion, and it always seems to make them say the exact same thing. “Oh, John Lennon you look so cute. Who’s a good boy then?” On Wednesdays, every week the middle school at the end of my road serves pepperoni pizza and I like to go over there at 12:15 and scrounge some leftovers. I think I can train the kitchen staff to give me my own plate. One day last week I went over, and the ladies were sitting outside smoking cigarettes, and I put on my sad face, and before I could say Arthur Treacher one human gave me a plate to myself. It should only take me a couple more visits to have them trained. I love to play fetch and so I go to the dog park where I have lots of friends. We all speak the same language and love to play fetch. The rules are a bit more complicated than Scatter. First of all you need a human. His or her job is to be the thrower. Preferably they can throw long distance but if not a dog needs to pick his team mates carefully. There is a protocol to playing this game and it requires some mad skills (I’m not sure what that means but I once heard Trevor saying it to Robin) Humans like to play bounce. They always play it in the dark. Trevor seems to like playing Bounce more often than Robin, but after a dish of water on a Friday night she is happy to join in as long as “he gets on with it.” When I was younger, I liked to roger Robins leg, but she got uncomfortable if I did it too much. I don’t understand humans. Robin is always telling Trevor to “treat me gently” but when they are playing Bounce, she keeps shouting at him “harder harder harder!”
