UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · WOMEN DETECTIVES
Victoria Thompson
Victoria Thompson is a mother of three who works full-time as an Urban Designer for local government. She has drawn on this and her previous 14 years' experience as a Design and Technology secondary school teacher to create her debut children's picture book. Victoria describes children as creative, future thinkers. She loves their laughter, passion, loyalty and finds that they are the most trustworthy critics on the planet. Her belief of , 'anything is possible, if you put your mind to it', inspired her desire to write a short story, after being diagnosed with Dyslexia and Dyspraxia in 2018, while studying her master's degree. Inspired by her own children, her debut children's book demonstrates Victoria's fun, enthusiastic nature perfectly, through the bright, bold illustrations accompanying a quirky story.
To Jake Barton, machinery was always feminine - with all the female's fascination, wiles and bitchery.
— from Cry wolf
Most acclaimed
Murder on Mulberry Bend
2003
The Prodigal Son Mission on Mulberry Bend stands as a refuge for girls who otherwise would have to live by selling the only thing they have of value-themselves. The work being done there so impresses Sarah that she volunteers to help out however she can-with clothes, with medical assistance, with the organization of a benefit dinner. And when one of the girls is found dead and refused burial because of her former life, Sarah's passion for justice is aroused.Reluctantly, Sergeant Frank Malloy agrees to look into the death, if only to keep Sarah from endangering herself by pursuing the matter. But Sarah cannot be kept out of the investigation-and just as Malloy feared, her attempts to find the cause of the unfortunate girl's death in the circumstances of her life put her in deadly danger-from an unexpected source...
Wild Texas promise
SHE HATED THE RUDE GUNSLINGER ALL DAY -- BUT WANTED HIM ALL NIGHT... DEFIANT SPITFIRE Rugged Linc Scott had hired on at Eden Campbell's ranch to protect it from cattle-rustling landgrabbers, but he soon realized that Eden Campbell herself was his biggest problem. The pretty little spitfire refused to let Linc guard her, arguing that she could take care of herself. To show her just how vulnerable she was, Linc wrestled Eden to the ground. But his plan backfired when their close encounter led to a heated kiss... and then to an even hotter embrace. Soon Eden was in more danger of losing her innocence than she was of losing her land... HIRED GUN Used to looking after herself, proud Eden Campbell didn't cotton much to the idea of having Linc Scott around all the time. If it weren't for those thieving rustlers the stubborn beauty would never have had to deal with being bossed around by a rude gunslinger. But when she found herself pinned to the ground beneath Linc's lean, muscled body and subject to the assault of his surprisingly sensual lips, she no longer minded his overbearing ways. She'd let him order her around all day, as long as he loved her all night...
Cry wolf
The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The "Wolf of Rome," Italy's army under Mussolini, is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure. The mission seems simple: Deliver four ancient refurbished armored crs and Vicky Camberwell, an American journalist, in exchange for a hefty weight of gold. But soon Jake and Gareth realize that this is just the beginning of a long, harrowing journey that will take them from the sea to the scorching deserts of Africa to the peaks of its treacherous mountains, where a dramatic struggle to stay alive awaits them. . .