The Dark:

From the bleakness of a coal cellar and its aimless hostage, the story of a town’s recent history develops. A collision of characters and history combine in a growing examination of the futility but also the frightening simplicity of one town’s spiralling strife and ultimately destruction. From the darkness, the pain of mutilated hands, Dovric’s mind spins through the turmoil of events searching for an innocent party, wondering vaguely how he, who had never had an opinion in his life, had become the last remaining hostage with nothing left but the dark. They chopped his fingers off, one by one, as pointlessly cruel as the civil war raging overhead.

- Finished and currently being revised

A stake in time...

Moving from farce to bloody realism a series of murders in Southern Spain brings Sean out of academic repose in Dublin and re-unites him with his old comrade at arms, the South American photographer  Domingo. The link is vampirism. The bodies are headless with a stake through the heart. Sean once wrote about the vampire myth but bloody corpses are not quite the same. Domingo is there because Sean no longer has the guts to go alone, or is it just nostalgia for an old flame?  The deaths roll on, come closer. Captain Perez has little time for the intruders. But it is Sean who realises that the stake in the heart doesn’t kill, rather it creates vampires. A stake in time ... could easily create nine.

- Finished and currently being revised

The Summer lovers:

Northern Spain. A train ride threatens to end in murder: he pulls back from his victim just in time. She doesn’t realise, catches his glance and thinks he’s cute. Her father would never agree ... but that was another story. What develops is a tangle of romance, unreliable parents against a background of South American dictatorships, the “missing” and their children. His mother's experiences in prision had driven her crazy. Her father's secret life has left her untrusting. As their relationship unfolds they realise it isn't their story but the lives of their parents that are coming together one more time, in a final, bloody, struggle for reconcilation or simply revenge.

- In progress

The Irish Durrati:

An English journalist arrives in a small Irish town  in search of an eighty year old who he believes is still running arms. Unfortunately, the old man is killed in a hit and run. Accident? Cover up? As the investigations unravel even the journalist finds it difficult to separate story from legend, myth from personal desires. He was killed just in time, so that nothing could be clarified, above all, the past. 

- In progress