Bøger af Steve Higgs

Tempest Michaels is back! His office burned down, his love life is a joke and he's convinced he's getting fat. It's the perfect time for a new case then!The client is the son of a man who was killed in a freak accident - struck by lightning.That doesn't sound very paranormal until you learn that he was inside his house when it happened and his heart exploded from his chest. There are eldritch runes drawn on the victim's house and his wife, together with several of her friends, has been seen colluding with a mysterious old crone.Is there witchcraft being practiced in the nearby village of East Malling? The client certainly thinks so. Will Tempest be swift enough to solve the case before anyone else is killed? Will Frank's witch-sniffer toad sniff out the witch? Will Tempest's gender-neutral assistant turn up dressed as a boy or a girl?You can bet there will be bedlam as Tempest and his trusted sausage dogs find themselves pitted against another potentially deadly foe.

Gold coins from a centuries-old sunken treasure ship have been found on the beach in Cawsand. This would be no cause for Tempest Michaels to take notice, but a man murdered by the ghost of a dead pirate come to claim back the gold? That ticks all his boxes.Tempest, oblivious to the events in Cawsand and believing he was overdue a week off, has travelled to Cornwall with his dogs for some relaxation and perhaps a cream tea or two.Well, fat chance of that because he is hip-deep in murderous ghosts before he finishes his second pint.Uncovering a disturbing undercurrent in the sleepy seaside village, a race against time begins for him to crack the case before anyone else gets hurt? Together with the local police officer, the diminutive, sexy and very domineering Bobbi the Bobby plus some other helping hands he could probably do without, he will do all he can to reveal the truth.The locals believe the ghosts are real though and the village is filling up with treasure hunters after the gold and ghost hunters seeking infamy.Are there people trying to sabotage his efforts? Is he in danger? Just what is the truth behind the mystery and was there ever a treasure to find?He has the odds stacked against him like never before, he has no idea who to trust and the Dachshunds want their dinner.And, oh yeah, it's Halloween.

If you like action-filled urban mystery books with a strong comedy undercurrent, then Amanda Harper is about to deliver.What was she thinking? Quitting her steady job in the police for an uncertain future at a paranormal investigation agency? Not only that, her new boss inexplicably took the week off leaving her to run the business.There's no time to dwell on it though as she has a new client with a surprising problem - Kimberly Kousins has been cursed by a voodoo priest and needs her help!This is no simple case though, there's a voodoo army waiting for her and the high priest's threat to curse her is no joke.What mystical power does the priest wield? Can he really control the beasts and the elements?When her friends begin to vanish and even the police won't help her, she'll head into a climactic ending that threatens to leave a trail of bodies that might include hers.Strap yourself in as Amanda Harper finds herself In the Doodoo with Voodoo.

There are crop circles in the fields near Cliffe Woods and unexplained lights in the sky at night. Does Amanda's latest case have aliens at its core?Of course not, because there is no such thing! But, when a farmer hires paranormal investigator Amanda Harper to look into his glowing milk, she doesn't sense how crazy things are about to get, and before she can even start investigating, a frozen body is found and the conspiracy theory nutters arrive to argue about the inner workings of an alien freeze ray.Leading the bunch is none other than Jack Hammer, the handsome, self-proclaimed star of the internet show Alien Quest. He wants Amanda as a co-host to boost his ratings and won't take no for an answer.But Amanda has other problems, not least of which is her estranged Uncle Knobhead arriving unexpectedly to offer his assistance - he was kidnapped by aliens, you know.Amanda is going all out to solve this case, so let's just hope the help she gets from Patience Woods, her sassy police officer best friend, doesn't slow her down too much.Crop circles, doped cows, spacecraft sightings, and a mysterious government agency trained to repel alien invasions all combine to give Amanda Harper her toughest test yet in this hilarious urban mystery thriller.

There might be no such thing as werewolves, vampires or ghosts but apparently, evil Klowns are real.Tempest Michaels is once again investigating ridiculous cases that are clearly not even slightly paranormal in nature. However, his daily menu of fun is interrupted by a plague of men dressed in garish outfits. They wear twisted clown make-up as they terrorise the Kent towns and villages with ever escalating and more frequent attacks.The Klowns should be a case for the police to solve but their leader appears to have a serious beef with Tempest and they are coming for him and anyone that gets in their way.Who are the Klowns? What do they want? And what's with the ridiculous smiles?If they were not enough of a nuisance, he has foolishly employed a woman he is utterly besotted by. Trying to ignore Mr Wriggly's thoughts about what to do with his new colleague, he goes after his silver medal, a girl he lusted after years ago at school, but while Mr Wriggly might not care tuppence about the difference, is Tempest's heart really in it?Throw in a demonic possession, a restaurant with ghostly footsteps and some more meddling by his mother, it looks like another entertaining week for Kent's best Paranormal Investigator.