Fine Distinctions

by Deborah Valentine

Published 1 June 1991

'A touch of Margaret Millar . . . worth watching' Sunday Telegraph

Ex-cop turned author Kevin Bryce and sculptress Katharine Craig now live in rural Ireland. After a row Katherine disappears and the next Bryce hears is that her car has been found, with bloodstains on the seat. With a psychopathic IRA renegade on the loose, Bryce and the Gardai embark on a desperate search for the missing woman.

Meanwhile, in Dublin, Mick Cronin ponders the miseries of his existence. Embittered by life and love he is an unstable man with a grudge against women...


Unorthodox Methods

by Deborah Valentine

Published 25 May 1989

'A touch of Margaret Millar . . . worth watching' Sunday Telegraph

Sculptress Katharine Craig doesn't often get to Lake Tahoe, where she stays with her cousin, Jon Craig. This time, though, Katharine arrives just in time to be swept into a whirl of parties, mystery... and murder.

A series of art thefts has the townsfolk doing plenty of speculating and Cousin Jon is right at the centre of the mystery. But when a local art collector is found gruesomely impaled on the piece of sculpture he recently had shown to Katharine, idle speculation turns to serious investigation. It seems Katharine was the last person to see the victim alive, and Kevin Bryce of the Tahoe Police has a more than passing interest in getting to know her better...


'A touch of Margaret Millar . . . worth watching' Sunday Telegraph

San Francisco artist Roxanne Gautier's startling paintings of male prostitutes has sent shock waves throughout the art world - and in her personal life. When Taylor Adams, her favourite model, commits suicide - or so it appears - her husband is frightened she may be connected with the death and asks ex-policeman Kevin Bryce to investigate.
Taylor's fellow prostitutes, including the beautiful and dangerous Angel, and the revealing pages of Roxanne's diary take Bryce into a psychosexual nightmare world of corruption, blackmail and moral decay.