Books by Edward Dayes

Owen has a problem. Sukey has disappeared in Crete. Why? She was helping to locate an ancient wreck. Owen must find her. She is in hospital with a coma after partying and trying cocaine. At the wreck Daniel finds a sculpture to sell illegally. Then Sukey is abducted from hospital. Owen is offered a deal by Daniel ? to stay quiet about the sculpture and he?ll return Sukey. If Owen agrees then he is an accomplice. .. But Owen loves Sukey. Yet might his prudish nature overrule his love?

Tam saves the model Cindy from a murder attempt at Joss's art class. This he'll keep secret but a reporter is suspicious. Tam wants to marry Rhiannon, one of his three mistresses. She refuses, then regrets it. While Tam inspects a hotel project in the Sahara his daughter Heather dies suddenly. He returns for the funeral to live with Mirabelle her mother; so Rhiannon is denied marriage. Cindy has loved Tam despite his rejection. However 'to disengage' they spend a 'farewell' night together. The assault is revealed, the class disbanded. The Sahara project is scuppered for the Recession has begun. Tam is fired and his bank closed. Now broke, he is offered a home, as Holly's father, by Alice. He accepts. The police now probe the assault. Cindy meets PcX, and after overtures and fun they become an item.

Morgan Selaw is the successful director of Theatre Royal Crumbleside but his contract is not renewed. Instead attractive young, gay, Esmay Warpax is appointed and Morgan is thunderstruck. His attempts to get a piece of her job fails, so in a rage he decides to plot her downfall. Esmay has her problems too, with her Shakespeare production and a leading actress not up to speed with her part; and there is the theatre board, prickly and wanting to test her. Does Morgan win? And is Esmay successful? Their battles are covered in a quickly moving read, with dramatic scenes of theatre life, enlaced with comedy Morgan's scheming provides.