Books by Neive Denis

Unholy Secrets is the story of a daughter''s dtermination to uncover the truth about her father''s death.After eight years away from home, Lucy Telford returns to resolve the circumstances of her father''s death more than three years earlier. At the time, the police believed it was suicide, but their botched investigation resulted in a coroner''s open verdict due to a lack of evidence presented. Lucy turns to local Private Investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington, to look into his death. To uncover the secrets surrounding the event, Sonny delves into past associations and relationships in the hope of finding answers. She discovers a story of a sinister plan, an adulterous wife, an illegitimate child, murder, drugs, secrets and lies and, above all else, heartbreak.

Why would security services owner, Frank Hensley, need to engage a private investigator? Intrigued by that question, private investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington, can’t resist taking the case. Early in her first night on the job, one of Hensley’s security patrols is ambushed. She doesn’t know it then, but the incident marks the start of a case more complex than anticipated.With the attack on the patrol a police matter, Sonny is forced to suspend work on her case for a while. To fill in the anticipated few days until the police complete their investigation, Sonny and a friend head to Sonny’s beach cottage on a remote island. When a series of incidents occur soon after their arrival, she soon realises she hasn’t left the Hensley case behind. It followed her to the island. As the situation there escalates, Sonny is forced to call on long-time friend, Millhaven Police Superintendent, Ben Richards, for assistance.Together, they investigate a network involving abduction, corruption, deception, drugs and a rising body count. Their ongoing challenge is to identify what is real, and who they can trust.

When a phone call ends Private Investigator, Sonoma (Sonny) Whittington’s planned lazy weekend, she has no idea she is about to be dragged into the murky world of drug trafficking, corrupt public servants, money laundering, death and attempts on her own life.Sonny’s former boss, Therese Melrose, is dead. The family can’t accept the Police verdict of domestic accident and asks Sonny to take a look at what happened. Although reluctant to revisit that earlier time in her life, Sonny agrees to spend a couple of days on an investigation. Key items are missing from the crime scene and the investigation quickly develops sinister overtones. Sonny finds herself having to call on former public service colleagues and long-time friend, Detective Ben Richards, for assistance to unravel clues that uncover Melrose’s dark side.

 After a number of years of working every waking hour as a way of dealing with the grief in her life, private investigator, SONOMA (Sonny) WHITTINGTON, takes time out and heads to England for a term of study at a university there. Those studies unexpectedly take her to work for a brief period on an archaeological dig site on the island of Crete. What she imagines will be a pleasant sojourn on a Mediterranean island turns into an adventure beyond her wildest imagination when Sonny and her supervisor, TROY DONALDSON, become aware of strange boats that visit their bay in the night.Sonny’s idyllic stay on Crete turns into a nightmare that takes her and her supervisor across the Mediterranean on the trail of stolen artefacts. Bodies begin littering the murky illegal trafficking world she and Troy find themselves drawn into. To avoid becoming part of that growing body count, they race across Sicily in a bid to outrun their pursuers. But the threat to their lives follows them.All Sonny wants is to return to her ‘real’ life. Who can they trust, and who is not what they purport to be? Sonny’s intuition and gut instinct must find the right answer to these questions if they are to avoid becoming a part of an ancient solution.