James Russell: 29 books

The Lost Gospel of James – a New Testament of Jesus of Galilee is the second series of the novel, The Lost Gospel of John.  Come join this fabulous miracle-working Jesus, his trusted and admired Saint James with the entertaining, funny and remarkably bumbling dysfunctional apostles.  You'll...

Black Ice, the almost invisible road hazard at night in a lonely place takes it’s toll. Tom, now lying on the snow next to his totaled Ford is sure he’s going to die. It’s cold and dark he can’t get his leg out of the car.The man, the one who stopped, is armed, a stranger, an unknown. What’s...

In virtually every life there is a time to consider “do-overs.” No matter how much we consider it our “due,” it just can’t happen. Each path we take fades behind in memory with no chance to go back and start over…unless of course you are Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future.It may be a...

Riding a bicycle is such a part of the American way of live that is not surprising to see bike lanes alongside the roads of our towns. From the old "Paperboy Special" type up to the serious racing bicycles you see them in the garages and on the roads in our cities and towns. As exercise, it is more...

On a peaceful evening reading on my recliner in our cabin in the woods, I came across this story. I had to share it.‘Sailing across the Pacific in our thirty-six foot sailboat is a voyage of a lifetime. The leg from Hawaii to Fiji crosses the equator. The trade winds find us in the doldrums,...

Some days are good, others are great but Magical Days are few. Marie Tennison has one of those Magical ones in a place called Greer. A hamlet in Eastern Arizona, Her article for the editor starts with a sentence…then magically it grew.Will he publish it?Can Marie even send it?Will love change the...

From one of Britain’s masters of crime writing, here are two stories to whet your appetite, presented in bargain-price format. The title story, Lost, introduces the only detective to be given a lead role in a Russell James story (a beguiling character, he is the ex-priest turned detective Joe Venables,...

A violent and sexy thriller – but then, it is about the internet porn industry. Russell James is ‘not only a connoisseur of fear and menace,’ said the Erotic Review, ‘he would have us look at this unconsoled and unconsoling world and see its twisted charms.’The book raises an interesting...

In this new thriller from Russell James a 21st century quest for sunken treasure is interlaced with love and tragedy from the time of the Spanish Armada. King Philip’s quest to defeat and subdue upstart Britain under Queen Elizabeth 1st is in stark contrast to the very different quest of a film...

What secrets lurk in her battered trunk of theatrical souvenirs? Find out in this illustrated confessional from stage star Maggie King (assisted by Russell james). On the eve of the Second World War Maggie King is preparing a celebrity memoir. From her theatrical trunk she pulls sketches from her...

There are two main threads to the book: a modern crime story and the recollections of an 85-year-old woman with dark secrets in her past. Set during the British General Election of 1997 when Tony Blair swept to power, the story bounces back to the 1930s when another charismatic leader rose in Europe....

Lucius Henry, 22 years old and a bookkeeper by trade, longed to see the world but had never been out of New York City. Never even been on a train. So you can imagine how excited Lucius was when the Maple Leaf Transcontinental pulled out of the New York City train station on its way to...

‘Lord Clive’ bought his lordship at a ‘Lord of the Manor’ sale where titles fetch anything from two thousand to two hundred thousand pounds. Why not buy another cheap and sell it high? Why stop at only one customer? When some of his American buyers, each of whom imagines himself an English...

South-east London gangland meets the alternative lifestyle of a travelling fair. Jet Heywood is a fairground boxer past his prime who, after a street brawl, finds himself nursing a head wound. His brother Scott has long wanted out of his dead-end life as a security van driver. When his van disappears...