J L O Rourke: 6 books

Kester (Kit) Simmons, drummer with the rock band ‘Charlotte Jane’, was out of beat. He was stressed out, starving and he thought he was going crazy. Then, with less than two weeks to go before a national tour, Kit's precious drums and one of the band members are found slashed to pieces. The keyboard...

Vampires and murder backstage in a Christchurch theatre. 16 year old Riley Lowe is working as a stage hand, backstage at her theatre company's annual show. Her classmate from school, Tasha, is also in the show as a dancer and, as usual, she is flirting with all the guys. In particular, she is trying...

Andrea North is looking forward to a job at Lake Waihola as a way to escape from a man who tried to control her life, but an easy task is soon complicated by a house with a secret hoard, dead birds, and a close encounter with a callous but good looking pig hunter.  When the campground dog pulls a...

Riley Lowe is backstage at another show, but this time she is out of her depth, running equipment she doesn't understand and faced with all sorts of problems including a boy actor who is a spoilt little brat. When her personal vampires arrive to help, Riley thinks everything has suddenly got better,...

Riley's best friend, Anita, has convinced Riley and Severn to provide the technicals for a medieval re-enactment and fantasy convention run by the grandparent's of Anita's unborn baby, but they won't be paid because one of the committee has stolen the society's funds. Riley's attempts to find out...

The body on New Brighton beach has made headline news, the Reverend and Aiden are keeping secrets from Severn, and Riley believes someone is following her. When a video of Aiden flying goes viral, religious panic puts the vampires' identify and secrets under threat. As they try to solve the mystery...