Darling Newspaper Press: 40 books

Be careful who you offend when weird beliefs prevail. The theft of fabulous jewels pulls bumbling sleuth Sheil B Wright to mystic paths and murder. She is amused, then alarmed, by the suggestion she is a popular deity reborn. As Singapore's Great Detective steps in, Sheil's most pressing challenge is to stay alive.

CHILLS AND CHUCKLES . . .This selection of mystery tales by Ann Morven, diva of the whodunit, varies from the macabre to the magical, yet always a gripping read. Whether it is widowed Marjorie cultivating weeds, Luckless Liz trying to strike it rich or balladeer Sheil B. Wright bumbling along a murder trail, readers are assured of sizzling entertainment.

Alleged true heir to the British throne, a Black Australian singer is murdered on the eve of inheriting a fortune. To unmask the killer, bumbling amateur sleuth Sheil B. Wright opposes a police Anglophile and a sinister toff from Buckingham Palace.

Before history, humanity begins when a strange fork-legged creature challenges bestial tradition. In making this moral stand, Java and his mate risk all.

At seventeen, shopgirl Maggie meets the man of her dreams, but her dye-stained cheeks turn the dream to nightmare. This thrilling sequel to Run Maggie Run is set in a class conscious 1830s colony, where Maggie opposes its corrupt British rulers.

The nude painting of a senior officer's wife scandalises Britain's Swan River Colony in the 1830s. Young Maggie from the bakery fears for the mild male artist, her friend, who is challenged to a duel. This is a humorous excerpt from the novel "Great Land of Dreams".

Jeremy Hanwell sets out from England to avenge his father’s murder by blackfellas in distant Swan River Colony. Here, Maggie has sworn to protect them.On arrival in The Great Southland of the 1830s, Jeremy’s crusade is frustrated by news that the Governor has negotiated a peace with the hostile...

Maggie, an interpreter, believes justice can’t be achieved without just rulers, so she fights corrupt despots of an 1830s British Colony. And tries not to fall in love with Jeremy, her hot-headed foolish ally. Magistrates commit murder, the natives mistake a missionary as an incarnation of the Rainbow Serpent come to evict white settlers, and Maggie could lose her head - literally!

Fate sends Charlie to the rescue when Nanny's romance is thwarted by the Colonel's wife. A short story set in 1930s Ceylon in the twilight of the British Raj.

The big human comedy fuels the writing of Bryce McBryce. This title was first published in paperback in 2006 as Wee Charlie’s World. In a far fortress of the British Raj on the eve of World War 2, the Colonel trembles in his rage; the nuns pray; while an innocent army child strives to understand that baffling species, the Adult. He is a bigger problem than militant Japan.

Brilliant swordsman and heroic in stature, young Jeremy has only one weakness as he faces his greatest challenge. He is a coward.

In the twilight of the British Raj, this precocious brat is a bigger problem than militant Japan. Delightfully nostalgic and humorous: a literary gem.