Davidrphillips: 15 books

The law tracks down the criminal and charges are laid. The courts place those found guilty in prison. In time, the criminal convinces a board that he, or she, is reformed and ready for release. Often, this is not the case. Some ex-cops decide to watch known repeat offenders and take justice to its full extent if the re-offend. A novella in the Shortz!Series

Be a part of the Gold Rushes to California and Australia in the 1850's. Join convicts as they are transported from England to a hostile, distant land. Tramp across outback Australia with a swag on your shoulder. Share a drink with a great and famous colonial author and poet or an overnight camp with...

Shortz!Series - This is a novella in the Settlement of Australia Series. When the ships arrived at Sydney in the early days of the settlement of Australia, they brought convicts, the military and free settlers. A combination of these groups were to form the beginning of a huge pastoral industry. These...

If you like psychological crime fiction packed with action and suspense, you'll love She-Venger. Two Murders. Are they related? Detective Dirk Morecombe ponders the motivation. Does a third body provide a clue? A female suspect emerges with whom Dirk becomes involved against his better judgement....

Who killed poor Melvin? It seemed an open-and-shut case but detective Dirk Morecombe was not so sure. Dumped from the case, he continued to investigate the murder and discovered a confusing array of motives among the group of suspects that developed as international intrigue and shady dealings became evident.

Shortz!Series - this is a novella in the Settlement of Australia Series Ernie Scrimshaw was a transported convict and arrived in Australia in the early days of settlement. He was severely treated and, finally, escaped to find a valley where he settled down. In time, after several trips back...

A novelette in the Shortz!Series of stories in the Settlement of Australia Series. Fascination with the mountain ranges leads to the life of travelling the country and a life involved in prospecting. Tragedy strikes the family to tear their world apart. Ongoing restlessness of the wanderer...

A new colony needs news and the press will be a major purveyor of recent activities and actions affecting the population. One paper leads to another and competition can become bitter, leading to extreme measures in striving to be number one in the founding setllement of Sydney, Australia. A novella in the 'Settlement of Australia' series.

A lawyer takes on the task of defending a man who is plainly guilty of the murder charge.The boss of the defendant's gang appears during the trial process to taunt and haunt him as he works to limit the damage to his client and, at the same time, plots revenge for crimes and sufferings of the past....

Ella married into the magazine publishing empire, but she wanted to control it. There were no limits to the methods she would adopt to achieve her goal.  Would she kill to achieve her objective?

Shortz!Series - A novella in the Settlement of Australia Series. A life in the 1900's in the growing country of Australia. Feel the joys of the good times and the heartache of loss; the pleasures of peace and the horrors of war; the bounties of good seasons and the devastation of drought.

Relive the horror of the vicious, bloody, dolphin hunts of Taijii, Japan and the hard life of the people of the area that resulted in young men being sent to Broome in far north-western Australia to life, and often to terrible death,as divers on the luggers plying the seas in search of the pearl....

Experience the early, exciting days at the Kimberley diamond mines in southern Africa through a friend of the famous Barney Barnato, one of the 'Kings of the Kimberley'. Ask the questions that needed to be asked following his premature, tragic death. Feel the envy, hate and love engendered on the...

A tong is Cantonese for a guild and includes secret societies and cartels. This is a story of a few weeks in Hong Kong when it is riven by hatred, murder, drug dealings and illegal share trades whilst surrounded by the lure and excitement of events at the Happy Valley racecourse and the glitter and...