Russell James: 29 books

In a quiet London street, a gunman holds his little child as hostage until, after a dramatic police siege, the smoke clears to reveal a sickening outcome. Firearms Officer Abi Wilde is suspended. As if that wasn’t bad enough, her CO19 work partner Tom Fortune learns that, across town the very same...

“When beauty’s the prizeWhat mortal fears dying?”Tim Hawk plans his assassinations well, rehearsing them with cool detachment, and his professionalism makes him a rising star in Kazan’s gang. Hawk’s only other interest, an unexpected love for baroque opera, is kept concealed. When Kazan...

Paul and Fay have little in common. He is well-paid and comfortable while Fay, after breaking up with Roper, her violent boyfriend, has nothing left but her young daughter. On the night Paul rescues her their two worlds briefly touch, like a kiss on a pool table after which the flight of the balls...

The entire story is narrated into an iPhone. Why? Crosby Ravensworth is so busy he can’t make time to scatter his father’s ashes, nor to sort out the dysfunctional family he hoped he’d left behind, nor to decide which of the four women in his life he should connect to. His father has committed...

Victorian England. In the small country town of Croome where the local lead mine is losing money, the year begins with a tragic drowning. Recently arrived in Croome the new vicar, Matthew Rolfe, has escaped the tragedy of his past and hopes to lose himself in the pleasant if almost unending task of...

Coming of age in Victorian England. In 1887, twelve-year-old orphan Lucy Richards is taken secretly into the care of a half-pay captain in an isolated farmhouse several miles from the small town of Croome. Lucy’s mother founded hospitals in India and Natal, and when news of her death arrives in...

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...

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...

Marche James is a drunk. A drunk that killed his dear wife in a horrific car accident. The doctors released him from the hospital when they decided he had recovered but they overlooked his mental injuries. Three years later, Marche remains a cruel and lonely man. Estranged from his daughter and living...

The Gurl Who Swam Around The World: When 16-year-old Sara Wilson rescues a mysterious swimmer from the ocean, she doesn't realize that not only is Gurl a mermaid, but also her new friend just witnessed a murder and now the killer wants Gurl dead. The Siege of 810 Davenport Road: Besieged night...

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,...