Domestic Malice in Daylight
Set across seven autumnal weeks in suburban Oxfordshire, the narrative traces how polite communal deference permits a predator to operate within plain sight of his neighbours.
Annotated Reading Edition
The definitive trade paperback contains the complete authorial addendum, neighborhood architectural diagrams, and sixteen structured prompts prepared specifically for reading groups and symposiums.
The Curfew at Blackwood Hall arrives this autumn from Bloomsbury Publishing.
A procedural mystery unravelling thirty years of institutional silence in a secluded Yorkshire grammar school.
Themes for Book Clubs
These structured analytical focal points are designed to provoke rigorous inquiry during reader club discussions and literary seminars.
Suburban Complicity
Domestic Architecture
Faulty Recollection
How social politeness and fear of embarrassment allow criminal deceit to flourish without challenge in middle-class communities.
The structural role of closed curtains, manicured property boundaries, and interior thresholds in sustaining domestic dread.
Evaluating contradictory eyewitness recollections when characters reconstruct an irreversible evening six months later.