Adrian Attwood

ALLi Author Member

Location: United Kingdom (the)

Genres: Crime, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Mystery, Thriller

Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop

Mark Hayden is the pen name of Adrian Attwood. He lives in Westmorland with his wife, Anne.

He has had a varied career: working for a brewery, teaching English and being the Town Clerk in Carnforth. He is now a full-time writer, part-time house-husband and proud Mad Unky to his great-nieces and nephews.

You can find Mark on Goodreads and on the Paw Press website.

Adrian Attwood's books

A Piece of Blue Sky

A tragic accident and a suspicious transaction: two small pieces of a deadly jigsaw.
DS Tom Morton and his cousin, Captain Kate Lonsdale, are each given one small piece.
Tom is trying to bury himself in work after his wife dumps him, and Kate wants to know why her boyfriend was in that crash. As they overcome their loss, they pool their resources to support each other, but they are pitted against a wily adversary who is fighting his own demons.
Squadron Leader Conrad Clarke is ordered to protect the operation - the operation that Tom is trying to destroy. Badly wounded in the crash, he finds himself being forced to choose between saving his life and saving his sanity.

Behind all three of them, the leaders of the gang are determined that no one will ever see the big picture and put all of the pieces of the jigsaw together.

As Kate and Tom get close to the truth, Clarke has to take bigger and bigger risks to keep them at bay, until all of them converge for a showdown in Essex - on Valentine's Day.
Although complete on its own, A Piece of Blue Sky is the first volume of the Operation Jigsaw trilogy. As well as a cunning plot and a page-turning story, this book creates memorable characters and vivid settings that absorb the reader.

Green for Danger

After the shocking climax to A Piece of Blue Sky, the action moves to the small town of Earlsbury.

Patrick Lynch, captain of the golf club and pillar of the Irish Catholic community, is made an offer he can't refuse: take on the distribution of large quantities of counterfeit cash.

Handling counterfeit goods is Pat's stock-in-trade and, with his contacts in the police, he is confident that his network can handle the challenge.

It seems too easy, and it is.

Tom Morton gets wind of the operation in Earlsbury, and Patrick is forced to find a wholesale partner out of his area. One night, the handover of a large shipment of bank notes goes horribly wrong; the consequences devastate Pat's family and threaten his survival.

Tom risks his career to join the investigation and is saddled with DC Kristal Hayes, the pariah of Midland Counties Police. Tom has to deal with the chip on Kris�s shoulder and someone working behind the scenes to sabotage his investigation.

After London and Essex, this book is set in the close-knit world of a small industrial town in the West Midlands - the Black Country; Earlsbury is quick to close ranks when outsiders stick their noses into Earlsbury business.

We also touch base with Kate, Conrad and Mina from the first book as they go their separate ways: Kate leaves the Army, Conrad leaves the country, and Mina is tried for murder.

This is the second volume of the Operation Jigsaw trilogy, and continues the story begun in Volume I - Piece of Blue Sky. The trilogy concludes with In the Red Corner.

In the Red Corner

Following straight on from the climax of Volume II, the characters in this final book return to England where their separate actions lead to a shocking climax on Morecambe Bay.

In Earlsbury, the search is on for the senior police officer who was pulling the strings when DS Griffin was murdered, and Patrick Lynch receives an unwelcome visitor.
At Fylde Racecourse, Conrad finds himself in charge of the money laundering, and then he finds a way to communicate with Mina. He settles in to his new role and starts enjoying country life, but the idyll is very short-lived.
Without Tom to counsel her, Kate decides to discover what happened to Vinnie, no matter where the trail takes her.

As each character has to decide where their loyalties lie and who to trust, their decisions mean that the final hand in this game of poker is going to be All-in for Everyone.
The pace in this final volume of the Jigsaw trilogy continues the page-turning intensity of the first two books. Now that we know the characters, the reader's sympathies are tugged one way and the other as they try to survive the struggle to bring down - or save - the corrupt empire of Sir Stephen Jennings.

The 13th Witch

Did you know that the gods can use mobile phones?
They can, and Odin has a message for Conrad…

Conrad Clarke, former RAF pilot and alleged gangster gets a text – and a visit – from The Allfather.

Odin has a challenge for Conrad: sign up to protect England from wild magick and get a commission in the King’s Watch.

All he has to do is find a missing witch. Simple.

Conrad never could resist a challenge. Before you can say “Ragnarok”, he’s plunged into a world of gods, mages, witches, dwarves and one very aggressive giant mole.

But the witch doesn’t want to be found, and powerful mages will kill to keep her hidden. Going back isn’t an option. Going forward looks a lot like death.

Armed with nothing but a sense of humour and a willingness to cheat, Conrad has to find the Witch and save his life.

Treat yourself to a copy now and experience a whole new universe of magick. And moles…

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