[Authored as PHIL GERRAUD]

Wilf Anthony Gaugain has little to be happy about in his life. He is a third-rate journalist with no job satisfaction. In the throes of middle age and a failed marriage, he struggles to kick his life back on track.

When Gaugain witnesses a brutal crime, he views it as a career opportunity and dives headlong into a reckless investigation. He soon ends up in the middle of a nasty affair where nothing is safe.

In the gloomy, rainy streets of Capital City, Gaugain fights to dig his way out, while at the same time he strives to cope with the remnants of his devolving life.

[First published in 2015. Revised edition 2022]

Paperback ISBN 9791220094207
ePub ISBN 9781519952929
Kindle ASIN B09Q3LJ35R

[Authored as PHIL GERRAUD]

A small collection of flash pulp fiction stories which blend suspense, mystery, crime, bizarre, grotesque, and even action, with a shot of dark humour . . .

A young lady prefers her tea dark and strong, but why does it taste much sweeter today?
A penniless private investigator is hired by a knockout in red, but is he truly aware of what he has to deal with?
A dispirited poet whiles away his nights at a solitary drinking den, but tonight he is in for a hell-raising surprise.
A stranger's bet must never be accepted even though it looks like a tantalising, sure-fire win.
A woman's name always hides a lot of secrets.
Even a heavenly picnic has its hellish drawbacks.
And more, much more . . . A whirlpool of riveting flash fiction.

Each story is between 450 and 2500 words long. This book is about 12,900 words long.

Paperback ISBN 9791220047920
ePub ISBN 9781393502982
Kindle ASIN B07VK691K9

[Authored as PHIL GERRAUD]

A dinner party gone awry. Two butchered victims. Four suspects.

Art dealer Benedict Belford and artist Simonne Turner are found in a pool of blood at his country house, their throats slashed and their bodies mutilated.

The investigation plunges Chief Inspector George Alcott into Benedict’s extravagant life. A hidden world of stylish women and lewd get-togethers soon comes to light, yet no one seems to have a motive for the vicious murders—not the art-gallery owner or the lecturer in German literature, nor the suspense writer and her crabby husband.

But is Alcott prepared when the case takes a shocking turn and the last piece of the puzzle falls into place?

This is a novella full of mystery, ambiguity, and deception.

Paperback ISBN 9791220070423
ePub ISBN 9798201209568
Kindle ASIN B09FJSV6GF

Post-Urban Songs is a collection of visionary and rhapsodic poems, rich in intense imagery.

Unusual characters live in a visionary world, almost a parallel reality, where the emotions, urges, impulses, conflicts, and desperate search for happiness and intellectual freedom are almost the same as in our material world.

All the poems in this second edition were written between the late 1980s and 2020, but they have each been revised, corrected, and updated prior to publication.

Paperback ISBN 9791220084642
ePub ISBN 9798201304669
Kindle ASIN B09LVN9V1G

[Authored as PHIL GERRAUD]

Pulp fiction author Carl Kenning writes shocking stories. Violence and perversion are his favourite themes, and making money is his goal.

The vicious murder of a young nurse, which copies the murder of a schoolgirl thirty years ago, is just the kind of thing he likes to write about. His plan is simple: churn out a book and pocket the profit. But this time things aren’t that easy.

Two women—an ambitious journalist and a police officer with a troubled life—want the killer behind bars and decades-old wrongs to be paid for. Nothing will stop them. But Carl stands in their way and is dragged into an unsettling game of cat-and-mouse.

The lesson he learns is hard: never dig into anyone’s past, or you may put your own life in danger, and the lives of the people you care about!

Paperback ISBN 9791221002423
ePub ISBN 9798223637820
Kindle ASIN B0CH8RNJVW