Novels and essays

The three books in the trilogy are available separately on Amazon Kindle and Kindle Direct. The first two are also available as paperbacks

The Haunting of Stokelands Abbey Trilogy.

The trilogy draws on mythology as a basis for understanding the workings of the subjective mind and its essential role in understanding history and human behaviour. It distinguished myth from consensus reality, but with the understanding that it is just as real in a transcendent sense and every bit as important in making us fully human.

1) The Haunting of Stokelands Abbey

The first novel in the trilogy introduces readers to Meg, who is drawn to North Devon by a letter from her sister Sue. Sue claims to be staying at an old abbey where she has been employed as an interior decorator. Upon her arrival, Meg is shocked to discover that the abbey is nothing more than a ruin. With the help of her friend, the Reverend Nathaniel Jones, Meg begins unravelling a disturbing history of witchcraft, the slaughter of an innocent community, and a lingering legacy of revenge.

2) Wild Justice

This novel is the sequel to The Haunting of Stokelands Abbey and the prequel to The Old Rectory. The mystery of Stokelands Abbey is taken further by the occupants of The Old Rectory, Niamh Keywood, her father Stephen and their strange visitors, Kathie Finlay and her uncle David Finlay. Meg and Niamh become friends and with help from others, Martin Coyle, the Rectory’s estate manager and Harry Markovitch, Niamh’s university tutor, they begin to discover more about the abbey’s sinister past and how it is connected with the rectory and also with a mysterious forest known as Crackington Forest.

3) The Old Rectory

The macabre story of Stokelands Abbey, Crackington Forest and The Old Rectory unfolds further in the last of the trilogy. It is easy when enough time has elapsed from an event, particularly if that event seemed to have defied rational explanation, for it to lose its potency, and it is then possible to believe it either did not happen or did not happen in the way it was remembered.

In this final instalment, some of the mysteries are revealed as the occupants of the Old Rectory delve further into the history of the three places. Through their presence and endeavours a reconciliation with the past is enabled. The disappearance of Sue Peplar remains a mystery. Not everything can be explained by logic and the intellect.