Certificate 15

Ages 15 and up

5 Oyster Farm

5 Oyster Farm At 8 o’clock the next morning, Andalib was seated in a dinghy powered by an outboard motor that moved swiftly along the channels...

4 Nightingale

4 Nightingale Inside the cramped, narrow cabin of the sloop called Nightingale , Xavier was seated at the table, with a half-empty mug of beer in...

3 Binding the Devil

3 Binding the Devil Ted and Andalib moved through the warm early evening darkness, with the lights of the Amberjack Restaurant behind them. Their...

Chapter 2 AMBERJACK

2 Amberjack Just before sunset, Ted MacKenzie was having a beer after work. He was seated at the bar in the Amberjack, a floating restaurant moored...

A Gatored Community

Global warming has raised the sea level by 30 feet. People live in floating communities that rise and fall with the tides. A woman pearl thief has arrived in the floating community of Shellfish Shoals. She’s involving herself with the guy who owns a local oyster farm where cultured pearls are produced, and an alligator is used for security.
Gold cherry

Appetitus Mortiferum (London)

There were a few cracks of thunder in Vauxhall, a cloud formed in Dulwich, several large raindrops made blotches on the pavements of Catford then...

The Runaway Ghost -

A long time ago, in the southern state of Louisiana, when it was legal to own slaves, there was a female plantation owner named Meredith Scott who...
Gold cherry

Grow up or give up.

We all make mistakes. I'm not sure of this is one of them.

The Cobbe house viii The long walk

I was nervous as we left Reppertons. I kept feeling that Brinks would be there, waiting in the shadows, or standing in the car park. His fists in...

End of the line

The book on speaking Italian was of no interest to him, despite looking at it with apparent interest. He was in fact, surreptitiously looking through...