Colin Davy
Colin was born just before the outbreak of the Korean war (1950) in deepest fenland Lincolnshire. He moved to the big city (Boston) when he was two.
He has a bachelors degree in Biochemistry, Masters degrees in Toxicology and in Environmental Toxicology and a PhD in Toxicology. He has prolifically published papers in various scientific journals. After a brief career in the NHS, he spent eighteen years in the pharmaceutical industry, working on drug safety and twenty years in the scientific civil service, going around bothering large companies about chemical safety.
He has bored audiences at international Congresses in San Diego,Philadelphia,Amsterdam,the Hague and Vienna. In 2005, he was approached by the Department of Homeland Security in the USA for advice on a scientific issue that he is still unable to discuss.
Now safely retired, he lives with his wife near Liverpool.
Penny Wise Penny Foolish
When Emily recommends a new lodger, Penny, to her brother, Russell, he discovers his new tenant harbours a deadly secret. Penny believes that whenever severe stress strikes, she becomes a different person. Not a new facet, but a real person. Although he doubts her sanity, his sister vouches for her. But when they uncover the mutilated body of her previous boyfriend, things rapidly spiral out of control…
Man, and Woman Kind
When newly weds, Danny and Victoria head for Mars, they little expect his sister-in-law, Alice, to join them, nor the effect she will have on them or the planet. Mars is in trouble with mysterious deaths plaguing only the male inhabitants, and Alice is not the woman she seemed on Earth. Her investigations only make things worse but Danny soon has reason to be grateful because death is stalking…
Our Selfish Hearts
Callum is a scientist who prides himself on being logical, but going solo to the lake district, he meets two remarkable women – both ex-members of a Cumbrian coven. Already troubled by a recurrent dream about a strange embryo destined for disaster, Callum dismisses their claims to have Wiccan powers, something he comes to regret. Diana plans to be the most powerful politician in the world, and Janice intends to prevent her succeeding.
Both intend to recruit him for different reasons, but instead of being a lynch pin, he finds himself a pawn. When Janice’s husband and Diana’s partner disappear in mysterious circumstances, Callum fears the worst. Although he tries to return to Manchester, fate prevents him.
Soon to attend a San Diego conference, he discovers the two women intend to follow and continue their feud there. A worrying prophecy haunts him – a prediction that of the three who go to America, one will die, one will be disfigured, and only one will survive. Which one will he be?
No longer in control, he must finally trust one of the women, even though the prophesy comes to pass.
An Ever Rolling Stream
“An intriguing and mysterious alternative history novel, involving gene manipulation.”
In 1962, the Cuban missile crisis causes a brief but earth-shattering war. In 2062, a strange car accident sets Damian Stear on the way to an earth-shattering discovery in this new world. Yet this different and warmer world, where childbirth is controlled and genetic differences between the children reduced, shares many familiar characteristics with the old one.
Sex, jealousy, intrigue, treachery and violent death still intrude, but a woman of her time teaches Damian a sharp history lesson.
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