Julie Hoyle

Julie worked with Ian on City Crime, which then became Murder Behind the Screen.

Sir Giles Palmer, head of a respected City finance house appears to have a suspiciously close connection to the pornographic movie industry in which the innocent stars are killed. Heather Morgan who works in Palmer’s London office is puzzled by Palmer’s frequent trips to Hollywood. At a Christmas party in the London office of Palmer Associates, Heather’s fiancé is found murdered and she becomes the prime suspect. When the senior detective investigating the case is suspended from duty Heather’s situation looks bleak.

Julie worked with Bernard on Variety: The Spice of Life.

Bernard Atha proves that variety truly IS the spice of life in this jam-packed, informative insightful and humorous collection of memoires from his long and varied life.

Charles worked with Julie on Sawson’s Quest, which went on to be published by Olympia Publishers.

Edward Sawson had arrived in a small village in the Downs some twenty-five years earlier with nothing but the clothes in which he stood. A mysterious and reclusive figure, Sawson was always on the lookout but he nevertheless had made a happy and peaceful family life for himself.
Until a chance encounter destroys it all and makes him confess the remarkable and shocking events of his life that have put them all into the grave danger they now find themselves in…

Julie worked with Wayne on Scarcrow, which kickstarted Wayne’s self-publishing career.

Enter the spellbinding world of Clara, an ancient empress turned statue, as she navigates lifetimes of love, loss, and redemption. Accompanied by her devoted allies and a powerful angel, Clara must confront the shadows of her catastrophic past to save the present-day world from the clutches of an old enemy reborn. Along the way, she rekindles a timeless romance, sparks a spiritual awakening in a modern woman named Eleanor, and guides the author through the darkest depths of the story igniting a similar awakening in the author herself.

Weaving together elements of fantasy, romance, metaphysics, and memoir, Meditations of a Former Statue is an unforgettable tale of the enduring power of the human spirit. Join Clara on an epic journey through the ages as she discovers that true love and inner peace are possible, even for an immortal soul trapped in stone.

Dreamlike, poetic, and deeply moving, this visionary novel and revealing memoir will linger in your heart long after the final page.

Julie worked with Ian on Bankers: from Pillars to Pariahs.

How have banks and bankers changed and how has society helped to mould those changes? With the fall ‘from pillar to pariah’, is there any way in which bankers can redeem themselves? This account attempts to answer these questions in the context of the UK and the financial crash of 2008.

They fought with typical bloodthirsty ferocity. Alexander’s skill with his lance accounted for three of Bothwell’s men in quick succession. His riders were equally successful with their lances, basket-hilted swords and daggers.’ In 1588 the lawless Border Region was ravaged by the reiver bands of both Scotland and England. Alexander Elliot, chief of his own reiver family, is known and feared all over The Borders, along with his two sons; Sandy, tough, strong and obedient and Rabbie, hot-headed and headstrong. Maxwell, previously one of the most feared raiders in the entire Border Region, and banished to Spain by King James, is set to return under the secret promise of helping Philip ll invade England, but has other plans of his own, involving the Spanish Armada. Musgrave, former Captain of Bewcastle, is blackmailed into going on a secret mission to find out just what Maxwell is really up to. Preparing to deal with a punitive raid by Earl Bothwell, complicated by the fact that King James is leading an army to arrest Maxwell, Alexander Elliot awaits the signal from Big Jock and his sons. But thanks to Rabbie’s hot-headedness, they have been captured by Maxwell and now await certain death … Full of danger, double cross and intrigue.