Tim Battersby

Tilly Penrose and Barnaby Flinch have made a glorious career out of disaster. For twenty-six years, the beloved comedy duo — half pratfall, half poetry — have transformed spilled milk, broken props, collapsing scenery, and outright mayhem into a uniquely joyful art form.

Bernard Bixby isn't asking for much—just a decent cup of coffee and a quiet morning without emotional turbulence or pants-related incidents.

Annie and Daniel were childhood sweethearts. They'd known each other since they were in kindergarten and lived just three doors away from each other for most of their lives. Annie worked for a haulage company and Daniel was a long distance truck driver. They began dating in high school, and...

Jamie Stroud, the investigative journalist for The Chicago Clarion, teams up once again with her friends Lucy D’Tremont and Sir Christopher Fenton to solve a case of the murder of an armored car guard who was a local Chicago hero....

Sugar and Spice is based on the story of Peter and Alison Spice, who graduate from University with degrees in Early Childhood Development and decide to devote their careers to helping impoverished children in the inner cities....

Paperback Writer is a collection of nine short stories (running time total 4 hours 39 minutes) with nine connecting songs (running time total 31 minutes). All stories were written by Tim Battersby with the exception of two poems, "Set the Table" and "An Upward Look", that was written and...

Detectives Joe Cotton and Bill Thompson are asked by their superiors at the National Crime Authority, the UK's leading law enforcement agency, to investigate six murders that have been committed around England and Wales. Could the killer be a long-distance lorry driver or a traveling salesman?...

Anna Marie became an orphan at two years old, and ballet became her life until World War II, when she became a freedom fighter with the resistance...

The Newspaper Chronicles is the story of a young investigative journalist, Jamie Stroud, who has been assigned to write a piece on a local Chicago businessman who had been accused of inappropriate behavior with a school board member....

President Clarke enacts a no-tolerance policy on the southern border to prevent refugees from entering the US. Jamie Stroud, a reporter for The Chicago Clarion, receives permission to travel to Brownsville, Texas, to interview detained families at the border....

The Autocrat is the story of Jenny Harriman, a 10th-grade teacher who inherits her uncle's estate after he dies. She discovers that he was not the person she knew while growing up and decides to find out his real identity. One of the featured characters is her son-in-law, Stephen, a Secret...

Ciaran Reilly is a young novelist who discovers that someone appears to be mimicking the crimes he is writing about in his mysteries. The murder victims turn out to be real crimes that are currently unsolved....