Flight Before Dawn

Leading a chapter of the French Resistance is the biggest secret of her life, until a stranger appears on her doorstep bringing love and a 25-year-old mystery, with her at its heart.

Murder on the Dodder

The eagerly awaited sequel to The Lemon Man, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Novel and a Deadly Pleasures Magazine Top 10 Paperback of the Year.

Patrick Callen is a bike-riding hitman with mild OCD trying to save his crumbling relationship with his live-in girlfriend while racing through Dublin to save his kidnapped mentor from execution. The ransom: ticking off a to-do list of murders that will make Patrick a target of the police, the mob, and his closest friends…and doom his romance…if it doesn’t get him killed first.

The Lemon Man

The Lemon Man is Patrick Callen, a bicycle-riding hitman with mild O.C.D. in Dublin, Ireland whose carefully ordered life is totally upended when he becomes the accidental caretaker of a baby boy. Now he’s got to balance his daily to-do list of errands and murders-for-hire with his unexpected domesticity, which impacts him and his work in ways he never expected…and that could get him killed.

Cronus

Bray is trapped on Earth…

…and the man Terra loves is dying.

Can she save them both?

Their ship, Ares, the largest of the Nomad fleet, is home. With a crew of thirty, they are well suited for any mercenary jobs that came along. It isn’t a bad life, but still Terra struggles with what her father did to Gryffin. He never wanted to be a cyborg.

And that’s not the worst part.

The technology in Gryffin is failing.

As Captain of the Ares and leader of the Nomad, Gryffin saw their world in black and white. What was done to him was wrong and that’s why he has one mission. End the project that genetically engineered children and get his revenge. There’s just one problem…

The Foundation knows he is coming.

With the fleet scattered throughout the Outer Sector, Gryffin puts his plan into action, calling in favours from old friends to help. But with time and his implants working against him, will everything come together before the clock runs out?

Tough choices must be made.

Saint Valentine

Erotic novel written and published 4 years ago. I made myself the cover and absolutely everything in the book. It’s just one of the few I have published already. Under pseudonym Adam J. Brewell in February 2022. Written in Spanish.

Confessions from the Massage Couch

What’s the meaning of life? The intimacy and comfort of the massage room brings out amazing insights. This book is a collection of thoughts from conversations between a massage therapist and her clients. A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR PAOLA BASSANESE: The massage room is a strictly titillation-free zone. There’s plenty of navel-gazing in this book – from the physical to the metaphysical. I have condensed 10 years’ worth of experience as a therapist into this book which covers all major life events that can happen to any of us, while referencing to various resources in the field of philosophy, alternative therapies and general health.

Lady Killers

Lady Killers is a collection of eleven true crime stories involving women who committed murder in Ireland from the early 1900’s through the 1940’s. The book details cases, investigations, trials, and outcomes of these crimes, providing a comprehensive look at each incident and the individuals involved, highlighting the societal attitudes and legal proceedings of the time.

The trials often featured dramatic courtroom scenes and conflicting testimonies and the book uses a detailed narrative style to recount the events, providing a comprehensive overview of each case from the crime to the final verdict.

Cases include:

Leave me my life. The murder of John Daly. Queen’s County. (Co. Laois)
In May 1902, Joseph Taylor was accused of assaulting Mary Daly with a hatchet. A month later, John Daly, the husband of Mary Daly, was found dead in a field near his home. Shortly after both Taylor and Daly were arrested on suspicion of murder. The following inquiries and trials revealed a complex web of accusations and intrigue.

Deadly Daughters. The murder of Alice Pearson. Armagh.
Alice Pearson died in 1904, and her son accused his sister and wife of poisoning her.

The Servant Girl. The murder of Rosa di Lucia. Sligo.
Rosa di Lucia was found dead, leading to the arrest of her husband Angelo and the couple’s servant girl, Jane Reynolds. The investigation revealed a complicated relationship between the three.

The Tall Man in the Scullery. The murder of Nora Horgan. Cork.
Mary Moynihan was accused of murdering her employer Nora Horgan in 1922. The investigation revealed a web of conflicting stories and deceit.

Drowned in a Stream. The murder of Daniel Walsh. Galway.
In May 1928, Daniel Walsh was found dead in a stream. His wife, Annie Walsh, and her second cousin were charged with his murder.

A Killing in Killinick. The murder of John Cousins. Wexford.
Jane O’Brien was accused of murdering her nephew, John Cousins, in 1932. The investigation revealed a motive related to family inheritance.

No Motive leaves a Bitter Taste. The murder of James Finnegan. Monaghan.
In September 1945 James Finnegan died from strychnine poisoning after eating a cake brought by a neighbour, Agnes McAdam.

The Unholy Hour. The murder of Mary Gibbons. Dublin.
In August 1948 Mary Agnes Daly was accused of attacking Mary Gibbons with a hammer in a Dublin church.

Brotherly Love. The murder of Richard Cox. Offaly.
In May 1948, Frances Cox was involved in two tragic incidents; the deaths of her new born son and her brother Richard.

The Bantry Murder

During the early afternoon of Saturday the 24th of February 1900, William Symms Bird, a local land agent and Justice of the Peace was shot to death in his office in the market town of Bantry, West Cork, Ireland. Within twenty-four hours a farm labourer named Timothy Cadogan was arrested and charged with the murder of Bird. Following two trials Cadogan was found guilty and sentenced to death. He was hanged in Cork Gaol on the 11th of January 1901, the last person to be hung in the jail.

The damning evidence against Cadogan came from an eyewitness who swore to have seen him come down the stairs from Bird’s office with a revolver in his hand. In this book Pat Doran examines all the evidence given at the Magisterial Investigation in to the murder and the following two trials, he then asks a shocking question Did an innocent man go to the gallows while the guilty party hid in plain view?

In 2018 and 2019 President Michael D. Higgins granted two pardons to two men hanged in the late 1800’s, Myles Joyce who was hanged in 1882 and John Twiss, hanged in 1895. Is it now time that the name of Timothy Cadogan was included with these innocent men?

Writing4all: The Best of 2009

An anthology collecting the monthly winners of short fiction, poetry and non-fiction published on the Writing4All website for 2009. The monthly winners were selected for the website and edited for the anthology by John Kenny.

Box of Delights

A woman and her two young children are caught on a neverending train journey, a man discovers his new calling in life is the dispatch of the lonely and the desperate, a vegetarian vampire falls in love, a woman who just won’t leave her husband alone, even after she’s dead, two guitar-playing musicians seek out the ultimate jamming session, a young woman’s path to recovery involves an unorthodox therapy, a psychic TV presenter meets her match in an ancient cellar.

Dip into our Box of Delights and enjoy 16 brand new spine-chilling tales of love and death from the pens of Mike Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Steve Rasnic Tem, Don D’Ammassa, Erin Pringle, Ian Wild, Priya Sharma, Robert Neilson, Eleanor Marney, Taylor Grant, N.A. Sulway, David Murphy, Sean MacRoibin, Erik T. Johnson, John F.D. Taff and Craig Saunders.