Roy Groves, successful businessman, devoted family man and, sometimes, reluctant crimefighter, has led a colourful career and an interesting life. The Roy Groves Thriller series charts his fortunes over four volumes.

In ‘Buyout’, Roy teams up with senior colleagues in an attempt to buy the company he works for from its huge American parent corporation. It turns out to be a nightmare, where corporate politics and personal vendettas threaten to wreck the bid and destroy both friendships and marriages.

In ‘Payback’, an old enemy emerges, consumed by hatred of Roy and his team and determined to wreak revenge, resorting to blackmail and even murder in pursuit of his goals.

‘Chinese Whispers’, explores the shocking consequences when legitimate business is infiltrated by organised crime. When Roy’s own family are targeted by his opponents, he embarks on a desperate battle to protect them.

In ‘Horizontal Living’, Roy finally quits the corporate rat-race and retires to what he expects will be a quieter life of sun and sangria on Spain’s Costa del Sol. No such luck! He is persuaded to take on the role of President of the community of owners in the apartment complex where he lives. He becomes embroiled in a tangle of corruption and deceit equal to anything he experienced in business. Horizontal Living is an illuminating insight into the shenanigans which pervade an ex-pat community abroad: sometimes hilarious, sometimes hard to believe, but sometimes darkly disturbing.