Alistair Lavers

International Goth Rockers MORTAL begin to fracture during a world tour, following a series of personal tragedies; just as their American management is infiltrated by an organised crime ring, who fear the band will split before they can recover their investment. Desperate to avoid financial losses, the band's unofficial backers plot to kill the singer and replace him, so a tribute tour can be organised to cover their costs. Within a week, MORTAL's lead singer Cal Clare is brutally murdered on stage in Leeds and several key members of their management team are savagely killed in mysterious circumstances. Cal’s sister, Raven, vanishes from their hotel with a valuable statuette, but the police are baffled and the investigation stalls . The case is eventually paused and classified as unsolved while the band continues to tour with two new members. Ten years later, a journalist for ROCK SOUNDS magazine and her editor are killed arranging a feature on Cal Clare. Has a ghost returned for a second time to wreak havoc on the living and what can be done to stop it?

last rites is the final book in the first series of the Whitborough Novels. A supernatural comedy book series based in North Yorkshire. It covers the events leading to the re-internment of a cursed treasure in the midst of the construction of a new Druid stone circle. There are many different groups of characters involved, following very different agendas, all attempting to complete their work with the least amount of interference. None of the protagonists are ever really aware of just how many other interested parties are watching them as they go about their business.

The Whitborough Novels is an alternative situation comedy based in a fictional seaside resort similar to Scarborough and Whitby. Whitborough is as large as both towns combined. WYCK’D YOU is the penultimate book in the first series which follows the fortunes of four very different groups of people trying to cope with the consequences of coming into contact with a treasure ‘blessed’ with two curses. It’s discovery and dissemination have caused an enormous amount of mayhem, but the protagonists are now coming to the realisation that it is probably in their best interests to re-bury it. However, they must now try to bring all the pieces back together again. WYCK’D YOU is the struggle to bring these pieces back together again. The book is dedicated is to J.R.R Tolkein, a friend of author’s Grandfather, Alfred Charles, who was a member of Tolkein’s Viking Club whilst they were both teaching in Leeds.

The new title in the Whitborough Novels series, following on from Treasure Trove and Mystery City. A murder mystery and supernatural horror comedy. The series features an accident prone werewolf and a large cast of very unlucky witches, satanists, petty criminals and policemen. There’s no rest for the wicked in Witches Brew, the third instalment of the Whitborough Novels. Lindsay Boldwood, Yorkshire’s unluckiest werewolf joins the Caravan Club and embarks on a final night of mayhem, pursued by a bandy legged ex-army sniper and a farmer with a very sharp grudge. Barnett Crosbie, the Aberdeen mafia’s most dangerous export, finding himself rich and ready for a life abroad, engineers the biggest explosion since the war to cover his tracks and Anarchy Mary spends a night buried in Dalby Forest. The Black Hand Coven come out of hiding at an Elvis tribute night, only to be attacked by their pet demon Tetarzepandomestos and a lonely little Parson’s terrier finds a new home...’

Mystery City is the sequel to Treasure Trove and is the second book in the Whitborough novel series. Mystery City is a light-hearted story with many threads, a large cast of people, two mischievous dogs and a rhino with depression. It combines comedy with tragedy, as well as mystery and chaos, to culminate in a tongue-in-cheek novel written in the style of popular writers of old. The first book in the Whitborough novels, Treasure Trove, documented the consequences of two men’s bad decisions, which unleash a series of catastrophes that become too great to control. Mystery City continues the story, exploring the consequences of the events in Treasure Trove, covering the actions of the police, Home Office, and the Ministry of Defence. As the investigation into the events of the end of the first book get under way, new characters are drawn into the story, others are revisited and become more prominent in the narrative as the players try to uncover what has happened – and why. While the guilty parties go to ground, positioning themselves for what they assume must be the end game, the hunter become the hunted in this thrilling sequel.