Steve Bradshaw

I am, for the first time, just about to enter these doors. What seemed like a crowd of football hooligans were milling outside the theatre, surely, I must be in the wrong place, I WASN'T Through those doors at Clifton Drive have walked many wanna-be students from 1969 when, Brian started the Foundation Drama Course, to his retirement in 2001 he, along with the other wonderful staff, help realise many of them to achieve their life's ambition, and work in The Performing Arts Industry.This is the story of MY time there, firstly as a student, then as a member of staff which, without Brian, my life would have been much the poorer He also had his own unique 'party pieces' No one did Dame Edith Evans like Brian. I can still hear him now. "A HANDBAG"

SHARED INNOCENCE: On a hot summer night in Tampa, Florida, ten-year-old Jack Burcher witnesses his mother's abduction. No one listens to him, not even the police. The next night Jack returns to his nest in the field of wildflowers by his house. This time Jack watches the sinister visitor place a box at the estate gates. Only his mother's heart is returned to the family. Thirty-three years pass with no answers. Then Jack's ailing father is taken from his bed at a high-security sanitorium. The next night Jack hears a familiar sound at the gates of the Burcher estate. He watches someone place another box in the same place where his mother's box was placed. Jack holds his father's brain in his trembling hands. But this time is very different. This time it is Dr. Jack Burcher and he is the Chief Medical Examiner of Hillsborough County. The FBI knows they are hunting the worst kind of serial killer--a multigenerational monster. The FBI must now investigate three generations of Burcher family deaths disguised to be anything but a homicide. They must find where the kill-trail begins. And the FBI now must talk to their only eyewitness, the ten-year-old boy with suppressed fears and pent-up rage. Time is running out as SHARED INNOCENCE shines a light in a very dark place. And the Medical Examiner is now in the killer's sights.

The President of the United States is awakened in the middle of the night by the two words he prayed he would never hear-TERMINAL BREACH. An unknown invader-code name GRAY WOLF- commandeers a U.S. nuclear missile silo in North Dakota and threatens to launch a Minuteman III ICBM into the world. The PRESIDENT'S only certain containment option is the obliteration of the U.S. Midwest nuclear arsenal. But that comes at a horrific cost--several millions of civilian lives lost. Across the country, the world-renowned forensic sleuth on hiatus, Dr. Elliot Sumner, is pulled into the international crisis moments after he spots a serial killer in the streets of Key West. A monster he thought he put away for life. Somehow this killer is entangled in the assault on the country. Within hours of the breach, the POTUS connects with Elliott Sumner. He asks the gifted forensic pathologist to examine bizarre evidence that may help to profile the invading entity. The mutilated corpses found around the world are processed, frozen solid, and hidden (dispersed) in a peculiar manner. Maybe the macabre blood trail can identify GRAY WOLF and give the President more options. Setting aside his life-threatening condition, Elliott Sumner travels to North Dakota to do what only he can do. Can the gifted forensic mind solve the grisly international puzzle before time runs out for the President? Will the launch of a rogue Minuteman III nuclear missile into the world be averted? Or is a nuclear Armageddon the only possible outcome for an unimaginable TERMINAL BREACH?

SERIAL INTENT -- When Lindsey Fetter opened her eyes, the man that killed her husband stood at the end of her bed...When Charlie Dunn pocketed his cell phone, he could only stare at the empty ice on Lake Michigan. The monster that killed his wife and son before his eyes had just been released from prison... When Ellen Dumont visited her parent's gravesite alone one quiet night, it never occurred to her it would be her last moment on earth.450 murders is a slow year for Chicago Homicide Detective Aaron Wolfe. He carries all of them with him. Long ago he had to learn to bury the pain and angst so he could navigate the carnage and hunt the killers. Something he was really good at. But the years of the rising crimson tide and broken legal system became more than he could bear. Too many innocent victims lived his his heart, and too many monsters escaped through the legal cracks. On the eve of his resignation, Wolfe saw the man convicted of the Dunn family killings would be released the next day-another twisted legal maneuver denying justice. When Wolfe had taken on the Fetter and Dumont cases, his sick world took another bizarre turn. The worst of the worst who beat the legal system were being killed by sniper fire. And the snipers were being found with their skulls crushed by bare hands Aaron Wolfe knew two horrific factions were engaged in a dark war that could change everything. Can Wolfe uncover the secret force on a reckless mission to remedy the failing criminal justice system? Can he stop the skull-crushing beast terrorizing the city? Or will Homicide Detective Aaron Wolfe succumb to his scars and allow a new kind of justice to prevail in his city of predators?

EVIL LIKE ME - Inspired by true events - Classified paranormal research and an inconceivable bid for global dominance become an electrifying struggle between world powers and one man. In 1970, the U.S. Government launches research into the feasibility of psychic-weaponry, based on growing intelligence reports on secret psychic-based military advances being made in the Soviet Union. After twenty-five years, the U.S. psychic-weaponry program was publicly abandoned and declassified. Some believed the program went underground. Several decades later, when unexplained brain lesions are the only link in a string of bizarre homicides in Memphis, Tennessee, covert government operatives arrive on the scene. Did they come to help local law enforcement, or did they come to contain a problem now out of control? Did the government come to Memphis to minimize the damage and keep their top secret program on track? Memphis Homicide Detective Tony Wilcox trusts nobody. He knows he must find Hunter Keller first, the only eyewitness to the murders and the man the government was determined to apprehend. When Wilcox and Memphis Chief Medical Examiner Victory Petty, MD, uncover shocking deceptions, it becomes their mission to avoid the government operatives and stop a monstrous threat. Can Wilcox and Petty find Hunter Keller in time? Does Keller hold the secret to the bizarre killings that go beyond Memphis, Tennessee? Or will a new weapon of mass destruction be unleashed upon the world?

THE BELL TRILOGY... transports you into a fascinating world where one man's dream turns into a horrific nightmare, and a plausible, genetic solution for life-extension becomes an epic battle between good and evil. Welcome to Book Three of The Bell Trilogy.BLOOD LIONSThe world-renowned forensic sleuth Dr. Elliott Sumner believes the nightmare is over, when the bloody heads of the Gilgamesh Board Members are found on stakes around a fire on Mud Island, and the unstoppable serial killer is dead. He learns three board members escaped to Cape Town on a mission to resurrect their sinister plan--to control a genetic mutation with profound implications for the world. When a ground-breaking, biogenic formula surfaces, with a chilling message from the dead geneticist, Elliott Sumner knows only he can take the anti-aging biologic to the world. Doubting fantasies of genetic immortality, and Elliott's reluctance to engage in a hopeless battle against evil minions, his worst fears are confirmed.In a desperate bid to survive, Elliott Sumner faces impossible odds. Can Elliott infuse the world population with the anti-aging breakthrough or will the biologic be controlled by the rich and powerful? As Elliott's doubts turn to wonder, he realizes he must join forces with a real monster and an unlikely cast of characters or the greatest evolutionary leap for mankind will be lost forever.

The Bell Trilogy transports you into a fascinating world where one man's incredible dream turns into a horrific, global nightmare. A plausible genetic solution for life extension becomes an epic battle between good and evil. Welcome to Book Two of The Bell Trilogy...The world-renowned forensic sleuth, and acclaimed serial killer hunter, Dr. Elliott Sumner attends a Christmas Gala at the mansion of billionaire patriarch Albert Bell. There, Elliott watches the Bluff City Butcher die just moments after he learn he is connected to the monster. Elliott's worst fears are soon confirmed. Now attempts on his life reveal he too is a part of an inconceivable genetic experiment. Like the BCB, Elliott's termination has been ordered by a sinister secret society.From the shadows, in a constant battle for his sheer survival, the forensic sleuth hunts another serial killer tied into the nightmare. Elliott uncovers the secret group of clandestine powerbrokers plotting to take control of a world changing genetic breakthrough, the immortality gene.Will the blood trail from Barcelona through Arequipa and back to Memphis lead to a victory or a new reign of terror? Are enormous powers, bold deceptions, and chilling twists to great for any man can navigate? Or can the gifted, forensic sleuth Elliott Sumner find a way to secure the greatest leap for mankind? Will Elliott find a way, or will evil prevail and the chance for immortality be lost forever?

THE BELL TRILOGY is a contemporary, international thriller series; an immersion into the contradictory worlds-modern forensics and fringe science. This page-turner trilogy is about one man's dream that turns into a global nightmare. It is about a stealth war for the control of the greatest evolutionary leap of mankind.BLUFF CITY BUTCHER (book 1) is a journey into a familiar and dark world. But this forensic pursuit of a serial killer turns into something very different. A horrific beast of urban legend steps from the fog of a century-old mystery. This monster shrouded in myth throws a midsouth community into unbridled terror. This demon draws the attention of the most gifted forensic serial-killer hunter in the world. The BCB takes this scientific sleuth into the fringe, the place where the real and the unreal merge. Dr. Elliott Sumner is the world-renowned forensic sleuth and acclaimed serial killer hunter. He recognizes the diabolical conundrum and does not turn away from the challenge. Elliott is the only man who can stop a real monster.THE SKIES ROARED (book 2) begins shortly after Elliott Sumner learns his connection to the Bluff City Butcher. It is moments before he watches the monster die, impaled on a rooftop spire. Their secret is profound, and it is known by an evil few. Elliott's worst fears are realized when he learns he was part of an inconceivable genetic experiment. Once an asset, like the BCB he is now a liability-the kill order is out. Elliott must hide in the shadows and solve the century-old mystery. He follows the blood trail through five countries and across three continents and returns to Memphis-Tennessee to dissect the evil plan. A sinister secret society must be stopped.BLOOD LIONS (book 3) begins with Elliott Sumner satisfied the family nightmare is finally over. The severed heads of sinister board members are found on stakes at Mud Island. But soon everything takes a chilling turn for the worst. Three board members thought dead resurface in Cape Town, South Africa. They resurrect their resourced, global plan to take control of the biogenic breakthrough-the immortality gene. Elliott Sumner must find a way to stop these powerful evil forces. He must assemble the best team and design the best plan to have a chance against a formidable foe. And Elliott is forced to work with a monster or his narrow chance to preserve the world-changing genetic breakthrough could be lost to forever.