David Burnell

• Jul-2013
• / Mystery

The Doom Bar, a treacherous sandbank in the Camel estuary, in North Cornwall, has many watchers �" with many motives. For analyst George Gilbert, seeking peace after the sudden death of her husband, modelling the shifting Doom Bar is a therapeutic c...

• May-2014
• / Mystery

Playwright Arno James was determined to re-enact the chequered history of the Delabole Slate Quarry �" at any cost. Though even he hadn’t expected the cost would be so high. Widowed analyst George Gilbert knew nothing about the previous owner when...

• Apr-2015
• / Mystery

As the flood level rises, so does the crime rate in the small Cornish town of Looe. Recently-widowed analyst George Gilbert finds herself drawn into a web of suspense and foul play. When her personal and professional lives begin to overlap, is she th...

• Jul-2015
• / General Fiction

PERILS AND PREDICAMENTS How could an itinerant roof-thatcher make a deadly enemy in just one week? And what could drive a self-help poet to violent action? This collection of stories mixes serious crime with less fatal episodes �" a tangle of accide...

• May-2016
• / Mystery

How can the discovery of a skeleton in a disused Cornish railway tunnel arouse so much unease? When journalist Robbie Glendenning and analyst George Gilbert begin their investigation they unlock hidden memories, buried secrets and family feuds. As th...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction

Celebrate life in all its diversity. Wrestle with its Perils and puzzle over its Predicaments. This new collection of short stories encompasses the Garden of Eden, the Magna Carta and the oldest village in Europe; and looking ahead, how the European ...

• May-2017
• / Mystery

George Gilbert is in Bude to help with the Limelight Exhibition, in honour of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney - the man who discovered limelight and used it to light the Houses of Parliament for half a century. But she has been told to watch out for something...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction

Celebrate life in all its ups and downs. Skip round its Perils and scowl over its Predicaments. Stories from Yorkshire to Cornwall, from Jerusalem to Jericho, from Uganda’s airport to its remotest interior: * An Irish circus girl leaps from a dizzy...

• Apr-2018
• / Amateur Sleuth

It was policeman Peter Travers’ worst nightmare. An unexplained death in an old mine shaft, the body found just before Christmas. And only one week before his wedding. Was the death really “an accident”? But if not, how could he go on his honey...

• Oct-2018
• / General Fiction

Hook; line; sinker: three key ingredients of a short story. Any tale, at least, that's made up of Perils and Predicaments.The Vicar had a hook for his sermon. He would start with a recently-found letter from England's war poet, Wilfred Owen. That wou...