Simon Wood

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2002
  • Latest Book:
    December 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Fleetwood and Sheils

1 - Deceptive Practices (Nov-2016)
2 - Saving Grace (Jan-2018)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Accidents Waiting to Happen

    Criminals aren’t the only ones with prices on their heads. Everyone is worth more dead than alive. Josh Michaels discovers that he’s simply a dollar figure when his car is forced into the Sacramento River. The person who caused the accident doesn...

  • Paying the Piper

    He was known as the Piper--a coldhearted kidnapper who terrified the city. Crime reporter Scott Fleetwood built his career on the Piper. The kidnapper even taunted the FBI through Scott's column. But Scott had been duped. The person he'd been speakin...

  • We All Fall Down

    Hayden Duke is a young man on the fast track. He's just signed on with Marin Design Engineering to work on a very high-level government project. But just before Hayden started, one of MDE's employees committed suicide. And he's not the only one. Is i...

  • Protecting the Innocent

    in Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down

    Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this Thriller Short, bestselling author Simon Wood brings his thirst for risk into...

  • Working Stiffs

    In this collection of stories, the workplace is a dangerous place. The unscrupulous are primed and ready to take advantage of the innocent and naïve. A slight indiscretion can cost the employee everything. A new position can turn a person into someo...

  • Road Rash

    James Straley might think his life is cursed, but it doesn't compare to what lies ahead of him on life's highway. He's on the run with the proceeds of a botched bank robbery. It's all he has. His crew is dead and his getaway car just died on him. ...

  • The Scrubs

    James Jeter, the notorious serial killer with a sixth sense, holds court inside London's Wormwood Scrubs Prison. He's the focus of the "North Wing Project." Under the influence of a hallucinogen, Jeter can create an alternative world known as "The ...

  • Asking for Trouble

    The road to crime begins with a single decision -- the wrong one. Not every decision belongs to the criminally minded. Some belong to the ill-informed, the weak and the plain unlucky. In these tales, trouble isn't an indiscriminate force of nature. I...

  • Terminated

    Gwen crossed the wrong coworker when she gave Stephen Tarbell a poor performance evaluation. That was all it took to push Tarbell over the edge. He already believed Gwen stole the promotion that was rightfully his. He won't let her take anything else...



  • The Fall Guy

    When you're down on your luck, life never wants to cut you a break. Todd Collins has failed in every job he's ever undertaken, but that all changes when he backs his jalopy into a shiny, new Porsche belonging to a drug dealer. When the police stop th...

  • Lowlifes

    San Francisco Detective Larry Hayes thinks he's hit bottom when he wakes up in an alley after a bad trip with no memory of the last four hours. This is only the beginning of his problems. Two blocks away, Hayes' informant, a homeless man named Noble ...

  • Did Not Finish

    The first book in the Aidy Westlake mystery series set in the high-octane world of motor racing - When Derek Deacon threatens to kill Alex Fanning, his championship rival, rookie driver Aidy Westlake doesn’t put much stock in it--it’s typical of ...

  • Hot Seat

    “Think of Dick Francis’ early thrillers, but with a lot more horsepower” Kirkus Reviews on Did Not Finish - Things are looking good for Aidy Westlake. He’s Pit Lane magazine’s Young Driver of the Year, which has earned him a drive in the Eu...

  • Beneath

    BENEATH tells the concurrent stories of Detectives David Radley and Andrew Bates, along with David's fashion designer sister Kathy and the brutally murdered Cartwright family, all of which are intrinsically linked to one another.  Radley and Bates...

  • Dragged into Darkness

    People spend their entire lives staving off the dark--but no matter the measures taken, black paths and shadowy pits lurk in the unlikeliest of places, waiting to pull the unwary into the depths of despair. These eleven tales offer a morbid sampling ...

  • Infidelity Limited

    Englishman Terry Sheffield has just arrived in San Francisco to start his new life with Sarah, the investigative journalist he married after a transatlantic love affair. But Sarah never shows up at the airport… When Terry reports his wife as mis...

  • Crestfallen

    In this collection of four short stories, Peter Crestfallen is a San Francisco private investigator who has a penchant for attracting problem clients. He's the kind of gumshoe who’ll always give a hundred percent, even if it’s for a ten percent ...

  • Short Sharp Shocks

    SHORT SHARP SHOCKS is a twenty-tale collection of horror, sci-fi and crime stories that barely stretch beyond a page, with the shortest tale being only two words long. These sixty-second tales will force you to make a verbal exclamation, which might ...

  • The One That Got Away

    Graduate students Zoë and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on their road trip to Las Vegas. But something goes terribly wrong on their way home, and the last time Zoë sees her, Holli is in the clutches of a sadistic killer. Zoë flees with he...



  • The Hooker

    Mark was content to see out his single days with a bachelor party, but his best man, Lance, wasn't. He insists in sending Mark off in style...in the company of a hooker. It's supposed to be the last hoorah of a single man before being condemned to ...

  • No Show

    Terry lands at San Francisco International Airport ready to start his new life with Sarah, the American journalist he married after a transatlantic love affair. But Sarah’s a no show. Convinced something terrible has happened, Terry reports Sarah...

  • Deceptive Practices

    Fleetwood and Sheils - 1

    Do you have a cheating spouse? Has counseling failed? Want to get even? Then hire Infidelity Limited… Olivia Shaw grew up poor on the wrong side of the tracks, but with her thriving real estate business and a solid marriage, her life finally fee...

  • Saving Grace

    Fleetwood and Sheils - 2

    His only chance to save a young girl’s life is to put his trust in a headline-hunting kidnapper. Former reporter Scott Fleetwood and his family are still recovering after tangling with a notorious kidnapper, the Piper, when another kidnapper gri...

  • Half-Inched

    Christmas has gone sideways for racecar driver, Aidy Westlake. Aidy’s grandfather, Steve, was just putting the finishing touches on a classic Ford GT40 he was restoring for a British millionaire when it was stolen from his workshop. They quickly ...

  • Fast Crimes

    Crime happens in a moment and so do the stories in the Fast Crimes collection. These short mysteries start in the moment and build to a climax in a snap. Murders are plotted and carried out. Heists are planned and foiled. Investigators hunt and ap...

  • Trouble & Strife

    Welcome to the world of Cockney rhyming slang, where what is said means something completely different than how it sounds. Originally, it was a coded language created by criminals for deceiving undercover police officers during Victorian times. Commo...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Simon Wood has published 26 books.

Simon Wood does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Trouble & Strife, was published in December 2019.

The first book by Simon Wood, Accidents Waiting to Happen, was published in August 2002.

Yes. Simon Wood has 1 series.
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