Tom Hadley Action Thrillers
Liv Fisher Series
Under the pen name Tom Hadley, I write modern day action thrillers about a central character called Liv Fisher.
What can I say about Liv? So many extreme adjectives, so little space…
Above all, Liv is a survivor, but survival has taken its toll. After a fractured childhood, she pulled away from her criminal parents on England’s south coast and against all odds managed to make something of herself. She trained to be a PE teacher and in that job she found her niche – of sorts.
For several years, she has been doing moderately well partly because she is strong and loves sport, but also because she has been able to connect to some of the more vulnerable or damaged students in a way that other staff couldn’t.
But it hasn’t all been plain sailing, because Liv’s personality always tends to get in the way. She can be brash, outspoken and intolerant of others, which means she has almost no positive interaction with her other adults. And she has a sort of disability… which others might call a ‘superpower’, but which makes her seem reclusive and a little scary to her colleagues.
Then she loses the job, and her carefully constructed world begins to dissolve around her.
Which is why, at the start of book one, she finds herself on the platform at Slough railway station at 1am, contemplating her dismal future…
Eyes Like Blades
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Life may have damaged Liv Fisher, but she is far from broken…
Facing suspension from her job, Liv fears that the life she’s carved out for herself is starting to unravel. What she doesn’t need, while waiting for a train in the early hours of Christmas Eve, is to witness a grisly death. Close enough to observe it in forensic detail, she knows that only a stranger’s hand has stopped her too from falling onto the track.
But was it suicide, an accident or murder? And was the stranger in the black cap truly her saviour, or a cold-blooded killer?
Still wrestling with the recent, and sudden, demise of her estranged parents, Liv dismisses the incident as a random tragedy. Until the man in the black cap re-appears outside her flat.
Soon her long-buried past is threatening to rise up and engulf her once more, as she is plunged into a world of murder, deception and betrayal.
And now, only survival matters.
The first of a gripping new thriller series. Available in Ebook and paperback.
Death in the Water
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When the past reaches out, you can’t just ignore it.
Still recovering from injuries she received several months earlier, Liv Fisher is hoping for a quiet life. But that vain hope doesn’t last beyond her early morning walk, when she stumbles upon someone in trouble.
Her decision to intervene leads her to uncover the abduction of several local girls. It also drags her back to the seedy world of corruption and murder, she thought she had left behind. When several figures from her dark past return to open up old wounds, Liv suspects that one of them may be involved in the abductions. If he is, she fears the girls may never be found. But Liv has another, much more personal, reason for pursuing him.
She could really do with the help of her investigator friend, Graham. Actually, he’s more or less her only friend, but it seems that he too has disappeared. In the end, Liv receives support from several other, very unlikely people, one of whom reveals to her an astonishing family secret.
Though her investigation takes Liv to places she definitely doesn’t want to go, she is not prepared to abandon either the missing girls, or Graham, without a fight.
Sharp-eyed, razor-tongued and habitually untrusting, Liv resolves to find those who are missing — whatever the cost.
Available in Ebook and paperback.
Just when you think you have the whole story sussed, another spanner is thrown in the works… and the action is relentless.