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I'm delighted to announce that all three volumes of my Barcelonoir Trilogy - Catfish Alley, Casanova Street and Diamond Boulevard - will be published by Sharpe Books in summer 2025.
Barcelona, 2014.
Tommy Chisholm is a struggling Scottish writer teaching English to pay the bills in the vibrant Catalan capital.
When mysterious lawyer Hannah offers him thirty thousand euros for a simple job, it seems like the answer to his financial prayers.
All he has to do is seduce local artist Beatriz and get her to reveal the security codes to a Barcelona gallery.
But Tommy doesn't count on falling in love with his target, a talented but vulnerable woman still recovering from her last heartbreak.
As he becomes deeper entangled in Hannah's web, Tommy discovers the job involves stealing priceless Surrealist paintings for dangerous Russian criminals.
Now he's trapped between his growing feelings for Beatriz and the ruthless gangsters who won't let him walk away.
As the heist unravels, Tommy must choose between saving himself and protecting the woman he's deceived.
But in a world of lies and betrayal, can love survive when built on deception?
And will either of them escape the deadly consequences of Tommy's choices?
The first of the thrilling Barcelonoir trilogy, Catfish Alley is a gripping tale of romance, crime and redemption set against the atmospheric backdrop of modern Barcelona.
Dark Canvas
Dark Canvas, the third volume in my steampunk Fractured Empire series, is out now in ebook and paperback. You can order them here. It's a standalone novel, but with plenty of call-backs to Bitter Sky and A Little Poison.
Lord Berendt set his expression. “I fear I did not appreciate either of my sons while they were alive. I thought one had ambition but no sense, the other sense but no ambition. Now I find I would give the world to have just one of them back.”
Magnus looked into his flinty face. “I am sorry—”
He stopped dead in the street, drawing a curse from a porter rolling a barrel of herring behind him.
“I did not bring you here for your pity, Magnus Scavenius. I brought you because you are now my heir, and however unsatisfactory that may be for both of us, I must train you in what you need to know when I am gone, if our heritage is not to be lost.”
Barcelona, 2014.
Tommy Chisholm is a struggling Scottish writer teaching English to pay the bills in the vibrant Catalan capital.
When mysterious lawyer Hannah offers him thirty thousand euros for a simple job, it seems like the answer to his financial prayers.
All he has to do is seduce local artist Beatriz and get her to reveal the security codes to a Barcelona gallery.
But Tommy doesn't count on falling in love with his target, a talented but vulnerable woman still recovering from her last heartbreak.
As he becomes deeper entangled in Hannah's web, Tommy discovers the job involves stealing priceless Surrealist paintings for dangerous Russian criminals.
Now he's trapped between his growing feelings for Beatriz and the ruthless gangsters who won't let him walk away.
As the heist unravels, Tommy must choose between saving himself and protecting the woman he's deceived.
But in a world of lies and betrayal, can love survive when built on deception?
And will either of them escape the deadly consequences of Tommy's choices?
The first of the thrilling Barcelonoir trilogy, Catfish Alley is a gripping tale of romance, crime and redemption set against the atmospheric backdrop of modern Barcelona.
A Little Poison
Once the Fikingur sea-raiders of Haskilde were the most feared warriors on the continent. Now they are confined to a tiny duchy, ruled by a dying man whose heir is a depraved teenager.
Lothar von Schnusenberg has arrived in Haskilde to spy for the Empire, but his plans are overturned when he becomes the prime suspect in a grisly poisoning. Can he trust the enigmatic Asta and her prickly friend Edda, or are they luring him to disaster?
About Tim
Tim writes fantasy and science fiction as Tim Stretton, and crime as T. M. Stretton. He has been published by Macmillan New Writing and TOR UK, as well as his own BattleCat Press imprint. Since 2019 he has been a full-time writer.
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