J C Williams

Libby Tebbit had absolutely had her fill of big-city life. So, when presented with the opportunity to take over her gran’s shop, The Bookshop by the Beach, she’d have been crazy to turn it down, right? Idyllic notions of lazy days by the ocean shore, shooing away the surplus eligible...

A charming seaside mystery with heart, humour and a determined female sleuth. Ordinarily, there’s not too much crime to speak of in Port Erin, a sleepy seaside village on the Isle of Man. So when Quinn Flitcroft, working as an insurance fraud investigator in England, hears about a gruesome...

Welcome to the Isle of Man’s first and only detective agency... And they’re pretty useless! ‘Eyes Peeled’ is the Isle of Man’s first and only Detective Agency... Not much happens on the idyllic Island that needs detecting, so, on the whole, the team are not the most adept. In fact...

Welcome to The Lonely Heart Attack Club, where growing old is compulsory, but growing up is entirely optional. Jack Tate is hopeless… Everything he touches turns into a disaster, though he does mean well. His business is even less successful than his love life. Most of the customers in his...

Frank and Stan are back for another hilarious adventure, and this time they've really bitten off more than they can chew!The idea of maverick racer Dave Quirk winning a TT was about as likely as a seaside donkey winning the Grand National. But that wouldn't stop him from trying.An unlikely...

Two best friends. One bucket list. And absolutely no intention of growing old gracefully.Frank has just received the sort of news from the doctor that no one wants to hear. Then he discovers that his wife’s fitness instructor has been providing her with more than just an exercise plan.With...

Adam Catchpole is a successful sci-fi author. Well, he was a successful sci-fi author, which is a more accurate statement because his book sales are sinking faster than a piece of Martian rock in a pond. As such, his mortgage is in arrears, Stacey, his girlfriend, has deserted him, and he...

The charming seaside Isle of Man cozy mystery series continues in A Case of Pier Pressure. Toby Haddock and his investigative partner, Quinn Flitcroft, had recently played a pivotal role in bringing a vicious murderer to justice.

Quinn and Toby are back for another cozy seaside mystery on the Isle of Man. There was something of a buzz amongst the Isle of Man's amateur dramatic circles. After all, it's not every day that the historic Gaiety Theatre plays host to a former Hollywood star such as Willard Fairfax...

The perfect, feel-good audiobook to put a huge smile on your face! It's not that single mum Charlotte Newman is completely and utterly obsessed with crafting, necessarily. Sure, she has balls of wool stashed everywhere like a squirrel stores nuts and more needles than a tattoo parlour. But that...

Until quite recently, Ben Parker was considered, by many, one of the finest bakers on the Isle of Man. Indeed, his wife was once the first to concur with that accolade, directly attributing his culinary skills to her expanding waistline, in fact.

The feel-good comedy adventure continues! Following a hectic year immersed in all things crafting, Charlotte Newman was looking forward to a much-needed holiday. And the fact that a few friends from the Crafternoon Sewcial Club were also tagging along was an added bonus as far as she was concerned.

The gang from the Isle of Man’s primo detective agency are back for another case! There’s something of a crime wave in progress on the ordinarily sedate Isle of Man... The services of the Eyes Peeled Detective Agency are secured by Sir Barrington Hedley-Smythe following the theft of four...

For some kids, playing their game console was a matter of life and death.... But for 10-year-olds Luke and Conor, it was more important even than that....

The hilarious sequel to the hit, feel-good comedy. Jack, Emma, and the gang from the Lonely Heart Attack Club (Isle of Man branch) are back.... For their next challenge, how will they surpass a World Record attempt? Get their members to compete in an Olympic Games for the elderly, of course! The...

The Crafternoon Sewcial Club’s going from strength to strength, although Charlotte Newman is far from resting on her laurels. When a chance encounter highlights the sorry plight of parents unable to afford school uniforms, Charlotte is itching to develop a solution....

By his own admission, things haven’t gone too easily for Ben Parker of late. However, hopeful of turning his fortunes around at his newest business, the Life’s a Pitch campsite, there was an air of quiet confidence wafting around the campground wherever he stepped.

Tom is a bit of a waster... Turning the wrong side of t30 hit him pretty hard, and what with having no money, no love life, no decent job prospects to speak of, and with debt coming out of his ears, well, the future wasn’t exactly looking too rosy. Still, he’s a likeable chap, is Tom. He’s...

Life rarely stands still when you surround yourself with old folk with more energy than a sugar-fueled toddler, and for Jack Tate, well, he wouldn’t have it any other way. The Lonely Heart Attack Club was going from strength to strength, and the gang were eager to sink their (false) teeth into...

Life rarely stands still when you find yourself surrounded by a bunch of loveable crackpots. Certainly, that was the case for Frank and Stan. With their hugely successful "Le Mans" TT now behind them, thoughts turned to their next adventure and, inevitably, also to the topic of their own...