Joe Sykes writes compelling contemporary fiction across a range of genres. Assassination (2022) is a high speed thriller about the statewide manhunt for the President of the United States following murders at Camp David.
In The Haven (2022), a terrifying ghost story set on a remote Scottish island, ancient spirits and men war for control of the Haven Hotel.
Dave Morton inherits a remote North-West Scottish island complete with shuttered hotel. Dave and two friends plan a huge payday: refurbishment and sale of the island and hotel as a billionaire resort. They realise the hotel has other residents of whom they only get scary glimpses. Morton learns the hotel was built on the ruins of a monastery destroyed in 1323, and the monks subsisting there spiritually are not welcoming.
The Handler is a romantic spy thriller about love , marriage and betrayal. A retired British agent is asked to locate NATO’s missing chief negotiator on the eve of war between Russia and the EU. He is forced to revisit his broken marriage. The missing negotiator was his wife’s handler and lover.
Joe’s comic entertainments include Seven Day Love Affairs and Seven Day Sex Affairs.
Crime thrillers include Joe’s sensational crime novel, The Killings (Book 1 in the DI Hawke crime thriller series), and the sex thriller Profiler (aka Killing Lovers).
Joe’s horror novels include The Haven, Invitation and The Return of the Master.