Brian L. Porter

Liverpool, 1961. A group of young men come together seeking fame and fortune, as the fledgling sounds of the Swinging Sixties take root in the city. Soon, Liverpool becomes synonymous with the groups and music that shapes a generation. Liverpool, 1999. Skeletal remains found in the docklands...

Whipped, beaten, and abused for the first year of his life, Dylan was eventually left tied to the gates of a dog sanctuary with a note telling of his treatment. The fates were smiling on the little Bedlington terrier. The author and his family adopted him the very same day....

As the late night train from Manchester to Liverpool approaches the city, it hits the body of a man. After the police look into the case, they learn that the man was a well-known movie director—of the adult variety....

After millionaire Malcolm Capshaw hires Joe Cutler and his team to search for a fabled artifact, they enter a maze of lies, murder, and betrayal. The real purpose of their search is soon exposed, as an old London crime family displays an unusual interest in an ancient town where Christianity...

Breathe...if you dare. English countryside, 1958. The idyllic village of Olney has stood in its peaceful location for over 900 years. Until one day, when two teenage boys are struck by a mysterious illness. The newly arrived Doctor Hilary Newton suspects a common flu to be the cause of their...

When Juliet Porter saw an advertisement for "Puppies for Sale", little did the author expect that instead of one puppy, they would end up adopting three adorable little pups from the same litter. This is the story of those three puppies, who in nine years have remained inseparable, to the extent...

When a monk is found poisoned at the St. Emma’s Priory, the Chief Constable—a friend of the Prior—insists that Andy Ross and his team handle the investigation. The case turns out to be more complex than they first thought. After a second victim is found with a pitchfork thrust through...

Respirez... si vous osez. Campagne anglaise, 1958. Le village idyllique d'Olney St. Mary s'était maintenu dans son environnement paisible pendant plus de 900 ans. Jusqu'au jour où deux adolescents sont frappés par une mystérieuse maladie. Le docteur Hilary Newton, nouvellement arrivée...

A group of women gather at a fertility clinic, where Dr. Margherita Dumas offers a revolutionary treatment for their infertility problems. A year later, each of them gives birth to a healthy baby boy. Thirty years later, a killer begins to wipe out the children born as a result of Dumas’...

Soon after the cargo liner Alexandra Rose steams into the Mersey Estuary, one of the ship’s passengers is found dead, leading to Detective Inspector Andy Ross’s most baffling case to date....

1966. England wins the soccer World Cup. Same night, a barmaid's body is discovered near an abandoned lighthouse. Two more murders follow; all remain unsolved. 2005. DI Andy Ross is called in when a disturbingly similar series of murders begins in the same location....

This is the story of Cassie: a rescue dog who was just over two years old when she joined Brian and Juliet’s family of rescues, having already had three previous owners in her short life....

Sasha is the story of a very remarkable dog: a Staffordshire Bull Terrier abandoned close to death at the age of six weeks old. Rescued from a street gutter, she had the good fortune to be adopted by author Brian L. Porter and his family. Despite suffering from a catalogue of injuries, including...

Philadelphia, 1791. James and Maria Reynolds are flat broke. Well aware of the attraction between his wife and treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton, James hatches a plan to blackmail Alexander and get rich and sends Maria to seduce him. Meanwhile, the mysterious Dr. Severus Black befriends the...

Sheba is the sequel to Brian L. Porter's award-winning best seller, Sasha, and tells the story of rescue dog Sheba, Sasha's best friend, starved, beaten, and used as bait for the training of fighting dogs and then thrown on a rubbish tip and left to die, a barely living skeleton. The author and...

In the ancient, ruined city of Teotihuacan, mutilated bodies bear witness to the work of a serial killer. After his brother's tragic death, Detective Captain Juan Morales decides to take a well-deserved vacation. But as he stands at the Avenue of the Dead, staring at a corpse with its heart...

Every night, Alan Dexter has the same dream: His former colleague Christina is seducing him when suddenly, two of her perfectly white teeth turn into fangs and tear into his flesh. Dexter is always the skeptical journalist, but his feeling that Christina must be in danger only grows when he...

A global nuclear holocaust. A vicious serial killer stalking the streets of Paris. A mystery in Mexico. This collection from the award-winning novelist and screenwriter Brian L. Porter showcases some of his finest short stories....

After being thrown out from a moving car on a motorway and rescued from the dog pound by Brian Porter and his wife, Dexter had a happy life in their family of rescue dogs. On the June 8th, 2019, Dexter - a Labrador-Staffy Crossbreed - passed away after a year-long fight against illness. Part...

A series of murders leads Detective Inspector Sean Connor and his team into a labyrinthine investigation. The victims are dispatched using a poison previously associated with the notorious Borgia family....