Welcome to Harry Riley's lifeariley Website

Author: Harry Riley Nottingham: married with two grown up children

Now retired from a lifetime of commercial printing. Published books: Sins of the Father. Psychological murder mystery. Captain Damnation and other strange tales. A collection of short mystery and ghost stories. The Ghosts of Edgwick Abbey and other Strange tales.

Press release: Sept. 2013 'Sins of the Father' has been nominated for The people's Book Prize: Autumn Collection 2013. Voting is from now until Nov. 30th 2013 and te entry can be found under Fiction: www.peoplesbookprize.com. Please borrow,buy, read, comment and vote.

Note: The Laird of Castle Ballantine (a follow up novel to Sins of the Father) was published previously by Amazon Kindle as an ebook but was  temporarily withdrawn from sale to be re-issued shortly by www.pneumasprings.co.uk in printed format and as an ebook. Paperback Launch Date: 30th. May 2013 www.pneumasprings.co.uk, http://www.publishedbestsellers.com/2013/05murder-mystery-on-scottish-borders.html, This is a follow-on novel to Sins of the Father and features several of the characters from Sins... including Doctor James Parker and the fortune teller: Madame Gloria, who correctly predicted he would not hang for the murder of his brother in law: Billy Turpin. And, if you believe in ghosts, the tale might also include James Parker's dead sister: Rosie. 

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Here you will find all sorts of articles, book reviews and links relating to my writing, plus a little bit of poetry. I hope you find something of interest and if only one small item makes you stop and think then I will consider my efforts worthwhile. 

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