'Better than Silence of the Lambs...macabre fun orchestrated with immaculate precision. It's a killer.' Los Angeles Times

Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation- to marry Massimina,a seventeen year-old student And when his intentions are frustrated by her suspicious, conservative family, is it his fault that the lovely girl chooses to elope? Obsessed by self-advancement, Morris's dreams of blackmail end murder plunge him deep into a chilling nightmare of deception and violence.

'Very sharp...most impressive.' The Times

Julia has left home. She has gone to Italy, leaving behind her lover, her job, her flat, the closely-knit group of friends who meant so much to her. Why? And why do the motley group of ex-pats she finds in Verona find it so impossible to return home, as if their very identities depended on this thousand-mile displacement?
Centred around a love story full of twists, turns and revelations, Home Thoughts explores a world of lost directions, wavering commitments and misplaced ambitions.

'Tarantino meets Peter Mayle.' Independent on Sunday

Morris can't get over Mimi. But then ha should have thought of that before he murdered her and married her sister. Now Mimi's ghost is here, and she seems to be suggesting the way to redemption for Morris. He must help the poor immigrants of Verona; but if anybody should get in his charitable way then so much the worse for them...