Mathew N Baker
Crime novels
His absent grave
A man fakes his death and reinvents himself sure his past is behind him.
Enter the enigmatic world of Barry Carter; a man who lives two lives and believes his sinister plan to scam millions and fake his death is foolproof. He’s right, until his bitter lover and distraught wife team up to seek him out. They want retribution but are stopped by the police, who’ve found Carter first and want to question him about a murder, a stolen dead body and an international cyber-crime. A frantic chase ensues and there can be only one winner.
The killing gang
A man forgot he tried to kill his wife – twice.
Guy Middleton narrates his dark, disturbing journey through amnesia and the terrifying moments when his memory returns and he realises he’d planned to kill his wife. He’s distraught, and believes he still loves her, but discovers he’s a fugitive, pursued by his wife, her gangster lover and the police.
Cocaine and chips
Murder, drug-dealing and adultery hide behind a famous restaurant.
Ralph Launcier, a successful celebrity chef and restaurateur, is also a drug dealer and a murderer. He fears that Cameron, his brother-in-law, is about to blow open his lucrative drug ring and unearth his murky past. Ralph plans Cameron’s demise. The plan backfires. Ralph is killed. Cameron ends up in jail, dependent on his thirteen-year-old stepdaughter.
A Machiavellian Murder
A man finds his wife's body in a fishing net.
A man’s wife is shot and her body dumped in the sea. On a fishing trip with two friends, they pull up her body in the trawl net. The police suspect he murdered her, as does his son. When his new young wife begins to realise she could be sleeping with a murderer, his life starts to disintegrate, and he’s arrested and charged with murder. But they all miss the fact that the man’s deceased wife had been about to publish a report into a mining disaster where many people died, and she’d attributed blame to her company.
‘A gripping and emotionally charged story with an ending so poignant that readers will reach for the tissues.’
An artistic crime
How an art theft takes the world to the brink.
A man thinks he’s met the recipient of his late wife’s heart. She’s a spook, he’s investigating a major art theft. They’re unwittingly thrown together in a world crisis where terrorists threaten to explode a nuclear bomb on the west and they face possible death.
Dead man's coming
A killer is revisited by the man he thought he killed thirty years ago.
Jerome Millar believes he’d killed Sam Crichton – his once best friend – thirty years past. His life is upended, and he faces potential meltdown when Sam, cruelly disabled by Jerome’s earlier action, reappears and threatens to expose Jerome as an attempted murderer and serial philanderer. While Jerome hires an assassin and Sam doubles down on his plan for retribution and recompense, the shocking but brave behaviour of Sam’s wife, Julie, puts the two old comrades on course to a bitter conclusion.
