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A VERY IMPORTANT TEAPOT

A Very Important Teapot is a comedy thriller revolving around the hunt for a lost cache of Nazi diamonds in Australia.
Dawson’s life is going nowhere. Out of work and nearly out of money, he is forlornly pursuing the love of Rachel Whyte. But Rachel is engaged to Pat Bootle, an apparently successful local solicitor who has appeared from nowhere.
Then, out of the blue, Dawson receives a job offer from his best friend, Alan Flannery, which involves him jumping on a plane to Australia to "await further instructions". But instructions about what?
This is the start of a frantic chase around south eastern Australia with half the local underworld, the police and the intelligence agencies of three countries trying to catch up with Dawson.
What is Flannery’s game?
Why has Pat Bootle turned up in Australia?
Who is the beautiful but mysterious Lucy Smith?
What is the teapot’s secret?
What has folk music got to do with anything?
And how do guns actually work?
Dawson’s life will never be the same again.

To buy: www.claretpress.com/book/a-very-important-teapot

BORED TO DEATH IN THE BALTICS

Four months after A Very Important Teapot, Dawson and Lucy Smith, still working for a minor department of MI6, get caught up in the apparent assassination of a foreign scientist working on a top secret project. Meanwhile, a traitor is on the loose within the secret service.
When a bomb explodes in front of Dawson on a sunny June morning, he is lucky to escape with his life, certainly luckier than the man he is following. But finding himself a few hours later in the bilges of a ship heading for the eastern Baltic is less fortunate as that is not how he'd planned to spend his weekend.
Who is the man assassinated by the bomb?
Who has kidnapped Dawson, and will Lucy Smith find him in time?
What is happening deep underground in rural Estonia and leafy Surrey?
Is there a double agent within MI6?
Who are the tantalising Sesks twins really working for?
Can Dawson and Lucy distinguish Wright from Rong?
And can Dawson avoid being bored to death?

To buy: www.claretpress.com/book/bored-to-death-in-the-baltics

POOR TABLE MANNERS

When their new employer dies in a suspicious road accident and his brother, a South African government lawyer disappears in Cape Town, Dawson and Lucy are recalled to MI6. For once their mission is straightforward: liaise with Rebecca Erasmus of South African State Security and find the missing lawyer. Then Rebecca is kidnapped. Surely this has nothing to do with the forthcoming presidential election and the vengeful Chinese assassin in town…
Why are Dawson and Lucy held up at gunpoint on Table Mountain?
Why is a South African presidential candidate hiding in a vineyard?
How are the CIA and Chinese involved?
Can you fly a helicopter without scooping some goats up for the ride?
And what part does dreadful cooking have to play in proceedings?

To buy: www.claretpress.com/book/poor-table-manners

Reviews

A Very Important Teapot
A curiously magical thriller with suburban subterfuge and sparkle.
Helen Lederer (comedy author and founder of the Comedy Women in Print Prize)

This is a thriller, a chase, a buddy story and a mystery, all smoothly told with hugely engaging characters, and rips along at a hectic pace.
Adrian Magson (author of over 25 spy thrillers, including Hostile State)

My goodness! What a hilarious, energetic and entertaining roller-coaster of a read this is. The pace never lets up.
Sue Clark (comedy author of Note to Boy and A Novel Solution)

The plot twists and turns just heighten the fun of the ride. A highly entertaining read which I thoroughly enjoyed and would definitely recommend. Five stars from me.
Amazon Review

A fast-paced spy thriller, with a cast of international characters. It’s great fun. I loved it!
Loree Westron (author of Missing Words)

Bored to Death in the Baltics

Bored, I certainly wasn’t. Witty, raucous, clever and intriguing. A very funny, and a little hapless, James Bond lead, with lots of strong women characters - I love the twins. A great story and twisting plot, right from page one to the end.
Onia Fox (author of several comedy thrillers including Listless in Turkey)

A fast-paced page-turner that is genuinely funny and gripping. The suspense is skilfully maintained throughout, and the comedy moments abound, helped along by a beautifully drawn cast of comic heroes and villains.
Brendan James (author of Gerard Philey’s Euro-Diary)

A comedy thriller with twists and turnings you never expected. The amusing asides and quirky comments were a treat. Shall look forward to his next publication!
Jennie Rayment (author of Tucked Up In Bed and many other titles)

I'm used to writers only writing thrillers, or writers only writing comedy, the fact that Steve Sheppard can do both makes this a unique read, a fun read and a page-turning read.
Amazon Review

I felt I had to catch my breath quite a few times, such was the pace of the story with many unexpected twists and turns, brought to a very satisfying conclusion. I feel sure we haven't heard the last from the hapless Dawson and feisty Lucy.
Imogen Matthews (author of six World War II resistance thrillers, including The Boy in the Attic)

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