This book focuses on a marvel approach that blends chemistry with forensic science and is used for the examination of controlled substances and clandestine operations. The book will particularly interest forensic chemists, forensic scientists, criminologists, and biochemists.

Irish Mythology meets modern ideas of multiple Universes in a humorous adventure. A pre-Celtic artifact transforms into a bracelet and climbs up your arm. And now you can speak any language. And you can travel 'time-lines'. Imagine a 'Time-line' for every possible future and present. When Kate, the eleven-year-old daughter of an American Professor, finds the bracelet, she and her friends are catapulted into the 'Time-lines'. Into a Time-line of modern day sophisticated Raptor dinosaurs that regard humans as gourmet food. And they also walk with modern Pharaohs of Egypt. Conchobar is a...

Jeremy ran away to London from his studies to be a priest. Now he is wealthy and in a gay relationship with his partner David. But Jeremy is back in Ireland, ostensibly to open a new store but with an agenda around his mother and his need for an heir. he meets Dorothy O'Byrne, whose domineering manner turns him on. The O'Byrnes are a prosperous Irish Business family but are under threat as they are targeted by a London based hedge fund. Janet is sent as lead on the project and becomes involved with Jeremy O'Byrne. Meanwhile she has to keep her boss Crawford at bay as his agenda in sending her...

Sonia and Ivan work in the sex industry. Sonia wants out and Ivan wants his own string of girls. He is prepare to use violence and kidnap. Megan is a gypsy who meets Adizua an illegal Nigerian immigrant. Ann must escape from her abusive father. Lives meet in a romantic thriller of love and darkness.

In the warmth of Mulligans, a cosy Irish pub where the Barman knows everything there is to know about serving pints of Guinness, as well as everything there is to know about nearly everything else, one might have supposed that the dramas of real life could be left behind. NoT so. From the comfort of Mulligans "snug," all the problems of everyday living are presented, debated, and resolved. Whether it's the traumas suffered by Fitzer the Flasher, Kathy the Dominatrix, Crazy Mary, the Burglar, the Builder, the Corporation Man, the Green Man, the Curate, the Priest, the Sergeant or even the...

Something is afoot in the small inner city parish in Dublin City, Ireland. There is the scent of a horse racing scam and the betting Syndicate of the Teacher, the Garda Sergeant, the Parish Priest and the Barman in Mulligans pub, are in the loop. Life becomes complicated when The European Union Commissioner for Cultural Harmonisation is kidnapped while on a visit to Mulligans Pub where he has just appraised locals that a movie, 'Souls, lost in Cities' is to be made in the parish starring Tracy, an Australian rumoured to be a porn star. Who were the terrorists and what do they want? Suspicion...

Connor is a young, successful, conservative, tax accountant. His life changes when a short man in a leprechaun suit seeks his tax assistance in the matter of gold mines. Conned into visiting Ireland, Connor meets the beautiful Megan and her attractive witch of a mother Morag. He is ritually murdered, suffocated, kidnapped and revived. On his return to New York he is in the power of Live Corporation, a hedge fund seeking niche markets in evil. They require, as part of his management development, that he recover fifty million dollars from the son of an African Dictator. In addition he is...

The Chicago Druid and the Ugly Princess is a story that moves from a time of Irish folklore to modern-day Chicago. The mix of this mythological Irish background with contemporary American life is one of the novel's strengths and provides many instances of humour and contrast. It follows the adventures of Fionnuala, a beautiful princess transformed into the ugliest women imaginable by the druid Lochlain, before being sent into the future. In modern Chicago, she encounters madcap characters, such as the crafty Patience, who uses Fionnuala's powers to make money gambling, and implicates them in...

The San Francisco Leprechauns. Recognising that Leprechauns are an endangered species, plans are put in place to restock the population. In doing so two twins, a brother and a sister, are accidently recruited and due to technical magic difficulties they have to be returned to modern San Francisco. But they need new bodies. This is arranged by Venus, the strategic planner and former cat of the Druid Lochlain. However all does not go smoothly. In modern Sann Francisco Druid Lochlain arrives as does the mythical Grey Man with the 'embrace of death.' Druid Lochlain has failed in an attempted coup...

The story opens as Brian is caught by a troll and unintentionally ends up as Champion to the Faerie Queen and betrothed to Maedbh, a teenager he rescues along with some Vikings. Brian is 16 years old and lives with his mom and dad and older brother in a deprived suburb of Dublin city, Ireland. He goes to school where he is the target of bullies. His mother is an alcoholic and his dad is a gambler. At school gets into a fight with Robbo, the school bully, a grandson of the local gangster. He is also running his band with his other 'nerd' friends. His brother, who is his band manager, is using...