All Books

Browse all books by K.J. Heritage, including mystery, thriller, science fiction, cyberpunk, fantasy, paranormal fiction and practical writing craft guides.

From dark mysteries and psychological thrillers to speculative worlds, strange adventures and books for writers, explore the complete collection and find your next read.

The Vatic Trilogy

In a brutal corporate future, Vatic is drawn into seemingly separate mysteries involving unexplained deaths, missing memories and hidden identities.

Across three interlocking novels, each revelation exposes another question and hints at an unseen force connecting everything.

"Prepare to lose sleep reading Vatic!.. Delicious Sci-Fiction!...The best thing since Wool!" - Kate Danley, US TODAY bestselling author

Point Four Zeros Seven

Lissa escaped a dying Earth for a dream. She woke up to a nightmare.

The deal was simple: close her eyes on a decaying Earth and open them on the lush horizons of Persephone...

What could possibly go wrong?

"Promises an intense sci-fi psychological thriller, and delivers!" - Amazon

Tea, Cake & MURDER!

Emily Crookshanks wakes up in a 1920s English village with no memory, a talent for deduction, and a wardrobe full of hats that look as if they were designed during a nervous breakdown.

This is inconvenient. Even more inconvenient is the dead vicar face-down in her cake...

A mystery inside a mystery... An exceptionally well-plotted and fast-paced read with plenty of twists." - Amazon

The Peculiar Case Of The Missing Mondrian

Jim Riven has made a career of avoidance. He avoids work, responsibility, emotional growth, his front door, most phone calls, and anything that might require trousers before noon.

His only real talent, if it can be called that, is attracting bizarre coincidences with the grim regularity of the disappointing British weather...

"Absolutely delightful! Smartly, funny Writing is hard & Heritage achieves it at a master level." - Amazon

Dying Is Easy

Stand-up comic Adam Hanson has one bad gig, one drunken argument with his girlfriend, Jozee Jackson, and one blank space in his memory.

By morning, Jozee has disappeared. At first, the police think she may simply have walked out after their row. But when Jozee fails to turn up for work or her gigs, Adam is forced to look for her himself...

"This book was perfect. And with all the twists and turns throughout, I just didn't want to be put it down." - Amazon

Blue Into The Rip

Two rips in time. One chance to survive. Dive into the future before the past disappears forever.

Screwed-up teen, Blue, is ripped through time to land on a drowned Earth far into the future.... And home is 400 years away...

"An amazing read and Kev Heritage's writing is superb and unique...I definitely recommend this book to sci-fi adventure readers!" - Girl In The Woods

Quick-Kill & The Galactic Secret Service

Never, ever, let yourself never get caught - who knows what may happen?

The forgotten, seedy backwater planet of Plenty is no place for a girl to grow up alone. But self-styled, femme fatale and genius gun-for hire, Quick-Kill Jane, was no normal kid...

"This book is bloody marvellous! It's one of the most refreshing bits of sci-fi I've read in a while. Golden Age with a modern take." - Amazon

The Scowl

And from the dark unknown came a hooded avenger...

When the Scowl is brought before the court of King-Emperor Jhaz'Elrad, he is saved from execution by the ambitious Dracus Krall. In return for his life, the Scowl is sent on weregild to kill the evil golem that has lurked in the Krall family home for generations...

"A fast-paced fantasy adventure that will thrill and delight readers from start to finish" - Reading For Pleasure

The Iron Savant

London private investigator and lifelong loner, Paz has spent years running from a danger she can’t remember.

Then one case drags her into a hidden world of metals and majiks, lopers and the Jakkerman... where the past she has tried to outrun may finally catch her up...

"WOW! This is a good story with amazing characters that were extremely well written. 5 stars!" - Amazon

The Lady In The Glass

12 tales of death & dying...

A woman trapped inside twisted glass whispers stories to a lonely survivor in the ruins of a dead world. Stories of people, places and other worlds. Stories in which things rarely end well. Death, after all, has more than one story to tell.

"A True Mind-Trip! The Lady in the Glass gave me all the reasons to spend a little bit more time under the Sci-Fi section at the bookstore." - Amazon

 

Writing Craft

All About Copyediting

Want to add punch to your prose?

Follow these 55 simple edits and improve your writing forever! Getting readers past page one, despite your ‘explosive, fast-paced, hitting-the-ground-running opening’, is what this guide is all about...

"The style is clear and accessible. This is a book that I have found invaluable as I rewrite and revise my fiction drafts. Highly recommended" - Amazon

3000 Writing & Plot Prompts A-C

Want to break writer’s block forever?

This jam-packed writing & plot prompt guide is all that you need. It is a tailored reference tool designed to get you creatively inspired, unblocked, and ready to write.

"I absolutely loved this book. It gave me so many tips and ideas to get my mind working on writing." - Amazon

All About Character Flaws

Want to write characters readers care about? Then give them flaws.

Perfect characters are boring. Real characters make mistakes, say the wrong thing, want the wrong things, and sabotage themselves at exactly the worst moment. That is what makes them believable. That is what makes them memorable..

"A fantastic! ...Very helpful for any aspiring writer." - Amazon