The Man at Table Nine

Deadly & Dangerous Women

Some people walk into your life like they were always meant to destroy it.

When drifter Clay Maddox arrives at the Black Horse pub in London, he is looking for nothing more than a room, a wage, and somewhere to disappear for a while. Instead, he finds Celeste.

Beautiful, sharp, and quietly desperate, Celeste is trapped in a loveless marriage to Terry — a drink-soaked bully whose temper hangs over the pub like cigarette smoke.

The Black Horse is her prison, and every day spent behind the bar feels like another year wasted.

Clay should know better than to get involved. But stolen glances soon turn into reckless desires, and dangerous conversations whispered after closing time. Because once two people start dreaming about freedom, it is only a matter of time before somebody gets hurt.

And sometimes, the easiest way out is murder.

Set in the smoky backrooms and rain-soaked streets of 1980s London, The Man at Table Nine is a dark psychological crime novel about lust, manipulation, obsession and the dangerous lies people tell themselves when love and violence become impossible to separate.

For readers who love classic noir, morally complex characters and British crime fiction where nobody is quite what they seem.

Publication date: 30 September 2026

Available on Kindle Unlimited: No