The Greatest Cape trilogy of novels was described as "A cross between Treasure Island, The Railway Children and Deliverance ... by turns exciting, amusing, alarming, charming, violent and strange ..."

Of the first volume, The Black Joke, reviewers said ... "an extremely well written book with three dimensional characters you quickly grow to love or hate" ... "absolutely captivating" ... "elegant and easy to read" ... "a real page-turner - couldn't put it down".

The second volume, The Bernadette, follows the continuing adventures of Pert and Rosella who may or may not be murderers, and Pert's sister Fenestra who is developing a strange relationship with her dog. Is the curate really married? Why are flocks of sheep rampaging through the streets at night? If the landlord's dead, who do the tenants pay their rent to? And just who is the sinister Señor Vigo di Gallidoro?