Author of Random Bullets , The Hostile, Holiday for The Hostile, The Hostile Game, Confronting The Hostile, The Hostile Series Box Set, Potholes and Magic Carpets, Living with Postcards, Her Demonic Angel, the Mug Trilogy, The Trouble With Liam, The Trouble With Trouble, Trouble In Cornwall, Troubled, Nuru And His Crows, The Brothers Grimshaw, A Sunny Day In Oldham, and The Storms of Padstow.
Books by Joy Mutter
There are paperback and Kindle versions of my 20 books on Amazon. Audiobook editions of The Hostile, Holiday for The Hostile, The Hostile Game, Confronting The Hostile, Random Bullets, Potholes and Magic Carpets, A Slice of the Seventies, Her Demonic Angel, and The Trouble With Liam are also all available on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes.
In July 2015, I published on Amazon A Slice of the Seventies, The Lying Scotsman, and Straws, which all form the loosely autobiographical Mug Trilogy. They were followed by Potholes and Magic Carpets, a contemporary novel set in rural Kent and London. I also published my only non-fiction book, Living with Postcards on Amazon. Random Bullets is a contemporary psychological thriller with a paranormal twist.
Fourteen of my short stories written up can be found in Her Demonic Angel, written in a variety of genres, so there’ll be something for everyone to enjoy. Her Demonic Angel is also available on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes as an audiobook.
In 2016, I published Kindle, paperback, and audiobook editions of a contemporary crime thriller with a paranormal twist called The Hostile. In late 2016, I published book two in The Hostile series, called Holiday for The Hostile. Book three, The Hostile Game, was published in April 2017. Confronting The Hostile was published in August 2017. There are audiobook editions of all four books in the series on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. I narrated book one and Alexander Doddy narrated books 2-4. The Hostile Series Box Set is available in Kindle and paperback.
In late 2018, I published The Trouble With Liam, a psychological crime thriller. In 2020 and 2021, I published three erotic thrillers, The Trouble With Trouble, Trouble In Cornwall, andTroubled. I’ve posted some chapters of these ‘outrageous’ books on my Sexy Books Corner on this website.
In 2021, I published Nuru And His Crows, an erotic thriller. The perfect lives of Cara and Elke spiral out of control after meeting Nuru and his crows. https://amzn.to/2UbSubv
I published my first novella, The Brothers Grimshaw, in 2022. It’s based on my time working as a graphic designer for a rundown print firm in London in the 1970s. https://amzn.to/33osBK3
In July 2022, I published a dark thriller called A Sunny Day In Oldham. https://amzn.to/3aIcMBK
In March 2023, I published The Storms of Padstow, book 2 of the Nuru and his Crows series. Currently, I’m working on book 3 of the Nuru and his Crows series of erotic thrillers. Busy, busy, busy.
The Hostile is a contemporary paranormal crime thriller and first book in The Hostile series.
In a rundown area of Manchester, inside a bathroom in a small, terraced house overflowing with children and dysfunctional parents, an unfathomable, powerful entity infiltrates twelve-year-old Serena’s life with disastrous effects. The enigmatic force not only dramatically affects introverted Serena’s life but threatens the well-being of everyone she knows, especially those people who for some reason have earned the strange girl’s displeasure. It soon becomes clear that nobody should ever upset Serena if they know what is good for them. After reading The Hostile, you’ll never look at DIY in the same way again.
Holiday for The Hostile, book 2 of The Hostile series, is probably even stranger than the first. Serena, plus her unusual friend and partner in crime, Tile X, reluctantly find themselves suffering a family holiday inside her eccentric grandfather’s hovel in Ireland. Who will escape intact from their dramatic holiday from Hell? A paranormal crime thriller with a splash of horror.
Holiday for The Hostile is available in paperback and Kindle editions on Amazon. An audiobook edition, narrated by Alexander Doddy, is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
In The Hostile Game, Manchester-based Serena, now eighteen and pregnant, finally discovers the reason why Tile X befriended her seven years before. She doesn’t like what she hears. Mayhem ensues, with a retired Irish police superintendent becoming more involved than perhaps he should have. Book three of The Hostile series.
The Hostile Game is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions. An audiobook, narrated by Alexander Doddy, is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
In Confronting The Hostile, a retired Irish superintendent and his former colleague, a handsome DCI from Liverpool, attempt to rid themselves and the world of their lethal tile masters. Will they succeed in reclaiming their freedom, or will the bizarre killing games continue?
Confronting The Hostile is book 4 in The Hostile paranormal crime thriller series. It was published on Amazon in Kindle and paperback editions on 9th August 2017. An audiobook version is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. It can be enjoyed as a standalone like the other three books in this unusual series.
Confronting The Hostile is available in Kindle, paperback and audiobook formats. The Kindle is free with Kindle Unlimited. Alexander Doddy narrated the audiobook which can be found on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. The Kindle link is http://amzn.to/2vm1Vpn
The Hostile Series Box Set
Published in 2017. 710 pages.
The Hostile Series is a collection of every book in The Hostile series of unusual contemporary British paranormal crime thrillers. Book 1 is The Hostile, Book 2 is Holiday for The Hostile, Book 3 is The Hostile Game, and Book 4 is Confronting The Hostile. This ‘refreshingly original’ series is set mainly in Manchester, Liverpool, and Ireland. Get it before it gets you.
Available in Kindle and paperback. There is an audiobook of all four books on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. Link to Kindle: http://amzn.to/2uXJDre
Her Demonic Angel is fourteen of my short stories written thus far. The stories have been written in a variety of genres, so hopefully, there should be something for everyone. Some tales are stranger than others, but all could be said to be different shades of dark.
Random Bullets is a psychological thriller with a paranormal twist. After shooting and killing his nephew, a gunman runs wild in a London park. What drives Edward to commit such a heinous act? Who will survive yet another of his moments of madness? Set in Jersey, Cornwall, Manchester, London, and places not of this world.
This non-fiction book describes my close relationship with old postcards, mainly fantasy ones. I have collected them since art college in the seeventies and now own over two thousand of these charming, beautiful, historic items. I started collecting them whilst writing my thesis on Fantasy in Postcards when I was studying for a graphic design degree. All the postcards in my book are from my own large collection.
A Slice of the Seventies – Book One of The Mug Trilogy
Published on Amazon in 2015. 246 pages.
This first book in the loosely autobiographical Mug Trilogy tells the story of Jersey-born Mug, a troubled girl from a recently broken home. It covers her time as a sixteen-year-old at the Isle of Wight Music Festival in 1970, the year she follows a guru and tracks her tumultuous time as an art student in Coventry. It follows her time with fellow-student, David, and the dramatic events which lead on from their graduation.
An audiobook of A Slice of the Seventies, narrated by Tracey Norman, is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
The words in this loosely autobiographical book were triggered by the entanglement between Mug, a recently divorced, disinherited, temporarily sex-obsessed woman, and Michael, a complex, mendacious, Scottish baggage handler. Destiny threw this Gordian knot her way one night in early 2004. She was an honest, trusting, troubled woman in her late forties. He was an enigma in his late thirties who was hiding many shocking secrets. Her original plan was to write about their unusual story as a gift to him, taking the opportunity to describe her life prior to their meeting because it shaped how she felt about him, why she tolerated what others might deem unacceptable and dictated how she lived her future life. The purpose of this book changed into a desperate effort to make sense of unfolding, bizarre events and to help them both deal with the aftermath.
The aftermath of Mug’s time whirled in The Lying Scotsman’s vortex. This book documents her struggles to achieve a happy outcome in her relationship with men, family, work, and life in general. It is the third book in the third-person autobiographical Mug Trilogy. Who will be Mug’s final straw, and what prompted her to write and publish books in her sixties?
Straws is available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle editions. Free with Kindle Unlimited.
The main action takes place in rural Kent and London in 2015. It looks at the dramatic incidents, challenges and temptations in the past and present lives of four couples of varying ages, professions and sexual persuasions that are all linked by either blood or friendship. Just as in life, the negative, selfish, sometimes violent natures of some of the characters in Potholes and Magic Carpets wreak havoc on the innocent. A tale of not so simple folk.
Potholes and Magic Carpets is available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle editions. An audiobook edition, narrated by Tracey Norman, is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. Published on Amazon in 2015. 298 pages. Link to the paperback edition of Potholes and Magic Carpets on Amazon.
The Trouble With Liam
Published in 2018. 280 pages.
THE TROUBLE WITH LIAM is a powerful psychological thriller set in Ireland and Sheffield. It tells the life story of Liam O’Sullivan in all its twisted glory. It begins with tales of his challenging childhood in Dublin and follows him through tragic events that change him into a misogynistic, controlling, ultimately lethal bully living in Sheffield. Liam thought he could do as he pleased … until he was taught otherwise. Prepare to be shocked in different ways throughout the book. If you enjoy lashings of dark humour, situations to make your eyes pop out, thrills of every kind, all wrapped up in a gripping, dramatic storyline, please read on.
Available as Kindle and paperback editions on Amazon. The audiobook, narrated by Tracey Norman, is on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. Link to the Kindle edition on Amazon https://amzn.to/2xOTHqU
The Trouble With Trouble
Published on Amazon in 2020. 382 pages.
THE TROUBLE WITH TROUBLE is a powerful erotic thriller set in a Sheffield police station. The story follows on from The Trouble With Liam but can be read as a standalone. When a forensic scientist invents a potent sexual arousal cream called Trouble, it causes huge problems for DCI Jeremy Cosgrove, his beautiful sex-addicted liaison officer, Kate Pendleton, and two other women who also work at the station. It’s a tale of blackmail, lust, secrets, hidden identities, and murder. The Trouble With Trouble is like Line of Duty but with explicit sex.
Be warned. As with book 1 in the Trouble series, The Trouble with Trouble isn’t a book for the faint-hearted or easily shocked. I’ve written two more books in the Trouble series which can also be read as standalones. Trouble In Cornwall is now published and book 4, Troubled, will be out in late 2020.
Available in Kindle and paperback editions. Free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers. Link to the Kindle edition on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3eM9Kte
Trouble In Cornwall
Published on Amazon in 2020. 367 pages.
DCI Cosgrove and Kate Pendleton, his sex-addicted liaison officer, find themselves in all kinds of bizarre and extreme situations when they are seconded to a Cornish police force to help find Jessie O’Sullivan’s kidnapped son. Jessie is Liam O’Sullivan’s wife from book 1, The Trouble With Liam. Kate catches the eye of Russell Bell, Jessie’s charismatic but deeply flawed Jamaican boyfriend. All hell breaks loose in this third book in the Trouble series.
Available in Kindle and paperback. The Kindle is free with Kindle Unlimited. Link to Trouble In Cornwall: https://amzn.to/3fBBWyh
Troubled
Published on Amazon in 2021. 315 pages.
In TROUBLED, the discovery of the naked body of a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl on the banks of the River Don in Sheffield throws DCI Jeremy Cosgrove and his team into the dark world of grooming gangs. Scientist Fenton Nightingale is on the run and out for revenge, still causing havoc with his Trouble arousal cream invention. DCI Cosgrove and DS Theresa Smart know they must catch him to prevent worldwide harm and chaos.
The explicit adult content in this fourth book of my “outrageous” Trouble series of powerful crime thrillers is guaranteed to shock as much as the other three books in the series, maybe even more. “Shocking, funny, and full of unrestrained sexual antics.”
Available in Kindle and paperback. The Kindle is free with Kindle Unlimited. Link to Troubled: https://amzn.to/3pOLeMY
Nuru And His Crows
Published on Amazon in 2021. 297 pages.
Nuru And His Crows is a dark erotic thriller drenched in magical realism. Cara O’Grady, a British ex-model, and Elke Klaus, a German film star, meet fortune teller Nuru and his two crows in the depths of the Congo Basin. The lives of both beautiful women soon spiral out of control in spectacular fashion. Sexually explicit material. Available in Kindle and paperback. The Kindle is free with Kindle Unlimited. Link to Nuru And His Crows https://amzn.to/2UbSubv
The Brothers Grimshaw
Published on Amazon in 2022. 88 pages. The Brothers Grimshaw is a novella set in London in the 1970s. The story is based on the author’s trials and tribulations during her first job after leaving art college. Working for a pittance as the sole graphic designer for the owners of a rundown print firm in Kilburn certainly had its challenges, comic moments, and dangers.
In the novella, A Sunny Day In Oldham, a gruesome murder triggers dramatic changes in DS Mark Jenkin’s complex double life. His passion for redheads proves dangerous. This contemporary thriller contains sexually explicit material.
THE STORMS OF PADSTOW is book 2 of the Nuru and his Crows series of dark erotic thrillers.
All hell breaks loose when French model Eloise Le Brun meets fortune teller Nuru and his two crows before her wedding to wealthy hotelier, Spencer Storm.
The Storms of Padstow is available on Amazon in Kindle (free with KU) and paperback editions. Explicit content.
My books can all be found on Amazon in Kindle and paperback editions. Nine also have an audiobook version on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes http://amzn.to/2jjmleB
THE HOSTILE is book 1 of The Hostile 4-book series of paranormal crime thrillers. An audiobook, narrated by yours truly, is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. In a rundown area of Manchester, inside the bathroom of a terraced house overflowing with children and dysfunctional parents, a small but powerful entity befriends young Serena with disastrous results. This unlikely enigmatic force not only dramatically affects introverted Serena’s life but also threatens the well-being of everyone she knows. It soon becomes clear that nobody should ever upset Serena if they know what’s good for them. After enjoying The Hostile, you’ll never look at D.I.Y. in the same way again.
HOLIDAY FOR THE HOSTILE is book 2 of The Hostile series. Narrated by Alexander Doddy, the audiobook is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. Serena and her unusual partner in crime, Tile X, find themselves suffering a family holiday at her eccentric grandfather’s hovel in Ireland. Who will manage to escape intact from their dramatic holiday from Hell?
THE HOSTILE GAME is book 3 of The Hostile series. Narrated by Alexander Doddy, the audiobook is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. In The Hostile Game, Manchester-based Serena, now eighteen and pregnant, finally discovers the reason why Tile X befriended her seven years before. She doesn’t like what she hears. Mayhem ensues when a retired Irish police superintendent becomes more involved than perhaps he should have.
CONFRONTING THE HOSTILE is book 4 in The Hostile paranormal crime thriller series. Narrated by Alexander Doddy. the audiobook is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. A retired Irish superintendent and his former colleague, a handsome DCI from Liverpool, attempt to rid themselves and the world of their lethal tile masters. Will they succeed in reclaiming their freedom, or will the bizarre killing games continue?
HER DEMONIC ANGEL consists of fourteen of my short stories. I wrote them in a variety of genres, so there should be something for everyone. Some tales are stranger than others, but all are different shades of dark. Narrated by me, the audiobook can be found on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
RANDOM BULLETS is a contemporary psychological thriller with a paranormal twist. It’s set in Jersey, Manchester, London, and places not of this world. After shooting and killing his nephew, a gunman runs amok in a London park. What drives Edward to commit such atrocities? Who will survive yet another of his moments of madness? Narrated by Alexander Doddy, the audiobook is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
POTHOLES AND MAGIC CARPETS is a contemporary character-driven novel set in rural Kent and London. It looks at the dramatic incidents, challenges, and temptations in the lives of four couples all linked by blood, friendship, or lust. The negative, selfish, sometimes violent natures of some characters in the book wreak havoc on the innocent. A tale of not so simple folk. Narrated by Tracey Norman, the audiobook is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
A SLICE OF THE SEVENTIES tells the third-person autobiographical story of Jersey-born Mug, a troubled girl from a recently broken home. It covers her experiences as a teenager at the Isle of Wight Music Festival in 1970, the same year she follows a guru. The book tracks her tumultuous four years as an art student in Coventry, where vegetarian Mug finds herself living next door to an abattoir and a railway shunting yard with David, a fellow art student. Dramatic events follow on from the evening they first meet at a party, where David is attempting to commit an extremely public suicide. Whether you were around during that decade or not, you’re bound to enjoy this nostalgic Slice Of The Seventies. Narrated by Tracey Norman, the audiobook is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.
THE TROUBLE WITH LIAM is a powerful psychological thriller set in Ireland and Sheffield. This first book in The Trouble 4-book series tells the life story of Liam O’Sullivan in all its twisted glory. The book begins with tales of Liam’s challenging childhood in Dublin and follows him through tragic events which change him into a misogynistic, controlling bully living in Sheffield. Liam thought he could do as he pleased until he was taught otherwise. Prepare to be shocked in different ways throughout the book. If you enjoy lashings of dark humour, situations to make your eyes pop out, thrills of every kind all wrapped up in a gripping storyline, please read on.
I keep a copy of each of my books on this little shelf near the chair where I write them. The sculpture was made by my brother, Steven Houiellebecq.
I would love to hear your feedback on all my books. You can leave comments on this website or my Amazon author page, which can be found at the links below.
The Hostile is a contemporary paranormal crime thriller and first book in The Hostile series.
Published in 2017. 190 pages.
Published in 2017. 176 pages.
Published in 2017. 710 pages.
Published in 2015. 268 pages.
Published on Amazon in 2015. 246 pages.
Published in 2015. 426 pages.
