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What a Wicked Web We Weave
What a Wicked Web We Weave is a novel full of mystery, intrigue, murder, revenge, fraud and betrayal amongst many other things. It has several twists and turns as you get enthralled into each chapter and it will leave the reader in suspense and at the edge of their seat, right up to the end.
After spending ten years working for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), Tony Lodge finally lands the job of his dreams in the fraud department. He gets thrown in at the deep end when they receive an anonymous phone call, asking them to investigate one of their managers. Being the new kid on the block, it was easier for the department to put him on the case, as it was thought to be a hoax.
As Tony gets deeper and deeper into the investigation, things start to unfold and point him in the direction of someone a lot closer to home than he imagined. Tony tracks back in time to when the office the senior manager in question moved to when it opened a few years before. This is when the investigation starts to throw open suspicious deaths and an episode of mystery.
I hope you enjoy reading my first novel, What a Wicked Web We Weave, as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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Wednesday's Bananas
1974 was by no stretch of the imagination, the most tranquil year of Ireland’s history and 46 year old Robbie McDolan would be wise to realise how lucky he was to be employed aboard the German registered freighter under the command of Captain Hank on their way south across the warming Atlantic on their way to the Republic of Colombia to load a full cargo of some 300,000 boxes of bananas, half of which were to be destined for the Republic of Ireland. Captain Hank expected this to be a quiet voyage, ending in him going on leave for a well-earned rest, once back in Europe. But would the Columbian drug barons of Medellin have other ideas?
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Watching
ANCOM, a dormant committee of secret service and police representatives, is brought back to life under the leadership of Group Captain Reginald Young. As the manager of a new biowarfare research centre, Young is thrown into a dangerous game of espionage and deception when a member of ANCOM is murdered. Teaming up with MI5/6, Young sets out to uncover the truth and stop the misappropriation of crucial British defence information. The investigation takes him from the North Norfolk Coast to Oxford and Kenya, leading him to cross paths with international financiers and high-level government officials in Whitehall.
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Warsecret
There are good secrets, bad secrets, and mysteries. Two dramatic incidents happen on the same day. First, a hacker attack is carried out in England, then the old Farm Hall tapes are stolen from the National Government Communications Head Quarters (NGCHQ) – England’s most secure archive. Achilles, the main protagonist of Warsecret, sees a sinister and dangerous connection between the two events. As the top negotiator of Organisation Number One (ONO) and director of the Global Agency for Informed Consent (GAIG), he must find out why and how they are linked. A series of suspenseful and dramatic actions take place in Berlin, Cambridge, London, and New York. During this sensational adventure, Achilles relies on the help of his young, stoic assistant, Lucillo, and the advice of two enlightened colonels, James Neill and Dag Olsen. The final act plays out at a global negotiation about nuclear weapons and the quantum computer, where the deep-rooted danger of scientific inventions of this type will become apparent. As will the terrifying system of secrecy that screens them from scrutiny.
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Violent Horizons
A young man, nursing a tortured soul just because he is different. OK, so what’s wrong with being a short-arsed, curly ginger-haired, pale faced, thin looking lad with freckles? Plenty in London’s tough East End during the 1960s.
At the age of 18, something inside Eddie Coleman snapped. His worm had turned, and turned vicious. From here on, he was going to be someone to be reckoned with. Someone to fear. Recruiting like-minded individuals from downtown Limehouse, his crew expanded rapidly. Their deeds and wrongdoings leave a trail of blood, beatings, blackmail, robberies and murders.
At the height of his reign, Eddie finds love. For a time, he seems to have the Midas touch. Even the law cannot put a finger on him, or so he thought. Was it love or the law that finally brought him to his knees?
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Verdict Unknown... The Sequel
Following the murder of Albert Noel Parke’s first wife and the eventual jailing of the perpetrator, Welshman William Jones, the local police in Cornwall begin to suspect Parke himself. A Detective Inspector in the London Metropolitan Police, known as ‘Bobby’ to his friends, he is accused of framing Jones for arranging the death of his second wife. Jones was convicted, but Detective Sergeant Arnold Baxter of the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary is determined to uncover the truth.
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Verdict Unknown
The continuous ringing of the doorbell disturbs the shower of Detective Sergeant Albert Noel Parke, after he comes home to his wife from a tiring 20-hour shift. When he opens the door, the caller has already left, but what awaits him in his lounge is a gut-wrenching sight, even for a police officer.
The stock-piling evidence points to Parke being the cold-blooded killer of his wife. Yet circumstances take a fortunate turn when a chance incident leads to discovering the real perpetrator behind the crime.
All is well until ten years later, when Parke marries for a second time and his wife is strangled to death in the room on their honeymoon.
All suspicion points to the same murderer who killed Parke’s first wife.
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Vengeance is Mine
In Nursery Rhymes, D.C.I. Keir Dickson put two young brothers behind bars for eight years. In They Never Saw It Coming, the government devised a two-year plan to reduce the congested English prisons. A priest by the name of Fr. Shaun O’Brien takes on the task of rehabilitating the two brothers, or so it appeared. The real purpose of taking on these two brothers was to wreak vengeance on the police and British army. D.C.I Keir Dickson foils the plan but the priest is injured, losing his hand in the process.
The story now continues with Shaun O’Brien escaping from the hospital bed, hellbent on revenge for the death of his two twin brothers, shot by British soldiers while trying to run a roadblock in Ireland, and for the torture to which he was submitted.
D.C.I. Keir Dickson and his team now have the task of finding O’Brien, and finally bringing him to justice for good.
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Unity
Finn, a young doctor working in Dublin, is leaving the hospital one night when he is nearly run over by a car. He dismisses it as an accident at first, but a second near miss in Oxford station while visiting his grandfather convinces him that someone is trying to kill him. Finn’s attempts to find out who is targeting him leads him down a path to discover the sinister secret that is endangering his life. The truth takes him across The Atlantic to Canada, where he becomes entwined in a world he never could have imagined and tries to find a way to come to terms with the past so that he can have a future. £9.99 -
Union Blues
A nature lover, Willow embraces life to its fullest potential. After all, she is living her life as two people. When her identical twin sister, Molly, sadly dies a short time after birth, she carries with her the memory of sharing the same beginnings of life.
When Willow becomes a mother, the voice of Molly begins to drown out all sense of reality as post-natal depression takes over her every thought.
Gabriel is a third-year medical student when he begins a relationship with Willow. Coming from a very different background, he hides his own secret, one which will have far-reaching and serious consequences.
As the story unfolds, it is revealed that his parents’ own troubled past is the driving force behind the unfolding events.
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Une Autre Fois, Mate!
My name is Dougay Roberre. I've been living on the Cote d’Azur for nine months and in that time, I’ve solved the death of a beautiful blonde, survived a serious beating by criminals, and unraveled a 40-year-old mystery.
Now with a five percent share in l’Opera Mozart, I have big plans for ‘my café’. That is if I can stay out of trouble and solve a few nagging questions.
Why is there an out-of-town detective shining a torch onto the cafe from the alley?
Why is Paul Villan, property developer, interested in a family park?
Why is notorious film star Belinda Swann back in town dressed as a man?
“The sad thing about widespread corruption,” continued M’sieur Pom, “is that most of it is for small amounts. Why do people sell their souls for such little return? They should make the deceitfulness worthwhile. Forget 10 euro, pocket 10,000 from behind a smoke screen.”
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Twins Torment of War
This is a novel about twin boys who are separated after the divorce of their parents, a German mother, and an English father.
One son joins the German army at the outbreak of World War 2 and the other joins the British army.
Their paths finally meet at the end of the war. In a desperate search to find his brother before the Americans and Russians find him, Albert is sent to Germany to bring his brother, Alfred, home to England to stand trial for war crimes and to prevent Alfred from receiving the death sentence.
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