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On One Normal Night
When life takes a cruel turn and everything you knew becomes the unknown.
Macy Reynolds was an ordinary girl with an ordinary life, until one day that life was shattered by a cruel attack on her.
People’s lives spiral out of control as a number of suspects are interviewed and secrets and lies are unravelled.
But will Macy’s attacker ever be exposed?
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A sociopath managing an aged care facility: What could go wrong?
Precocious and pretty Maxine Gilbert is a clever and talented nine-year-old, adored by a doting father. She is also cruel, sadistic and without remorse, delighting in manipulating others and torturing small animals. When her mother is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, Maxine is disgusted, not just by her mother’s disability, but by the inconvenience it brings. Watching a nurse care for her mother, Maxine learns that nurses can hurt or heal. Maxine decides to be a nurse when she grows up.
Forty years on, after countless complaints against her nursing in various clinical care settings, Maxine scams a job as Managing Director of an aged care facility, Treetops, and the residents are in for a rough time.
Under Maxine’s management, physical and medical restraint of residents is encouraged, and neglect, poor hygiene, and restrictions of residents’ liberty, nourishment and medical support are exhorted. Frightened, depressed, and malnourished residents are left isolated, locked away, and laying in their own waste. They develop excruciating infections, suffer illness, and even die. Maxine faces rising antagonism from Treetops’ residents, and their friends and family.
A new carer at Treetops, Seleena, who recently escaped an abusive marriage, cannot stay silent. Along with warning residents, and others, Seleena writes a letter of complaint. After finding a suspicious lump in her breast, could Maxine, who always hated illness and vulnerability in others, finally learn compassion? Or will she continue her ruthless ways?
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Old Fart Secret Agent
In the gripping spy novel, the hidden machinations orchestrated by governments and corporate giants come to light decades after the fact. Within these pages lies a captivating tale that chronicles the extraordinary journey of an unsuspecting young man thrust into the treacherous realm of espionage. As the story unfolds, the reader is drawn into a web of intrigue, witnessing how the secretive world of shadows can transform an ordinary individual into an unlikely hero. Amidst the tangled web of deception, the question lingers: What fate awaits this amateur operative entangled in a dangerous game beyond his wildest imagination?
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Od Burge
A young detective in a foreign land is desperate to discover how a murderer and a thief can disappear from the face of the earth.
A killer has realised his long run of luck in evading detection and capture is in jeopardy. Will he murder again before his luck runs out?
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Nusantara
After dropping out of university, getting a job as a storeman, doing drugs and then splitting up with his wife, Jack, in a fit of depression, joins the Australian Army and is sent to East Timor at the height of the troubles. He “volunteers” for a mission in Indonesia, where the United Nations, with help from the US Navy and the Royal Marines, are trying to rescue a group of foreigners, mostly Europeans, being held hostage by the local rebels. Jack completes his mission only to become the victim of misdirected revenge.
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Nothing Is as It Seems
Nothing Is as It Seems is a story about the power of love, loss and obsession!
Architect Sam Johnson and his family relocate from London to pursue a new job in York. They seem to have the perfect life, but Sam is hiding a dark secret that he can’t escape.
Lily Hayes is struggling with the loss of her mother’s death. Searching for peace she travels to Australia to distance herself from her haunting past.
Leading separate, normal lives, Sam and Lily are connected by one brutal crime.
When Olivia Bloom goes missing, Lily Hayes’ life is turned upside down as she becomes entangled in the missing persons investigation.
As their lives intertwine, the characters are drawn into a web of secrets.
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Not Another Word!
Lacey and Lloyd Jordan begin a journey no young person should have to embark upon. Their father is serving a ten-year prison term, their mother abandons them.
By the time Lacey is out of foster care, she has been in six foster homes. She has three foster siblings who are missing under mysterious circumstances, each at different times.
She has lost contact with her brother. He ran away from their foster home to search for the missing teens. No one has heard from him since.
A story of perseverance, mystery and suspense, this tale has more twists and turns than a rushing mountain stream.
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Noble Cause
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, or so we are told.
The question is, who says so, the victors or the vanquished? Who controls whom? Who controls the minds of the proletariat?
You of course know the answer. Or do you? Embark on a journey where all is exposed as being corrupt and be prepared to join the corrupters and feel good about having your innermost dark secrets exposed.
The question is...
Can outrageous corruption ever have a noble cause?
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No Revenge
Westminster Magistrate Court, Prosecutor Bill McKenzie, convicts Reg Bailey of Robbery and Grievous Bodily Harm with intent. For attacking Mrs. Robinson by shooting her in the leg after she tried to fight him off. From stealing her handbag.
Reg Bailey’s brother, Carl, and his girlfriend Linda, plan to break into the prosecutor’s house, to kidnap his son Jason in return for the prosecutor to get his brother released. We know Linda, Carl’s girlfriend, is forced to help him, but she is totally against the idea.
DCI Joe Toscani and DI Tanya Spencer are called out to the prosecutor’s family home, to find that their son Jason has been abducted. The two officers try to find out the truth about who may have taken the prosecutor’s son. Does Bill McKenzie have a secret about who they are? And will he have Reg released to get his boy back safe, or will DI Tanya Spencer bring him back?
DCI Toscani and DI Tanya Spencer close in on the truth about the kidnapping of Bill McKenzie’s son, and save the boy?
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No One Will Hear You Scream
Blood feuds rarely end well. Occasionally the hatchet will be buried, but more often than not, it will be in the skull of someone. No One Will Hear You Scream, from the start, narrates the antagonism of a famous author, Ruby Latimer, with a young and ambitious journalist, Lizzie Spector, heroine of Achilles Heel – Your Stalker Solution, author’s first book.
Ruby Latimer has sold millions of books, but the current tome is proving frightfully difficult, ergo finding a suitable ending. Then out of the blue a solution is found. Unfortunately, in order to conceal her successful conclusion, heads may need to roll – quite literally.
Crime will always, unfortunately, be a fact of life. How local gangs develop, expand and terrorize whole estates and communities is also a fact of modern-day living. To some out to protect what they have some gangs offer a lifeline to continuing their privileged life. Ruby Latimer may need to use one if things go pear shape.
This novel contains part of Ruby Latimer’s book. You can reasonably call it the ‘book within the book’, something that whilst at first reading appears irrelevant, but as you continue, the relevance – and the title – becomes all too frighteningly apparent.
This is not a book for the squeamish. It is a genuine adult crime thriller which will keep you guessing as to who has done it! Read on and all will be revealed – maybe!
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Nightshades of New Orleans
A fast-paced novel portraying dynastic Southern families, driven by apocalyptic events involving vampires, genetic experimentation and a serial killer investigation during Mardi Gras. New Orleans' colorful history is vividly recounted and interwoven in the plot, including notorious hauntings and mayhem for which the city is famous. This character-driven novel keeps the reader in suspense, with its diabolical twists, and turns up to the story's dramatic ending and…beyond.
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Neighbourhood Watch
Neighbourhood Watch is based on family dynamics and lifelong repercussions of decisions and actions made in youthful haste. Self-preservation and maintaining a good public image are strong motives throughout the book. Such incentives can lead even the most upstanding people to deception and reveal a darker side, if only to themselves.
Although the main characters differ greatly, they are all linked by events from the past. Neighbourhood Watch explores the danger of putting misplaced trust into institutions or their representatives, for this trust can be manipulated and used to the advantage of those it is placed in. Within the story, there is a heavy focus on the humanity of people and how they deal with a set of circumstances they may have no control over. There is an underlying current that is deconstructed – that a confident woman is seen as almost arrogant and untrustworthy, and is not to be given the benefit of the doubt.
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