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RIP - Crimson
RIP – Crimson is the second of Len E Hooke’s trio of part thriller, part treatises on the human condition and the journey we all must face.In this instalment, the rogue killer spirit is trapped in the spirit world, but further killings drag Inspector Judy Marchant deeper into the mix, to a point where she must question her sanity and re-evaluate God’s true creative intentions.Hooke’s complex meditations on God and life make for a thoroughly enriching yet immensely enjoyable work.
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RIP - Synergy
This story is based on fact. It is an account of the issues and events that took over the author's life for decades. Part spiritual journey, part whodunnit, RIP-Synergy describes the uncovering of a rogue spirit who is taking young lives in a brutal fashion for no apparent reason, and in an almost undetectable manner. At the request of spirit elders, the narrator teams up with a sympathetic police inspector to track down the rogue spirit, in order to prevent further loss of life and restore equilibrium to the spiritual realms. RIP-Synergy is the first of a trilogy of books dealing with many aspects of the human condition. It is a whirlwind journey of soul, spirit and energetic discovery. This is a book for anyone who has ever thought about the meaning of life on earth, and what might lay beyond. The author of this book writes under the pseudonym of Len E Hooke.
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Spain, Guard my Bones
Journalist Charlie Barrow originally intends to explore Spain as a tourist, to relax and escape from the pressures of work. But after his arrival in Castillo, where a mass grave of Civil War victims has been discovered, Barrow can't resist the temptation to follow his gut and seek answers. Accompanied by an intelligent lawyer, Carlito, and a beautiful archaeologist, Elena, Barrow wastes no time making enemies of a powerful political party and another, misguided, lawyer, Ortiz. Chasing the story of corruption in a land where old-fashioned political prejudices die hard, Barrow travels from country to city, and back again. Dodging bullets, Arab bodyguards, and untrustworthy officials, the shambling journalist seems certain to face many triumphs as well as the loss of friendships, loves and hopes.
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Sun Burn
Set on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Ibiza, Sun Burn is a steamy thriller which revolves around the island's drug-fuelled club scene. Leaving behind her dead-end life in London, Stacey follows her dancer friend Lucia to Ibiza, finding work in the island's world-famous nightclub Amnesia. Very quickly she and Lucia get drawn into the dangerous underworld after a mistake involving a large consignment of drugs. The girls fall out and Stacey goes it alone in Ibiza's busy West End district until she reconnects with Aaron, a handsome stranger who helped her on her first night on the island. However, Aaron is not all he seems and the mystery over the drugs consignment comes back to haunt them, eventually threatening their lives.
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Thank You Ma'am
Gezirah Du Mortier's life began in tragedy when her mother died while giving birth to her. Little did she know the spiral of events that had been put in motion on that fateful day. Her father, John, a wealthy and powerful man, showed little affection to Gezirah as he held her responsible for his wife's death. He eventually got remarried to the beautiful and sophisticated Anne. But is she all that she seems?Becoming increasingly jealous at how Gezirah is blossoming into a beautiful young woman, Anne plots to have her kidnapped and shipped to America. After arriving in America, terrified and alone, Gezirah is first bought and then forced to marry James Black, a hard and brutal cowboy. She is then taken to his ranch in Arizona.Will Gezirah adapt to her new life or will she try to escape back to her homeland?
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The Betrayal
Dean Nash feels that something is missing from his life and, one day, is invited to a night club, and, suddenly, everything changes after meeting the owner, Nick Burns. Nash is involved in a robbery masterminded by Burns and soon begins to grasp every opportunity, following instructions from his new mentor. Their actions quickly fall under investigation by a government agency headed by Jon Wagstaff. Nash not only has the fear of Wagstaff around every corner, but soon enters into a journey of self-awareness over a past he knows nothing about. Nash’s best friend, Shaun Neal, is completely unaware of Nash’s involvement in the robbery and suddenly, driven by anger following the death of his new girlfriend, goes on the rampage after Nash. The final standoff sees Wagstaff, Burns, Neal and Nash in a shootout ending with an unfortunate death, but which men survive to see another day remains to be seen.
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The Devon Scot
John Gunn has found himself the perfect job, close to his home in South Devon. Having trained as a marine biologist, it’s a change of career, but it will allow him to set up home with Kate, his long-term girlfriend. But within weeks, it all starts going wrong.Together with his boss Bill Hexter, he becomes embroiled in a macabre discovery on a local farm. It looks like a scoop. But with no explanation, Bill tells him to drop the story. Ever impetuous, John persists and is summarily fired. The following day, Bill is killed in suspicious circumstances.Realising he must be the prime suspect, John tries to discover the truth behind Bill’s death, whilst staying out of reach of the law.
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The Fischers, Vol 2 Married to Mayhem
Pyah and Mark Fischer are taking some well-earned time off to celebrate their first wedding anniversary in Africa. Unfortunately, their holiday is cut brutally short when they find that a bounty has been put on their heads.Suspecting this is the work of an old enemy after revenge, they find themselves joined by their boss Carl Sinclair, his girlfriend/PA Sarah and their MI6 friend Lacey, to try and take care of their enemy before they find themselves killed by villainous mercenaries, only too keen for the bounty money.But things are not all they seem as a simple revenge plot warps into something much more sinister, and the Fischers and their friends must try and work out friend from foe in an increasingly dangerous set of circumstances before it is too late - for themselves and for the world.
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The Meddling Ghosts
In turns both hilarious and tragic, two worlds collide in The Meddling Ghosts.A cast of inept ghosts, some of them centuries old, and a modern, dysfunctional family, hooked on technology and social media, co-habit Cuckoo House, a former inn. Meet the Berridges: Elaine and Hugh – teetering on the brink of a marriage break-up – and their teenage children, Leah and Jake. Elaine is chronically depressed, and spends most of her time asleep or on Facebook. Hugh has become dependent on alcohol. Leah seeks solace in a perilous online world, Jake on his Xbox.The ghosts – a disparate bunch led by Colonel Pine, who still looks at everything as a military operation – have a mammoth task on their hands to stop the Berridge family from self-destructing. But will their meddling be enough?
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The Odessa Connection
2008: Almost three years have passed since the tumultuous events outlined in The Mendelssohn Connection, which thrust the unwilling Isaac Menshive into a position of global responsibility as the head of a fabulously wealthy family trust. Isaac now lives quietly, if luxuriously, in a dacha in the west of Russia with his new family: his young wife Sophie, heavily pregnant with their second child, and his infant son. While Isaac’s marital contentment has put paid to his former philandering ways, it is his old friend and most trusted adviser Will MacIntosh who finds himself emotionally unmoored — at exactly the moment when events conspire to put the immense burden of the trust squarely on his shoulders.Still in danger from unknown forces that will stop at nothing to get their hands on the trust’s considerable assets, Will and his team continue to investigate its origins and the extraordinary fortune that it has accrued over the centuries. The team’s researches point them in the direction of the city of Odessa and the early 20th century, and the unexpected involvement of two men: the first a very familiar figure from Russian history; the second hailing from Will’s own backyard on Prince Edward Island…Moving between Russia, the Ukraine, London and the Mediterranean, this second instalment of the trilogy that started with The Mendelssohn Connection finds our protagonists Will and Isaac tested as never before. Now that he has so much to lose, Isaac experiences the extremes of joy and despair, while Will, weighed down by ever more responsibility, finds his stolid self- assurance evaporating as he discovers betrayal lurking around every corner.
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The Phoenix Project
The 1960s saw great upheaval in the West, with social change giving rise to civil disobedience, no more so than in the student movement. By 1968 the government has become concerned that communism may be a factor and calls on Polly Bottomley for advice. Mrs Bottomley, a retired MP, has unrivalled experience of Soviet conspiracies, having been involved on two occasions with their attempts to conspire, both in Britain and in Europe.However, her life will be put in grave danger and an emotional and romantic attachment will become a distraction over which she has no control and will change her life forever.The Phoenix Project paints a vivid picture of how political ambition can be exploited for personal reasons and can soon spiral out of control.
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The Puppet Tears
Marianna Pascal discovers a secret drawer in the basement of her home – a drawer filled to the brim with hexes and spell-settings that seem in some way related to her and her partner, Samuel. She is unaware of the ramifications her discovery will have on the course of her happy existence.Lying in the core of the drawer are dolls of her and Samuel, bound and stitched together, with hair that can only have grown from her head, and clothes made from garments believed lost or misplaced. She breaks the bonds and removes the doll, and thus begins the undoing of the spells that have controlled her life and her love for the past two decades.Samuel must act fast to prevent losing everything he’s embroiled into his skewed existence, stepping further into the world of the occult than he ever has before to prevent losing everything he’s contrived into his undeserving life, but to what end?The Puppet Tears takes you on a journey inside a warped mind, a mind that long ago rejected a reality that denied it the life it craved. But all things in life must come at a price. Is Samuel willing to pay the piper?
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