The eighth novel from award-winning author Carolyn McCrae Hostage to Fortune is an intriguing, well written, tightly-plotted and entirely satisfyingly completed story with a twist. Husband and wife team, Skye and Fergal Shepherd, specialise in researching family histories but also act as consultant investigators to a section of the Security Services run by Gordon Hamilton. Having met in A Set of Lies they completed their first assignment in Second Strand and are called upon again in Hostage to Fortune. Gordon asks them to investigate the disappearance of Diane Hammill, a keeper of a safe house. Within a few days they believe they have located her but, against direct instructions, they then involve themselves in two other, seemingly unconnected, events that occur in Diane’s home town within days of her disappearance: the assassination of prominent politician, Warwick Eden, and the apparent suicide of Ryan O’Donnell, a crew-member on Eden’s luxury yacht. Skye and Fergal focus their attention on Guy Cliffe, another member of Eden’s yacht crew, whose family appears to be linked to Warwick Eden’s dead brother, Barford. What they learn of four generations of the Eden family leads them to Southern Spain, to the horrific events of 1936 and that country’s Civil War and it is there that they find the solution to the mystery Gordon had intended them to investigate all along; not Diane’s disappearance, not the assassination, nor the subsequent murders, but something altogether more interesting. Set in Devon, the Caribbean and Spain, Hostage to Fortune will appeal to fans of non-formulaic crime and mystery fiction.
Susannah’s life is split between unravelling her grandfather’s history to identify the people who are threatening her family and searching for her own happiness with a series of unsuitable men.Part three of the Iniquities Trilogy, Runaways has something for everyone - whether they have read the previous novels in the series or not.
When a man is shot dead in full view of a number of eminently respectable witnesses the police appear to have an open and shut case on their hands. Or have they jumped to an easy conclusion because the victim was one of their own? Perhaps the victim is not as innocent nor the accused as guilty as the prosecution makes them out to be. Perhaps the accused was the real victim....
Part II of The Iniquities Trilogy continues to examine the relationships in the Donaldson family. A love story is set against the gradual unravelling of one man's secrets, showing how his actions have shaped the destiny of all generations in the family.
There were always two very different sides to Anya Cave. Some saw an intelligent, attractive girl who would go far, but too close to the surface was the uglier Anya; promiscuous, self-obsessed and manipulative. She becomes determined to overcome the disadvantages her family have heaped on her.
The first volume of "The Iniquities Trilogy", this title illustrates themes of immorality and unfairness by exploring the interlocking pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that are the relationships in a damaged family.
Second Strand is an excellently written, well-plotted murder mystery and is the 7th novel from award-winning author Carolyn McCrae. Alex and Teri are on the verge of breaking up after 12 years together when their elderly neighbour is found dying and their plans are put on hold. Two days later Alex, the police’s only suspect in what is now a murder investigation, disappears without trace. Private investigators, hired by Teri, learn that Alex is the lost son of the victim but tracing the family’s history proves to be more difficult than it should have been. If they are to find Alex, and establish his innocence, they must identify the connections between this killing and one, still unsolved, which took place in the same town two years earlier. Carolyn McCrae, whose first novel The Last Dance won the prestigious David St John Thomas Prize for Self-Published Fiction, has cleverly created a tale of mystery that unravels the complexities of relationships forged and betrayals perpetrated through the Cold War. Second Strand shows how a man’s bitterness has ruined lives through more than half a century and will appeal to fans of fast-paced and intelligent mysteries.
Poetry is ecstatic speech. It is intended to be spoken aloud, not simply read silently from the page. D.H. Lawrence's poetry is ecstatic in nature, particularly his poems which are concerned with issues of human wholeness. The Author's vision for writing this book has been simply to introduce some of D.H. Lawrence's magnificent poems in such a way that others might come to love and appreciate them as deeply as he does. People from every gender and walk of life can find enjoyment and inspiration from Lawrence's poetry in "Hunger For Wholeness".
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