Category: Action/Thriller Publisher: Neil Griffin
Type: Fiction
Pages: 296
Copyright: November 2006
“An immediately engaging and well-paced story, well-told,
evoking the atmosphere of Greece and the hospitality of its people”
“ ..a clever mixture of romance, intrigue, history and “whodunnit”
I was pulled to it to the finish”
“A fascinating exploration of motivation in desperate times, I couldn’t put it down”
“...a gripping read with well-drawn and interesting characters”
Aspiring novelist and English teacher Bob Hazzard’s only real friends are Sally, a colleague from Fletcherford Community College’s English Department and the eccentrics who attend his Writers’ Group. The surprise discovery of a deceased aunt sends Bob on a pilgrimage from the comfort of his humdrum life in Northern England to the exotic home and vineyard of the estranged Martha where he resolves to put down his own roots and write the ‘perfect holiday novel’. However her life and in particular, that of her Greek husband Uncle Dimitri, prove to be more sinister than they, at first, appeared and the dark secrets of Martha’s vineyard transform Bob’s life irrevocably.
As Bob absorbs himself into this new community he unearths some dangerous and brutal truths from his own past. A past that means his future will never be the same again. This is a story of belonging, ambition, self-discovery and betrayal. Through its pages readers will discover new things about who they are and how they think. Packed with humourous insights and observations it will appeal to all who dream of writing, of travel and of different futures.
This was no mere illusion. Colin Chase Rand, pulled through a magical portal, landed in 1935 where the dust bowl and the Great Depression was destroying lives, and a serial killer was in their midst
