A murder mystery involving interesting characters in a peculiar setting with unusual murder weapons and thought-provoking twists and turns.
A simple quest to establish the identity of a strange, confused girl leads Colonel Robert De Waal to a place that seems to be frozen in the horrors and terrors of its past. Armed with the scanty information that the girl has given him and with the assistance of disgraced historian, Gordon Dewhurst, De Waal must unravel the mysteries that lie hidden in the darkness below the surface of an ancient builder’s tomb.
Who is the strange girl who calls herself, Carrie Martins? Is she just a runaway schoolgirl or is she a young nun with a reason to be bitter? Or do they both hold the key to a series of sinister events and brutal murders?
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It had been a long haul for Colonel Robert De Waal and his decision to end it had not come easily. Fighting crime had been an integral part of his life ever since he left school and joined the police service at the age of eighteen. He had initially learned the ropes as a uniformed police officer and what followed had been a natural progression for him to the rank of detective. But it was time to move on—time to do something else.
"We walked in on a surreal scene. There are few words, if any, to accurately describe the abject horror..."
What Jeannie and Kevin McDonough saw was a wanted, multi-state serial killer about to take his next victim - their own daughter. W
Prime-Time Crime Time (600 pages) is a collection of 35 fictional crime/detective stories and the work is author Jay Dubya's 43rd published hardcover/paperback book.
A jaded cold case investigator finds himself trying to solve a thirty year old mystery when the skeletal remains of two missing teenagers are found in a national park.
