Download from Apple iTunes (eBook) Download from Smashwords (eBook) Amazon Draft2Digital Amazon Category:  Mystery/Suspense Publisher: draft2digital Type: Fiction Pages: 180 Copyright: 2022 ISBN-13: 9796230316138 Price: $2.99 (eBook) A grieving gangster writes to his still-born twin. Two fathers go seeking their missing sons. His wife and youngest children killed in a bomb attack, this gangster becomes a grief counsellor. At the same time two teenage boys fail to come home. Their fathers suspect that they have broken into the gangster's woodland garden. Excerpt Dear Sister Clare, They suggested that I write to you. What, though, to say to someone dead? What to say to someone who's never been truly alive? I know, if I keep trying, I'll warm to it. Right now, though, I can't think of a thing to write. Or I can - I can think of lots - but not a starting point. Ironical this, in light of my recent profession, that I should be in need of this kind of help. My kind of help. Being a provider of that kind of help I am, of course, beyond that kind of help, beyond my kind of help. Which is why I'm writing to you - you don't exist - I can therefore neither read nor feed your reactions. So here I am, this time, dear sister Clare...

Wayne Lanter
"Reading Sam Smith's novel is akin to driving ninety miles an hour on ice. The tone is light, which only adds to the horror and pointlessness of it all. An entertaining and wonderfully readable book."

Paul Sutton
"Excellent book. I really enjoyed it. It would make an excellent film, with Terence Stamp or Pete Postlethwaite as the mobster. In fact, he's surely worth another book."

Bob Faulkner
“Exquisite! Like the 'Balanced Rocks' of the American west — the entire mass perfectly concentrated on the last sentence.”