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Dispatches from the DarkBook 4 of The Newspaper Chroniclesby Tim Battersby. In a London gripped by fear and division, a series of brutal attacks on LGBTQ+ individuals sparks a chilling investigation into a far-right conspiracy hiding in plain sight.Investigative journalist Jamie Stroud and her partners—tech genius Lucy D’Tremont and British aristocrat Sir Christopher Fenton—follow a trail that begins with a car bombing and leads to encrypted podcasts, coded hate speech, and a secret network that thrives beneath respectability. At the heart of the plot is the elusive “Colonel Trent,” a ghostly figure orchestrating chaos from the shadows.But as the trio delves deeper—with help from MI5 agent Miles Fenton and loyal bloodhound Poirot—they uncover a truth more shocking than any of them imagined. The mastermind isn’t who they thought. He’s someone they know. Someone once trusted.From posh art galleries in Chelsea to a forgotten estate in Sussex, Dispatches from the Dark is a taut, intelligent thriller that explores how hatred festers in silence—and how justice demands light.At once a gripping mystery and a sobering social commentary, this fourth installment of The Newspaper Chronicles is Tim Battersby at his most incisive and unflinching.
The Couple is a mesmerizing tale that blends psychological suspense with intimate character study. The narrative unfolds through the eyes of Robbie, a crime reporter who becomes captivated by the confessions of his elderly neighbor, Margot Hutcheson. Her stories—delivered over shared dinners and deep drinks—hint at decades of unsolved murders that she and her late husband Eric committed together.
What begins as an unsettling curiosity for Robbie quickly turns into an all-consuming obsession, driven by the chilling accuracy of Margot’s drunken confessions. As he digs deeper, the line between journalist and accomplice blurs. Robbie’s transformation from passive listener to relentless investigator is handled with a deft touch, revealing the psychological toll of dancing too close to the darkness.
The narrative’s structure—split into fifteen brisk chapters—keeps the reader hooked, layering confession upon confession until the final reveal leaves an unforgettable mark. Each chapter drips with atmosphere: rainy nights, clinking glasses, whispered memories that slip into Robbie’s mind like a fog.
ANOTHER LEGACY
By Tim Battersby
When Florida teacher Jenny Holland inherits her late uncle’s remote estate, she expects a quiet legacy. Instead, she discovers a hidden vault, a cryptic letter, and a ledger of names—men who escaped justice after the Holocaust and quietly embedded themselves in American life.
Guided by her uncle’s posthumous instructions and a secretive survivor's group known only as 24B, Jenny uncovers a chilling truth: one of these fugitives may have fathered a prominent U.S. Senator, and their ideology—rebranded, repackaged—is poised to reawaken.
As Jenny follows a trail of forged identities, secret files, and shadow networks stretching from Argentina to Washington D.C., she must decide whether to expose a buried evil or protect a fragile future. But justice comes at a cost—and legacies, once unearthed, cannot be reburied.
Another Legacy is a gripping historical-political thriller about memory, inheritance, and the quiet war between truth and silence.
THE ACCIDENTAL BANK ROBBER
A Short Story by Tim Battersby
All Tim Battersby wanted was to cash a check.
Instead, he became a national sensation, a trending hashtag, and the namesake of a muffin.
Thrust into the chaos of mistaken identity, courtroom absurdity, and media mayhem, Tim must clear his name with the help of Clifford B. Trumble, an utterly inappropriate public defender with a fondness for sock puppets, cowboy boots, and wildly unorthodox legal strategies.
A side-splitting satire of modern life, viral fame, and the terrifying power of poor phrasing, The Accidental Bank Robber is a wildly funny tale for anyone who’s ever been misunderstood by a bank teller… or a nation.
He stepped off a freight train in 1932 with nothing but a dream—and changed a North Carolina town forever. Martin B is the unforgettable true story of a young hobo who jumped off a train in Jasperville, North Carolina during the Great Depression—and never left. Armed with little more than determination, grit, and a love for the land, Martin B transformed a patch of riverbank into a thriving watermelon farm, a nationally renowned bluegrass festival, and a community built on trust, hard work, and handshakes. Told by a friend who came to know Martin decades later, this heartfelt narrative traces a life lived simply but powerfully. From buying timber from Mennonite farmers to gifting his beloved wife a new Lincoln each year (and helping her load it with sheep), from hosting legends like Doc Watson and Merle Haggard to finally learning to read in his eighties, Martin B’s story is full of warmth, wisdom, and unforgettable moments. Martin B is more than a biography. It’s a tribute to the kind of man who didn’t need headlines or accolades—just good soil, good music, and good people. A celebration of resilience, legacy, and the quiet greatness of rural America
James Winston appears to lead the perfect middle-class life: a respected civil engineer, a devoted husband, and a father to three privately educated sons. He and his wife Celia live quietly in Cambridge, surrounded by Sunday cricket matches, school runs, and garden barbecues.
But James harbors a secret.
He is also a highly trained contract killer—working in the shadows for a man named Victor Carswell, a ghost from his past who has built a global assassination network known only as Janus. For years, James has balanced this double life, justifying each job as a means to protect his family and fund their future.
Everything begins to unravel when Celia discovers a name in one of James’s notebooks: Aurelia. A silent phone call. A missing file. A chance encounter with an old university friend now working in intelligence. Slowly, she begins to piece together the truth—that the man she married is part of something far darker.
Meanwhile, MI5 analyst Simon Ashcroft has traced a string of impossible deaths across Europe, each marked by surgical precision and no forensic trace. His investigation leads him back to the one name he never expected to see again: James Winston.
When Victor launches Operation Eclipse, a plan to dismantle global democracy in a single coordinated strike, James, Celia, and Simon must join forces. What follows is a deadly race across Europe—to sabotage Victor’s plan, expose Janus, and survive long enough to put the past to rest.
In the end, it’s not about vengeance. It’s about truth.
And the price of keeping secrets.
Hitman is a taut, emotionally rich thriller exploring betrayal, identity, and the thin line between protector and predator.
Ciaran Reilly is a young novelist who discovers that someone appears to be mimicking the crimes he is writing about in his mysteries. His murder victims turn out to be actual crimes that are currently unsolved. So who is reading his novels and then
committing the murders? Or could it be the other way around? The young novelist begins to investigate the cases he has written about chronologically and discovers that none of them seem as they seem. The Paperback Writer takes the reader on a journey into the mind of the wicked and heinous crimes of a killer who has yet to be found.
“The House on Cypress Lane” tells the story of an ordinary suburban couple whose suspicions about their new neighbors lead them into the dark world of child trafficking.
When Jon and Abbie Lefchek move in next door, their detachment from their baby daughter Lisa seems strange but easily dismissed—until a friend recognizes them from another neighborhood where they lived with a baby boy named Michael. The narrator’s curiosity soon turns to unease as she notices small details: Lisa never cries, never grows, never plays outside. Courier vans arrive with unmarked boxes. Lisa is gone overnight, just as the Wilsons vanish.
Determined to find out the truth, the narrator and her husband piece together a pattern of disappearances, each linked to the Lefcheks and their shifting aliases. Their findings reach the ears of Inspector Graham, who confirms the horrifying truth: the couple is part of a sophisticated child trafficking ring that operates under the radar, moving children from vulnerable families through seemingly safe suburban homes.
With the FBI’s help, the narrator and her husband agree to act as bait in a sting operation, pretending to be old friends in order to infiltrate the Wilsons’ carefully controlled world. The tension ratchets up as they play a dangerous game of neighborly politeness, all while the FBI’s surveillance team closes in.
The operation culminates in a dramatic raid that rescues the newest child, Chloe, and dismantles the Lefcheks’ five-year empire of horror. The epilogue flashes forward twenty-three years: Chloe is now a successful attorney, dedicating her life to protecting the vulnerable children she once was. Her handwritten letter to the narrator—thanking them for noticing—underscores the novel’s central message: even in a quiet cul-de-sac, courage can change everything.
The Accord is dead. Its borders remain. Its lies still breathe.
In a fractured nation once called The Accord, truth is drawn in pencil—and erased in ink. Ardin Vale, a weary government cartographer, has spent years redrawing borders to support a crumbling regime. But when a forbidden map resurfaces—a relic of the republic that once was—Ardin is pulled into a quiet rebellion of outcasts, signal-breakers, and memory-keepers.
As the Ministry weaponizes maps to rewrite reality, the breakaway territories known as the Severance declare their independence. Cities vanish from screens. People disappear with the stroke of a stylus. And amid the chaos, Ardin must choose: remain complicit in the fiction, or risk everything to draw the truth.
In a world where lines are lies and memory is rebellion, The Final Draft is a dystopian novella about cartography, censorship, and the fragile art of remembering what power wants you to forget.
Windsor Square is a captivating mystery tale set in Notting Hill, London, revolving around the seemingly idyllic lives of David and Sarah Langdon, a retired television mystery writer and a jingle composer. Their home in Windsor Square has been the heart of family life for decades, hosting Sunday lunches and games of rounders with their children and grandchildren. However, a subtle and sinister undercurrent weaves through their days as David, an amateur painter, discovers that the paintings he creates each morning seem to capture glimpses of the past, present, and future in their square—unsettling portraits of neighbors, ghostly figures from Victorian times, and images of events that have yet to occur.
Sarah, suspicious of David’s newfound preoccupation, begins to unearth hidden truths about the square’s history—tales of tragedy, buried secrets, and echoes of time travel that defy explanation. As David’s paintings become more vivid, the Langdons find themselves drawn into an escalating mystery: are these merely the ramblings of an aging mind, or is there truly a portal in Windsor Square—a time-bending connection to the ghosts of the past and whispers of the future? With suspenseful twists and an air of magical realism, Windsor Square explores the boundaries between memory, history, and the illusions of domestic tranquility.
The Stories Behind the Songs
By Tim and Laura Battersby
From the award-winning musical duo Tim and Laura Battersby comes a delightfully whimsical journey through childhood, imagination, and lyrical mischief. The Stories Behind the Songs brings to life twenty original songs—each transformed into a short story filled with heart, humor, and just the right amount of chaos.
Whether it’s a quiet cat who turns out to be a cow (Buttercup the Bovine), a bubble-loving tornado of energy (I Love Bubbles), or a heroic battle against the nightly menace known as The Bedtime Bug, each chapter captures the spirit of a song and spins it into a fully imagined tale. Playful, poetic, and occasionally profound, these stories are perfect for reading aloud, giggling under the covers, or revisiting again and again.
At its core, this collection celebrates the simple joys of family life, the boundless power of imagination, and the music that lives in every moment—whether you’re chasing bubbles, dodging bath-time rubber ducks, or singing about tacos and jellybeans.
Funny, heartfelt, and endlessly charming, The Stories Behind the Songs is a book for dreamers, dancers, and anyone who knows that the best stories often begin with a tune.
Steve, a seasoned journalist with an instinct for corruption, moves into a quiet Florida suburb with his wife Shannon. Next door: Justin and Kirsten Wallace—an unremarkable couple with unsettling routines. When Steve follows them one night across the bridge into a dangerous Tampa neighborhood, he uncovers a chilling pattern—each late-night journey seems to precede a murder.
As Steve’s investigation deepens, he links the Wallaces to six unsolved killings. But his anonymous exposé sparks terrifying retaliation: surveillance, threats, and the unmistakable message that the Wallaces know everything. Captured and given a choice—silence or self-destruction—Steve escapes with his life and a terrible truth: the Wallaces are part of something much larger.
Years later, in isolation, Steve is still haunted. The story is over—but the watchers never left.
When investigative teacher-turned-truthseeker Jenny Holland uncovers the final chapter of her late uncle’s secret life, she thinks her journey is over. But in the shadows of the White House, a deeper conspiracy is just beginning.
The First Lady of the United States—elegant, adored, and trusted—harbors a chilling secret. Groomed by Soviet handlers, educated at the Sorbonne, and embedded in elite American circles, she is no political spouse… she is a weapon decades in the making.
As Jenny’s son Jason, a Secret Service agent, begins to suspect the woman he’s sworn to protect, a web of deception unfolds—one that spans Cold War sleeper cells, sonic propaganda, faith-based infiltration, and a secret network known only as The Orchard.
With the help of a childhood friend turned NSA analyst, Jason launches a daring sting operation inside the most secure residence on Earth. What he uncovers will shake the foundations of the presidency—and force a nation to reckon with the enemy within.
Taut, intelligent, and ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, Another Legacy: The First Lady Files is a gripping political thriller where history’s sins bloom in the present—and freedom’s future hangs by a thread.
Annie and Daniel were childhood sweethearts. They'd known each other since they were in kindergarten and lived just 3 doors away from each other for most of their lives. Annie worked for a haulage company and Daniel was a long distance truck driver. They began dating in High School and the day after their graduation Daniel proposed to Annie. He took her to a fancy restaurant on the edge of town called the Mill and in front of a full restaurant got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. Annie burst into tears and through them nodded an emphatic yes to his question. They broke the news to their parents who were overjoyed at the prospect of joining their families together with this union and 8 months later the happy couple wed at the St Gerard Majella Catholic Church in Paterson New Jersey.
Love is rarely smooth, and the couple had some severe problems that turned them into people they did not recognize and that neither of them would ordinarily associate with. Read what happens to this "happy" couple in Murder for Hire.
Synopsis: A Storm Is Coming
By Tim and Laura Battersby
A Storm Is Coming is a soulful collection of lyrical short stories inspired by the songs of Grammy-winning duo Tim and Laura Battersby. Spanning humor, heartbreak, reflection, and rebellion, this 20-chapter journey weaves music and narrative into a deeply human experience.
The book opens with themes of unity and justice in Freedom and A Child Cries, shining light on societal divides and the innocent voices caught in the crossfire. From there, we enter smoky blues bars and back-alley truths in Introduction to the Blues and It’s Just Business, where the tone is raw, pointed, and powerful.
Whimsy enters the stage with stories like Just the Six of Us and Apostrophe, which reimagine family and language with humor and imagination. Meanwhile, quiet introspection fills chapters such as Sitting, The Old Man, and The Wait, where characters confront time, memory, and identity.
Throughout the collection, the personal remains political, and the poetic becomes personal. Whether walking the streets of East L.A., strumming on a tropical beach, or gazing back at lost summer days, the Battersbys remind us that music is more than sound—it is story, heart, and connection.
The final chapters—especially Summer Days Long Gone and You Can Take Away All of My Money—tie the journey together with tenderness and wisdom, offering gratitude for the love and trust we give and receive through a lifetime.
A Storm Is Coming is not a warning, but a promise: that art will weather the winds, carry our truths, and sing us home.
The Potting Shed is a captivating mystery tale set in Notting Hill, London, revolving around the seemingly idyllic lives of David and Sarah Langdon, a retired television mystery writer and a jingle composer. Their home in Windsor Square has been the heart of family life for decades, hosting Sunday lunches and games of rounders with their children and grandchildren. However, a subtle and sinister undercurrent weaves through their days as David, an amateur painter, discovers that the paintings he creates each morning seem to capture glimpses of the past, present, and future in their square—unsettling portraits of neighbors, ghostly figures from Victorian times, and images of events that have yet to occur.
Sarah, suspicious of David’s newfound preoccupation, begins to unearth hidden truths about the square’s history—tales of tragedy, buried secrets, and echoes of time travel that defy explanation. As David’s paintings become more vivid, the Langdons find themselves drawn into an escalating mystery: are these merely the ramblings of an aging mind, or is there truly a portal in Windsor Square—a time-bending connection to the ghosts of the past and whispers of the future? With suspenseful twists and an air of magical realism, The Potting Shed explores the boundaries between memory, history, and the illusions of domestic tranquility.
The Inquiry is a short story about a medical practice taking advantage of aging patients in their care and informing them they were in need of expensive treatments that would be billed to Medicare. More and more this fraud is being used across the US, abusing Medicare, but also and possibly more importantly abusing their patients rights.
The Time Traveler
by Tim Battersby
Daniel Weiss is an ordinary teenager with an extraordinary problem—he can’t stop falling through time. One moment he’s walking the fogbound streets of London, the next he’s fighting for survival on a privateer’s deck, or standing in the ranks at Hastings. At the heart of his journey is a mysterious silver locket, a device that flings him into history’s turning points without warning and demands that he survive, adapt, and sometimes change the course of events.
From the blood-soaked beaches of the Norman conquest to the smoke and chaos of the American Revolution, Daniel is drawn into battles, conspiracies, and alliances with figures both famous and forgotten. He navigates the shifting loyalties of smugglers and soldiers, spies and sovereigns—always searching for a way home.
But the locket has its own designs, and each leap through time seems to pull him deeper into a hidden pattern. In wars across centuries—the clash of steel at Hastings, the roar of cannons at sea, the desperate marches of redcoats and rebels—Daniel begins to suspect he’s not just a witness to history. He’s part of it.
Now, hunted by enemies who understand his secret and mistrusted by those closest to him, Daniel must face the truth: the locket will not rest until he plays his role in a centuries-spanning game. And in a world where one wrong move can alter the future, survival is no longer enough—he must decide what kind of history he’s willing to leave behind.
Back Cover Blurb for The Aldwych Routine
What if your dream came true... in the wrong decade?
Joe Bennett is a twenty-six-year-old accountant with one big ambition: to make people laugh. But when he wakes up in the middle of the Blitz—bombed-out London, 1940—his carefully ordered life is gone, replaced by rubble, ration books, and the sound of sirens overhead.
Lost in time and clinging to purpose, Joe finds shelter in the underground—literally—where frightened Londoners huddle through nightly raids. With nothing to lose, he tries out a few jokes... and discovers the healing power of laughter in a city under siege.
As his reputation grows and the shadows deepen, Joe is summoned to 10 Downing Street by Churchill himself. But with his knowledge of the future, Joe faces an impossible choice: stay silent and protect the timeline—or speak the truth and risk altering history forever.
A moving, mysterious, and surprisingly funny tale of war, wonder, and one man’s search for home, The Aldwych Routine is a time-slip novel about finding your voice when the world needs it most.
When the invitation arrived, it seemed innocent enough.
A weekend in the English countryside at a snowbound estate, hosted by aristocrats, promised roaring fires and polite conversation. But for investigative journalist Jamie Stroud, tech-savvy sleuth Lucy D’Tremont, and ex-intelligence baronet Sir Christopher Fenton, Farrow Glen becomes something far more sinister.
A guest drops dead at dinner. A second dies before dawn. The storm outside traps everyone inside—while a killer moves freely through hidden passageways below. And beneath the surface lies something older and colder than murder: a Cold War-era intelligence network built on secrets, surveillance, and silence.
Files surface. Codenames are revealed. One name keeps returning: Becket.
As the body count rises, and the true nature of Farrow Glen is uncovered, the trio must navigate a deadly maze of lies, buried legacies, and ghosts that kill to protect the past. Because Becket never died.
And the last Cold War isn’t over. It’s just been waiting.
The Chase
After World War II, many Nazi war criminals faced justice at the Nuremberg Trials, but others slipped through the cracks, vanishing into South America, Europe, and even the United States. Some arrived on forged documents, blending into American society, their horrific pasts buried beneath new identities.
One such man—a former SS officer who oversaw atrocities at Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Buchenwald—built a new life in Detroit, hiding in plain sight for 17 years. Under an assumed name, he established a successful company, his past crimes erased by time and deception. But when a new employee, a Holocaust survivor, recognizes him as his former captor, the façade shatters. The Nazi panics, disappearing overnight, setting off a high-stakes manhunt led by Artemis Securities—a covert organization dedicated to hunting down fugitive war criminals. Armed with multiple identities, caches of money, and an intricate escape plan, the fugitive evades capture across a dozen states, forcing Artemis to play a relentless game of cat and mouse.
But The Chase is more than just a pursuit through history’s shadows. At its heart, it is also the story of corruption at the highest levels of American government. Jenny Harriman, a high school English teacher, never imagined inheriting her late uncle’s vast fortune—let alone his business empire of 107 companies. As she travels the country to learn about his legacy, she uncovers shocking secrets about his past and the powerful enemies he made along the way.
Meanwhile, Jenny’s son-in-law, Stephen, a Secret Service agent assigned to the First Lady, stumbles upon a dangerous conspiracy. When he overhears her speaking Russian in a hushed phone call, suspicions mount. Teaming up with an NSA analyst, he uncovers a plot that threatens the very foundation of American democracy. But the deeper they dig, the more perilous the game becomes.
And then there’s Cynthia Hawkins, Jenny’s new assistant, whose true identity is far more than meets the eye. A survivor of Auschwitz, Cynthia is an elite Nazi hunter working for Artemis Securities, and her latest target is none other than the fugitive now on the run.
As Jenny finds herself entangled in a web of espionage, betrayal, and deadly secrets, she must navigate a world she never knew existed. What started as an inheritance becomes a fight for justice—and survival.
Will Artemis succeed in bringing a monster to justice? Can Jenny and her allies expose the truth before it’s too late? The Chase is a pulse-pounding thriller that weaves history and modern-day intrigue into an unforgettable story of redemption, reckoning, and the enduring fight against fascism.
C Phyle is the creation of Tim the author of this piece of work. Way back when dinosours roamed the earth Tim used to make tons and tons of mistakes. (grammatically speaking) In his office in the subterranean region of Florida he tended to dispose of 'said' mistakes by tossing them in the trash can. Because Tim is a Brit he calls the trash can 'the circular file.' Over the decades he amassed thousands of these pesky errors, and thus, rather than be a litter bug, he decided in his infinite stupidity to save them. What better name could there be for his mistakes, but Circular File (trash can) Tim decided to abbreviate the name and obviously misspell it to add confusion. Hence C. PHYLE was born
Many Nazi soldiers were arrested after WW2 and prosecuted at the Nuremberg Trials, but some escaped justice and fled to Brazil, Argentina, and beyond. Many of them managed to slip into the United States using forged documents. The Authoritarian tracks one such war criminal, a Nazi who worked at Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Buchenwald concentration camps overseeing Jews and killing many for his sadistic pleasure. This man entered the USA on forged papers and through a series of deft moves formed a company in Detroit where he lived in anonymity for 17 years until one day a new employee recognized him as one of his captors from the camps and turned him in. The man panicked and vanished while Artemis Securities a company that hunted Nazi war criminals chased him across a dozen states. Luckily for the Nazi, he had an escape plan with multiple different IDs and a suitcase full of money, so was able to disappear at a moment’s notice.
The Authoritarian is also the story of a US President who becomes corrupted by bribery and illegal business transactions, narrated by Jenny Harriman a teacher who inherits her uncle's sizable fortune after he dies. It chronicles how she not only inherits his large fortune but also his business empire which includes 107 companies that he owns around the USA. To understand the way he does business; she chooses to visit a number of his companies and in doing so discovers a side to her uncle she never knew. Jenny’s daughter Molly a young doctor at Walter Reed Medical Center is married to Stephen a Secret Service agent at the White House as part of the First Lady's security detail. After hearing the First Lady speaking Russian on the phone Stephen starts to suspect her of being less than the patriot she claims to be. Stephen then confides this information to his in-laws and a friend who is an NSA agent. In their investigation, Stephen and Ron subsequently discover a plot to unravel the very fabric of American democracy and do their level best to solve this perplexing mystery.
In an interesting subplot, Jenny Harriman discovers that her new personal assistant Cynthia Hawkins is, in fact, a survivor of Auschwitz and is also a Nazi hunter employed by Artemis Securities tasked to track down Nazis who have managed to enter the United States illegally. Cynthia’s current case is to track down and arrest a fugitive who was a high-ranking Gestapo officer responsible for the death of thousands of Jews in concentration camps in Poland during WWII.
Never in her wildest dreams did Jenny a mild-mannered high school English teacher imagine that she might get caught up in such danger and intrigue, but as she learns about Uncle John she finds herself getting in deeper and deeper. Will she survive? The Authoritarian takes a deep dive into the corruption that is fascism and ultimately finds a way for the United States to deal with electing a rogue President.
The Coffee Conundrum by Tim Battersby
Bernard Bixby isn’t asking for much—just a decent cup of coffee and a quiet morning without emotional turbulence or pants-related incidents. But when his coffee machine dies a tragic, gurgling death, Bernard is thrust into a caffeine-deprived spiral of existential dread, public embarrassment, and latte-fueled absurdity.
What starts as a simple quest for caffeine turns into a hilarious urban odyssey involving unicorn lattes, overly chipper baristas, and brief philosophical tangents about toaster therapy. As Bernard navigates crowded coffee shops and mind-numbing small talk, he becomes the unwitting hero of his own jittery epic—powered by equal parts desperation and espresso.
The Coffee Conundrum is a fast-paced, wildly funny monologue that blends observational comedy with heart. Perfect for fans of Robin Williams-style storytelling, it’s a love letter to coffee, chaos, and the universal madness of mornings.
Hello, my name is John Lennon and I’m an eighty-pound chocolate brown Labrador. I look after a nice if not somewhat stupid couple of humans called Robin and Trevor. I have them well trained and so now they leave me alone all day to sleep as much as I like. In the morning I watch my shows and then around noon I go for a run down to the lake to chat with my duck friends. Occasionally a human throws bread at the ducks which I intercept in order to save them from getting brain damage. My duck friends are always pleased to see me. We play this game called scatter. The rules are simple. Ducks swim and I jump in the pond. Ducks scatter. Game over. We play it every day and they love it. Do you speak duck? It’s a mix between Cantonese and grilled salmon. I always head home before Robin and Trevor get home. When they walk in the front door I’m lying on my cushion, and it always seems to make them say the exact same thing. “Oh, John Lennon you look so cute. Who’s a good boy then?” On Wednesdays, every week the middle school at the end of my road serves pepperoni pizza and I like to go over there at 12:15 and scrounge some leftovers. I think I can train the kitchen staff to give me my own plate. One day last week I went over, and the ladies were sitting outside smoking cigarettes, and I put on my sad face, and before I could say Arthur Treacher one human gave me a plate to myself. It should only take me a couple more visits to have them trained. I love to play fetch and so I go to the dog park where I have lots of friends. We all speak the same language and love to play fetch. The rules are a bit more complicated than Scatter. First of all you need a human. His or her job is to be the thrower. Preferably they can throw long distance but if not a dog needs to pick his team mates carefully. There is a protocol to playing this game and it requires some mad skills (I’m not sure what that means but I once heard Trevor saying it to Robin) Humans like to play bounce. They always play it in the dark. Trevor seems to like playing Bounce more often than Robin, but after a dish of water on a Friday night she is happy to join in as long as “he gets on with it.” When I was younger, I liked to roger Robins leg, but she got uncomfortable if I did it too much. I don’t understand humans. Robin is always telling Trevor to “treat me gently” but when they are playing Bounce, she keeps shouting at him “harder harder harder!”
Prudence became an orphan at 2 years old and Ballet became her life, until World War II when she became a freedom fighter with the resistance
The Cloister is a yarn about a young "privileged" chap who is accepted to Cambridge University whose ambitions are to follow in the comedic footsteps of well known celebrities who were also educated at Cambridge. His plans don't work out as smoothly as he had hoped and involve a 25 year old mystery that he vicariously helps to solve.
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Hello, my name is John Lennon and I’m an eighty-pound chocolate brown Labrador. I look after a nice if not somewhat stupid couple of humans called Robin and Trevor. I have them well trained and so now they leave me alone all day to sleep as much as I like. In the morning I watch my shows and then around noon I go for a run down to the lake to chat with my duck friends. Occasionally a human throws bread at the ducks which I intercept in order to save them from getting brain damage. My duck friends are always pleased to see me. We play this game called scatter. The rules are simple. Ducks swim and I jump in the pond. Ducks scatter. Game over. We play it every day and they love it. Do you speak duck? It’s a mix between Cantonese and grilled salmon. I always head home before Robin and Trevor get home. When they walk in the front door I’m lying on my cushion, and it always seems to make them say the exact same thing. “Oh, John Lennon you look so cute. Who’s a good boy then?” On Wednesdays, every week the middle school at the end of my road serves pepperoni pizza and I like to go over there at 12:15 and scrounge some leftovers. I think I can train the kitchen staff to give me my own plate. One day last week I went over, and the ladies were sitting outside smoking cigarettes, and I put on my sad face, and before I could say Arthur Treacher one human gave me a plate to myself. It should only take me a couple more visits to have them trained. I love to play fetch and so I go to the dog park where I have lots of friends. We all speak the same language and love to play fetch. The rules are a bit more complicated than Scatter. First of all you need a human. His or her job is to be the thrower. Preferably they can throw long distance but if not a dog needs to pick his team mates carefully. There is a protocol to playing this game and it requires some mad skills (I’m not sure what that means but I once heard Trevor saying it to Robin) Humans like to play bounce. They always play it in the dark. Trevor seems to like playing Bounce more often than Robin, but after a dish of water on a Friday night she is happy to join in as long as “he gets on with it.” When I was younger, I liked to roger Robins leg, but she got uncomfortable if I did it too much. I don’t understand humans. Robin is always telling Trevor to “treat me gently” but when they are playing Bounce, she keeps shouting at him “harder harder harder!”
Prudence became an orphan at 2 years old and Ballet became her life, until World War II when she became a freedom fighter with the resistance
The Cloister is a yarn about a young "privileged" chap who is accepted to Cambridge University whose ambitions are to follow in the comedic footsteps of well known celebrities who were also educated at Cambridge. His plans don't work out as smoothly as he had hoped and involve a 25 year old mystery that he vicariously helps to solve.
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The Richard Madigan Affair is the story of a young investigative journalist, Jamie Stroud who has been assigned to write a piece on a local Chicago businessman who had been accused of inappropriate behavior with a school board member. As she begins her investigation murky details start to emerge about his life. Upon further investigation, this self-professed family values man appears to be heavily involved with less than savory characters including members of the Russian Mafia. The article she is writing becomes a 6 part series called Betrayal and tells the story of a man lured by greed, into the depraved world of murder, drugs, kidnap, corruption and money laundering.
The English Affair is the third book in the Newspaper Chronicles trilogy. Throughout history, villains have always taken center stage. Jamie Stroud the investigative journalist for The Chicago Clarion teams up once again with her friends Lucy D’Tremont and Sir Christopher Fenton to solve a case of the murder of an armored car guard who was a local Chicago hero. The trio is also investigating a crime where a synagogue is attacked and 5 parishioners are killed. As the case unfolds Jamie Stroud is attacked. This time however the attack comes from her bosses after a complaint is filed against her. Jamie is suspended for a year. The trio decides to move to London where Sir Christopher owns a flat in Knightsbridge where they plan to live. No sooner have they arrived when they are ensnared in an art theft which they are asked to help solve. This action-packed mystery takes the indomitable trio on a journey of intrigue from stories about living in the ghettos of Poland and the subsequent capture and survival in Auschwitz to a Manor House in Buckinghamshire to investigate the robbery of an invaluable Monet painting and the vivid tales of world war 2 pilot Squadron Leader Pongo Underhill who would fly female operatives behind enemy lines where they would parachute into hostile territory and help the resistance blow up roads and buildings. The English Affair is the third book in the trilogy The Newspaper Chronicles.
Imagine if you will, that you discover that your Dad is not whom he says he is. That is what happened to young Matt Chandler an Oxford university student who finds a photograph of his father as a young man wearing a Nazi uniform.
The Imposter follows a maze of lies, and distractions that plead with Matt to investigate his own father, a man whom he has trusted and loved his whole life. What will he do? Will he, for the sake of "family harmony" bury the evidence that he might find, or will he expose everything he holds to be safe and secure?
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Many Nazi soldiers were arrested after WW2 and prosecuted at the Nuremberg Trials, but some escaped justice and fled to Brazil, Argentina, and beyond. Many of them managed to slip into the United States using forged documents. The Autocrat tracks one such war criminal, a Nazi who worked at Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Buchenwald concentration camps overseeing Jews and killing many for his own sadistic pleasure. This man entered the USA on forged papers and through a series of deft moves formed a company in Detroit where he lived in anonymity for 17 years until one day a new employee recognized him as one of his captors from the camps and turned him in. The man panicked and vanished while Artemis Securities a company that hunted Nazi war criminals chased him across a dozen states. Luckily for the Nazi, he had an escape plan with multiple different IDs and a suitcase full of money, so was able to disappear at a moment’s notice.
The Autocrat is also the story of a US President who becomes corrupted by bribery and illegal business transactions, narrated by Jenny Harriman a teacher who inherits her uncles' sizable fortune after he dies. It chronicles how she not only inherits his large fortune but also his business empire that includes 107 companies that he owns around the USA. In order to understand the way he does business; she chooses to visit a number of his companies and in doing so discovers a side to her uncle she never knew. Jenny’s daughter Molly a young doctor at Walter Reed Medical Center is married to Stephen a Secret Service agent for the White House as part of the First Lady's security detail. After hearing the First Lady speaking Russian on the phone Stephen starts to suspect her of being less than the patriot she claims to be. Stephen then confides this information to his in-laws and a friend who is an NSA agent. In their investigation, Stephen and Ron subsequently discover a plot to unravel the very fabric of American democracy and do their level best to solve this perplexing mystery.
In an interesting subplot, Jenny Harriman discovers that her new personal assistant Cynthia Hawkins is, in fact, a survivor of Auschwitz and is also a Nazi hunter employed by Artemis Securities to track down Nazis who have managed to enter the United States illegally. Cynthia’s current case is to track down and arrest a fugitive who was a high-ranking Gestapo officer responsible for the death of thousands of Jews in concentration camps in Poland during WWII.
Never in her wildest dreams did Jenny a mild-mannered high school English teacher imagine that she would get caught up in such danger and intrigue, but as she learns about Uncle John she finds herself getting in deeper and deeper. Will she survive? The Autocrat takes a deep dive into the corruption that is fascism and ultimately finds a way for the United States to deal with electing a rogue President.
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