Showing posts with label #crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #crime. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Deadly Deception -Insomniac-

By P. J. Mann

This is the second book of the trilogy Deadly Deception. As we say bye-bye to Ethan Jackson who was the main character of the first book of the trilogy, we are going to meet new friends, which will entertain us with their personal vicissitudes.

Here is the blurb:
Something keeps Laura Jefferson up at night. Maybe it’s the Boston traffic, maybe the sounds of the city outside her apartment window, maybe the stresses of day to day life. Whatever it is, when she’s offered a radical treatment at a secluded hotel, she doesn’t even hesitate.

But while the hotel is perfect, the grounds idyllic, and Dr. Wright and his staff friendly and eager to help, it isn’t long before Laura’s fellow patients begin acting strangely, some even dropping out of the program altogether, disappearing into the night. As Laura loses chunks of time, a detective arrives, and the questions at the heart of the hotel begin to unravel.
Continuing the trilogy, Deadly Deception -Insomniac- draws closer to the mystery of Dr. Wright’s research, and the lies behind Laura’s perfect night of sleep.

Excerpt:
He took out his notebook and started to write some notes about what his feelings were. That was a sort of self-psychoanalysis or a way to understand himself and to get a better grasp over the triggers that take over a serial killer.

Although with just one murder on his conscience, he could not consider himself a serial killer, he knew from the very beginning that the need to step into murder was feasible.

“There are things that I still fail to understand about the feelings of being an assassin, of planning and eventually executing a murder. Something for sure is the powerful effect it has on the conscious.
Like a heavy curtain, it is able to obliterate any other feelings like compassion and empathy. When I think about the process, my brain gives priority to what gives me some sort of pleasure. It is like it’s trying to push aside the feelings like regret, fear, compassion, and empathy, emphasizing the pleasure I can get from the power of choosing the fate of another human being.
It feels like I am no longer a fellow human, but a sort of super being that has the power and right to decide who is going to live and who instead has to die.
This is a sort of trigger I might use with my patients, to help them in their fight against the murderer inside them…
Sometimes to cure a monster, you need to become a monster yourself.”

He shook his head and hoped that nasty story would have come soon to an end. “If I get out of this alive, I promise to leave the country and peacefully enjoy my life.”
He took a deep breath and switched off the lights hoping to find some rest.

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Sunday, October 28, 2018

Guest Author: Patrick Moffett #OurAuthorGang

Our guest today is Patrick Moffett

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Following a highly successful 35-year career in the IT industry, Patrick ditched his corporate life in the big city in exchange for a house in a coastal forest and followed his lifelong dream of writing a novel. Patrick lives with his wife of 47 years, two chows and an inherited poodle. In between penning his latest violent thriller, he enjoys the somewhat more peaceful company of his four adult children and eleven grandchildren.

INSIDE OUT

When Adam's wife, Wendy, is murdered, he executes a series of vigilante killings and, as a result, is invited to join an organised covert operations unit, rather than face life in prison. Given a new name and a new identity (and a faked death to boot), Adam adopts the identity of Bataleur and commences his new life as a trained and lethal fighter and assassin, working directly for the government. Alongside his new colleagues, he works to take down prominent political players when requested, targeting businessmen and women alike to maintain national security and apparent order.

Taking place in South Africa, Inside Out explores crime, gang culture and politics using multiple narratives and various newspaper clippings to paint a vivid and action-packed story of lawbreaking and violence that is well-concealed from society.


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JOIN THE DOTS


From Afghanistan to Johannesburg, from Libya to London, a team of highly-trained undercover operatives is engaged in a race against time.

Martin Stevens, Eleanor Watts, Nombeko Tshivhase and Lukas Shabalala work for the underground agency IA3, under the command of Sid Blackman, Thabo Madonsela and Julius Mafere. When a child-trafficking ring is exposed, this team must enlist the aid of the CIA and the local police services in a dangerous mission to unearth the ring-leaders. But the tentacles of this evil gang extend far beyond the borders of South Africa and the team's investigation leads them deeper and further than they ever believed they would go.

What is the connection to the gangs of Soweto, and how is the nefarious and powerful Imam Abed Al-Kumein involved? What is one of the largest investment banks in South Africa's role and who is the mysterious hacker, Vladimir Al-Masri?

What is the most you would do, to halt the malevolent actions of powerful people? How many dots would you join, when they led you into unspeakable horrors and danger?


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nicola L Osguthorpe

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Looks exciting Patrick! I've shared on my author page
 
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Tricia Drammeh

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Welcome to #OurAuthorGang, Patrick!
 
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Today on #OurAuthorGang,author Patrick Moffett​ talks about his political and gang-related thrillers.
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Joe Bonadonna

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Excellent premise, Patrick. Thank you for being our guest today.
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Ruth de Jauregui via Google+

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Patrick Moffett shares two of his crime/suspense meets action adventure novels on #OurAuthorGang -- just the ticket for fans of both genres!!
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Ruth de Jauregui

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Wow, crime suspense meets action adventure! Sounds great!! Welcome to Our Author Gang!
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Lorraine Carey

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Patrick Moffett brews up some thrilling action in his crime suspense novels. Worth a look! Interesting guest today.
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Sunday, January 7, 2018

Our Guest Today is author Ellie Mack

Welcome, Ellie, to our blog. So glad you could join us today.



Ellie received her BS in cartography from Southeast Missouri State University. Since leaving the corporate world for the title of MOM, she has pursued her writing dreams. Nowadays, Ellie charts unmapped territory through her fiction and humor writing. Formerly a columnist for a local paper, her weekly column received a lot of attention. She lives near St. Louis, Missouri with her husband of thirty two years and their college-aged daughters. When she's not writing, she can be found bullet journaling, crocheting or cooking. Ellie loves to hear from her readers and may be found at the sites listed below.



One phone call can change your life...forever.

I've heard it said many times, and I get it, especially if you are a ballplayer waiting for that call to the majors, or if you are waiting for the call that you got the job you were hoping to land. I always thought, however, that most people were just being overly dramatic and using it as a cliche statement.

What if you didn't get that job, but instead got a call from a different company that ended up being a better job?  What if, as a ballplayer, you never get called to the majors, but stay in the minor leagues and wind up being a top-notch coach? What if that call was the worst thing that could happen?

It's always been my view that there are multiple paths that our lives could take. There are numerous opportunities that are presented to us and that one phone call bit was a bunch of hogwash.

Until today.

Until I received that one phone call that changed my life...forever.


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