This is a true story of seduction and corruption. All the events occurred in the town of Burkesville, a small farming community in South Central Kentucky.
Charlie Mason is a happy, retired gentleman living in Syracuse, New York; one of the snowiest parts of the nation. He yearns to move to a warmer climate such as Tennessee or Georgia. A romantic relationship in his life would be nice also since he has been alone for a long time.
He meets a woman on the social media platform Craig’s list, who appears to be everything he desires. She is a beautiful redhead; a business owner who is smart, funny and vibrant. She owns a horse farm and is part owner of a construction company. Her name is Patricia but most people call her Patriche. After many email and phone conversations, she invites him to visit her at her home in Kentucky.
He takes a chance and travels by bus to her location. Their first meeting is absolutely magic. Charlie has always had a penchant for redheads and Patriche is gorgeous.
Overall, Charlie is impressed by her industrious nature. They seem to have so many things in common, including the fact that she is originally from upstate New York. Charlie believes he may have met his soul-mate. Their days are filled with love and laughter as Patriche shows Charlie the beauty of the Kentucky landscape as well as the local sites.
But the real fireworks happen in the bedroom.
Even though neither of them are ‘spring chickens’, their sexual responses to each other can rival couples half their age. Charlie and Patriche decide to travel to upstate New York in order to pick up their various possessions, visit friends and return to Kentucky to begin a new life together.
Their is only one problem. This lady is a deadly Black Widow in disguise.
Through their nightly conversations, Patriche discloses several events of her past that shock Charlie. She was responsible for the death of her oldest daughter, she is estranged from her children, she had her ex-husband deported to Canada, and her last lover put a shotgun in his mouth and blew his brains out.
The story now becomes a painful voyage into perdition. Suffering at the hands of a sadistic lover is only the beginning. Patriche has Charlie arrested for a heinous crime for which he is innocent. While he is incarcerated, Patriche takes her possessions, as well as Charlie’s, and moves back to upstate New York.
Charlie is convicted and sentenced to a 5 year term in Federal prison. Physical and emotional abuse from a corrupt judicial system could possibly lead to his death. In the face of overwhelming odds, Charlie fights to save his life, his honor, and his sanity. Throughout this journey, the reader will come to see how one man used every single ounce of his being to survive.
Passionate Oversights offers a glimpse of domestic abuse from the male point of view and is a ‘must read’ for anyone considering an Internet-Based relationship.
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Detectives Munro and West get more on their plate than they bargained for in this clever murder mystery
DI Charlie West is investigating a series of incompetent moped robberies when three fingers are found in a refuse site.
The investigation leads the team to a local restaurant, the university campus and, much to their chagrin, repeatedly to the municipal dump.
But when a man walks into a jeweller’s shop and calmly bashes in the head of the owner, they have a murder case on their hands.
Despite the discovery of a man in some discomfort due to missing the fingers on his hand, the investigation draws blanks.
It will take the wisdom of Munro, officially retired and recovering from heart bypass surgery, to see the connections between these places and events.
With plenty of red-herrings, twists and a satisfying ending, you’ll love the latest DI Munro mystery.
TURPITUDE is a standalone in a series of ten books featuring these detectives. They are set in and around Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland. The others in the series are all available FREE with Kindle Unlimited and in paperback. In order of publication, they are:
1.SHE
2.AVARICE
3.ENMITY
4.DUPLICITY
5.TERMINUS
6.TALION
7.PERDITION
8.RANCOUR
9.PENITENT
10. TURPITUDE
11. HUBRIS
12. PENURY
13. RUSE
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Things are never what they seem; especially in police work.
John Testarossa is an LAPD cop with an NYPD attitude who has seen it all. The dead, the dying and the decomposing are all in a day’s work for the red-headed Italian from Brooklyn.
After an arm rolls up on a Santa Monica beach, and the dead body to which the arm was once attached is discovered, John and his partner, Alex Ortiz, enter the world of college sports, athletes, and the illegal drugs that enhance their performance.
Rage and revenge come together in a toxic cocktail John is all too familiar with. It defined him as a young boy, and ultimately still does as a man. He carries a dark secret.
It is in the beautiful Dr. Karen Gennaro—who has a few secrets of her own— that John finds a soft place to land. Even as he knows all too well what falling in love with a cop can do to a woman.
What sustains this hard-boiled detective is the bond he shares with his brave and dedicated partners. When that bond is destroyed in a senseless act of violence, will his past, and a desire for vengeance, destroy him?
From Los Angeles, where Venice Beach, Marina del Rey, and the dream of Abbot Kinney’s Venice Canals paint a picture of bliss, Testarossa will take you on a deeper, darker journey.
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James Connor has a choice to make. Should he put his hand into the ancient box placed in front of him, or should he walk away?
If he chooses to walk away he’ll go back to packing supermarket shelves for less than six bucks an hour. Answering to spotty teens less than half his age. Living in a dangerous slum on the edge of the city. The life of an ex-con.
If Connor chooses the box he will enter the employ of Mr Valk, a purveyor of oddities and collectables. A man that conducts his business from behind screens and through intermediaries. A man desperately trying to retrieve his precious book, ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy.’
With the help of an eccentric book collector, Gerber, and his pet crow, Dido, Connor will fight to make sense of it all.
By the end Connor will learn the truth about the ancient box, the death of his lover and the eyes that watch his every move.
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In a sense, Casey Cep has volunteered to take on the gargantuan task of finishing Harper Lee’s final unpublished true crime pursuit—and done it well. Cep has extricated the marrow of the last work of Lee, never once assuming herself an equal to America’s most beloved literary giant.
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Furious Hours follows the thrilling story of a serial murderer, the man who killed him in cold blood, and the great American writer who devoted years of her life to getting to the bottom of the fascinating tale. An enlightening exploration unveils the hidden lives of three individuals who were inextricably linked by their choices and vices. What might have been had the Reverend not been wrenched from the world by three bullets to the head? Or, if Harper Lee’s unfinished story had emerged as her next masterpiece?
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