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The Gifting

Non-Fiction

‘The Gifting’ is a complex novel, concerning, as it does, a dead man’s arrival in Heaven – or is it Hell? (or maybe somewhere else. It’s really a state rather than a place). We are with him on his post mortem journey as he relates the story of his mortal existence from retirement to his violent death. So, effectively, we experience two autobiographies running side-by-side – one of our hero’s afterlife and the other of his mortal existence. 

It’ll make you think. 

The conclusion is stunning. 

Exodus 205

Non-Fiction

A very old man, Ernst, calls his family to his bedside and reveals that, contrary to their Jewish upbringing, he is not a Jew but rather an ex-SS Officer who was on staff at a Concentration Camp at the end of World War Two. His betrayals and assumed false identity have finally caught up with him.

While his family grapples with the revelation, the descendant of the man Ernst betrayed arrives intent to wreak revenge on the family. Is there hope for Ernst’s children to escape the ’sins of their father’?

My culture is Australian. I have German blood, my parents were German, but I am Australian. I want the truth to be told because I am dying.

The Arbutus

Book 1 in the Maddie Trinco Trilogy

Maddie makes contact with a former lover, the owner of a beautiful private estate on the outskirts of Sydney, whom she had abandoned for another man six years earlier. She appears to be welcomed back and the affair starts again. But her lover has changed in her absence, developing macabre ideas about the physical manifestation of human love. He weaves a complex story concerning his beliefs, disclosing details of several murders he has committed to further his aims.

She soon discovers that he harbours a strong resentment towards her earlier disloyalty, and his desire for revenge becomes frighteningly apparent. Mental cruelty morphs into physical abuse. She must fight back to free herself. Her efforts result in the self-realisation of some intriguing and rather frightening character traits. The outcome is the death of her lover and her surprising emotional climax. Her desire to take control of the estate motivates her to dispose of the body and embark on an elaborate cover-up. However, all is far from well for Maddie who plunges from crisis to crisis until the amazing ending of this cliff-hanger story.

My intended victim was nowhere to be seen. The rope swung gently in the morning breeze, its cargo somewhere adrift.

Maddie Trinco

Maddie Trinco

Book 2 in the Maddie Trinco Trilogy

The sequel to ‘The Arbutus’ is called ‘Maddie Trinco’, and like its prequel it sits comfortably in the Mystery/Thriller genre. It’s really a melange of four stories…. Maddie’s release from prison and her teaming up with a very rich property developer to whom she has been forced to sell her inherited estate, a group of middle aged men who are convinced that their friend (currently overseas) will return to Australia and kill the man he believes responsible for his daughter’s death, the pressures and threats experienced by one of the group (an ex IRA member turned informer) and the ultimate return of the man whose daughter was killed.
 
Maddie’s character supplies the theme of ‘justice outside the law’ and the reader, like the protagonists, is finally confronted with doubts about the morality of Maddie’s actions.

Murphy looked down and seeing the body with the knife sunk to the hilt into the chest, started shaking and repeating over and over, “Oh, God – Oh God – Oh God…”

Maddie Trinco

Maddie and the King of Paradise

Book 3 in the Maddie Trinco Trilogy

‘Maddie And The King Of Paradise’ is the sequel to ‘Maddie Trinco’ and is the final book in the trilogy which began with ‘The Arbutus’. In this episode, Maddie finally attains her aimed-for status of ‘assassin par excellence’. Her targets cease being simply bad people but rather significant figures in National and International society whose self-seeking ambitions have been detrimental to society at large.
 
Maddie’s first target is a less than ethical Queensland mining magnate and her efforts appear successful, until the arrival of the unlikely investigative team of Proud and Bramley, who uncover the crime and seek compensation for their silence. Maddie and her partner, Caspar Hopfner, pay off the blackmailing duo and proceed to the more important, and original, ambition of eliminating a psychopathic African dictator. The assassination seems to have been achieved albeit with frightening and significant results.

Yes, it is a stake made of stainless steel. We burn traitors there.

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