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Life After Charlie?

Whilst my first books all featured the ex-cop turned private eye Charlie Sayer, I have always had many other ideas buzzing around.

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On this page all those other projects will be explained, outlined and detailed.

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What If?

 

In December 2001 the body of Big Country singer, songwriter and guitarist Stuart Adamson, was found in the Best Western Plaza Hotel, Honolulu. He had committed suicide after apparently consuming a substantial amount of alcohol. He had hung himself and was just forty-three years old.

 

What always saddens me about suicide is that there is a nagging thought amongst those friends and family who are left behind that maybe, just maybe, it had been preventable. If only someone had talked to the deceased person sooner. This is what lays behind my first ever short story, What If?

 

It was subsequently reported that shortly before he took his life Adamson had been seen in a local bar. So, what if someone there had spoken to him? And what if that conversation, albeit it in an innocent and probably unknowing way, had caused him to rethink, ?

 

So inspired by, rather than based on, this random meeting, I have penned a novella entitled What If?

 

The story is of a chance encounter in a bar between a celebrity on their way down, and a fellow drinker who has no idea who they are talking to.

 

The “celeb” is, as was Adamson, an alcoholic. They are also a depressive who is having what they have planned to be their last binge before taking their own life, and ending for what them has become a miserable and pointless existence. Surely everyone would be better off without them

 

Yet a stranger engages them in a conversation during the course of which things are said that will make the potential suicide be reconsidered.

 

So, what could a total stranger possibly say to create this sea change in that person’s life, and will it actually make a difference.

 

What if? is the story of that chance encounter, but more it is a story about just how much difference a conversation unencumbered by familiarity can have, and the message is simple, take time to talk.

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What If ?

 

ISBN - 13 979 - 8638006846

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A popular misconception seems to be that, along with fame and fortune, comes contentment. In our modern world many strive to achieve this Shangri La often through the medium of the TV talent show. In reality most are not prepared for fame.

It is also true that when a “celeb” is lost to suicide many people ask, “What reason could they possibly have for killing themselves? They had everything.”

The real truth is that despite achieving wealth and celebrity status, they did not have everything, or at least in their eyes they didn’t.

So, what if you stumbled upon such a person who was on the verge of suicide? What would you say to them? Would they listen?

But what if what you said actually made them stop and think? To reassess their proposed course of action, possibly even change their mind.

“What If” looks at one such random encounter. A chance meeting between an ordinary guy and a “celeb” on the verge of taking their own life, and it explores the brief relationship that developed between these two very different people and the effect it had on the lives of both protagonists.

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Everybody Pays

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ISBN - 979 - 8594551220

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Logan Fraser is a man alone. Forced to witness the murder of his parents on his sixteenth birthday, he sought refuge in the British army but just eight years later whilst serving in the elite SAS regiment he suffered serious injuries as a result of an IED whilst on active service in Afghanistan and found himself cast aside by the army, the only family he felt he had left.

 

Without any real direction in his life, he seeks refuge on the bleak moors of Scotland close to where the bloody battle of Culloden was fought.

 

But whilst trying to forge a new life he can never escape the memory of his parent’s murder and the fact that their killer continues to escape justice.

 

So begins a quest for justice, one that takes Fraser from the wild Scottish moors to the idyllic golden beaches of the British Virgin Islands, as he hunts down the one man who continues to haunt his dreams, the killer of his parents.

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