A Cold Goodbye...justice kicks in!

A COLD GOODBYE  

A mystery and thriller short read new release.

FREE KINDLE DOWNLOAD – AUG 19TH TO 23RD

Book Description:

Ned Fain is a damaged man. Crippled in a bomb blast in Afghanistan the ex-army JAG officer has lost his wife, lost his career and may be losing his mind. People cringe at the sight of his burned face; added to that he’s flat broke.

But when Ned witnesses a bizarre murder in the polar bear pit at the zoo, his basic instinct for justice kicks in. It’s added incentive that a pretty woman needs his help, and he sets out to expose the killer and conquer his own demons.

Excerpt: The Cold Goodbye by Sam Abbott

I wandered around for a few minutes, and then saw a bunch of kids over by the polar bear habitat, oohing and aahing at the big white monsters as a zoo worker tossed fish over the fence to them. Kids are another bunch that tend to act real, so I stood a short distance away to watch with them.

The bears were doing their thing, going after the fish and even fighting a bit over some of the bigger ones, and the kids were getting a kick out of it. The big glass wall between us and them was crystal clear, so we could see everything, and the water line for the bears was about half way up the glass. The underwater part of the show was probably the best part, in my opinion, because those big, clumsy creatures were as graceful as birds, in the water.

I noticed the teachers there with the kids. One was a short, pretty little thing, the kind I always liked, and the other was an older lady, probably getting close to retirement age. The cute one whispered something to her buddy, and when the old gal nodded the cutie wandered off. I went back to watching the polar bears.

Ten minutes later the cutie hadn't come back. The kids were still engrossed in what the bears were doing and I was just about to go on my way, maybe go check out the elephants, when there was a big splash in the water behind the glass. I stared at what had caused it, trying to convince myself that I was seeing things, but I wasn't. It was a man, and he hit the water like a ton of bricks and just lay there, kind of half-floating.

I could tell from past experience that the guy was dead. No one alive would have just laid there in the water, not with four tons of meat eaters staring at him. And if he'd been unconscious, the shock of hitting that icy water would have been enough to at least make him stir, trying to wake up and figure out where he was.

Not this guy, though; he didn't even react when one of the bears chomped down on his arm and tore off a chunk. Dead, just like I'd said to myself.

 

A COLD GOODBYE

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 AUG 19TH TO 23RD

Manners Cost Everything

 

Manners Cost Everything is a thriller/horror for adult audiences.

Review by R. Cooper ~ A brilliant debut from Mr Chambers

What a stonker of a read! It had me gripped from the first chapter.
A brilliant debut from Mr Chambers!

Guest Post by Paul Chambers

Robbie is a man like you and me, except that he murders bad mannered people.
He had always gone through life trying to do the right thing, respecting his elders and watching his manners.

Then one day, a chance encounter made him snap. He developed an alter ego that unbeknownst to him, wreaked revenge on anyone crossing his path that had been disrespectful, ill-mannered or just plain rude.

The ones that slam doors in your faces, the ones that don’t indicate on the roads, the bullies and the type that hurt innocent animals and people. The pushy, nasty human beings that are oblivious to the world around them.

Now, the two parts of him continue separately, the like one living a life of success and excess and the other, darker one leaving a bloody trail of murder and aptly delivered revenge. Only the black outs that Robbie suffers are an indication that anything is wrong, when he awakes from what he thinks are violent dreams. Otherwise, he doesn't have a clue.

Meanwhile, an up and coming Detective Lentus has his world changed forever by the first of these vicious murders, and devotes his life to hunting down and bringing the mysterious killer to justice; whilst being haunted by the ‘ghost' of his murdered sister.

Lentus is a simple man with linear thinking, who now only has his job and his obsession driving him; now that he has lost his last remaining family member. The paths of the characters intertwine throughout London, sometimes knowingly, and sometimes not; ending in a breath taking conclusion.

This is the first of a trilogy that will span the years 1996 to 2015, and it rampages its visceral course through the history, music, culture, sexual exploits and technological advances of the time. Manners Costs Everything covers the years 1996 to 2001.

Written in shockingly graphic detail, with dark humour and an adult erotic tinge; this series of books is for the open minded lovers of horror fiction, crime fiction and thrillers.

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