Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS Classic Imprint..A SNATCH OF TINSEL A drug courier is arrested; the drugs seized. His gang have to find a way to repay their Dublin dealer for the lost drugs. They decide to seize a Hollywood star currently in Ireland making a movie, and demand a ransom for her return.The kidnapped star is hidden while waiting for the ransom to be paid by her Studio - itself a front for a Mafia boss in Las Vegas. He has the ransom delivered by his own men as he has an ulterior motive - their job is to retrieve the money after the actress is released.A Dublin police superintendent and his crew arrive to take charge of the investigation. But Kilbracken is Scobie Tirney's territory and while they try to sideline him, he goes about things in his own inimitable way!****... ALSO BY THIS AUTHOR ... RANDOM NUMBER...This was the chance they had gambled on...The bomb was hidden deep in the hotel's basement. - Now the Washington hotel is to host a US government Middle East peace conference. Ten year-old Hussein Shaffeed's father and his stepmother are members of a group of radicals planning to activate the bomb!In a small town just outside Washington DC, ten year-old Abi Swenson is at home, recovering between bouts of chemotherapy treating her cancer. A new telephone is installed to relieve her isolation and boredom. Abi experiments calling random numbers and connects with Hussein. An unlikely friendship forms.He relates words from his parents' late-night conversationsand their secretive behaviour. Soon both are certain that something evil is being planned...But who will believe two children?THE SCHIAPELLO CROSS...Santini watched in awe as his father took the Christ figure and laid it on the cross. With delicate manipulation of the plunger, he soldered the figure to the stem without allowing any excess molten gold to drip from the joint. Leaving the cross aside, he picked up the small golden band and with the same painstaking precision, attached a circle of diamonds, taking great care with each. The band was then fixed to the cross over the head of the crucified Christ. Finally, he soldered the red rubies to the body - one to each hand and another to the figure's feet. Santini knew the German officer who had commissioned the work, would soon call to collect the cross. What he did not know was that his father would never part with his masterpiece ... it was their heritage. It was the SCHIAPELLO CROSS! A maelstrom of international murder and intrigue, something quite new to Detective Sergeant Scobie Tierney of the Irish police. But when it comes knocking on his door, there's no better man to take it on!'*****'PETRA Murder and Injustice...Petra Kailno, a young Latvian immigrant works two jobs in Ireland to assist in supporting her family back home. When she develops strong feelings for the husband of an invalid woman, she must keep them to herself. - But when the woman is found dead in the nursing home where Petra is a cleaner, her mundane life spirals into a terrifying orbit which threatens her very existence. - 'Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody...' Mark Twain.
