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The Signature of a Voice is a cat-and-mouse game between a violent trio, led by a psychopathic killer, and a police officer on suspension. Move and countermove in this chess game is planned and enacted. The reader, in the position of god, knows who is guilty and who plans what, but just as in chess, the opponents' plans thwart one another. The outcomes twist and turn to the final curtain fall. |
There is a sense of suspense but also of anger as the system seems to be working against those who are fighting on the side of right, while the perpetrators of vicious crimes seem able to operate freely and choose to do what they wish. They choose the route of ultra-violence to stay ahead of the law in an otherwise tranquil community: they plan and execute, in all senses of the word. Is it possible to triumph against this ruthlessness? An intriguing crime story by Johnny John Heinz.
| | FACE BLIND
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From the pen of Raymond Benson, author of the acclaimed original James Bond continuation novels (Zero Minus Ten, The Facts of Death, High Time to Kill, DoubleShot, Never Dream of Dying, and The Man With the Red Tattoo) and the novel Evil Hours, comes a new and edgy noir thriller.
Imagine a world where you don’t recognize the human face. |
That’s Hannah’s condition - prosopagnosia, or “face blindness” - when the brain center that recognizes faces is inoperable.
The onset of the condition occurred when she was attacked and nearly raped by an unknown assailant in the inner lobby of her New York City apartment building. And now she thinks he’s back, and not just in her dreams.
When she also attracts the attention of a psychopathic predator and becomes the unwitting target of a Mafia drug ring, the scene is set for a thrill ride of mistaken identity, cat-and-mouse pursuit, and murder.
Face Blind is a twisting, turning tale of suspense in which every character has a dark side. The novel will keep the reader surprised and intrigued until the final violent catharsis.
| | EVIL HOURS
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"My mother was murdered when I was six years old." Shannon has become used to giving this explanation when getting to know new arrivals in the small West Texas town of Limite. She has never hidden the truth about her mother, but she is haunted by the unresolved circumstances surrounding her mother’s murder and the deaths of a series of other women around the same time. |
It is when she sets about uncovering the truth, with the help of an investigator, that the true depravity of Limite’s underbelly begins to emerge.
The very ordinariness of the small town lends a chill to Evil Hours, as revelations from a murky past begin to form a pattern; but much worse they begin to cast their shadow over the present.
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Casey's Revenge
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Is this the best of all possible worlds? Well, almost, or so Casey Forbes thinks. She is a college professor with a successful career and good friends; boyfriend trouble in the past, perhaps, but who hasn’t? And her prospects are excellent.
But no woman can expect to descend into the real life nightmare, that envelopes Casey ... out of nowhere. |
“In Casey Forbes, Mary Charles has created a vibrant, intelligent and resilient protagonist. Casey’s voice remains confident and true through all the twists and turns of this suspensful novel.”
Teri Holbrook, author of A Far and Deadly Cry and The Mother Tongue.
“A pacy debut page-turner, full of nightmarish suspense.”
Judith Cutler, creator of the DI Kate Power series.
| | THE RELUCTANT CORPSE
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“Stewart Douglas could not, under any circumstances, be considered your average human being. He’d always been a fan of agony as long, of course, as it wasn’t his own.” Well, Stewart is the local mortician, and maybe he has a less than healthy interest in the job. Every community has its secrets, and Savannah, Georgia, is no exception. The questions are: exactly what are those secrets, and who do they belong to? |
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NIGHTMARE IN SAVANNAH
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Equal opportunity and equality of the sexes are fine goals of modern society, but has this lead to a woman being able to take on the role of a brutal serial killer? asks Casey. This thought turns into a real life question in Nightmare in Savannah.
Why are the victims of recent assaults young blond women? |
Who is the tall blond perpetrator of these crimes? Male? Female?
Who are the two strange characters on a ruthless treasure hunt for rare, priceless paintings?
“Suspenseful read in the tradition of the great British mystery.”
Rowan Wolfe, author of ‘The Trial of Evan Gage’.
| | SAVANNAH SCORES
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The authorities are baffled by the rise in the use of hard drugs in Savannah, until they make the correlation with a series of ‘suicides’ and gangland killings. What is Colonel Bob up to deep in the woods, and who is the enigmatic Carlos Montoya?
Meanwhile, at Carter University the football team comes under pressure as a ruthless gang will stop at nothing to fix spread betting. |
Casey herself becomes the unwitting suitor of amorous advances. Is she finally to find love again? Or will she find herself in the wrong place, at the wrong time of night, with exactly the wrong people? Curiosity killed the …
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