New free PDFs to download…
Visitors to this website probably know that I give away a lot of free fiction in the form of downloadable PDFs. (The list of them is found on the “Free Stuff & Contests” web page. Just click on the titles you want to download.) Most of these PDF downloads correspond to short fiction collections or single, long novellas, but there are also complete novels available—two “Esther Brookstone” novels so far. And I’ve just added two new items: Revenge at Last and Sleuthing, British-Style, Volume Four.
“Revenge at Last” is also the first novella in this three-novella collection of the same name. It’s something like a sequel to the “Inspector Steve Morgan” trilogy, which in turn was a spin-off from the “Esther Brookstone Art Detective” series. In the novella, Morgan gets a new boss, DCI Mark Hunter, and a new murder case, its female victim being a rock group’s sometimes soloist and business manager.
The second novella in this collection, “Kill Shot,” features Owen Wilson, one of Steve Morgan’s detective sergeants, who describes the murder case of a young IT expert who was also an avid amateur athlete. Owen was forced to become Senior Investigating Officer on a previous case; he must also do some heavy lifting now on this one.
The third novella, “Memories of East Berlin,” finds the inimitable Esther Brookstone, now retired, and Philippa Bernard, Hal Leonard’s lovely French girlfriend, now working for the DGSI, attending a short watercolors-painting course at a university in Berlin. Esther recognizes someone from her distant past when she was an MI6 spy in East Berlin.
The second new PDF download, Sleuthing, British-Style, Volume Four, continues this series of short fiction collections with three new novellas set in the UK but also with new characters. In “The Hit-and-Run Victim,” Detective Inspector Maggie Olson gets involved with the victim, an ER doctor, but investigating that case leads to something much more insidious. In “Playtime in the Park,” investigative reporter Ben teams up with ER nurse Christy and old Detective Inspector Ed Stevenson to investigate why someone attempts to murder a visiting businessman from NYC. Finally, in “The Viking’s Axe,” Detective Inspector Mark Meadows and his two detective sergeants work hard to discover who killed a fifth- and sixth-form school professor with an ancient battle axe.
Please note all this short fiction has been carefully content- and copy-edited and formatted to give you many hours of reading enjoyment. As with all these free PDFs, I only skipped those last few final steps needed to publish these two collections with Draft2Digital/Smashwords. Consider them gifts to you, my readers. I hope you enjoy them.
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The “Inspector Steve Morgan” Trilogy. While Steve’s arrival at Bristol PD from Scotland Yard is described in The Klimt Connection (eighth novel in the “Esther Brookstone Art Detective” Series that’s more about Morgan’s secondment with MI5), the three novels, Legacy of Evil, Cult of Evil, and Fear the Asian Evil, describe three murder cases that the detective inspector and his team at his new nick strive to solve despite facing all sorts of obstacles. (The novella described above considers yet another case.)
Morgan is one of my most complex characters. There might be more of his cases coming!
Enjoy.
Around the world and to the stars! In libris libertas!
