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The First Book of

The Scottsferne Chronicles

My name is Annette and Rex is my gorgeous German Shepherd.

After we find a skeleton in the barn of a property I’ve just inherited, a neighbor tells me there are rumors of a mineral spring somewhere on the land. I am determined to discover the truth about the skeleton.

Was my own father involved?

Or his best friend who sold him the property?

My search takes Rex and me on a road trip that includes a visit to Coober Pedy, a remote opal mining town in South Australia. Along the way we meet David and his grandfather Henry (Pops) Dawson. What they teach me about dowsing encourages me to search my new property for the mythical mineral spring.

Can it provide the basis for the Scottsferne Spa and Wellness Center I dream about establishing?

The Pennie Irvine Series – Book 1

Pennie explains:

‘I was kicked out of home at seventeen and, even though I was a popular girl and had plenty of friends, I needed to make my own way in life. With nothing more than a backpack to hold my few belongings, I started hitchhiking.

I tried numerous jobs as I moved from place to place. I was bartending in Broken Hill when I decided, on a whim, to accept an offer from sixty-eight-year-old Percy Chambers. I traveled with him on his final run driving a delivery truck for Olivers Overland. A mishap along the way saw me making the choice to set out for the town of Orange.

Finding and then losing Steve Rogers sets the scene for the rest of my life.’

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The Pennie Irvine Series

Book 2 – THE BABY FARM

Has Pennie Irvine bitten off more than she can chew when she agrees to help Senior Sergeant Patrick Steele in his efforts to solve a long-running case against the Mission of St. Gerard’s Church?

How can she survive when a parson and a crime boss combine forces in their efforts to kill her?

In THE BABY FARM, you will learn what happens after Pennie leaves her new-found friend, Steve Rogers, in a coma in the Dubbo Hospital. Convinced he cannot survive, she forges a new beginning in the Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo.

At the Burlston Hotel, her work ethic soon wins the admiration of owners, Bob and Bernie. Their support and generosity prove crucial when Pennie accidentally becomes involved with the obsessive Reverend Williams and his equally fixated wife, Beth.

Now, she is up against the Reverend as well as Kings Cross mobster, Joe Luca. Can she outwit their evil intentions?

The Pennie Irvine Series

Book 3 – THE PARIS CONNECTION

Do you believe in coincidences?

All Pennie Irvine wants is to give her friend, Chris Tonkin, the chance to study at the world-famous French school for parfumiers. So, why does her archenemy, mob-boss Joe Luca, turn up in Paris at the same time?

What is his connection with the Corsican Mafia, Albania, and LAVA?

Pennie hasn’t seen Steph Laskarina since they both escaped from the insane Reverend Williams and his besotted wife, Beth. So, why does Steph suddenly appear at various Paris tourist attractions? And why, when she finally seeks Pennie out at the bar where she works does she leave again without any further explanation?

We know by now that Pennie is no shrinking violet. When one of Joe Luca’s henchmen tries to use her as a shield, she deals with him, of course! And, when she walks away from the murder and mayhem of Paris, why does she suddenly return to Sydney to embrace a new career and to build a business in a perhaps not altogether unexpected field? And, what about the father of her son, Daniel? All is revealed before the end.

The Pennie Irvine Series

THE BRIDGE HOTEL

A Companion Novella

Steve Rogers is the backpacker Pennie befriends as she passes through the New South Wales town of Orange. He’s the hero who rescues a baby from a car smash but ends up in the Dubbo hospital himself in a deep coma. Pennie is forced to leave him behind when a doctor warns her Steve may never recover or may end up a vegetable if he ever comes out of the coma.

This is Steve’s own story of his troubled journey as he slowly recovers from his extended episodes of retrograde amnesia.

Learning, By Degrees

University Hazing

It’s really just a bit of harmless fun, isn’t it? Everyone has to go through it, right? Nobody gets hurt, really, and ‘O’ week in the universities of Sydney Australia is no different to anywhere else in the world. But how much can one man suffer before he snaps and seeks revenge?

Was it really the outrageously degrading induction that led to all the killings?

When people start dying in a manner which imitates all aspects of that induction, it should be easy to identify the killer. Right?

But when a skilled hacker sets out to reveal false clues to protect a friend and then further muddies the waters by throwing dirt at a corrupt policeman, nothing is as it seems!

‘Learning – By Degrees’ is the first mystery in a new series featuring Pennie Irvine’s son, Daniel and his close friend Gerald Wembley. Set in Sydney, Australia, it is a book to stir the senses and make you question the morality of our political and business leaders, and whether there will ever be another politician you can trust.