Richard Barnes studied medicine at Cambridge and University College Hospital, and pursued a career in teaching and research at Cambridge for many years. He is passionate about theatre, education, and equality of opportunity. He now writes murder mysteries which draw on his experience in both university and secondary education. Richard is married, with four grown-up children who are out there, saving the world.
Annie Grant loved her family, her violin, and her study. Once, a long time ago, she had also loved Liam.
When Annie opened the door that evening, she expected the supermarket delivery. Instead, it was Liam on the doorstep, begging for help. Annie, still a schoolgirl, was drawn into a situation that threatened not only Liam’s life, but the lives of many others, including her own.
The Covid-19 pandemic was raging as Annie fought to keep Liam, her family and herself out of danger. It would take every bit of her remarkable intellect and her incredible ingenuity to achieve this. All the while, she had another struggle on her hands – to maintain her focus and achieve the ambition that involvement with Liam was threatening to derail.
If it all went wrong a lot of people were going to die and not just from Covid-19.
Nobody on her college staircase seemed able to understand how Rowan came to be in the Intensive Care Ward following an overdose, nor could Rowan. She could remember nothing leading up to her admission. Over the next few weeks, as first one, and then another of her college acquaintances was murdered, Rowan began to vaguely recall some of the events, but there was always a block to fully remembering what happened on that fateful afternoon and evening.
Detective Inspector Jerry Gregory and his team investigating the murders linked them to a drug dealing syndicate based around Cambridge and London, and to the back story of one of the murder victims.
It began with a single crime, under the canopy of the giant redwoods of California. He committed that crime. He never took responsibility for any of it. Everything was always someone else’s fault, especially hers. He would get her; he would punish her. For him it became an obsession. He had no other life to lead.
It began with a single crime. She was the victim. She would not let the crime define her. She had a life to lead. She would lead it to the full.
From California to Cambridge, England, Robert built the downward spiral of his existence, and his darkness closed in on him.
From California to Cambridge, England, Martha lived life to the full, building an upward spiral from which joy and friendship spread out.
Bad karma, good karma.
Which will prove the stronger?
In this gripping sequel to Karma, Patti Howland, daughter of the U.S. President, attends Cambridge University under an alias, seeking a normal college life. As she navigates her studies and relationship with Lucas Ndlovu, a dangerous web of international intrigue threatens to unravel her secret.
Viktor Rubinsky’s terrorist gang, in league with corrupt African forces, sets its sights on assassinating President Howland and thwarting the democratic aspirations of Thembani Ndlovu, Lucas’s father. With multiple assassination plots targeting a visit to the spectacular Ommegang festival in Brussels, Patti and her friends find themselves in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Patti must confront her deepest fears and risk the ultimate sacrifice to protect those she loves in this explosive novel that will leave readers breathless until the final page. Filled with pulse-pounding action, shocking twists, and richly drawn characters, Death at the Ommegang is a tour de force of suspense.
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