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A sleepy Oregon coastal village with secrets as dark as its January storms. A new police chief with his own shadowy past. The last thing Port Stirling Chief of Police Matt Horning needed on day one of his new job was for the mayor's daughter to turn up dead in a mysterious tunnel on the Oregon beach. Nothing much ever happens here...or does it?
The body of a military hero is found hanging from a rafter on a mysterious island in the Pacific Ocean owned by a renowned billionaire from the west coast. Local Port Stirling law enforcement is called in to investigate.
A decades-old skeleton with a bullet in its skull, and a natural disaster give Port Stirling, Oregon, police chief Matt Horning all he can handle. Contemporary problems and an ugly story in Oregon's history make this a riveting read.
A brutally murdered federal agent and distrust among his close colleagues greet Port Stirling Police Chief Matt Horning as he faces down a second homicide in his new Oregon hometown. Federal agent Clay Sherwin, who was briefly a suspect in a murder in Shallow Waters, book one in A Port Stirling Mystery series, has been found shot through the heart and decapitated in a marshy area near the Pacific Ocean. Just when his police department gets back to normal after solving its first murder in decades, along comes another dead body, but this one has ominous overtones never seen before in Port Stirling. Did Matt Horning bring this trouble with him when he fled a painful professional experience in T...
Police Chief Matt Horning and the Port Stirling regulars join forces to investigate the suspicious suicide of a prominent local woman. Did she really walk into Mourning Bay intending to kill herself?
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When the radical lawyer, Thomas Muir, discovers that his innocent clients are being convicted as state policy, he strives to represent them politically. But revealing the establishment to be corrupt leaves his own freedoms under attack and with his soul mate - an exiled client - he's thrown into a perilous ocean odyssey pursued by the British government, its navy and its allies. The Democrat is a lightning paced global adventure voyaging from Edinburgh to the ends of the earth; from Bordeaux to Botany Bay, Vancouver to Vera Cruz, Cuba to Cadiz... Written during Arab struggles for democracy and Scottish decisions concerning independence, this is a historical novel for our time.
Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special forces soldiering. But was he really a military genius or in fact a shameless self-publicist who manipulated people, and the truth, for this own ends? In this gripping and controversial biography Gavin Mortimer analyses Stirling's complex character: the childhood speech impediment that shaped his formative years, the pressure from his overbearing mother, his fraught relationship with his brother, Bill, and the jealousy and inferiority he fel...