A Poison Tree (Time, Blood and Karma Book 3) (30 page)

OAK

Well, Claire, here we are again at Heathrow airport.

Neither of us has ever really liked this place – it’s too full of miserable people who should be happy – but it’s always been a nuisance we were prepared to put up with as a prelude to something better: our trips to the Far East. And this will, after all, be a much longer trip. Maybe we will never come back to England. Katie can always visit us in South East Asia whenever she likes, legal career permitting.

I can’t express
, my love, what a relief it is to be able, at last, to tell you everything. No more secrets or lies or half-truths. We can once again be entirely open with each other, as we were in the early days. I know you understand, even about Anna.

Nothing can hurt us now.

Once we’re settled in Thailand, I’ll ship out our things and we can set about making a home there. A new start.

Life with you in the tropics, just the two of us.
I can’t wait.

Aren’t you excited too?

Just a little bit?

David Braddock returns in

RUNNING ON EMPTINESS

The fourth book in the
Time, Blood and Karma
series

(
to be published by Tention Books in 2015)

Details of the first two books in the series,
Everyone Burns
and
Hungry Ghosts
, can be found on the pages that follow. All of John Dolan’s books are available on Amazon websites worldwide, in Kindle and paperback editions. Click
here
to go to the John Dolan author page on Amazon.

EVERYONE BURNS

He opens a drawer of his desk, casually takes out a pistol, flicks off the safety catch and points it at my head.
He says almost sorrowfully, "Do you imagine me to be a gangster, Mr Braddock?”

It is January 2005 and the charred remains of two Europeans have been discovered on the Thai island of Samui.

Local Police Chief
Charoenkul, sidelined by his superiors, enlists the reluctant David Braddock, a burnt-out private detective, to assist in an 'unofficial' investigation.

But Braddock has problems of his own, including his affair with the same Police Chief's
wife ...

Peppered with irreverent humour and some pithy comments on everyday life in the Land of Smiles,
Everyone Burns
is much more than a crime novel. It is also a carefully-crafted psychological study of an anti-hero for our time.

Everyone Burns
is the first book in John Dolan’s
Time, Blood and Karma
series.

HUNGRY GHOSTS

For the last half-hour my mind has been playing games with me. I keep thinking I see Claire at the periphery of my vision, but when I turn my head she vanishes. But then of course she would. She is a ghost, after all.

It is the spring of 2005 and the macabre ‘burning murders’ have ended. Life has apparently returned to normal for the Thai island of Samui.

For private investigator David Braddock ‘normal’ means finding a missing drug smuggler, sleeping with the Police Chief’s wife and ensuring his office manager’s latest money making scheme doesn’t bankrupt him.

For Police Chief Charoenkul it means resuming his seemingly-endless wait for that elusive promotion to Bangkok.

However, the peace is destined to be short-lived. Unbeknown to both men, karmic storm clouds are gathering and murderous forces are about to be unleashed which could destroy them
both ... 

Hungry Ghosts
is the second book in John Dolan’s
Time, Blood and Karma
series.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“Makes a living by travelling, talking a lot and sometimes writing stuff down. Galericulate author, polymath and occasional smarty-pants.”

John Dolan hails from a small town in the North-East of England. Before turning to writing, his career encompassed law and finance. He has run businesses in Europe, South and Central America, Africa and Asia. He and his wife Fiona currently divide their time between
Thailand and the UK.

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