Andrew Hixson
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STORY BY Andrew Hixson
GRAVE MATTER
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Lavish London mansions. A hand-painted Rolls-Royce. And eight dead friends. For the British fixer Robbie Chase, working for the Russian's President most vocal critic meant stunning perks – but also constant danger. His gruesome death is one of 14 that retired British Agent Justin Grave has linked to Russia – but the UK police shut down every last case. A Grave's investigation reveals the full story of a ring of death on British soil that the government has ignored.
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THE KILLER OF THE DARKNESS
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The blood from the man hadn’t gushed in a constant flow, but in time with the beating of his heart. At first, it came thick and strong, flowing through pulled at the ripped flesh. He tasted the blood at the back of his mouth, the thick fluid no warmer or cooler than the cold ambient temperature. After a few moments more blood left the rapidly paling flesh, the pulse slowing, and weakening as he drank....
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ONCE BITTEN
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It is the winter of 1889 and the public believe themselves to be safe from the gruesome horrors of Jack the Ripper. Alas, they have been deceived! His murderous reign of terror continues, but this is different. No surgical equipment is used, and the murders only occur on a full moon and as the atrocities continue to pile up, and they are no longer restricted to the Whitechapel area. And at the time of the murders, witnesses have seen signs of a huge mysterious dog..... The question is are the killings committed by a man or beast or both......
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THROUGH THE GLASS DARKLY - OLD SINS CAST LONG SHADOWS
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THROUGH THE GLASS DARKLY During the worst blizzard in decades, a local gentry, the enigmatic Lord Mabbott, falls from his study window, and it is at once assumed to be suicide. Lateral thinking private detective John Handful is not so convinced and is determined to prove otherwise and make it his business to know what other people don’t know. Never mind that Lord Mabbott was being blackmailed over an affair with a transgender stepsister-in-law or that the window he jumped from on the fourth floor was locked from the inside. Before long, another body turns up, believed to be Lord Mabbott’s former lover. The hunt is on to solve the case, and although, John Handful faces fresh adversaries with a stream of alibis and a host of conflicting motives, he is determined to solve the riddle - despite the best efforts of the challenging Mabbott family. OLD SINS CAST LONG SHADOWS Lady Casterton is found strangled in her bedroom shortly after seven when her housekeeper went to discover why her employer had not appeared for dinner. From an examination of the body, it was clear that she had been killed a little after six at the very earliest. Suspicion naturally fell onto her nephew, her inheritor, with whom relations had been strained in recent weeks. He would have looked like a prime suspect were it not for the testimony of the housekeeper. But then the nephew turns up dead in a locked room. The question for John Handful is who murdered the murderer?
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PAIN HAS A PERMANENT ADDRESS - READ BETWEEN THE LIES
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Private Investigator JOHN HANDFUL specialises in solving the impossible cases that the Suffolk Constabulary cannot, and when local businessman Charles 'Buster' Bill is found mutilated in the local forest, it is believed there is a maniac on the loose. JOHN HANDFUL thinks differently. His own investigation soon reveals that at the heart of the man's death lies a devastating secret and by the time Handful realizes what it is he has just made himself the next target. . . PAIN HAS A PERMANENT ADDRESS: Only those who have been that way, before, know the actual location.
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BLIND SPOT - AND TWO OTHERS
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When a body is found beneath a cliff, the local Suffolk Constabulary calls in their consulting lateral thinking detective to help. There are many unanswered questions. Why did a man with impaired vision use a dangerous path as a route to work? If he did use the path every day, no matter what the weather, how come he suddenly fell? With plenty of red herrings and twists to keep the reader guessing. Blind Spot: A Bell Rings - A Rope Breaks - A Man Dies.
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