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A Gift of Treason  The narrow, ordered life of a gentle but almost reclusive artist, Jane Block, is disturbed when a bequest, intended for her dead mother, passes to her. Mystery surrounds the nature of the inheritance and Jane is led on a sinister trail to secrets of the past, forcing her to confront her own fears and inhibitions. She finds herself caught in a frightening quest to unravel one of the greatest cover-ups of World War Two, and in so doing finds intrigue, love and betrayal.

Stanislaw’s Crossing  St.John Whilloe is the black sheep member of a wealthy legal family, whose firm of solicitors looks after the affairs of many of the top families in the country. He is consulted by a young woman who claims to be frightened by her husband. Things are not as they seem and St.John finds himself drawn into a complex web of intrigue and murder. He is soon in a race against time to solve a mystery with roots in a tortured family history, with sinister paranormal undertones.

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It would be a pity if the UK became heartless to the plight of migrants, yet there is real public anxiety about immigration. Locally people can feel overwhelmed by the influx of a new culture, even if the overall outcome for the country is positive. The diaspora of people from poorer countries to the magnet of prosperous Europe and to its southern border, the United States, is in large part due to a combination of globalization leaving many behind and foreign wars without end. Into the deprived arena these create, has stepped a new kind of criminal. The terrorist fighter and the people trafficker.

There can be no doubt that Western economic and foreign policies bear much, if not all, responsibility for the conditions which lead to people on the edge of despair to go to any length and place their trust in anybody to help them towards something better. But to enter the picture only at the point of rescue is too late for the West. More must be done to disrupt the trafficker’s easy business model and very much more must be done to stop unseaworthy, or indeed any sort, of boats putting to sea from the coast of North Africa and more recently Northern France. That is an absolute priority. Hanging about waiting to rescue people from drowning is the very worst option. It actually make the situation worse not better.