Location: Ireland
Member Since: Sep. 03, 2011
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Alan Grainger


Biography

Alan Grainger is an Englishman who emigrated to Ireland at the time when everyone else seemed to be going the other way. He got seduced by the lifestyle, married an Irish woman and never went back. They have three children and seven grandchildren. His business career ended unexpectedly early when his company was taken over, and a whole new world of opportunity opened up.Ever since then, other than when he's watching rugby or cricket, he’s been travelling, painting and writing. His journeys have taken him all over the world, provided him with much of the background material which features in his books and allowed him to choose authentic sets against which he can tell his stories.

Books

Deep & Crisp & Even    by Alan Grainger
Price: $2.99 USD. 66190 words. Published on March 29, 2012. Fiction.
The body of a young woman newspaper columnist is found part buried under the snow, and Detective Chief Inspector ‘Foxy’ Reynard is called in. As his investigation into her death proceeds, it becomes increasingly apparent there was more to Rosaleen Sommerton than met the eye
The Klondike Chest    by Alan Grainger
Price: $2.99 USD. 91720 words. Published on March 13, 2012. Nonfiction.
Billy Orange, pugnacious little Irishman, five foot nothing and scared of nobody, rescues a young man from a beating in a back alley in Seattle and finds himself caught up in the Great Gold Rush to the Klondike. Arctic midwinter conditions, unscrupulous tricksters, romance, and death, test him but nothing can stop him.
Deadly Darjeeling    by Alan Grainger
Price: $2.99 USD. 99970 words. Published on September 27, 2011. Fiction.
When Nelson Deep, wealthy tea merchant, is found dead in his study in bizarre circumstances and Detective Chief Inspector ‘Foxy’ Reynard is called in, a solution seems inevitable. Such an assumption, however, makes little allowance for the dysfunctional and self-centred attitudes the D.C.I. uncovers as he attempts to unravel the strange relationships prevailing within the Deep family.
Eddie's Penguin    by Alan Grainger
Price: $2.99 USD. 96900 words. Published on September 26, 2011. Fiction.
A young girl's quest to find the father she has never met becomes entangled in a police investigation into a series of seemingly unconnected murders. She has no idea that the information she digs up will ultimately lead to the uncovering of the last bit of the jigsaw the police are struggling to put together. Detective Chief Inspector 'Foxy' Reynard makes his first appearance in this novel.
The Legacy    by Alan Grainger
Price: $2.99 USD. 113620 words. Published on September 23, 2011. Fiction.
When an heir hunter turns up looking for a Charlie Cassidy and finds he’s been dead for years, he tells his son and daughter he has information connecting them, through their father, to an unclaimed legacy. He asks if they’d like him to process their claim; but they think his fees are high and decide to do the job themselves. This is the third book in the Templederry Trilogy
Father Unknown    by Alan Grainger
Price: $2.99 USD. 105360 words. Published on September 17, 2011. Fiction.
Two brothers fall out after a family secret is revealed and when the dispute turns to violence one ends up in prison. On his release, he digs into his background hoping to resolve some of the issues which have been troubling him. His research takes him to Ireland, where he finds,the answers he seeks and a new life free of conflict. This is the second book in the Templederry Trilogy
The Learning Curves    by Alan Grainger
Price: $2.99 USD. 147220 words. Published on September 12, 2011. Fiction.
Divided from his father and frozen out of his home in Ireland by his new stepmother, sixteen year old Jimmy O’Callaghan runs away one night with money taken from the till in the family pub, resolving never to return. Twenty years later, richer and wiser, he goes back to put matters right. This is the first book in the Templederry Trilogy
Blood On The Stones    by Alan Grainger
Price: $2.99 USD. 137220 words. Published on September 9, 2011. Fiction.
Two young men who’d been raised together when they were children, fall out over a girl when they are in their twenties, and cut all ties with each other. For years after they part they never see each other but then one day, during an attempted royal assassination, they find themselves face to face again.
The Tree That Walked    by Alan Grainger
Price: $1.59 USD. 52970 words. Published on September 3, 2011. Nonfiction.
Never quite believing they were actually doing it, two old age pensioners from Ireland go to Peru on a journey of adventure and discovery and wind up staying in a hut in the Amazonian Rainforest six hours away from the nearest village, by canoe.

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