Intrigue in Paradise
by Pat Noad
Price: $3.99 USD. 92230 words.
Published on January 15, 2012. Fiction.
On Australia's glittering Gold Coast Annie Bryce's life is in turmoil. Desolate, she throws herself into investigating the death of ageing industrialist Jack Riversdale's son.
Was it murder or suicide? Annie is sucked into riptides of break-ins, pursuits, threats, even abduction. Who is behind all this. Why? Who can she trust?
Traumatised and injured,she finally learns the truth.
Location: Australia
Member Since: Dec. 14, 2011
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Pat Noad
Biography
Pat Noad is an Australian author who divides her time between big city life in Brisbane and getting sand between her toes on the nearby Sunshine Coast, where a lot of her writing happens.
Pat’s work as a consultant has taken her to all sorts of nooks and crannies of her vast and varied home state of Queensland. She finds herself intrigued by the old stories passing down the generations in this young country, a country which has matured into a sophisticated society so quickly since the First Fleet unloaded its convict passengers just over two hundred years ago – a country which generally looks to the future rather than back over its shoulder.
Her stories often find the blazing Australian sun casting dark shadows from the past across the present, and long-dead skeletons rattling in family cupboards.
Pat’s writing sits at the lighter end of the crime fiction spectrum.
Pat’s work as a consultant has taken her to all sorts of nooks and crannies of her vast and varied home state of Queensland. She finds herself intrigued by the old stories passing down the generations in this young country, a country which has matured into a sophisticated society so quickly since the First Fleet unloaded its convict passengers just over two hundred years ago – a country which generally looks to the future rather than back over its shoulder.
Her stories often find the blazing Australian sun casting dark shadows from the past across the present, and long-dead skeletons rattling in family cupboards.
Pat’s writing sits at the lighter end of the crime fiction spectrum.
Where to find Pat Noad online
Website: http://www.bypatnoad.com.au
Where to buy in print
Books
Rockhound
by Pat Noad
Price: $3.99 USD. 86750 words. Published on December 28, 2011. Fiction.
Journalist Annie Bryce is on the run from a killer. He wants her dead before she can testify in a murder trial. She and photographer Steve are hustled out of town for their own protection. But even on the arid gemfields Annie finds trouble. Probing the secrets of a long-dead dealer in sapphires, she finds the past - and the killer - closing in on her...
Price: $3.99 USD. 86750 words. Published on December 28, 2011. Fiction.
Journalist Annie Bryce is on the run from a killer. He wants her dead before she can testify in a murder trial. She and photographer Steve are hustled out of town for their own protection. But even on the arid gemfields Annie finds trouble. Probing the secrets of a long-dead dealer in sapphires, she finds the past - and the killer - closing in on her...
The Spirit of Murder
by Pat Noad
Price: Free! 1770 words. Published on December 20, 2011. Fiction.
This short story travels into the supernatural, where a disembodied spirit looks down on to a crime scene and recognizes the dead body as her own. Overcome by disbelief that anyone would want to kill her, she speculates about all the people in her life who simply adore her. Or do they?
Price: Free! 1770 words. Published on December 20, 2011. Fiction.
This short story travels into the supernatural, where a disembodied spirit looks down on to a crime scene and recognizes the dead body as her own. Overcome by disbelief that anyone would want to kill her, she speculates about all the people in her life who simply adore her. Or do they?
Loose Ends
by Pat Noad
Price: $2.99 USD. 87320 words. Published on December 14, 2011. Fiction.
Loose Ends (Book 1) She's smart, she's nosy, she's versatile ... but young Australian journalist Annie Bryce can also run scared. It's the whale research in the Pacific that triggers a mystery: the tight-lipped young English scientist, the Australian soldier dead in World War Two - how can they be connected? Annie's investigations plunge her into a world of secrets, vengeance - and strife.
Price: $2.99 USD. 87320 words. Published on December 14, 2011. Fiction.
Loose Ends (Book 1) She's smart, she's nosy, she's versatile ... but young Australian journalist Annie Bryce can also run scared. It's the whale research in the Pacific that triggers a mystery: the tight-lipped young English scientist, the Australian soldier dead in World War Two - how can they be connected? Annie's investigations plunge her into a world of secrets, vengeance - and strife.