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This book is a revised and renamed edition of 'Entrenched Beliefs'. "Fisk is a master of complex plots and is well worth reading." S Burns. An IRA bomber believes a priest betrayed him and seeks revenge. A school principal believes a six year old is being molested, and launches an investigation. In Middle Creek Primary School, a twelve year old believes her internet boyfriend is seventeen. Another pupil knows a dark secret about her friend Edwina, who disappeared while on a Pony Trek. An artist believes she will win the lottery. And Richard is shattered when he believes his wife is having an affair. Welcome to Middle Creek!
Richard West has a bad day. He loses his job at a university. It gets worse: his house is demolished, he is injured and is sued. Worse still, his wife Alex disappears with a known criminal. He must have faith in her judgement against all odds. He begins to fight back against his attackers, but who are they? And will Alex be in danger if he retaliates?
Caught in a savage earthquake, Richard, Alex and their daughter Jo find themselves in a shattered land. What has happened here? Who is the boy who cannot speak? What did the earthquake uncover? Who is Philip Zinsli and why is he trying to kill them?
When the region is cut off from the rest of the country by an earthquake, Richard West, his wife Alex and their daughter Jo find their way to a deserted farm. What has happened to the occupants? Who is the strange little boy? Can they escape with their lives from the nightmare they find themselves in?
The two central characters, Louise Copperfield and Charlotte Hoar, are connected by the same man, their high school teacher David Bannister. As adults, they react in different ways to their early sexual experiences; one with emotional difficulties for which she blames herself and the other with feelings of worthlessness. Louise is stalked by someone who wishes to destroy her through a series of spiteful attacks. When Frank leaves her, she finds the Family Court is not sympathetic to her claim for the custody of Alexander. .Alone and depressed, Louise is haunted by her memories of David Bannister's actions on an innocent girl. As her depression worsens, she loses her job as a nurse. A friendly priest gives Louise purpose and she begins to fight back, helped by the man she realises she truly loves.
Simon Standish is a criminal lawyer in a family business in New Zealand. He is asked to defend a woman from the United Sultanates of Bagus, known as the USB. Jasmin Killian appears to have murdered a fellow student at a rugby match in Dunedin. There is no Immigration Department record for this woman. As Standish learns more about Jasmin he comes to believe that the possible successors to the Sultanate of Sungai Utan in the USB are being hunted down by an assassin. This appears to be an internet contract but who is paying the murderer? And where is this killer? Standish is helped in his investigation by a shovel-wielding farmer, a drug caching student, a criminal pair now turned saviours, and his partner Stephanie. A renegade policeman joins his team but can this man be trusted?
Kalle Kennedy is asked to go to England to recover her Great Grandmother Jennifer Simpson's lost inheritance. The Organisation for Peoples' Liberty, a White Supremacist Organisation, plans to kill Kalle because her story of being abducted and taken to an American interrogation camp is gaining credibility., . Jennifer is finding out about her family at the turn of the nineteenth century, a time when huge fortunes were made by some and great poverty was the lot of others. Isabella Blyde, solo parent, climbs high from humble beginnings only to be cast down by malicious lies. Her friend, Charles Crumley is not what he purports to be but he is a man who believes society's rules may be broken if one's love is strong enough. Isabella's friend Jenna Pajari falls in love with Peter Field but her family suffers a tragedy.
Three families in the past are linked to the present by an old lady's search for the truth about her family fortune; where it came from and what happened to it. While searching for the truth her great grandaughter Kalle discovers a White Supremacist plot against New Zealand's Moslem community. In 1801, Isabella Blyde is left pregnant and in limbo when her fiance disappears. She is attacked and left for dead. The Pajaris are merchants from Finland who are caught up in the political struggle to keep the Baltic trade routes open. Harriet Millichamp is having an affair with Samuel Boyd, a man of colour, but is having a baby to the local Vicar,
Raewyn is seventeen and pregnant but she does not know how that happened. While investigating the death of the School Principal, Dr Richard West finds several cases like Raewyn's. The babies mysteriously die in the nursing home. Wyatt Roeske tells the police about sexual abuse in a Children's Home. He is brutally tortured. While involved in finding the truth, Richard becomes a target for a sophisticated international network of people traffickers.
An IRA bomber believes a priest betrayed him and seeks revenge. A school principal believes a six year old is being molested, and launches an investigation. In Middle Creek Primary School, a twelve year old believes her internet boyfriend is seventeen. Another pupil knows a dark secret about her friend Edwina, who disappeared while on a Pony Trek. An artist believes she will win the lottery. Welcome to Middle Creek, the fifth book in the Richard West series.
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