In A Manner Of Speaking

by Ed Barrett

Overview

'In A Manner Of Speaking' is a fast paced mystery novel in which private detective and recovering gambling addict Chuck Millstone is retained by a deranged kidnapper. The kidnapper informs Millstone that he has abducted teenager, Andrea Masterson, but Millstone's involvement will have little to do with the kidnapping. While trying to unravel the kidnapper's purpose for hiring him, Millstone receives a call from a revenge seeking stalker, who tells the detective that he is going to kill him. Notes, phone calls, threats, from the stalker dominate the action and interfere with Millstone's involvement with the kidnapping. A surprise breakthrough unravels the mystery and leads to a final confrontation involving the detective, the kidnapper and the stalker. Love, intrigue, murders, threats to the detective's family and multiple abductions are interspersed throughout, making for a can't put down reading experience for devoted mystery readers..

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046217933
Publisher:	Ed Barrett
Publication date:	10/06/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	380 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

I've been writing for the past thirty years. Lots of short stories, two magazine cover stories, and one novel (Psychic Rhymes.) My interest in writing began while I was in the Air Force, when I was tasked with writing manuals, surveys, academic tests, and updating military regulations on drug and alcohol abuse. This engendered my interest in continuing on with what has become my very enjoyable hobby of writing. Subsequent short stories published in various magazines encouraged me to try writing a novel. This was a 'wow' experience. Much different than anything I'd written in the past. But, it was also rewarding.

I took a time away from fiction writing and concentrated on writing newsletters and an occasional short story, and finally got the urge to do another novel, 'In A Manner Of Speaking.' Is an easy book to read. The the first six chapters are free, and will give you an idea if it is a story that you really must have!