Already Dead
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To my writing family: Christine Stinson, Isolde Martyn, Elizabeth Lhuede, Melinda Seed, Kandy Shepherd, Carla Molino, Simone Camilleri and Carol Casey; also Louise Reynolds and Dayley Black – it would be so much harder without you.
And to my family: Mark and Claire, who have moved far away but are always with me, and Paul, who meets my imaginary friends and lives with every version of me – I couldn’t do it without you.
In Already Dead, I write about post-traumatic stress disorder as an injury of war but it can affect anyone. I found many online resources, from information about symptoms to online discussions and where to find help. If you think you or someone you care about is suffering PTSD, there is support – don’t wait to find it.
Jaye Ford is a former news and sports journalist, with the unusual claim of being the first female presenter of a live national sports show in Australia, hosting Sport Report on SBS in 1988–89. She also worked in public relations before turning to crime fiction. She lives in Lake Macquarie in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.
Already Dead is Jaye’s fourth novel following Beyond Fear, Scared Yet? and Blood Secret. Her first, Beyond Fear, won Best Debut and Reader’s Choice at the Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards 2012.
www.jayefordauthor.com
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BEYOND FEAR
Jaye Ford
Imagine if your worst fears came true … again.
At seventeen, Jodie Cramer survived a terrifying assault at the hands of three strangers. Her schoolmate Angie was not so lucky …
Now thirty-five, Jodie is a teacher and mother of two – and her past is a horror she’s buried deep. When she sets out for a weekend in the country with three friends, all she has in mind are a few laughs and a break from routine. However, unknown to the four women, their secluded cabin was once the focus of a police investigation and, like Jodie, it nurtures a dark secret …
As her friends relax, the isolation reawakens Jodie’s terrifying memories. When she finds evidence of trespassers, she is convinced they are being watched. But no one will believe her and as her past threatens to overwhelm her, she begins to doubt herself – and her sanity.
Until two men knock at their door …
‘Beyond Fear is so deliciously scary, it’s hard to believe this psychological suspense is a debut novel.’ Sisters in Crime
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SCARED YET?
Jaye Ford
She fought back. She won. Now the nightmare begins …
When Livia Prescott fights off a terrifying assault in a deserted car park, the media hail her bravery. And after a difficult year – watching her father fade away, her business struggle and her marriage fall apart – it feels good to strike back for once.
But as the police widen their search for her attacker, menacing notes start arriving. And brave is not what she feels any longer …
Someone has decided to rip her life apart, then kick her when she’s down. But is it a stranger or someone much closer to home? In fact, is there anyone she can now trust?
When her family and friends are drawn into the stalker’s focus – with horrifying consequences – the choice becomes simple. Fight back, or lose the people she loves the most …
Are you scared yet, Livia?
‘A gripping tale … Set aside an afternoon for it as it’s genuinely difficult to put down.’ Take 5
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BLOOD SECRET
Jaye Ford
She shouldn’t have stayed. Now she can’t leave …
Nothing ever happens in Haven Bay, which is why Rennie Carter – a woman who has been on the run for most of her life – stayed there longer than she should.
However, that illusion of security is broken one night when Max Tully, the man she loves and the reason she stayed, vanishes without trace.
Rennie, though, is the only person who believes Max is in danger. The police are looking in the wrong places, and Max’s friends and his business partner keep hinting at another, darker side to him.
But Rennie Carter understands about double lives – after all, that’s not even her real name …
And she has a secret too – a big, relentless and violent one that she’s terrified has found her again … and the man she loves.
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‘One of the stand-out crime thrillers of the last few years’
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Hades Archer surrounds himself with the things others leave behind. Their trash becomes the twisted sculptures that line his junkyard. The bodies they want disposed of become his problem – for a fee.
Then one night a man arrives on his doorstep, clutching a small bundle that he wants ‘lost’. And Hades makes a decision that will change everything …
Twenty years later, homicide detective Frank Bennett feels like the luckiest man on the force when he meets his new partner, the dark and beautiful Eden Archer. But there’s something strange about Eden and her brother, Eric. Something he can’t quite put his finger on.
At first, as they race to catch a very different kind of serial killer, his partner’s sharp instincts come in handy. But soon Frank’s wondering if she’s as dangerous as the man they hunt.
A dark, compelling and original thriller that will have you spellbound from its atmospheric opening pages to its shocking climax.
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A FATAL TIDE
Steve Sailah
Amid Gallipoli’s slaughter he hunted a murderer …
It is 1915 and Thomas Clare rues the day he and his best friend Snow went to war to solve the murder of his father.
The only clues – a hidden wartime document and the imprint of an army boot on the victim’s face – have led the pair from the safety of Queensland to the blood-soaked hills of Gallipoli.
Now not only are Thomas’s enemies on every side – from the Turkish troops bearing down on the Anzac lines, to the cold-blooded killer in his own trench – but they are as far away as London and Berlin.
For, unbeknown to Thomas, the path to murder began thirteen years earlier in Africa with the execution of Breaker Morant – and a secret that could change the course of history …
A powerful novel set in Gallipoli, that’s part war-story and part mystery.
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Already dead/Jaye Ford.
ISBN 9781742756875 (ebook)
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