by H A Dawson
A psychological suspense, with a taste of social activity! Watch your friends closely, can you guarantee they won't take exception to a seemingly casual remark? It may instigate a barrel full of woes if they feel you insulted them intentionally. Stacy has always assumed she knows her friends and they are trustworthy. Inadvertently and unknowingly she stirs up someone's sensitivities to her peril.
H A Dawson integrates a thriller into an ordinary incident, but warnings like this should never go unheeded.
Snapping Locks
A psychological suspense with some community spirit. Life has a habit of nipping you from behind with unexpected, unwanted surprises when you're at your most vulnerable, even if you're brimming with pride. Maddie has had a troubled childhood with her widowed father who was excessive with his demands and discipline, this led her to vent her frustrations on others with some embarrassing results. Those involved may not hesitate to exert their revenge in an inopportune fashion. Maddie's a calamity and the more she pools her resources, the worse matters turn nasty.
H A Dawson creates a thriller from an insignificant event, depicting how people attempt to destroy the lives of others whether justified or not.
Circles Of Subterfuge - Series
Never To Be Ignored
When your profession compels you to help people should you ever refuse a dying person's pleas?
A nurse is an unwitting accomplice to a patient's scheming. The subterfuge and manipulation have regrettable consequences as this mystery of a dead son unfurls into a family catastrophe.
How would you feel trapped in a cage because you threw away the key?
Stolen By Jackdaws
The second book in the "Women of Compassion" series is as equally riveting as "Never To Be Ignored". She wants to help an old boyfriend. She is surprised how old emotions surfaced causing her to feel guilty, but of what? Her tunnel vision comes from her belief good actions bring good rewards. There is a mystery to solve but our main character finds herself amongst gangsters who threats become real and life turns intolerable as our tale tumbles to its finale.
Struck With Venom
Kelly has no idea someone has been manipulating her family for years. All she wishes to do is comply with her father's wishes but this causes conflict with her mother! It's fantastic to discover you have a sister but nothing runs smooth when guilt is the singular defining emotion.
Kelly is trapped by her devotion to duty while protecting those close to her. For a psychotic person there are never rules or remorse, just an evil advantage! Blackmail is never simple when it backfires.
Trampling Broken Sticks
Ebony is unaware that a desperate person is watching her and circumstances will become treacherous for her family and boyfriend. When a series of incidents befall her she suspects her father may have been blackmailed. But why?
Sweeping Away Tomorrow: A short story
Every day people make errors of judgement, when it's a friend's betrayal the injury is profound and sustained. We should not hesitate in forgiving ourselves but must become wiser by mending our ways.
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H A Dawson
Writing mystery suspense fiction is highly addictive because you are creating your own world. My stories are based on actual incidents which I've expanded and elaborated.
I totally immerse myself into the creation process, so much so that I must be prised away from my battered laptop computer! However I do enjoy all year round physical activities which include playing tennis, swimming, growing my own fruit and vegetables. I care for a menagerie of domestic animals; I also keep North European honey bees which help the pollination of my fruit trees and food crops. I do not use any detrimental chemicals; consequently my garden has become a haven for a wide variety of insects encouraged by seasonal flowering plants. My extensive hedgerows shelter hedgehog houses that help hibernation and reinstate injured or rescued hedgehogs; other wildlife abounds and is so wonderful it distracts me even from the best of mystery suspense.
If you are a staunch reader your eyes will be glued to the pages! The stories have a steady start with a slow burn (like good quality torch paper) the tension mounts until it is palpable, the pace breathy then it rockets!
My books are influenced by the work of 20th century film director Alfred Hitchcock, so beware my stories are emotionally dynamic...YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
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