by D. B. Martin
Patchwork Man
Lawrence Juste is top of the British legal world; a paragon of justice in action...
But Lawrence Juste isn’t all that he seems. Outside of the courtroom, he’s another man with another past – one full of conspiracy and secrets. One that is about to catch up with him.
It’s not just the blackmail note his wife leaves him just before her death, or the vengeful family he’s forced to reconnect with that bring the past crashing into the present. There’s someone with their own very specific agenda who’s after Lawrence Juste; someone Lawrence tangled with a long time ago. Someone with a long and vindictive memory, and now they want their pound of flesh.
Patchwork Man is the first book in the Patchwork People mystery suspense trilogy, and the winner of an Indie B.R.A.G. Medallion.
Patchwork People
Previously the name in the news in UK courtrooms, now Lawrence Juste, QC, is making headlines of a different sort. Yet despite admitting to a murky history, he’s still on the up. It’s a PR triumph for the man with the patchwork past; until the first sinister black edged card arrives. It’s followed by a parcel of evidence that puts Lawrence right in the middle of a deceit he helped create ten years ago. Not only that, when his hated sister is found dead in his house, he’s prime suspect number one.
The black edged card is followed by others, and more damning evidence. They draw Lawrence deep into a pit of conspiracy and suspense, with the certain knowledge that the dead do tell tales; and there’s no escaping revenge.
Patchwork People is the second book in the trilogy. Buy it here.
Patchwork Pieces
When Lawrence Juste QC, gentleman and liar, originally championed the case of the boy who reminded him of himself, he couldn’t have known precisely how much like him the boy would turn out to be. Or that the boy’s past was already as entangled in murder and betrayal as his own.
Now the wheel has turned full circle. The past is the present, the betrayed are the betrayers and only the ultimate sacrifice can save both Juste and the boy. The only question ultimately remaining, as the patchwork completes:
Who will be sacrificed?
Patchwork Pieces is the final book in the trilogy. Buy it here.
Other books include:
Writing as Debrah Martin:
Falling Awake
Some would say suffering has driven Mary mad, and the people and places she remembers all just dreams dreamt inside her insanity. But then how can her husband Joe remember them too?
Falling Awake is the story of Mary, Joe and a world populated by love, betrayal and obsession - and what it does to those who live in it.
Magic or madness? The impossible is only ever a breath away.
Just don't fall awake... Buy it here.
Chained Melodies
“Chaos is about rejecting all that you have learnt, chaos is about being yourself.” – Emile M. Cioran
If chaos theory applied to anyone, it’s Will and Tom. Best friends since childhood, life takes very different courses for them until they’re thrown back together in the middle of their own individual chaos. Surviving the terrors of war in Northern Ireland and the heartbreak of childlessness and a broken marriage, Tom learns that bravery isn’t about daring death, it’s about facing life. For Will, it’s about being yourself – or in his case, herself, as he starts an unusual journey towards being just that; the woman, Billie.
Chained Melodies is the extraordinary story of how two men find not just courage, but self-belief and the true nature of love.
Buy it here.
Writing YA fiction as Lily Stuart:
Webs
Deadly intrigue with a ton of teenage humour thrown in... Webs is the first book in the Lily S: Teenage Detective series.
Sixteen-year-old Lily’s policeman Dad is trying to untangle a particularly nasty death and Lily’s intrigued. She’s even more intrigued when she proves to him it’s actually murder. Perhaps she’d make a detective too? If only she could work out what would get Dad to dump awful Ange, grovel, and patch things up with Mum. Irritating isn’t the word!
In retaliation, for awful Ange, Lily’s mum resorts to the web for romance – the world-wide-web. Convinced she can get her parents back together, Lily resorts to her own bit of web-weaving to trip up the candidates for replacement daddy. Whilst her school friends are up to their usual tricks; Matt is alternately ignoring and chasing her. Melezz is being the worst best friend, and Jacob is up to no good with his nipple tassel pranks again, Lily’s busy sleuthing. The trouble is, whilst Lily thinks she’s a clever little spider, weaving clever little traps, one of her prey is smarter still – and deadly. Buy it here.
Magpies
The second in the Lily S: Teenage Detective series - THE teenage detective is back, and looking for trouble!
Or rather trouble’s looking for her. They find each other in the series of little mysteries that start cropping up as soon as Lily’s back at school after her brush with death, and meets the new boy, Si. He’s different, like Lily is now, with her occasional narcolepsy and frequent inclination to investigate everything. But whereas Lily watches and works things out, Si blurts it all out at the wrong time and in the wrong way. He has Tourette’s.
He also has a way with rhymes; one in particular that increasingly makes sense to Lily as the mysteries mount up and a gang of drug pushers target the school and her friends with potentially lethal consequences.
One for sorrow, two for joy, three for -
But ‘joy’ isn’t a girl’s name nor the opposite of sad, and the magpies the rhyme is about aren’t just black and white birds that like stealing treasure. They’re far more deadly than that... Buy it here.
Table of Contents
Prologue
1: Memories
2: The Case
3: The Boy
4: The Home
5: Innocence Lost
6: Jaggers
7: Danny
8: The Gutter
9: Solomon’s Wisdom
10: Win
11: Hidden Agendas
12: The Case for the Defence
13: Wild Card
14: Families
15: Little Mother
16: Sweet Charity
17: The Female of the Species
18: Medicine
19: Girls
20: Connections
21: Bonds
22: Circassian Circle
23: Patchwork People
24: Rough Justice
25: Atticus
26: Appearance
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