Stick Figures

Kirsten Holmes

Bewrite Books

In an alternative universe, Santa's North Pole City is no mere myth. But the reality has little to do with the jolly image promoted to the rest of the world. The North Pole is a grim industrial complex where worker elves and flying reindeer rarely live happy and long lives ... and where Santa Claus is a booze-sodden wreck. Detective Max Sneed is dragged out of retirement when Vlad Volsky, Premier of gun-free North Pole City, is mysteriously shot to death in Snowflake Garden. Prime suspect is Santa himself, suffering alcoholic depression after McCarthy anti-communist witch-hunts in his universe ban him from US airspace. During the six months' long polar night, Max is assisted in his investigation by visiting English journalist, Robert Watson, who struggles to resist the advances of Mrs Claus's pot-induced horniness and is bemused by the complex social interplay between humans and elves. Within this universe echo the events of our own turbulent sixties. The winding murder investigation becomes tangled with cold war politics, corporate espionage, bitter worker revolt and a powerful civil rights movement that threatens to destroy the fragile tinsel myth. Lewis brings us a North Pole struggling to retain its image in the midst of labor disputes, volatile human-elf relations, a discredited Santa, and now the murder of Santa's right-hand man. With a little grit and a lot of charm, The Blood in Snowflake Garden is a perfect mix of mystery, mayhem and magic. - Jaden Terrell, Executive Director of the Killer Nashville Crime Literature Conference and author of the Jared McKean mysteries Fans of Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' will feel at home in Lewis's 'The Blood in Snowflake Garden'. - Poet and author Sam Smith

The Blood in Snowflake Garden

D. Alan Lewis

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The Hundredfold Problem

GRANT, JOHN.

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The Far-Enough Window: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups of All Ages

Lad Moore never knew what tomorrow would bring. Whether he'd spend the night aboard a steamer ploughing the waves to an exotic shore or curled on the back seat of a rusting automobile with a deadbeat circus roustabout. Whether his next new friend would be a daredevil flying ace or a penniless hobo.This collection of true short stories tells of a coming of age among cottonmouths and candies ? the snakebite and the sweetness of a wide world of wild surprises from the backwoods of Texas to the jungles of the Far East.Blown through his early years like a tumbleweed by the 'Tailwind' his glamorous absentee father used as his aviation call sign, and fearing his harsh Oriental stepmother, he lived in envy of kids in the humdrum mainstream of solid family structure.Only when he looked back over half a century of life, did Lad realize that it was the very uncertainty of those bitter-sweet years that had made him the unique man he became ? and that it was time to write down the whole breathless adventure.These experiences ? fabulous in the truest sense of the word ? fuelled the unquenchable curiosity and strength of will that formed the core of a man who was to become successful in business and a master in the art of story-telling.How can good come from evil? How can adversity reap character? As these stories tell: It's all about lessons learned by doing and the influence of wisdom where it is least expected. It's all about listening and seeing ? with the senses honed to a razor's edge.It's all about harnessing the tailwind.Publisher's note: As it says on the BeWrite website we try to give value for money and we have again with this book, if you care to take a look...

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