6th May: Orson Welles

Orson Welles, actor and director, whose credits include Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, was born on this date in 1915.

1. If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
2. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
3. My doctor has advised me to give up those intimate little dinners for four. Unless there are three people eating with me.
4. Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
5. Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
6. I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
7. I started at the top and worked my way down.
8. Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
9. I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
10. Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

My Books:

Death and Faxes

Several women have been found murdered - it looks like the work of a ruthless serial killer. Psychic medium Maggie Flynn is one of the resources DI Jamie Swan has come to value in such cases - but Maggie is dead, leaving him with only the telephone number of the woman she saw as her successor, her granddaughter, Tabitha Drake.

Tabitha, grief-stricken by Maggie's death and suffering a crisis of confidence in her ability, wants nothing to do with solving murder cases. She wants to hold on to her job and find Mr Right (not necessarily in that order); so when DI Swan first contacts her, she refuses to get involved.

The ghosts of the victims have other ideas. They are anxious for the killer to be caught and for names to be cleared - and they won't leave Tabitha alone. It isn't long before Tabitha is drawn in so deeply that her own life is on the line.

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Glastonbury Swan

Every few weeks, there is a mysterious death in Glastonbury. They seem completely unrelated - an apparent suicide, a hit and run, a drug overdose, a magic act which goes horribly wrong - but is that what the killer wants people to think?

The police are certainly convinced - but one of the victims is communicating to medium Tabitha Drake that the deaths are linked.

Who is killing all these people and why? 

This is what Tabitha has to figure out - before it is too late to save someone very dear to her.

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I have plenty more stories to tell, but I don't know yet which will win the race to the end of the pipeline. If you'd like to know:

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