Dead Birmingham

By Timothy C. Phillips

Roland Longville is back, and this time he’s been hired by a mysterious old man to find a locked antique box. The box has been stolen by a group of rebellious young people who exist on the fringes of society, stealing their way through life. The kids start turning up dead, and Roland’s old partner, Police Detective Lester Broom, becomes involved. It is a race against time that brings everyone together in a decrepit hotel that broods over Birmingham like a ghost from another time. There they will have their showdown with a killer out of Europe’s dark Cold War past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TheFictionWorks
• Release date: Nov 18, 2010
• ISBN: 9781581242942

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