ANN se OORLOG: ANN se Oorlog Reeks

By Hannah Howe

Met haar man, Emrys, wat steeds vermis word gedurende die oorlog, ontvang Ann Morgan ‘n persoonlike uitnodiging van die sjarmante Speurder Inspekteur Max Deveraux. Moet sy die uitnodiging aanvaar of van die hand wys?

Intussen, in haar persoonlike lewe, word Ann met ‘n dilemma gekonfronteer.  Na Trevor Bowman se moord, moet sy die vaandel by sy speur agentskap oorneem?

Terwyl Ann oor die persoonlike en profesionele aspekte van haar lewe wik en weeg, vra ‘n vriendin haar om haar vermiste dogter op te spoor.  Klaarblyklik het Adeline Hopkins ‘n beskadigde verhouding met haar pa.  Maar wat van haar gewese kêrel en ‘n Amerikaanse soldaat, ‘n GI waarmee sy uit gegaan het?

Gedurende die tyd dat die GI’s gereed maak om te vertrek vir die tweede golf D-Dag invalle, het Ann antwoorde nodig, net om haarself met ‘n verdere dilemma te vind, hoe om geregtigheid te laat geskied.

        

• Language: Afrikaans
• Publisher: Goylake Publishing
• Release date: Oct 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781071572511

Hannah Howe

Hannah Howe is the bestselling author of the Sam Smith Mystery Series (Sam's Song, book one in the series, has reached number one on the amazon.com private detective chart on seven separate occasions and the number one position in Australia). Hannah lives in the picturesque county of Glamorgan with her partner and their two children. She has a university degree and a background in psychology, which she uses as a basis for her novels.Hannah began her writing career at school when her teacher asked her to write the school play. She has been writing ever since. When not writing or researching Hannah enjoys reading, genealogy, music, chess and classic black and white movies. She has a deep knowledge of nineteenth and twentieth century popular culture and is a keen student of the private detective novel and its history.Hannah's books are available in print, as audio books and eBooks from all major retailers: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Kobo, iBooks, etc. For more details please visit https://hannah-howe.comThe Sam Smith Mystery Series in book order:Sam's SongLove and BulletsThe Big ChillRipperThe Hermit of HisaryaSecrets and LiesFamily HonourSins of the FatherSmoke and MirrorsStardustMind GamesDigging in the DirtA Parcel of RoguesBostonThe Devil and Ms DevlinSnow in AugustLooking for Rosanna MeeStormy WeatherDamagedEve’s War: Heroines of SOEOperation ZigzagOperation LocksmithOperation BroadswordOperation TreasureOperation SherlockOperation CameoOperation RoseOperation WatchmakerOperation OverlordOperation Jedburgh (to follow)Operation Butterfly (to follow)Operation Liberty (to follow)The Golden Age of HollywoodTula: A 1920s Novel (to follow)The Olive Tree: A Spanish Civil War SagaRootsBranchesLeavesFruitFlowersThe Ann's War Mystery Series in book order:BetrayalInvasionBlackmailEscapeVictoryStandalone NovelsSaving Grace: A Victorian MysteryColette: A Schoolteacher’s War (to follow)What readers have been saying about the Sam Smith Mystery Series and Hannah Howe..."Hannah Howe is a very talented writer.""A gem of a read.""Sam Smith is the most interesting female sleuth in detective fiction. She leaves all the others standing.""Hannah Howe's writing style reminds you of the Grandmasters of private detective fiction - Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker.""Sam is an endearing character. Her assessments of some of the people she encounters will make you laugh at her wicked mind. At other times, you'll cry at the pain she's suffered.""Sam is the kind of non-assuming heroine that I couldn't help but love.""Sam's Song was a wonderful find and a thoroughly engaging read. The first book in the Sam Smith mystery series, this book starts off as a winner!""Sam is an interesting and very believable character.""Gripping and believable at the same time, very well written.""Sam is a great heroine who challenges stereotypes.""Hannah Howe is a fabulous writer.""I can't wait to read the next in the series!""The Big Chill is light reading, but packs powerful messages.""This series just gets better and better.""What makes this book stand well above the rest of detective thrillers is the attention to the little details that makes everything so real.""Sam is a rounded and very real character.""Howe is an author to watch, able to change the tone from light hearted to more thoughtful, making this an easy and yet very rewarding read. Cracking!""Fabulous book by a fabulous author-I highly recommended this series!""Howe writes her characters with depth and makes them very engaging.""I loved the easy conversational style the author used throughout. Some of the colourful ways that the main character expressed herself actually made me laugh!""I loved Hannah Howe's writing style -- poignant one moment, terrifying the next, funny the next moment. I would be on the edge of my seat praying Sam wouldn't get hurt, and then she'd say a one-liner or think something funny, and I'd chuckle and catch my breath. Love it!""Sam's Song is no lightweight suspense book. Howe deals with drugs, spousal abuse, child abuse, and more. While the topics she writes about are heavy, Howe does a fantastic job of giving the reader the brutal truth while showing us there is still good in life and hope for better days to come."

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ANN SE OORLOG

DIE INVAL

ANN se OORLOG

DIE INVAL

Hannah Howe

Goylake Publishing

Copyright © 2018 Hannah Howe

All rights reserved.

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Goylake Publishing, Iscoed, 16A Meadow Street, North Cornelly, Bridgend, Glamorgan. CF33 4LL

ISBN: 978-1-9999619-0-9

Printed and bound in Britain by Imprint Digital, Exeter, EX5 5HY

Hierdie boek is ‘n werk van fiksie.  Name, karakters, besighede, organisasies, plekke en gebeurtenisse is of ‘n produk van die skrywer se verbeelding of fiksie.  Enige ooreensteming met regte mense, lewendig of dood, gebeurtenisse is bloot toevallig. 

Ann’s War by Hannah Howe,

is beskikbaar in druk, as eBoeke en audio boeke

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Betrayal

Invasion

Blackmail

Escape

Victory

The Sam Smith Mystery Series by Hannah Howe, is beskikbaar in druk, as eBoeke en audio boeke

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Sam’s Song

Love and Bullets

The Big Chill

Ripper

The Hermit of Hisarya

Secrets and Lies

Family Honour

Sins of the Father

Smoke and Mirrors

Stardust

Mind Games

Digging in the Dirt

A Parcel of Rogues

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Alleenstaande boek

Saving Grace

Aan my familie, met Liefde

Hoofstuk Een

Ann Morgan het haar graaf in die droë grond ingedruk en dit omgespit.  Sy stop ‘n oomblik om die groente in haar tuin te bewonder.  ‘n Kombinasie van warm sonskyn en gereelde reën het die groente goed gedoen, en hierdie jaar sal sy ‘n goeie oes hê

Die geluid van vliegtuie in ‘n verbyvlug, trek haar aandag.  Die vliegtuie, ‘n Avro Anson en ‘n Westland Lysander, was op ‘n oefenings vlug vanaf die nabye Stormy Down. 

Terwyl die vliegtuie met die kus af vlieg, het Ann aan Emrys gedink, haar man met wie sy sewe maande gelede getrou het, en aan die dag toe hy op ‘n geheime sending vertrek het.  Daardie dag 24 Maart 1944, het swaar op haar gemoed gelê, want op daardie dag het die Nazis sy vliegtuig, êrens oor Frankryk, afgeskiet. 

Emrys se sendings, vir die RAF, was hoogs geheime sendings, daarom het Ann bitter min van dit geweet.  Tog het Charles Montagu, ‘n meester spioen en Emrys se baas, haar brokkies inligting gegee, miskien as ‘n salf om haar angs te verminder, as medisyne om haar vrese te besweer.  Ann het nog geen tyding van Emrys ontvang nie, maar sy het vasgeklou aan die hoop dat hy nog lewe.

Volgens Charles Montagu, het Emrys op ‘n verkenningstog vertrek, om inligting te versamel vir die Groot-Terugdruk, die dag waarop die geallieerde magte in Frankryk sou land, die dag waarop hulle sou poog om die Nazi-invallers uit die gebied te forseer en Europa sou bevry.  Daardie dag het ses weke gelede al aangebreek, op die 6de Junie 1944.  Nou kon dit net ‘n kwessie van tyd wees voor die Amerikaanse soldate, wat die afgelope nege maande op die plaaslike strande en sand duine oefen, by die tweede golf  aansluit en in Normandië land. 

Ann het ‘n gekose klompie groente in haar tuin uitgehaal: aartappels, wortels, uie, kool en rape.  Sy sou hierdie ekstra groente na die Vroue Instituut neem waar dit verdeel kon word. 

Met die groente veilig in ‘n goiingsak gepak, het Ann haar hande gewas en ander klere aangetrek.  Sy het na haarself in die slaapkamer spieël gekyk, om haar knie-hoogte Utiliteits-rok te bewonder.  Natuurlik as gevolg van die rantsoenerings wette, was knope, plooie en die lengte van die rokke taamlik ingeperk.  Nietemin het Ann gedink dat die kortmou groen rokkie, met sy bypassende gordel, haar uitstekend gepas het. 

Vanuit haar slaapkamer het sy met die trappe af  na onder gehardloop en haar sak in die Jensen gelaai.  Die Jensen was ‘n oulike sportmotortjie, wat een van Emrys se werks-vergunnings was.  Ann het aan die Jensen gedink. Die RAF het nie die motor teruggeneem nie, en ongetwyfeld was dit ‘n aanduiding van hoop; dat die RAF ‘n boodskap ontvang het, miskien in geheime kode wat aangedui het dat Emrys nog lewe?  Ann het gesug.