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A Crack in the Ice
A Crack in the Ice
A Crack in the Ice
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A Crack in the Ice

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Ireland 1945.
When Florence Kite finds letters and a newspaper cutting in her late mother’s handbag, her whole world crumbles.
The cutting shows a badly injured man, Marcus Fanning, receiving a medal and an engraved cigarette case for saving six passengers when their ship was torpedoed in 1918.
Florence Kite never heard of Marcus Fanning. But the letters disclose a terrible secret. Marcus Fanning was her real father.
Confused and distraught, Florence goes looking but she can’t find any trace of him. Because twenty five years ago Marcus Fanning vanished off the face of the earth.
Then Florence sees the cigarette case in a pawn shop window. A young lad Frankie Rowe found it in the attic of an old farmhouse he was clearing out. There was something else there too, and Frankie was going back to get it when the coast was clear.
They found Frankie’s body in a ditch the next day.

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Release dateNov 8, 2020
ISBN9781005561833
A Crack in the Ice
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Brendan Gerad O'Brien

Brendan Gerad O’Brien was born in Tralee, on the west coast of Ireland and now lives in Newport, South Wales with his wife Jennifer and daughters Shelly and Sarah.As a child he spent his summer holidays in Listowel, Co Kerry, where his uncle Moss Scanlon had a Harness Maker’s shop, now long gone.The shop was a magnet for all sorts of colourful characters. It was there that his love of words was kindled by the stories of John B. Keane and Bryan MacMahon, who often wandered into the shop for a chat and bit of jovial banter.After serving nine years in the Royal Navy, Brendan progressed to retail management, working as a Department manager with the UK’s second largest Supermarket.Now retired, his hobby is writing short stories, twenty of which have already been published individually over the years, and also as a collection called Dreamin DreamsDark September is his first full novel, and Gallows Field is the first time we meet Eamon Foley in a murder mystery set in Ireland in 1941A Pale Moon Was Rising is the next story to feature Eamon Foley, now with the Gardai investigating another murder in Tralee, Co Kerry.

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