Jasper Night 1 The Bundgolata Mystery

By Stephen J Bannister

In book 1 Jasper Night finds himself dealing with a creature that does not belong in this time and place. It has "leaked" across from its own world and is now causing trouble in ours. It is a creature like no other on Earth. Strong, cunning and a killer, it has made a habit of feasting on humans. Jasper investigates and is one of a few who can deal with the situation. He makes a journey into the South Australian Outback to see if he can track it down.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen J Bannister
• Release date: Jul 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215621332

Stephen J Bannister

Stephen. L West writes under the pseudonym of Stephen J Bannister. Stephen was born in the UK but moved to South Australia in the mid-sixties growing up in Adelaide. Enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy aged 17. Married in nineteen eighty. Joined the New South Wales Fire Brigades before moving back to South Australia.Started writing in the late nineteen-eighties creating technical manuals which led to dabbling in fiction. As an amateur astronomer with a lot of interest in other sciences, he decided to write his first science fiction novel.Stephen and his wife live on a two acre plot in the rural mid-north of South Australia. Their family has expanded to seven grandchildren.

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Jasper Night and the Bundgolata Mystery

Book One of the Jasper Night Series

Stephen J Bannister

Published by Stephen J Bannister at Smashwords

Copyright 2023 Stephen J Bannister

All characters appearing in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, most locations or persons living or dead is coincidental.

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Book One: The Bundgolata Mystery

INTRODUCTION

Ask a person their definition of paranormal activity, their first response may be along the lines of ghosts, ghouls, or poltergeists. It’s a reasonable assumption, but the most simplified definition is beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.

The true definition leaves much more to the imagination. Amongst other things it leads the door open to aliens, UFO’s, dragons, vampires, ghosts, demons, witches, and magic. Then there are things outside of any brackets. The list is almost endless.

These activities or events, as those in the business like to call them, rarely go about announcing themselves with large neon lights bringing attention down upon them. They can be big events but seem to stay localised. Most are quite subtle, a plastic bag blowing down the road on the breeze when there is no breeze. A cough from inside a room when you’re the only one home. You’re shadow moves, yet you don’t. You put your coffee mug down on the left side of the table and turn to look out the window, when you turn back it’s on the right side forcing you to doubt what you know is correct. You placed it over there, but maybe you did put it where it now is.

The people who deal with the big events are an enigma, they defy explanation. There’s some doubt the true natural detectives, as their employers call them, are even people at all, but something else, something supernatural. The naturals were born into it, picking up where their parentage left off.

There are irregular detectives, too. People with a gift or talent they may not know they have. Abilities tutelage can nurture and grow.

It’s a paradox, the naturals aren’t natural, and the irregulars are.

One natural is Jasper Night, one of the best in the business.

His eyes squinted; a frown formed above them. ‘…what’s the connection? There must be one, I’ve find it,’ Jasper Night muttered to himself as the ABC news presenter was reporting on the disappearance of a grazier who nobody had seen for several days, the incident occurring in the far mid-northern town of Bundgolata.

Jasper had heard of the town