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    On Jacaranda Street: A Jack and Bea Mystery, #2
    Ashgrove Park: A Jack and Bea Mystery, #1
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    A Jack and Bea Mystery Series

    By K.V. Martins

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    About this series

    An art dealer accused of murder. A notorious criminal on a desperate hunt for diamonds. An imposing house with many twisted tales to tell. What is the connection between them?

     

    December 1923: After returning a stolen artifact to New Guinea, Jack and Bea Collingwood arrive in cinematic Sydney, Australia, for what they hope will be a restful stay with their friends Dr. Miller and his wife, world-renowned spiritualist and medium Madame de Clermont. However, the imposing house on Jacaranda Street, where the four friends enjoy their reunion, holds many dark secrets that will force Jack to question his sanity.

     

    When the house is broken into one night, and a woman's body is found in Hyde Park, Jack finds himself reluctantly working with the New South Wales police to solve a cold case murder involving a local art dealer with a murky past. Jack is introduced to Sydney's seedy underworld and discovers the city's most notorious gang leader is convinced diamonds are hidden somewhere in the house and he'll do anything to lay his hands on them, including threatening Bea Collingwood. As the incidents escalate, Jack learns the history of a family torn apart by rivalry and the pursuit of wealth, and that everything centers around the house on Jacaranda Street and the mysterious woman Jack keeps seeing in an upper-level window.

     

    Who is this woman, and what is the story she is so desperate to tell? Can Jack unravel the past and find out what really happened on a fateful day in January 1914? After all, the truth cannot be buried forever.

     

    A modern gothic ghost story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAroona Group Press
    Release dateMar 27, 2022
    On Jacaranda Street: A Jack and Bea Mystery, #2
    Ashgrove Park: A Jack and Bea Mystery, #1

    Titles in the series (2)

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      Ashgrove Park: A Jack and Bea Mystery, #1
      Ashgrove Park: A Jack and Bea Mystery, #1

      Ashgrove Park: A Jack and Bea Mystery, #1

      K.V. Martins
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      MAYBE SOME PHOTOGRAPHS SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN December 1918   Lieutenant Jack Collingwood, haunted by the ghosts of war and his brother's death, recuperates at Ashgrove Park, a stately Sussex manor. Unsettling things have been happening there since relic hunter Lord Ashgrove returned from British New Guinea after having stolen a shaman's skull for his collection of curiosities.   An image Jack takes with his camera reveals the shocking extent of a curse unleashed on Lord Ashgrove's family, and Jack finds himself communicating with the shaman's spirit.   While Jack faces the secrets of his troubled past and doubts his sanity, he must solve a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances before Lady Beatrice Ashgrove–the woman he loves–is threatened.   Can he save her, or will he succumb to the powerful force that walks the halls of Ashgrove Park?

      MAYBE SOME PHOTOGRAPHS SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN December 1918   Lieutenant Jack Collingwood, haunted by the ghosts of war and his brother's death, recuperates at Ashgrove Park, a stately Sussex manor. Unsettling things have been happening there since relic hunter Lord Ashgrove returned from British New Guinea after having stolen a shaman's skull for his collection of curiosities.   An image Jack takes with his camera reveals the shocking extent of a curse unleashed on Lord Ashgrove's family, and Jack finds himself communicating with the shaman's spirit.   While Jack faces the secrets of his troubled past and doubts his sanity, he must solve a series of mysterious deaths and disappearances before Lady Beatrice Ashgrove–the woman he loves–is threatened.   Can he save her, or will he succumb to the powerful force that walks the halls of Ashgrove Park?

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      On Jacaranda Street: A Jack and Bea Mystery, #2
      On Jacaranda Street: A Jack and Bea Mystery, #2

      On Jacaranda Street: A Jack and Bea Mystery, #2

      K.V. Martins
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      An art dealer accused of murder. A notorious criminal on a desperate hunt for diamonds. An imposing house with many twisted tales to tell. What is the connection between them?   December 1923: After returning a stolen artifact to New Guinea, Jack and Bea Collingwood arrive in cinematic Sydney, Australia, for what they hope will be a restful stay with their friends Dr. Miller and his wife, world-renowned spiritualist and medium Madame de Clermont. However, the imposing house on Jacaranda Street, where the four friends enjoy their reunion, holds many dark secrets that will force Jack to question his sanity.   When the house is broken into one night, and a woman's body is found in Hyde Park, Jack finds himself reluctantly working with the New South Wales police to solve a cold case murder involving a local art dealer with a murky past. Jack is introduced to Sydney's seedy underworld and discovers the city's most notorious gang leader is convinced diamonds are hidden somewhere in the house and he'll do anything to lay his hands on them, including threatening Bea Collingwood. As the incidents escalate, Jack learns the history of a family torn apart by rivalry and the pursuit of wealth, and that everything centers around the house on Jacaranda Street and the mysterious woman Jack keeps seeing in an upper-level window.   Who is this woman, and what is the story she is so desperate to tell? Can Jack unravel the past and find out what really happened on a fateful day in January 1914? After all, the truth cannot be buried forever.   A modern gothic ghost story.

      An art dealer accused of murder. A notorious criminal on a desperate hunt for diamonds. An imposing house with many twisted tales to tell. What is the connection between them?   December 1923: After returning a stolen artifact to New Guinea, Jack and Bea Collingwood arrive in cinematic Sydney, Australia, for what they hope will be a restful stay with their friends Dr. Miller and his wife, world-renowned spiritualist and medium Madame de Clermont. However, the imposing house on Jacaranda Street, where the four friends enjoy their reunion, holds many dark secrets that will force Jack to question his sanity.   When the house is broken into one night, and a woman's body is found in Hyde Park, Jack finds himself reluctantly working with the New South Wales police to solve a cold case murder involving a local art dealer with a murky past. Jack is introduced to Sydney's seedy underworld and discovers the city's most notorious gang leader is convinced diamonds are hidden somewhere in the house and he'll do anything to lay his hands on them, including threatening Bea Collingwood. As the incidents escalate, Jack learns the history of a family torn apart by rivalry and the pursuit of wealth, and that everything centers around the house on Jacaranda Street and the mysterious woman Jack keeps seeing in an upper-level window.   Who is this woman, and what is the story she is so desperate to tell? Can Jack unravel the past and find out what really happened on a fateful day in January 1914? After all, the truth cannot be buried forever.   A modern gothic ghost story.

    Author

    K.V. Martins

    K.V. Martins is originally from Sydney, Australia but now lives in New Zealand. Her work has been featured in various literary journals and she has won writing and poetry competitions. She has a B.A. (Hons) in History.

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