When Ruth Butler escaped Texas for a sleepy seaside village in the south of England, it was to rescue her infant daughter from the perverted demon she had married. But after ten peaceful years her daughter Annie disappears.

Not far away, a madman has been trying in vain to turn back time. When Ruth turns out to be a dead ringer for his mother, the voices in his head haunt him day and night. The only way to stop his mother’s nagging is to kill her all over again.

Ruth must rely on her instincts and the ally she finds in an undercover detective who’s in town on unrelated business, but neither can search for Annie’s kidnapper openly. Nevertheless, the trail leads from a faceless body in Annie’s clothes to a smuggler’s cave, where the killer drains his victim’s blood an ounce at a time. But he’s got a special purpose for little Annie. He is patient. He will wait–until her mother comes to save her.

Deadly Thyme is created by R.L. Nolen, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

Deadly Thyme

   Both the library computers were in use.


   Charles grabbed the particular book he had stashed out of sequence off the shelf and clumped to a corner where no one would be in his way. He needed to think without any interruption.


   He pulled at his collar. The heating needed to be turned off or some windows opened. The room smelt of musty books and old people. They were all for destroying the creaking place and building a new facility. He'd fought it at the last couple of council meetings. He made sure they had his opinion. The facility had served well enough the last three hundred and fifty years. Why go for change for change's sake?


Chapter 11