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

   A cool breeze blew in from the sea to where Jon and Trewe sat at breakfast in the Hasten Inn B&B's terraced garden. Jon smoothed his hair down and faced Trewe, whose grizzled head-mat never moved, and not for the first time Jon wondered if it might be a wig or a bad hairpiece.


   Beside them the garden glowed in lazy terra cotta colors reminiscent of a far-off Italian garden of distant happy memory. Across the courtyard they had a view of the village and the beach cove partly hidden by a curve of cliff. The village looked brilliant and peaceful, the roads empty of traffic. 


   The sun warmed the skin, but the air was brilliantly cold and carried the faint scent of briny fish. Jon leaned forward to stir his tea with a wary eye on Trewe's narrow face. Something was amiss. He was angry. 


   Tiny sparrows flew back and forth, tittering and chattering as they fought over crumbs under the table. 


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