DEADLY ASSUMPTION
- RELEASE DATE NOVEMBER 8TH. STAY TUNED FOR PRE-ORDER AND DISTRIBUTION UPDATES. A generational saga of suspected homicide, love and loss, rich in history spanning continents and WW2 into the 1980s.
Linden Carroll
About the Author:
The initial inspiration for writing my novels came from listening to the seniors I have supported over the years. Their true-life accounts, and those of their parents, formed the basis for my first two novels, Olive and Full Circle.
It is interesting to note how priorities change with the surrounding environment. War-time—a time of extreme suffering, pain and financial hardship for many, yet the never-ending spirit, compassion, comradery for fellow neighbours demonstrated throughout those times is all encompassing.
Today, we live in an increasingly sterile environment—a time of commercial and technological advancement with waste and excess to the extreme, seriously compromising the very environment within which we live and require for our survival. We are becoming desensitized and alienated from each other in our quest for more—perhaps a little less and a rekindling of the spirit and soul of our predecessors might not be a bad thing?
In fact, to covet the simple things in life, such as opening a new book…
Enjoy!
Linden Carroll
About Linden
I originated from England and currently reside in Western Canada, having travelled and lived in several of this country’s beautiful provinces.
Spending part of the year in the Cascades area of the USA, I have enjoyed many years hiking the trails with my rescued canine friends and howling to the moon with the coyotes around the campfire.
SYNOPSIS
Jonathan, an international art dealer, has travelled from England to Canada where he witnesses the rescue of a woman’s body from the ocean. Recognizing the tattoo on her shoulder as belonging to his prospective fiancé, Sarah, he flees the horrifying scene, unaware of the ensuing suspected homicide investigation or its findings.
Unable to face returning to an England without Sarah, he relocates to Germany. Setting up a new branch for his company, he commits to work and tries to forget but he is persistently tormented by the circumstances of her death and how she came to be floating off Vancouver. The passing years see Jonathan still struggling to overcome his trauma. Loneliness finally drives him back to England where he learns the shocking truth of the homicide investigation and of the twist of fate which changes his chosen path forever.
Deadly Assumption is a generational saga of suspected homicide, never-ending love and emotional trauma, the loss of loved ones, and the fight to recapture those closest to the heart. With a root setting in England, the story is rich in history encompassing Canada, Germany and France, spanning the period prior to World War 2 into the 1980s.
SYNOPSIS
‘Full Circle’ is a story of the indomitable spirit of a youth. 12 years old and orphaned following WW2, he follows a clandestine lifestyle on the London streets while England rebuilds after the war.
His rescue of another teen from the streets and their liaison cause him to experience the pain and intensity of first love and parenthood subsequently separating them. Becoming a seafaring adventurer he spends many years travelling across England and Canada finally
returning to his homeland to re-claim his lost love and their daughter.
SYNOPSIS
Olive is a story of human endurance spanning over four generations; from the end of the 19th century through to WW-II, during the almost-total destruction of Southampton, a port city in southern England.
Olive is the spine of this historical novel. Ostracised at birth by her family, Olive’s life is that of an opportunist and black marketeer. She uses her sex, guile and music skills to move up, but there is a price to be paid and the children bear the cost.
Olive demonstrates the impact one woman had on those whose lives she touched.
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