Patchwork Man by D.B. Martin
Have you ever met a patchwork man?
Lawrence Juste is one. The QC with a conscience – privileged, reputable and emotionally frozen. But Lawrence hasn’t always been who he is now. When he is glaringly in the public eye after his enigmatic wife is killed in an apparently random hit and run, he could do with his hidden past surfacing like a hole in the head.
Unfortunately his dead wife has helpfully left him a sinister resume of his, and she just keeps adding to it…
‘Patchwork Man’ is the first in the Patchwork series. The second, ‘Patchwork People’ will be released on 30th September 2014.
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D.B. Martin is a British author writing in a variety of genres. The Patchwork series is a trilogy of suspense thrillers following Lawrence Juste, a British barrister, as his life unravels. As Lily Stuart she pens a YA teen detective series, with her sixteen-year old protagonist blazing the way forward in a flurry of teenage wit and sarcasm in ‘Webs’. She also writes literary fiction as Debrah Martin. Information about all of her work can be found on www.debrahmartin.co.uk and www.lily-stuart.co.uk
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‘Patchwork Man’ is the first in the Patchwork series. The second, ‘Patchwork People’ will be released on 30th September 2014.
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Have you ever met a patchwork man?
Lawrence Juste is one. The QC with a conscience – privileged, reputable and emotionally frozen. But Lawrence hasn’t always been who he is now. When he is glaringly in the public eye after his enigmatic wife is killed in an apparently random hit and run, he could do with his hidden past surfacing like a hole in the head.
Unfortunately his dead wife has helpfully left him a sinister resume of his, and she just keeps adding to it…
‘Patchwork Man’ is the first in the Patchwork series. The second, ‘Patchwork People’ will be released on 30th September 2014.
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