Patchwork People by D B Martin
Patchwork People is the 2nd in the Patchwork trilogy. There’s an uneasy truce in place between Lawrence Juste QC and his enemies as his wife’s funeral approaches; the calm before the storm. The storm breaks on the eve of the funeral with a package of ‘evidence’, apparently from a dead women, together with an ominous black edged blackmail card.
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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 People is the 2nd in the Patchwork trilogy. There’s an uneasy truce in place between Lawrence Juste QC and his enemies as his wife’s funeral approaches; the calm before the storm. The storm breaks on the eve of the funeral with a package of ‘evidence’, apparently from a dead women, together with an ominous black edged blackmail card.
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Patchwork People is the 2nd in the Patchwork trilogy. There’s an uneasy truce in place between Lawrence Juste QC and his enemies as his wife’s funeral approaches; the calm before the storm. The storm breaks on the eve of the funeral with a package of ‘evidence’, apparently from a dead women, together with an ominous black edged blackmail card.
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