Alex

Alex’s father, Richard, abandons his lover and child to return to his wife and new son. Alex grows up hungry, abused and neglected by his alcoholic mother. He remembers his father’s parting advice, “Try your best to be your best.” Alex’s mother blames him for Richard leaving. Alex feels ‘his best’ wasn’t good enough. He compares his life to his half-brother Steve and the difference fires pathological hate for both brother and father. Steve always gets everything and fortune smiles on him. Alex gets nothing. As a teenager Alex is smitten by Sigga and falls deeply in love. He loves his mother despite the abuse. Finally, without hope, he steps back from saving his mother and allows her to die. She becomes a voice in his head and torments him. Tormented and full of hate he drinks for relief. Decades pass. Alex’s love, Sigga and his hated half brother Steve both return. In an earlier book, After Sigga, Susie Campbell and Sigga switched identities in order to escape a motor cycle gang. It is Susie Campbell, not Sigga who has returned, but Alex is confused. Insane with jealousy, Alex commits several atrocities, culminating in the abduction of his life-long love. Both private and official investigations close in on Alex, unraveling the abduction of Susie and the murder of his own father. The saga culminates at the hunting shack with a startling end. Alex will entertain, intrigue, sadden and thrill you. This mystery-thriller is a must-read that’ll draw you in and carry you to an end that both relieves and satisfies.