CRIME AND PERIL BOX SET 1: Crime Lords, Feuds, Diamonds and a Suave English Spy/A Good Haunting
Yvonne Crowe
(CROWE PUBLICATIONS, Jan. 16, 2015)
From Serbia With LoveDid you know that the side effects of Lexapro are inconducive to a life of organized crime? Or that the Starbucks in Jerusalem is the perfect place for international arms traffickers disguised as nuns to convene? Or that the choice between a piece of lead and a capsule that had been up someone else's rectum is no choice really? In Crowe's account of what can happen when sanctions send crime lords looking for work overseas, nothing is sacred: not London, not Serbia, and especially not "the Holy Land". – Ingrid Angers Author of Kat Vespucci takes Taiwan For readers of Kurt Vonnegut, Natalie Grigson and Dave Barry.When vicious crime lords battle for turf in London they are up for anything.Jovan Vukasin, boss of the Serbian gang, fancies himself the new era James Bond. As he angsts over his marriage to a third tier model from Milan who is passed her used by date he drops the ball and his street cred plummets the level of radioactive waste. He desperately needs a “win” over his archrival Danylko Bogicevic, the Ukrainian pakhan. Heisting a haul of blood diamonds, which will fill his coffers and embarrass Danylko seems like a good idea so he sends his minions off to Tel Aviv. The story rockets through Tel Aviv, Bulgaria, Serbia and Africa with one cockup after another and sees the crew fleeing from cutthroat rebels in Mali. In the ensuring turf war Scotland Yard decides to let them battle it out and save themselves the trouble.All of this leaves God convulsed with mirth at the futile attempts of mankind to usurp Himself in the scheme of things, while Jovan dusts the clouds off for him. Her Soul in PerilThe baleful soul of Heinrich Kramer, a German Inquisitor from the 14th century, is lurking in the netherworld, waiting for a physical vehicle to return to earth to complete his Holy Mission of burning witches at the stake. He is the author of the Malleus Maleficarum, or Witches Hammer, which was the treatise on how to recognize, interrogate, judge and then execute these innocent women, who, in a superstitious era, were the scapegoats for natural disasters. He alights on Tamsin, an English Rose, trying to find herself and overcome her past during a spiritual retreat, and decides she would be the perfect victim; which is precisely the role Tamsin is trying to shed. She is there to take control of her life. His persistence makes her question whether she was, in fact, this Inquisitor in a past life. Now a door has opened to a parallel world where she experiences other past lives. Torn between her horror at her past deeds, if indeed she is an incarnation of this horrible priest, and her determination to know the truth, she undertakes a journey, to find out whether she can uncover any evidence that links her to these revelations.
