Maurice Holloway
Author
RESTLESS SPIRITS
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A ghost story with a lot of laughs!
A footman, Albie Hapless, and his mistress, Miss Trinity, died at Ruddyard Park 170 years ago, accused of a terrible crime they didn't commit. Cursed by a fire-and-brimstone priest, they are unable to leave until they can prove their innocence. They badly want to join their loved ones in heaven and, over the years, tried to get other spectral residents to help them . . . with some hilarious results.
Carla, the Transylvanian housekeeper, thinks she can help, if only she can stop Professor Nutball interfering. A séance is needed . . .
'Restless spirits . . . ,' Carla began.
‘That’s us,’ I whispered to Trinity.
‘Sshhhh.’
A DIET OF LOVE
The end of a six-month posting to New York. A pause in an unlikely relationship: donut-loving Tony Velasquez and meal-skipping Chrissie Glass.
Tears fill her eyes. At JFK, Chrissie turns for one final look and sees her Tony kissing a voluptuous woman.
Tony’s distraught ex girlfriend, Bianca, pours out her heart as they embrace. She has nowhere to go. He takes her home.
Chrissie can’t use her phone and boards the plane cut off from the world for six hours.
This funny, touching romance which begins in New York, is muddled up somewhere over the Atlantic, gets lost in London and, after Tony traces his family history and Chrissie takes on an exciting new job, has its Happy Ever After in Spain!
THE BEACHCOMBER . . . and other stories of the sands
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A PERFECT BEACH READ!
A collection of 34 CONNECTED STORIES
Global warming is a reality in the early 2020s. It's fifty degrees Celsius. Covid has made it impossible to be outside. Look back from the year 2044 to a life-changing event twenty years earlier.
The seaside is deserted except for one man who returns on the same day every year. Joss de Solla is searching for a token of love. Lost by the only one he’s ever loved. And ever will. Ashley Courtland.
Along the way, the beaches recall memories - other stories of the sands.
Neither an exclusively romantic book nor a science-fiction adventure. Not a crime-thriller or a murder-mystery. But all of these.
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BLOOD ON CHARING X ROAD
(Previously published as Jane's Legacy)**
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Greed and death invade the famed, once sedate ‘Book Centre of the World’ in London’s Charing X Road.
Priceless original manuscripts of one of the world’s most beloved authors have been discovered in a cellar.
The precise number of sales of Jane Austen’s books is unknown but it is generally agreed to run into the hundreds of millions. Most of Jane Austen’s papers didn’t survive for long following her death in 1817. But a quirk of fate has placed three complete manuscripts in the hands of someone who wants to donate them to the nation.
Others have different ideas.
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**Please note that, due to a quirk of the Amazon system, Jane's Legacy is still shown on their page. However, the book has been unpublished and is no longer available. Blood on Charing X Road is an updated version of the same story.