Bøger af Morgen Bailey

Twelve short stories about cruising: where none of the passengers have been screened and potentially anyone can 'cruise'. Anything can happen! With up to two thousand passengers on the big liners, an average of nine hundred staff and crew, and with no policing on board and floating in international waters, disappearances are frequent and often uninvestigated. Cruise ships are thought of as a luxury getaway from our busy or monotonous lifestyles, an escape from the drudgery of cooking and cleaning, and a chance to dress up, learn new skills, to be entertained and to explore faraway places. On these family-friendly floating paradises a woman is twice as likely to be sexually assaulted, and robbery on board ship and on the islands is fairly common-place. Death is the last thing anyone expects on a holiday cruise ship but the truth is that about 400 people each year vanish for various reasons including murder, suicides, accidents and mysterious disappearances. And all with no police to investigate or prevent crime and no immediate help available. Sickness, fire, malfunction, running aground, and the forces of nature make them a vulnerable place to be. These stories while inspired by real events have been written to be entertaining and uplifting, and whilst there are dangers, it is a lighthearted look at the pleasures of cruising.

Following David tells the story of Matthew Lockwood, a gentle and diligent man, who is about to retire from his job as a housemaster at a small public school, when he is contacted by an old school friend desperate for his help. What unfolds is a story about the ferocity that children can unleash on each other and the tragic consequences that can follow. But it is also about friendship and love, and whether it is possible to reconcile tragic events over fifty years later. The fifteen short stories that accompany Following David take the reader on a journey from Hollywood to Stalingrad via Africa, France, Scotland and Cornwall, giving a fascinating insight into a range of characters and situations that are tragic, funny and poignant.

'Wish You Weren't Here' is a selection of stories contributed by members of Crime & Publishment, a yearly crime-writing masterclass based in Gretna, Scotland.Some of the travellers have specific reasons to travel, some take a holiday to relax and reaffirm their futures together, except that once despatched by car, plane, train or ship, a number are fatally despatched themselves. The anticipated harmonious holidays become beset with deceits and conflicts which lead to awful events and dire consequences. Prepare to meet assailants, assassins, pre-meditated and impulse murderers, victims, witnesses and the innocent travellers placed at serious risk. There is intrigue, suspense, direct and implied violence, and blood... lots of spilled blood!