Bøger af MacKenzie Brown

Ten Little Thrills explores the thriller genre with ten diverse stories from the pen of Mackenzie Brown. Fans of Brown's noir influenced Prince of the City series will be pleased to find Vic Prince solving one of his earliest cases and from Brown's third novel Lost Boys, the brilliant Delbert Walsh attempts to catch a cold blooded killer on the fog soaked streets of 1950s London. Eight further stories will either set your pulse racing, or bring you out in a cold sweat, but for those who prefer to use their little grey cells, there is even a classic whodunnit set in Venice during the 1950s.Ten Little Thrills is the perfect read for every fan of crime fiction.

Vic Prince is a wise cracking detective, plying his trade in 1940's war torn Liverpool. Unable to enlist because of flat feet and asthma, Prince has an affinity with the City because his great grandfather was brought to the Mersey shores, on the last ever Slave Ship to dock, back in 1807.Prince has to wrestle with prejudice, the ostracising of his girlfriend and her Chinese father, his conscience when his best friend controls the City's black market and a detective sergeant who hates his guts.The City is alive with foreign factions because of the geographical proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and its strategic importance. There is also worry the Nazis are planning a land invasion and add to that, a constant bombing of Liverpool's dockland.Nine Lives;Vic is encouraged to work other cases as the search continues for the collar of a missing Persian Blue cat, while he also tries to understand why dead men keep turning up in the Mersey. He at first must negotiate his best friend Percy's release from the Russians, who want to recover a cache of guns they believe he is holding. He is engaged by the wife of a wealthy business man, Cyril Longthorne; who believes her husband is being held against his will by a group stealing his money. Vic is forced to travel to the popular seaside town of Southport to unravel the mystery, but gets far more than he bargained for, when associates of Cyril's are murdered before he can talk to them....

I often laugh when I think about leading the next generation, really the current generation! It is difficult! They are different! Honestly, I have to assume I am part of the collective "generation" that we so often refer to as "the hard ones". It wasn't until I had an epiphany about leading the next generation that I realized we are doing it all wrong. They, WE, are looking for something different than the old-school "work-work" balance generations. We are looking for a better balance of life, work, and luxury. As leaders try to dig in and keep things the same, this generation is leaving the workforce and becoming a force to be reckoned with. They are different, they are smart, and they are thinking outside of the box to get what they want. As leaders, we need to embrace them. Embrace their differences. Embrace the difficulties so we can come out on the otherside with them, not against them.Let me show you how to Lead the Next Generation with my top 12 strategies for keeping up with the ever changing workforce. Let me take you into a look at how I did it, became successful, and created a following. Yep, you heard me a following! A following of the @nextgen. We are evolving, and as a leader, you should want to keep up.-Mackenzie Brown, CNMIntroductionAs a leader, you will go through hardship. You will have a vision, and you will see your vision fail; trust me it will fail in some way. But when you dig into the failure, you will see it through to success. This can happen over and over. You will grow something incredible when you keep pushing. Let yourself evolve during the good and the bad, and become the leader that you are meant to be. Stop saying no, say yes! Ask Jesus how you can serve and listen.Let me be clear before we dive in; I am not a leadership guru who writes novels on leadership styles. I will not tell you how to plan, do, study, and act. I will not tell you how to write a budget, or keep a budget. I do not have decades and decades of experience to bring to you and tell you this works and will forever work. I have four college degrees that may seem fancy, but everything I have to offer came from personal experience in the trenches leading a team. What I want to offer you are skills and strategies that I have used in real time. Skills that I have learned, re-learned, and groomed to use appropriately in all situations as a leader. These skills have worked over and over for me, and anyone that has worked alongside me will share with you the magic that happens when the team is led and not managed. I have used this strategy in nursing, but the tools I have gained and groomed can be implemented in any setting with the right mindset. I have taken something completely broken and with the help of an entire team, put it back together better than before.It takes patience, passion, and perseverance for this system to work. I can give you tools to use tomorrow to begin or transform your journey into leadership; to build your team into something magical. I am going to share my top twelve strategies to become a successful leader that generate a following of people that will never let you down.

Holly had spent the past couple of years hiding from her abusive husband; locking herself away from the world as she protected her heart from the dangers of love.A chance meeting with a handsome stranger with amnesia soon brought her past racing to catch up with her.Does she have the strength to fight for her freedom one last time?And what price would she have to pay for it? Her life?

Doctor Stephen Forshaw belonged to one of London's oldest and wealthiest families. We learn that one day Doctor Forshaw simply vanished into thin air. Only to be followed one year later by his sons, Robert, Angus and Toby. No motive or clue to their disappearances was ever discovered by the Police and their bodies were never found. Despite this, the authorities secretly believed that all four were dead and were certain that it was only a matter of time before their bodies were discovered.............Almost ten years to the day Stephen was discovered missing, a boy matching Toby's description reappears at a disused farm in Hertfordshire. The boy has no memory of where he has been and doesn't even know his name. The Boy cannot understand why he hasn't aged one day in nearly a decade. He is only aware that his life is in grave danger.......

On the day eleven year old Imelda Stone discovers the reason she has always felt different from other children, her beloved father storms out of their home in the middle of the night.Days pass and when the Police are called a body is not located, nevertheless Edward Stone is presumed dead.But Imelda knows he is very much alive.One night she hears a voice calling to her from the old dry well at the bottom of the garden and all of her hopes and fears are realised at once.An enemy older than time has waited to unleash his master plan. His intention to kill his old foe Edward Stone and wreak havoc on Earth, but he hasn't counted on a gifted ten year old standing in his way.In a breathtaking series of events, Imelda seeks out her missing father, faces up to a ruthless killer and in a pulsating finale enters an alien world to rescue her fatally wounded father and save the human race from certain destruction.

Renowned criminologist Delbert Walsh has spent five long years searching for his only son during the political upheaval of 1970

As the glow of blood red moon smoulders in the background, a faceless stranger stalks the group of six friends camping peacefully in the Australian bush, none of them knowing the horror weekend that they were about to embark upon.Finding themselves lost, and desperate, and fighting for their lives, the group struggle's to battle the odds, as they attempt to hike their way out of the wilds of the Great Dividing Range.Hampered by tragedy, they fight for their freedom, and in the process learn more about each other than they ever thought possible.

This is the true story of early lives of author Mackenzie Brown's grandparents and is an epic love story set between two world wars.