Larry Quartley
I was born in a Hertfordshire town: a stone’s throw from North London - the place where much of my teenage life was spent. After leaving school I found to my horror that sleepwalking through the latter stages of school life hadn’t been such a good idea. Soon realising I needed the education system much more than it had needed me. So time spent at the local college and Polytechnic followed. From the 1980s I worked for a blue-chip Pharmaceutical company: where I ended up as Head of Operations for their UK business.
But here’s the thing, I’d always wanted to write - crime fiction - and wrote two books in any spare time I had. Sadly, both were rejected by the agents I sent them to. When the company decided to relocate: I took the redundancy package on offer and began reading widely, and writing daily. So here I am after all this time - back walking around the same, sometimes hard edged and mean streets of my youth. CLOSURE is the first in the Detective Zachary Taylor series - I hope you enjoy the read and join me on the journey...
But here’s the thing, I’d always wanted to write - crime fiction - and wrote two books in any spare time I had. Sadly, both were rejected by the agents I sent them to. When the company decided to relocate: I took the redundancy package on offer and began reading widely, and writing daily. So here I am after all this time - back walking around the same, sometimes hard edged and mean streets of my youth. CLOSURE is the first in the Detective Zachary Taylor series - I hope you enjoy the read and join me on the journey...
Closure
Crime Thriller
For Zachary Taylor it’s about to get personal... CLOSURE sees a detective who can't let go of the past or the part he played in the murder of his old DCI. Investigating the brutal rape and murder of a young woman, whose death pulls the past into the here and now... In 2003 Detective Chief Inspector Charlie Benner was gunned down when he and other officers were caught up in a shooting frenzy between rival drug gangs. Zachary Taylor was among the first to arrive at the bloodbath. He worked the case - desperate for a conviction - but in the end his chief suspect, James Black, and the faceless guilty walked away, sticking two fingers up at the justice system. For Taylor the case remained unsolved. Seven years later, Taylor is investigating the murder of Stella Kerr - whose boyfriend, Steve Lamb, charged with the heinous crime had gone on the run. Taylor quickly learns that in Lamb there is a connection to the past and James Black. He believes the same dark forces responsible for the slaying of his old DCI are behind the drug fuelled murder of Stella Kerr. Reviews for Closure |