With only a few days left at the Police Academy Jake Newton thought the hard slog was all but over. He soon discovered that being a Copper in Australia's largest city was definitely no walk in the park. Not only was the work rugged, he had to contend with the partying and that was even harder! How was he expected to juggle that as well as put the moves on the little glamour he'd just met?
Newton would soon cross paths with 'The Company' and the notorious Mr. Deep. Just what was it about Deep that frightened so many others?
And how did the illegal Casino figure into all this? Was there a connection between Deep, the Casino and the Drug manufacturing warehouses? And why were there so many suicides at The Gap lately?
Oh yes... for young Newton the worst was yet to come...
The main Police character somehow finds the time to impress and hook up with a glamorous female singer.
The singer innocently introduces him to the mysterious 'Mr. Deep' not knowing he is a major player in 'The Company'. Her companion, whilst rubbing shoulders with members of the so called 'high society' makes an interesting discovery when observing several of the organized crime figures he's already looking into are at the very same party.
BJ Benton spent a number of years living in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, Australia then served more than a decade as a member of the New South Wales Police. He now resides on the Capricorn Coast of Queensland, Australia with a strong desire to write several more stories including some of the characters we have been introduced to in this, his first novel, thereby allowing the reader to take part in the journey with them in many more new, humorous and dangerous adventures.
What looks like an accidental mass poisoning at a local bank is quickly shown to be a cover for murder. The victim is Cynthia Harmon, a woman who enjoyed making enemies. No one shows much concern with the details of her death. In fact, it is an acceptable solution to many a persons' problem. That changes as the investigation progresses and secrets are exposed. The first is missing money: an embezzlement that leads to suicide - or does it? Along the way relationships end, change and maybe star. It's hard to know what to do when anyone could be the murderer. All of which becomes irrelevant when a third body shows up. Only then do the shadows from long ago lead to the truth.
Wendy wrote her first novel when she was ten years of age. It was a cross between Anne of Green Gables and Nancy Drew. Even then she liked mystery. During her 22 years of working in the Canadian banking industry, she continued to write both within her business role and creatively. After leaving the banking world, she completed her "second" novel, Murder Makes Mischief, set appropriately in a Canadian bank located in Victoria, BC (where she lived for several years). Currently, Wendy lives a rural lifestyle at her 300 acre property outside Halifax, Nova Scotia and is working on her second banking mystery: this one, Memory of Murder is set in 1955.
B J Benton
The Good the Bad and the Dead
