This author extends the Sherlock Holmes canon with new adventures that meticulously capture the voice and style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His stories transport readers to meticulously researched settings, from the Scottish Highlands to the enigmatic culture of ancient Celts, presenting them as compelling historical novellas. Beyond mysteries, his work delves into themes of personal growth and transformation, drawing parallels between coaching and accelerating universal processes toward higher consciousness. His narrative approach emphasizes authentic atmosphere and philosophical insights, making his writing a unique blend of detective fiction and introspective exploration.
1920 - Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales: Tessa Wiggins's "madness" is provoked by the adopted spirit of a two-thousand-year-old Druid priestess mentoring her to be the servant of The Earth Mother. When Tessa defies treatment, her lover asks a childhood friend, Sherlock Holmes, to intervene. But despite everyone's best intentions, Tessa finds herself in Hellingford Asylum, where she is driven toward her final breaking point on All-Halloween.
An enigmatic jewelry case, holding human remains, arrives at the cottage of Sherlock Holmes, enticing him from his retirement refuge in the Sussex Downs. Holmes sets out on the trail of the murderer taunting him, joining forces with one of his former Baker Street irregulars, Tessa Wiggins. The two find themselves battling forces arising from a time before England was a country--when the Celts were fighting for survival. Though set in 1919, The Celtic Phoenix is steeped in the enigmatic culture of the ancient Celts who reigned over much of Europe three thousand years ago. It was a time when the bond with Nature was strong . . . when people walked in the olde ways . . . and when women were the equals to men as warriors, priests, and poets. The Celtic Phoenix is the journey of three women who rise from the ashes of their past like fearsome phoenixes and shake the rational foundations upon Sherlock Holmes built his life and career.
Providing a clear, transformational framework for managers, this guide describes four distinct leadership styles and applies them to ten common initiatives. Readers learn how to leverage their natural strengths and manage their weaker areas.
Sherlock Holmes – The Golden YearsA Collection of Five Rousing Post-Retirement AdventuresSherlock Holmes lamented, “I fear that retirement will elude me.” It surely does in this new five- story chronicle:The saga begins with The Bonnie Bag of Bones that lead the infamous duo on a not-so-merry chase into the mythical mountains of Scotland and ultimately to the “the woman” who is tangled within a mystery that has haunted Holmes for a quarter century.Curse of the Black Feather continues the adventure in which Holmes teams up with the Irregulars, and a gypsy matriarch, to expose a diabolical “baby-farming” enterprise. Their quest arouses a vicious adversary, Ciarán Malastier, who has Holmes struggling for his very life.Maestro of Mysteries begins with a summons to Mycroft’s office and ends with a deadly chase in Undertown, far beneath the streets of London. Malastier escapes . . . but only into the next adventure.The Cure that Kills sees Holmes and Watson in hot pursuit of Ciarán Malastier, racing across America, and pitting them against the largest detective organization in the world.In the final story, The Kongo Nkis Spirit Train, Holmes and Watson travel to the Dark Continent to derail a “spirit train” that ensnares people’s spirit, and enslaves their bodies.In the end, this historically accurate chronicle sheds new light on greatest mystery of all, Sherlock Holmes himself.