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    Invasion
    Invasion
    Invasion
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    Invasion

    By Hannah Howe

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    About the Series

    The Ann's War Mystery Series is a series of five novellas set in 1944-5. Each story contains approximately 15,000 words and a complete mystery. The stories are: BETRAYAL, INVASION, BLACKMAIL, ESCAPE and VICTORY. The stories are set four months apart and will be published four months apart, so you can read them in 'real time', if you wish. However, you may prefer to read the books 'as one' after the publication of VICTORY. Please make a choice based on your reading preference. Kindly note that each mystery is resolved within one story, and that Ann's story arc will be resolved over the five books.

    About INVASION

    With her husband, Emrys, still missing in action, Ann Morgan receives a personal offer from debonair Detective Inspector Max Deveraux. Should she decline or accept his offer?

    Meanwhile, in her professional life, Ann is faced with a dilemma. After Trevor Bowman’s murder, should she take up the reins at his detective agency?

    While Ann ponders the personal and professional aspects of her life, a friend asks her to search for her missing daughter. Apparently, Adeline Hopkins, the daughter, endured a fractious relationship with her father. However, what about her ex-boyfriend and an American soldier, a GI she briefly walked out with?

    As the GIs prepare to leave and embark upon the second wave of D-Day landings, Ann needs answers, only to find herself faced with a further dilemma, the dilemma of how best to serve justice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoylake Publishing
    Release dateFeb 2, 2018
    ISBN9781370104529
    Invasion
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    Hannah Howe

    Hannah Howe is the bestselling author of the Sam Smith Mystery Series (Sam's Song, book one in the series, has reached number one on the amazon.com private detective chart on seven separate occasions and the number one position in Australia). Hannah lives in the picturesque county of Glamorgan with her partner and their two children. She has a university degree and a background in psychology, which she uses as a basis for her novels.Hannah began her writing career at school when her teacher asked her to write the school play. She has been writing ever since. When not writing or researching Hannah enjoys reading, genealogy, music, chess and classic black and white movies. She has a deep knowledge of nineteenth and twentieth century popular culture and is a keen student of the private detective novel and its history.Hannah's books are available in print, as audio books and eBooks from all major retailers: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, Kobo, iBooks, etc. For more details please visit https://hannah-howe.comThe Sam Smith Mystery Series in book order:Sam's SongLove and BulletsThe Big ChillRipperThe Hermit of HisaryaSecrets and LiesFamily HonourSins of the FatherSmoke and MirrorsStardustMind GamesDigging in the DirtA Parcel of RoguesBostonThe Devil and Ms DevlinSnow in AugustLooking for Rosanna MeeStormy WeatherDamagedEve’s War: Heroines of SOEOperation ZigzagOperation LocksmithOperation BroadswordOperation TreasureOperation SherlockOperation CameoOperation RoseOperation WatchmakerOperation OverlordOperation Jedburgh (to follow)Operation Butterfly (to follow)Operation Liberty (to follow)The Golden Age of HollywoodTula: A 1920s Novel (to follow)The Olive Tree: A Spanish Civil War SagaRootsBranchesLeavesFruitFlowersThe Ann's War Mystery Series in book order:BetrayalInvasionBlackmailEscapeVictoryStandalone NovelsSaving Grace: A Victorian MysteryColette: A Schoolteacher’s War (to follow)What readers have been saying about the Sam Smith Mystery Series and Hannah Howe..."Hannah Howe is a very talented writer.""A gem of a read.""Sam Smith is the most interesting female sleuth in detective fiction. She leaves all the others standing.""Hannah Howe's writing style reminds you of the Grandmasters of private detective fiction - Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker.""Sam is an endearing character. Her assessments of some of the people she encounters will make you laugh at her wicked mind. At other times, you'll cry at the pain she's suffered.""Sam is the kind of non-assuming heroine that I couldn't help but love.""Sam's Song was a wonderful find and a thoroughly engaging read. The first book in the Sam Smith mystery series, this book starts off as a winner!""Sam is an interesting and very believable character.""Gripping and believable at the same time, very well written.""Sam is a great heroine who challenges stereotypes.""Hannah Howe is a fabulous writer.""I can't wait to read the next in the series!""The Big Chill is light reading, but packs powerful messages.""This series just gets better and better.""What makes this book stand well above the rest of detective thrillers is the attention to the little details that makes everything so real.""Sam is a rounded and very real character.""Howe is an author to watch, able to change the tone from light hearted to more thoughtful, making this an easy and yet very rewarding read. Cracking!""Fabulous book by a fabulous author-I highly recommended this series!""Howe writes her characters with depth and makes them very engaging.""I loved the easy conversational style the author used throughout. Some of the colourful ways that the main character expressed herself actually made me laugh!""I loved Hannah Howe's writing style -- poignant one moment, terrifying the next, funny the next moment. I would be on the edge of my seat praying Sam wouldn't get hurt, and then she'd say a one-liner or think something funny, and I'd chuckle and catch my breath. Love it!""Sam's Song is no lightweight suspense book. Howe deals with drugs, spousal abuse, child abuse, and more. While the topics she writes about are heavy, Howe does a fantastic job of giving the reader the brutal truth while showing us there is still good in life and hope for better days to come."

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      Invasion - Hannah Howe

      ANN’S WAR

      INVASION

      ANN’S WAR

      INVASION

      Hannah Howe

      Goylake Publishing

      Copyright © 2018 Hannah Howe

      All rights reserved.

      The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Goylake Publishing, Iscoed, 16A Meadow Street, North Cornelly, Bridgend, Glamorgan. CF33 4LL

      ISBN: 978-1-9999619-0-9

      Printed and bound in Britain by Imprint Digital, Exeter, EX5 5HY

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations, places and events are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is purely coincidental.

      Ann’s War by Hannah Howe,

      available in print, as eBooks and audio books

      Betrayal

      Invasion

      Blackmail

      Escape

      Victory

      The Sam Smith Mystery Series by Hannah Howe, available in print, as eBooks and audio books

      Sam’s Song

      Love and Bullets

      The Big Chill

      Ripper

      The Hermit of Hisarya

      Secrets and Lies

      Family Honour

      Sins of the Father

      Smoke and Mirrors

      Stardust

      Mind Games

      Digging in the Dirt

      A Parcel of Rogues

      To my family, with love

      Chapter One

      Ann Morgan forced her spade into the dry ground and turned the soil. Then she paused to admire the vegetables in her allotment. A combination of warm summer sunshine and frequent showers had served the vegetables well and, this year, she would harvest a good crop.

      The sound of aeroplanes, flying overhead, captured Ann’s attention. The aeroplanes, an Avro Anson and a Westland Lysander, were on a training mission, from nearby Stormy Down.

      As the aeroplanes flew along the coast, Ann thought about Emrys, her husband of seven months, and the day he had embarked upon his top secret mission. That day, 24th March 1944, weighed heavily on her mind, for on that day the Nazis had shot down his aeroplane, somewhere over France.

      Emrys’ missions, for the RAF, were top secret; therefore, Ann knew little about them. However, Charles Montagu, a spymaster and Emrys’ boss, had offered her titbits of information, possibly as a balm to ease her anguish, as a liniment to soothe her troubled mind. Ann had received no word from Emrys, yet she held on to the hope that he was still alive.

      According to Charles Montagu, Emrys had embarked upon a reconnaissance mission, to gather intelligence for the big push, the day the Allies would land in France, the day they would seek to drive the Nazi invaders out of that country and liberate Europe. That day had arrived six weeks ago, on the 6th June 1944. Now, it could be only a matter of time before the American soldiers, who had been training on the local beaches and sand dunes for the past nine months, joined the second wave and landed in Normandy.

      Ann removed a selection of vegetables from her allotment, including potatoes, carrots, onions, cabbages and swedes. She would take these surplus vegetables to the local Women’s Institute for redistribution.

      With the vegetables secure in a hessian sack, Ann washed her hands and changed her clothes. Then she glanced into her bedroom mirror to admire her knee-length Utility dress. Of course, due to austerity measures, buttons and pleats, and the length of hemlines, were all severely restricted. Nevertheless, Ann

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