'She asked me to ask you to do a job for her. Especially seeing as my family had recently got a bit more complicated. 'What is it?' I asked, resigned to doing another job for mates' rates for someone who was no mate of mine.Īt least, I hoped it was a job, not anything family related. The only time she ever opens with How are you? is when she's desperate to ask for a favour but thinks it'd be rude to launch straight in without a bit of chitchat. Phil was coming round for tea but wasn't sure when, so I was doing something I could leave on a low heat to keep warm if need be. What's up?' I held the phone to my ear with my left hand while I stirred the pasta sauce with my right. Just goes to show, this being-psychic lark really isn't all it's cracked up to be. These days, when my big sister phones me, I don't expect anything worse than an invite to lunch and the latest gossip, so I hit Accept Call that night without even a hint of a suspicion of foreboding. Publisher's note: This is lightly edited reprint of a previously published novel. If Tom and Phil don’t watch out, their love-and all their plans for the future-could be blown down like a house of straw. But the murderer they’re up against is a ruthless schemer who won’t baulk at killing again. And there’s no shortage of suspects, including the local bishop.Īs Tom and Phil try to uncover the truth, they’re pulled in all directions by the conflicting pressures of their families and their own desires. Hired to recover a missing necklace, Tom and his fiancé, private investigator Phil Morrison, find themselves trying to unmask a killer. Not only is his family situation complicated, but his heroism at a pub fire has made him a local celebrity, and now everyone knows about his psychic talents-and wants a piece of them.

He’s got enough on his mind already as the reality of his impending marriage sinks in. The last thing newly engaged plumber Tom Paretski needs is to stumble over another dead body. Death is what happens while you’re making other plans.

Blow Down by J.L. Merrow