Rodney Strong
Genre:
- Adult Fiction
- Children's Fiction
- Young Adult
Skills:
- Proofreading
- Public Speaking
- Readings
Branch:
Wellington
Location:
Porirua
Publications:
Troy's Possibilities
What if your whole life was second chances.
Boy meets girl, girl pepper sprays boy. Not the classic start to a love story. Especially when the boy has a condition which means he lives out different possible futures for himself. Some end well, some end badly, but they always end, and he finds himself back alone, with just his friend and flatmate Emily to keep him grounded.
Troy is jaded and drifting, all those possibilities have taken their toll. Then he meets Cat, and keeps meeting her. At first he dismisses it as coincidence, then through a series of events he comes to believe that she might be just what he needs to find balance and make sense of everything. But in his strange world of possibilities nothing is straightforward.
Three Dogs, Two Murders, and a Cat
Nicolette Briggs doesn’t do humans.
As Wellington’s premier, and possibly only, animal detective, Nicolette mostly investigates missing pets and cases of animal cruelty. So when her latest client asks her to investigate a case of a poisoned cat, it seems right up her alley. Until a body shows up, then another, and suddenly despite her resolve to not get involved, Nicolette is right in the middle two murder investigations. Or is it just one killer?
When someone breaks into her house and one of her dogs is injured, Nicolette’s reluctance turns to determination to not only solve this thing before the police, but show up her stubborn police detective brother in the process.
Along the way she has to navigate a daughter about to turn 15, a dwindling bank account, and a dysfunctional family that seems determined to fix her. Not to mention a killer who’s turned their sights her way.
No wonder she doesn’t do humans.