Sow and You Shall Reap

About the Book

How cruelty, sexual abuse and greed created this monster of a former care home Matron and the haunted hotel that hid her evil secret.

Just released from prison after their care home atrocities, former Matron, Elizabeth Waverly, and her accomplice, Norman Christie, team up and see an opportunity to inherit two million pounds. But first they have to kill the main beneficiary, Elizabeth Carragher, with Elizabeth Waverly taking on her identity. At the reading of the will they see their plans back fire when a second will is found and a long lost brother, Victor Carragher, turns up and claims it all.

Salvaging what they can, they plan to kidnap the brother’s young precocious daughter, Helen, for half the inheritance.

Before the kidnap can be arranged, Victor Carragher, a hotel manager, very quickly fulfils a life long ambition and moves to Majorca with his daughter, and new found wealth, to buy his own hotel. The killing couple follow him with Elizabeth Waverly still in disguise helping Victor run the hotel. But unbeknown to them the hotel he purchases is haunted.

What follows is a series of terrifying events including flashbacks of the main characters, the breakdown of their early family lives and how cruelty, abuse and greed, installed with a liberally wielded trouser belt, can manifest itself later like a cancer on their morals.

About the Author

B.P. Smythe Brief biography. I was born in 1946 within a short distance of the world famous Wimbledon All England Tennis Club. Racquet sports became an important part of my boyhood activities while attending the only school around with tennis courts. Later I studied engineering at Carshalton College and eventually became a member of the Institute of Quality Assurance. My engineering career took on many roles including technical writer for an artificial limb manufacturer, but I’ve always enjoyed putting pen to paper for creating quality manuals or report writing and similar documentation. As well as playing, I write tennis articles for my local county tennis magazine and relax reading crime and horror fiction. This, coupled with my technical writing career, partly influenced my transition into creative writing. Sow And You Shall Reap, is my first self-published novel. It's a fast paced modern day macabre thriller set in England and then Majorca. The plot for my novel was inspired by the true chilling revelations of the Parkfields Nursing Home exposé in Somerset and from several of my visits to the hotel Font de Sa Cala in Majorca. Locals say the former hotel owner was killed by his guard dogs. I have also submitted numerous short stories for internet competitions including, gaining first prize of £100 last year for my entry `A Rose Without a Thorn’ for the www.spinetinglers.co.uk competition and my winning entry this year for `Wanting To Be Loved` in the http://authorsonshow.com/ competition. I also gained a second prize for my entry 'The Letter' 'in the London Borough of Sutton Library short story competition. Favourite books: The Shining by Stephen King Frankenstein by Mary Shelley In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Psycho by Robert Bloch e.mail: barrysmythe@hotmail.com