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\n\"stalemate\"<\/a>Walter had shared a home and a sort of life with her for over sixteen years. When he came to think of it, that\u2019d been a bit like a game of chess too. He\u2019d gone from the enthusiastic opening \u2013 through a mid game of jogging along \u2013 to the endgame of barbed neutrality, a sort of emotional desert where no win was possible, a kind of stalemate. That had been the pattern for the last five years.<\/em><\/p>\n

Summer 1930 and Walter Bruce is told he has a terminal disease. With nursing care and an easier job he could have five more years. With neither he may not see out the year. But he\u2019s got a wife to keep \u2013 one too selfish and idle to be his nurse. When he finds out she\u2019s been deceiving him about her past for years he comes to a stark decision: if she won\u2019t take care of him he\u2019ll have to take care of her \u2013 for good. He plans her removal like one of the chess problems he loves. It will be the perfect murder; he\u2019ll get away with it and enjoy his last few years in comfort. But his carefully laid plans unravel, entangling him in a slowly closing trap where truth and lies become confused\u2026<\/p>\n

Set in between-the-wars Liverpool, Stalemate <\/em>is a gripping tale of moral choices and terrible punishment.<\/p>\n

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My Review:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Stalemate<\/em> is a gripping work of fiction based on an actual murder from that area. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and it was difficult to put down at night. I love Alan’s writing style and hope to read more of his books in the future.<\/p>\n

A \u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606\u2606<\/strong> read!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"alan2\"<\/a>About the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan Hamilton finds that real events, where there is a mystery or something unexplained, leave so much to the imagination they give the writer of fiction license to make it up. At heart he\u2019s a conspiracy theorist though his head tells him accident is usually more likely \u2013 albeit far less interesting. As an antidote to the urge to write creatively, Alan is a publisher\u2019s editor for non-fiction, academic books and journal articles. He lives by the sea in the South West of the UK. His hobbies are cooking and cryptic crosswords in the national newspapers, winning first prize twice in ten years.<\/p>\n

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