Ripple of Danger (The Lockie Series Book 1)

Lockie is a retired New Zealander a widowed schoolteacher who has moved to Macleay Island in Queensland for warmth and to be nearer his children and grandchildren. . All goes well until he rents the other half of his duplex to a glamorous ex-model Renata who has a seven year old son and a lot of emotional baggage not at first obvious.. Renata’s ex partner is Big Joe Hayson a former super-star Rugby League footballer. Joe has his own way in all things and his two henchmen Matt Boy and Beni the Sidekick are there to see that he does.. Big Joe denies paternity of Renata’s son and Renata is sure that Big Joe plans to kill her. Evidence convinces Lockie that she has a point and to stop her trying to kill first Lockie intervenes with what he hopes is the voice of reason.. Very quickly things go to pieces. Murder is committed Landra Lucic another model and Big Joes’s current paramour stirs the mix and what with egos and power being challenged Lockie finds himself holed up in Joe’s Brisbane nightclub fighting for his life with no more than his wits and his beliefs as his weapons.