The Ballad of Billy Bean

The Ballad of Billy Bean

Ian Lewis

Ian Lewis

London, 1913. Fourteen-year-old Billy Bean is a thief. He's also a talented street performer, and he's picked up by Fred Karno's music hall company, that features Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin leaves Karno for the movies, and Billy is sent to America to replace him. Billy also wants to work in movies, and soon he gets his lucky break. When his luck runs out and the movie career goes badly, he finds himself back on the streets, with nothing but his childhood skills and a cheeky grin to keep him from starvation.
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The Camaro Murders

The Camaro Murders

Ian Lewis

Ian Lewis

The Camaro Murders chronicles the perspective of personalities adrift in the wake of a small town tragedy.When a local girl disappears, Sheriff Eustace Hildersham focuses on the suspect vehicle—a black Camaro. Behind the wheel of the Camaro, a murdered soul known as The Driver wanders between the living and the dead, at odds with himself and the girl's killer.Culver Crisp, the girl's childhood friend, shoulders the guilt of having put her in harm's way as well as the knowledge he should have died too.August Burroughs, the victim of an unrelated murder, is drawn into the Driver's world and must choose a side in a secret fight for Culver's soul.Sheriff Eustace Hildersham is still haunted by these events thirteen years later, fearing that he'll never be able to put the case to rest, when the Driver's phantom Camaro suddenly returns to the area. As Hildersham struggles to make sense of bizarre clues and the Driver's appearances...
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Power in the Hands of One

Power in the Hands of One

Ian Lewis

Ian Lewis

Power in the Hands of One pits Troy Brink, a thirty-two-year-old business analyst, against two opposing factions: a right-wing extremist group and the scientific elite. Both groups are bent on acquiring the technology behind sentient super-weapons developed by Redd Research, a private research and development firm. Ray Wright, Troy's unstable friend and employee of this firm, drags him into a world of corporate espionage, doomsday prophecies, and paradigm shifts that culminates with Troy at the helm of a mechanical monster. A novel from the author of the bestselling works The Camaro Murders and Lady in Flames.
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Lady in Flames

Lady in Flames

Ian Lewis

Ian Lewis

Every town has dirty secrets. And some say the sun doesn't shine on Halgraeve. All I know is there's one secret that's about to be let out, and when it is, this town's going to burn like the sun.Low-lit haunts...salt-stained roads...a cursed little town. The murdered soul known as the Driver crosses over to the living to find himself steeped in a seething brew of arson, mindless violence, imposters, revenge, lost causes, and second chances. Some motives are more pure than others. Some wills are stronger. And some wrongs won't get righted on their own. The Driver skirts the fringes of the physical world waiting for the time that he will intervene and claim his own sense of justice.A new short story collection from Ian Lewis featuring The Driver, the otherworldly figure introduced in The Camaro Murders.
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