Distant Echoes of Forgotten Lives (Paranormal Romance)

The Shropshire Hills, summer 1990. The gardens of an old house, Moorecroft House, which had stood there amongst the hills for so long, it seemed to almost be a part of them.If the man in Elizabethan costume who had appeared out of the mist that lay across the gardens that morning was a ghost, how come no one had ever heard of any ghosts and hauntings connected to them before?And if he wasn't a ghost, why did no one who worked in the gardens seem ever to have heard of him, or the horrific double murder he said had happened back in the 1960s,involving a man and a woman who'd worked in the gardens - a murder mystery which had remained unsolved? A paranormal mystery for which no one had ever been brought to account.Part of the curse said to have struck the family who first built the house back in Tudor Times? A curse which had caused each succeeding generation of the family to commit the same paranormal crimes against each other over and over until none of them was left to commit such crimes anymore.And if that was the case, what was the connection between the people who had lived in the house when it was first built, and those who were working there now the gardens were open to the public? What would the outcome be for those of them who had returned to their ancestral home?At first sight it might have seemed that the horrific double murder, if it had happened, had been committed too long ago for anyone still alive to have any personal interest in it. But was that really the case, or did the story of paranormal hauntings the man had told, have a relevance which continued into the present day?When young Peter started taking an interest in events leading up to the murders he'd found out about during his first day at work in a new job, it turned out there was at least one person still around with a personal stake in not wanting memories of the murders stirred up in this way.

About the Author

Brian W Taylor was born and brought up in London, moving to Shropshire when he retired from his job as a lecturer at a horticultural college. As well as teaching he used to write articles, mostly about plants and their place in mythology and religion, which were published throughout the world. When he took early retirement from teaching he took time out to research and write the book he has in print, and which is available through Amazon, Gardens of the Gods, a history of the part played by plants in the world's religions from prehistoric times to the present day. Nowadays he writes gardening articles for the village newspaper, helps to write plays for a local amateur dramatics group, and has written seven novels, all of which have been published by Amazon Kindle. Why Weeps the Willow, a ghost story, was published as an e-book by Amazon Kindle in November 2011. Let Sleeping Evils Lie, another ghost story, was published as an e-book by Amazon Kindle in December 2012. A third novel, Murder in the Marches, the first Chief Inspector Macdonald mystery centred around drug smuggling, was published as an e-book by Amazon Kindle in June 2013. The Disenchanted Garden, a love story involving the staff working at a public park in the summer of 1983, his fourth novel, was published as an e-book in December 2013. The Body In The Woods, the second Chief Inspector Macdonald Mystery, was published in 2015 and Murder Through Mischance, the third book in the series in 2016. All the novels are also available as paperbacks published by Create Space. Brian has a history of the Baugh family available only as an e-book - The Baugh Family of England, Scotland, East Indies and the USA. He also has an e-book version of Gardens of the Gods. Brian is a member of Mensa and the British Society of Dowsers. His website is http//brianwtaylor.blogspot.com

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