Welcome to HutchWrites ~ Novels by David Hutchison
MACH ~ BOOK ONE: THE AWAKENING — A Young Adult Coming-of-Age Novel.
In a time before time itself, Mach is about to reach adulthood by going through the mysterious ritual of the Awakening Ceremony, and he is troubled because he has no idea what this ancient ceremony entails. He is unaware that an unseen Order of Warrior Priests will first reveal his true lineage, then take him from his simple village life to teach him their inner ways and prepare him for the challenges that lie ahead.
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REAP AS YOU SOW (Book-2 of the DCI Steel Mysteries series) — A Crime Novel set in 2000.
When a mutilated body is washed up on a city beach, followed by an explosion in a nearby street, DCI Mike Steel and DS Robin Moss start an investigation which leads them from Edinburgh to Latvia and into a world where nothing is as it seems. In so doing, Moss has to question her professional — and personal — relationship with Steel whose concentration, and methodology, is far less than expected.
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LEST YOU BE JUDGED (Book-1 of the DCI Steel Mysteries series) — A Crime Novel set in 2000.
Lest You Be Judged introduces DCI Mike Steel and his new sergeant, DS Robin Moss, a fast-track university graduate. Set in Edinburgh in January, 2000, Steel and Moss are faced with solving the brutal killing of a High Court Judge. Piecing the jigsaw together, they discover there has been an escape from a secure hospital, and when a Priest is murdered, they realise they are hunting a serial killer. The jigsaw pieces are a perfect fit until Moss uncovers one missing, and horrifying, piece.
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DEACON BRODIE: A DOUBLE LIFE — A Historical True-Crime Novel set in 1788.
When respected Edinburgh Gentleman and Town Councillor, Deacon William Brodie, chases his love of gambling, he is drawn deep into a double life. Before long, the open respectability of day gives way to a hidden life of crime at night, and soon, Brodie is on a trajectory to disaster — one which will lead him to being revealed as “a gentleman by day, thief by night,” and on to an appointment with the hangman.
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