R. G. Munro's creative works include stories of crime and mystery, genteel romance, and picturesque poetry.
The Syd Brogan Crime Drama Series
ElderHouse
(Syd Brogan Crime Drama Book 1)
It was a mystery what she was doing in that courtyard. A wicked winter storm raging with fierce winds made it highly improbable. She hated the cold. Yet, that’s where her slain body was found dressed only in nightclothes.
Was she forced into it? Coerced? Lured? Pursued?
The blunt force trauma was clear. Not so, the motive. The victim had no enemies. She wasn’t violated. Nothing was stolen. She was just murdered.
Detective Cynthia “Syd” Brogan has to wonder how a quiet woman living a quiet life meets a violent death in a peaceful community of senior citizens.
Was it a mistake, or was it a meticulous crime fashioned by a disturbed mind? Perhaps it was jealousy or greed? Could it have been revenge? It’s hard to tell when the circumstances are distorted by a tangled history of disconnected motives stretching forty years into the past.
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Was she forced into it? Coerced? Lured? Pursued?
The blunt force trauma was clear. Not so, the motive. The victim had no enemies. She wasn’t violated. Nothing was stolen. She was just murdered.
Detective Cynthia “Syd” Brogan has to wonder how a quiet woman living a quiet life meets a violent death in a peaceful community of senior citizens.
Was it a mistake, or was it a meticulous crime fashioned by a disturbed mind? Perhaps it was jealousy or greed? Could it have been revenge? It’s hard to tell when the circumstances are distorted by a tangled history of disconnected motives stretching forty years into the past.
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Song of the Weeping Copse
(Syd Brogan Crime Drama Book 2)
Sometimes a case is so intimate, so much a part of you, it follows you, seeks you out, beckons to you, then it draws you away into its own world.
“He called them his Forces of Discontent, all those sources of fragmented violence waiting to be harnessed... The dissidents, the abused, the abandoned, and the disgruntled.”
All he lacked was a day of reckoning, and now he had it. Like a gift from the gods of anarchy, a vow of blood vengeance against the government opens a pathway to the destruction of the American heartland.
To thwart it, Detective Syd Brogan must abandon the world of civil laws and let herself be drawn into a remote enclave where repression is law and vengeance is justice.
It's a desperate measure for a desperate time. So, too, are its desperate consequences.
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Neptune's Watch
(Syd Brogan Crime Drama Book 3)
A year after a traumatic injury, Detective Cynthia “Syd” Brogan has been cleared for duty. Flashbacks, though, still haunt her. While investigating the death of a drunken vagrant, Brogan confronts a mysterious “emperor of the homeless” and uncovers a heinous crime threatening decades of disaster.
No one believes her.
Even as a Biblical plague and a terrorist threat rock the peaceful community of Virginia Beach, Brogan is put on modified duty pending psychological review. Forced to choose between her future and her conscience, Brogan defies her orders and risks far more than her career in this story of the triumph of courage over fear.
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No one believes her.
Even as a Biblical plague and a terrorist threat rock the peaceful community of Virginia Beach, Brogan is put on modified duty pending psychological review. Forced to choose between her future and her conscience, Brogan defies her orders and risks far more than her career in this story of the triumph of courage over fear.
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Shadows of Malice and Mercy
(Syd Brogan Crime Drama Book 4)
Detective Cynthia “Syd” Brogan joins forces with the FBI in a case of kidnapping, domestic abuse, and attempted murder. Soon, she’s in a wilderness, tracking a shooter, not waiting for backup.
But something strange happened out there when two tortured spirits clashed in a fleeting struggle of life and death.
Syd Brogan had battled her demons for more than a year. They called it PTSD. When she brought down terrorist Nils Palmer, their voices were muted, but not silenced. Other forces kept them alive.
Stanley Brooks had demons, too. Driven by his abusive personality, he fantasized a life of dominance over his wife and child and his coworkers. But his work and home lives crashed in failure, and he turned to kidnapping and attempted murder to appease his cravings.
It may well have been Fate, then, that compelled Brogan to track Brooks into an ancient primordial swamp, because in that “vast Body of mire and Nastiness,” demons were fated to die.
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But something strange happened out there when two tortured spirits clashed in a fleeting struggle of life and death.
Syd Brogan had battled her demons for more than a year. They called it PTSD. When she brought down terrorist Nils Palmer, their voices were muted, but not silenced. Other forces kept them alive.
Stanley Brooks had demons, too. Driven by his abusive personality, he fantasized a life of dominance over his wife and child and his coworkers. But his work and home lives crashed in failure, and he turned to kidnapping and attempted murder to appease his cravings.
It may well have been Fate, then, that compelled Brogan to track Brooks into an ancient primordial swamp, because in that “vast Body of mire and Nastiness,” demons were fated to die.
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The Southjoy Mission Series
Southjoy Mission 1808-1809
(Southjoy Mission Book 1)
The once elegant estate of Southjoy Mission stands forlorn after centuries of neglect and abuse.
Lady Beatrice Sylvia engages a modest country woman, Miss Ariana Atwood, to assist in the ambitious renovation of her newly acquired estate. Her nephew, Mr. Cedric Stacey, is tolerant of his aunt but is otherwise unsympathetic, especially towards Miss Atwood.
Local superstition, hidden pasts, and class prejudice besiege the renovation which is further hampered by the subterfuge of people thought honorable and trustworthy.
The resulting discord between Ariana and Cedric threatens to condemn Southjoy Mission to unending ruin, and their own lives to futures of immeasurable regret.
To thwart this ruinous fate, Cedric and Ariana must journey through a maze of innuendo, deception, and betrayal.
Their destination is timeless. Their journey, a discovery of love, honor, and commitment.
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Lady Beatrice Sylvia engages a modest country woman, Miss Ariana Atwood, to assist in the ambitious renovation of her newly acquired estate. Her nephew, Mr. Cedric Stacey, is tolerant of his aunt but is otherwise unsympathetic, especially towards Miss Atwood.
Local superstition, hidden pasts, and class prejudice besiege the renovation which is further hampered by the subterfuge of people thought honorable and trustworthy.
The resulting discord between Ariana and Cedric threatens to condemn Southjoy Mission to unending ruin, and their own lives to futures of immeasurable regret.
To thwart this ruinous fate, Cedric and Ariana must journey through a maze of innuendo, deception, and betrayal.
Their destination is timeless. Their journey, a discovery of love, honor, and commitment.
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Lingering Missives
(Southjoy Mission Book 2)
“...weaves together old mysteries, modern-art theft and some aristocratic back-stabbing in this intriguing tale.” – Kirkus Reviews
Centuries of secrets, cryptic messages from the past, and one determined young American lead to a cozy mystery and murder in the legendary estate of Southjoy Mission.
The patriarch of a legendary estate has died, and the obligations of the estate have passed by inheritance to his granddaughter, his sole survivor, someone he never knew. Catlyn Stacey is a young American, inexperienced, alone, and disconnected from the rich British heritage of both her ancestry and the estate.
Ambitious developers crave the commercial potential of the property, while an aging and forgotten professor laments their ruthless campaigns that are certain to destroy yet another historic landmark. Confounding them all, a baron of bleak prospect covets the wealth of the estate, while the wife of a baronet of lesser rank longs for the prestige the estate would bring to her.
Drawn by the lure of fortune and influence, these powerful forces, and yet one more, a clandestine, ill-willed force, would lay claim to it all by any means necessary, legitimate or otherwise.
It's a war of progress, preservation, and aristocracy, but its combatants may find it a murderous affair beyond their considerable control.
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Centuries of secrets, cryptic messages from the past, and one determined young American lead to a cozy mystery and murder in the legendary estate of Southjoy Mission.
The patriarch of a legendary estate has died, and the obligations of the estate have passed by inheritance to his granddaughter, his sole survivor, someone he never knew. Catlyn Stacey is a young American, inexperienced, alone, and disconnected from the rich British heritage of both her ancestry and the estate.
Ambitious developers crave the commercial potential of the property, while an aging and forgotten professor laments their ruthless campaigns that are certain to destroy yet another historic landmark. Confounding them all, a baron of bleak prospect covets the wealth of the estate, while the wife of a baronet of lesser rank longs for the prestige the estate would bring to her.
Drawn by the lure of fortune and influence, these powerful forces, and yet one more, a clandestine, ill-willed force, would lay claim to it all by any means necessary, legitimate or otherwise.
It's a war of progress, preservation, and aristocracy, but its combatants may find it a murderous affair beyond their considerable control.
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Embers and Echoes
(Southjoy Mission Book 3)
In this touching story of family bonds and emotional courage, Catlyn Stacey has survived her best friend’s murder, the death of the man who loved her, and the nightmare of her own kidnapping. Now she must survive the trauma that lingers on.
Surrounded by caring people, Catlyn perceives a future in the person of an orphaned child, the support of an ad hoc family, and the inspiring words found in a two-hundred-year-old diary written by a distant ancestor. Through them, Catlyn discovers a deep inner strength, a future, and the fortitude of love.
“Like the crackle of an ember, it is vibrant with its livid certainty. Like the flush of echoes in an empty shell, it is delicate in its subtlety.”
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Surrounded by caring people, Catlyn perceives a future in the person of an orphaned child, the support of an ad hoc family, and the inspiring words found in a two-hundred-year-old diary written by a distant ancestor. Through them, Catlyn discovers a deep inner strength, a future, and the fortitude of love.
“Like the crackle of an ember, it is vibrant with its livid certainty. Like the flush of echoes in an empty shell, it is delicate in its subtlety.”
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Stories in Verse
Naturally Wild in the Nearly Civilized
Naturally Wild in the Nearly Civilized brings together nature photography and nature-minded poetry. Through picture and verse, we get a glimpse of the interplay of Nature’s grace with every hope and dream, every fear and doubt, every joy that life brings our way.
Accented with timeless insights from literary masters, Naturally Wild in the Nearly Civilized creates a photo-poetic essay recalling a time when Nature itself was considered life’s greatest poet.
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Mandy, Mindy, Misty
This heart-warming story of friendship, adventure, and kindness begins on a bright, sunny morning. Today, two lively puppies, Mandy and her neighbor Mindy, are destined to discover curious doings, strange developments, and unexplained happenings. When they find themselves in a dilemma, a new neighbor, a puppy named Misty, saves them and, in the process, teaches them the true meaning of friendship and kindness.
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Sojourns
Sojourns is a collection of narrative poems and vignettes reflecting on timeless struggles and ageless conflicts.
Focusing on poignant events, the stories create images of bittersweet contrition or evoke a sense of resolute perseverance against abject odds.
Through it all, Sojourns conveys a defiant spirit, finding hope for the future and respect for the present.
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