The Gryphon Home: A Brighton Murder Mystery

By C.G. Loggie

Overlapping the end of the first book in the series, The Gryphon Found , this instalment finds Griff, the ageing, blind, homeless ex-soldier, decide to return to his hometown and try to rebuild bridges. Looking to reintegrate with his old life and apply self-imposed rules for his special skills, he struggles to feel at home as he finds his family and friends have all moved on. In an effort to start to turn his life around and give something back, he forces himself to confront his previous behaviours and open up to friends and family.Rebuilding relationships, he finds his brother in law delivers who knows what, to who knows where for a millionaire entrepreneur. When a seemingly unconnected murder puts his family at risk, secrets are kept, threats are made, and violence follows. After an old friend is badly injured, Griff finds himself drawn into events and all-new environments way outside his comfort zone. Overwhelmed and under pressure, he is forced to call upon old and new friends for help. A chain of dangerous events leads Griff toward life-changing results that he never even contemplated could happen.Can he rebuild bridges and open up to his old friends enough to find the right people, the right information and right evidence to save his family before it's too late? The first in a series of novels, The Gryphon Found, received 4 Stars in Good Reads. It introduced Griff, an ageing, blind, homeless ex-soldier, living with his Labrador named Goose on the streets of Walthamstow, London in the winter of 2012.With only a couple of close friends, he is independent, private and secretive, living life by a daily routine around his disability. He is wary of skeletons from his past and his inexplicable clairvoyant abilities being discovered. Lisa Lau is a new community worker in the area. Keen to support the most vulnerable, she unknowingly joins an ill-conceived program, charged with moving the Walthamstow homeless on before the London Olympics start in nearby Stratford.In her first week, she struggles with a short induction, overbearing manager and interdepartmental conflict. A series of murders of the homeless spread across the area, forcing her and Griff together.Searching for a missing friend, they stumble on clues to the killer's identity. Lacking evidence, the police won't act, but their actions put them on the killers' radar.With the killer closing in on them, will Griff's trust issues, disabilities, and secretive special abilities keep them safe or put them further into harm's way?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1689330090
• ISBN13: 9781689330091
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"