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CITY COUNCIL HUNG
The novel Presumed Dead commences shortly before a 4 yearly election in Alexandra, a fictional city similar to Brisbane. Members are liberal, or labour, with a couple of greens and an independent. The independent is feisty Jane Kenwood who is the heroine in the crime fiction story.
Brisbane’s liberal government in 2024 has a $4.3 billion budget. Projects are approved in committees according to the majority of liberal and labour members. A casino is proposed and the voting is balanced. When Jane crosses the floor the parliament is hung. But then she disappears.
Phillip Keane, a councillor who is a forensic scientist and her partner, leads the investigation. He is guided by a Euler Walk, which logically reconstructs her disappearance, helped by several friends expert in philosophy and psychology. Will they find her alive and will they be in time to stop the casino project?
Follow the vicious twists and turns in relentless pursuit, which reveal political methods used for public policy making in a corporate economy led by political partisanship and skulduggery. The story has a positive emphasis and ends on a note of optimism for a non-partisan council.
Martin Knox tells a story that reveals much that is wrong in their democracy, able to be corrected by a strong leader, who emerges.
Presumed Dead is available from Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/bdf8ruaj
Trailer see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD4dKUA3hKQ
Reviews and extracts are on the blog: martinknox.com
MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT FOR YOU
Cast your vote well,
Being represented by a party’s hell,
Your voice must get through,
Not the lazy ambitions of party bosses.
Their multiplication of division,
Prevents your unity being heard,
Except when herded into a duopoly.
Select an independent voice.
Don’t listen to the party faithful,
In their party gangs,
Thinking of themselves,
Not thinking of you nor of your future.
Give your vote to one who could represent you.
© M Knox 2022
Presumed Dead is a crime fiction novel, by Martin Knox, set in a hung parliament that goes non-partisan.
On Amazon. Reviews martinknox.com
WHO ABDUCTED JANE?
In the fiction novel Presumed Dead by Martin Knox, Jane Kenwood is a feisty politician in a hung city council where her vote is needed to stop a casino being approved. She disappears before a crucial vote. When she is found, she is too badly affected by an assault to identify where she had been taken, what was done to her, nor characteristics of her assailants. Her friend Dr Phillip Keane leads a forensic team who gather evidence for every alternative they can imagine, by Euler’s theory, in a think tank. Phillip pieces together a logical reconstruction of the crime that reveals the perpetrators. The investigation is explorative, the evidence is surmise, the suspects are at large and cover their tracks until the dénouement.
This is an exciting whodunnit story of city hall politics and systematic forensic investigation that will keep you turning the pages to the very end.
Available on Amazon. Blog with reviews: martinknox.com
LOGIC CHAIN IMAGINED
Jane is a fictional feisty city councillor whose lone vote opposes a casino the City Government would approve. She disappears. Her friend Phillip leads a forensic think tank to imagine perpetrators who leave evidence discovered by systematic imaginative searching. The story is a new type of logical whodunnit.
Reviews: martinknox.com
