Schoolfrenz [Paperback]

Schoolfrenz is a complicated, multi-stranded story, with lots of detail and dialogue that zips along at mach speed.

Health warning - school reunions can be dangerous. The lives of four apparently unconnected people change forever when they visit the school reunion Internet site - Schoolfrenz. Richard Bard has just been released from prison. He believes this time he really is going straight until he encounters someone who reminds him he has an old teenage score to settle. Following the death of her parents, Georgina Haywell is shocked to discover she was adopted her at birth. The quest to find her natural mother and father leads to a more disturbing truth, and now she wants revenge. David Sterry heads an architect's practice. His working and domestic life begins to fall apart when his nemesis from 20 years ago attempts to contact him. Shirley Bonnett is content with her life in Australia until her husband is viciously killed. Dissatisfied with police progress, her own investigation leads her to Tyneside and a schoolboy gang called the Mag7. As the four protagonists pursue their personal causes, they visit Schoolfrenz and a common past emerges. The present is a tale of surprises, where future holds retribution and murder.

AUTHOR HEALTH WARNING
School reunions can be dangerous
The lives of four apparently unconnected people change forever when they visit the school reunion Internet site - Schoolfrenz.

Richard Bard has just been released from prison. He believes this time he really is going straight until he encounters someone who reminds him he has an old teenage score to settle.

Following the death of her parents Georgina Haywell is shocked to discover she was adopted at birth. The quest to find her natural mother and father leads to a more disturbing truth, and now she wants revenge.

David Sterry heads an architect's practice. His working and domestic life begins to fall apart when his nemesis from 20 years ago attempts to contact him.

Shirley Bonnett is content with her life in Australia until her husband is viciously killed. Dissatisfied with police progress, her own investigation leads her to Tyneside and a schoolboy gang called the Mag7.

As the four pursue their personal causes, they visit Schoolfrenz and a common past emerges.
The present is a tale of surprises, and the future holds retribution and murder.

Ray Crowther was born in London and now lives in Tolleshunt Major, Essex. He is married and has two daughters.
He read Cybernetics and Mathematics at Reading University and then worked in systems development jobs in England and Germany before starting his own company specializing in human resources software.
During his systems career he had technical papers published and wrote more reference manuals than he can remember. He maintains that the exacting discipline of technical authoring prepared him well for a creative change into fiction writing. He cites Robert Goddard as his favourite author and biggest influence on his own writing style.
Ray’s first novel entitled The Nearest FarAway Place was completed in November 1999 and published in 2001. His second novel Panglossian was published in 2002 and awarded a Golgonooza Medal of Merit.
After a writing gap during which he sold his company, retired to the countryside and remarried, he completed a third novel, Schoolfrenz, in March 2005.
Ray also regularly writes articles for motor sport publications.
When he is not writing, Ray can be found competing in motor rallies, jogging his local lanes and footpaths (where most of his fiction ideas evolve), organizing table-top rallies or pegularities, designing websites, developing payroll software and farming chickens.
He connects the achievements in his life to running: running a successful company; running around after his two daughters Caroline and Rebecca; and running the London Marathon.