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Past Unbecoming

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Pub Date May 28 2023 | Archive Date Jun 20 2023

The Book Guild | Book Guild Publishing


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Description

Leicestershire-based Dominic Mallory has made sufficient money in the City to retire at forty-eight, and is looking for interesting things to do as he builds a post-commercial portfolio career. Having served briefly as an Army officer in the 1980s, he contacts his former Regiment, Prince Rupert’s Horse, and asks whether it has a project he can assist with.

It transpires that the Regimental history is weak in the latter stages of the Second World War, and Dom agrees to rewrite it. However, as he begins to gather material, he finds himself caught up in a scandal from sixty years ago which eventually spills over into present-day murder…

Reviews for Clean Kill

'Intriguing but credible characters and well thought through plot. A page turner!' Goodreads reviewer

'The author is a skilled practitioner and yet this is his debut novel. I was thrilled to find such an accomplished new writer.' Goodreads reviewer

'I read this in a day, it was that gripping. Good honest fun (plus murder)!' Amazon reviewer

Leicestershire-based Dominic Mallory has made sufficient money in the City to retire at forty-eight, and is looking for interesting things to do as he builds a post-commercial portfolio career...


A Note From the Publisher
Nick Everard is a former Army Officer who has worked subsequently in the City, schools’ adventure travel and recruitment/executive search. He is married to Kiki; they live on the Leicestershire/Northamptonshire border and have two grown children. Nick became Regimental Secretary of The Royal Lancers in July 2021. Past Unbecoming is his second crime thriller: his first, Clean Kill, was published by The Book Guild in May 2022.

Nick Everard is a former Army Officer who has worked subsequently in the City, schools’ adventure travel and recruitment/executive search. He is married to Kiki; they live on the...


Marketing Plan

A contemporary crime novel about a murder that occurs after a regimental scandal from sixty years prior resurfaces.

Written by an experienced Army officer, the military aspects of the story accurately underpin the unfolding drama.

The second crime-thriller novel from the author of Clean Kill, published in May 2022 by the Book Guild.

A contemporary crime novel about a murder that occurs after a regimental scandal from sixty years prior resurfaces.

Written by an experienced Army officer, the military aspects of the story accurately...


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ISBN 9781915853936
PRICE £3.99 (GBP)
PAGES 272

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