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T.W. Lawless

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Best-selling author of the Peter Clancy series.

T.W. is the author of seven thrillers, including two Amazon Kindle best-sellers (Homecountry and Thornydevils), as well as the co-writer with Kay Bell of the murder-mystery, Furey’s War.

A new Peter Clancy book is released. It is the sixth in the series.

His wife, Kay Bell, is also a best-selling author.







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T.W. Lawless My third Peter Clancy thriller, this time set in London in 1990.
Average rating: 4.04 · 325 ratings · 122 reviews · 8 distinct worksSimilar authors
Homecountry (Peter Clancy #1)

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Thornydevils (Peter Clancy #2)

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Blurline (Peter Clancy #3)

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Flamekeeper (Peter Clancy #5)

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Beachdaze ( Peter Clancy #6)

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Dark Water (Peter Clancy #4)

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Dark Water by T.W. Lawless
"Journalist Peter Clancy is on leave from his San Francisco newspaper while he composes his autobiography. But that's not going well--not going at all--and he is anxious to return to journalism. Summoned home to Queensland, Australia, by an Aboriginal" Read more of this review »
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“Her hair was a beach of shimmering golden sand.
Her body was a sea of broiling passion.”
T.W. Lawless

“Peter smiled as Concheetah sashayed across the ballroom floor
Concheetah sashayed towards him, wriggling her hips, full lips in a pout, followed obediently by the tentative, Tapping Ted dressed in tight shorts and singlet. Tapping? Tapping because he always wore conspicuous, tap-dancing shoes in the club.
Was Ted going to rip up the stage as a mincing Irish dancer or maybe perform a Gene Kelly routine or the Swan Lake ballet in taps? It was terrible to imagine. Peter bit his lip at that thought, hoping he wouldn’t burst into howls of laughter.
He had noted after coming to several shows, that Ted usually stood at the side of the stage ready with a drink of champagne and an encouraging word and a dry towel to mop Her Highness’s face. And he always cried during the
show’s finale, Abba’s Dancing Queen. Poor Tapping Ted.”
T.W. Lawless, Thornydevils

“Sizzling with a passion, burning with desire, turn off the heater babe, we have our own fire.”
T.W. Lawless

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“There is no redemption, and no one is saved," - Jack Furey”
T.W. Lawless, Furey's War

“Her eyes are all over me; she’s reading me like a book.
‘Everything going all right, Jack?’ she asks as she touches my knee.
‘Right as rain,’ I reply softly.
‘Are you sure, love?’
‘Working too hard. I’ll be glad when this war’s over.”
T.W. Lawless, Furey's War

“I can’t tell her that I’d give anything not to remember what I’ve seen. Anything.
During the day, I’m too busy to think about the war but at night, I’m back in the trenches. And there’s more than that besides: the things I’ve seen since then.
In my job, you try hard not to gather memories, but they stay in your head anyway.
At night, when the rest of the world is still, in my soul there’s turmoil.”
T.W. Lawless, Furey's War

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