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All Good Men Must Fall: My Temporary Life Trilogy Book Three
Is it possible to start over?Do ghosts from the past really disappear?Can you leave them behind in a different country, a different life, and pretend they never existed?Malcolm has everything he ever wanted. He returns home to Scotland to live with his partner, Heather and her daughter, Emily. Their extended family includes his father and his best friend. When Heather begins to hear strange noises in their old house she knows who it is. She believes that her father, who was pronounced dead, has tracked them down and has come to take back Emily.
171 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 4, 2017
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About the author
Martin Crosbie
13 books365 followersIn a press release, Amazon called Martin Crosbie’s debut novel My Temporary Life one of their success stories. His self-publishing journey has been chronicled in Publisher's Weekly, Forbes, and Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper. Martin’s recent release The Dead List (A John Drake Mystery) was awarded a publishing contract by Kindle Press.
He’s also the author of My Name Is Hardly - Book Two of the My Temporary Life Trilogy, Lies I Never Told - A Collection of Short Stories, How I Sold 30,000 eBooks on Amazon's Kindle - An Easy-To-Follow Self-Publishing Guidebook, 2016 Edition, and Believing Again: A Tale Of Two Christmases.
Martin was born in the Highlands of Scotland and currently makes his home just outside Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada.
He’s also the author of My Name Is Hardly - Book Two of the My Temporary Life Trilogy, Lies I Never Told - A Collection of Short Stories, How I Sold 30,000 eBooks on Amazon's Kindle - An Easy-To-Follow Self-Publishing Guidebook, 2016 Edition, and Believing Again: A Tale Of Two Christmases.
Martin was born in the Highlands of Scotland and currently makes his home just outside Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada.
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June 23, 2017
Beautifully written!!! A must read trilogy !!
This story tells the tale of man from childhood on. We experience his trials and tribulations. We also see the relationships of a child/parent,teacher/student,friends,lovers,and everyone in-between. These books will make you laugh out loud and cry on the same page. Set in beautiful Scotland and Canada you can visualize your surroundings as the story unfolds. Martin Crosbie is a wonderfully talented author. We had to wait awhile for this final book,but it was well worth the wait!! I will read this trilogy many times over again in the future.
This story tells the tale of man from childhood on. We experience his trials and tribulations. We also see the relationships of a child/parent,teacher/student,friends,lovers,and everyone in-between. These books will make you laugh out loud and cry on the same page. Set in beautiful Scotland and Canada you can visualize your surroundings as the story unfolds. Martin Crosbie is a wonderfully talented author. We had to wait awhile for this final book,but it was well worth the wait!! I will read this trilogy many times over again in the future.
September 19, 2022
Malcolm, his girlfriend and her daughter, and Hardly come together in this final book. Malcolm and his girlfriend/daughter travel back to Canada to ensure her father did indeed die after she thinks he has come back to Scotland to haunt her. Hardly has fallen back into his drinking patterns and Malcolm's father is aging and experiencing beginning stages of Alzheimer's. The book ends with a similar situation as the one Malcolm found himself in as a child. For whatever the reason, I didn't care for this book as much as I did the first two. However, I still like Mr. Crosbie's writing style and I enjoyed the characters in this Trilogy.
September 6, 2024
A very nice wrapped up with a box trilogy. I was quite pleased with the whole series and it really is a must to read all three to fully understand the characters. I'm sure you could just read book 3 but why miss out? Mr. Crosbie really does have a way with words. Each book transforms you into the book for a wonderful captivating story. The landscapes that are described in not just this novel but the other two really take you. I'm truly impressed and will keep my eyes out for further releases. Happy reading!
February 11, 2020
I put off reading this one for a while as I had a hard time getting through the second book. That was a mistake. This one I breezed through. The book summary is really somewhat of a red herring, and really only a small part of the story. This book wrapped up the stories from books one and two nicely. Very real characters through and through. I really enjoyed this series.
May 27, 2017
The long-awaited book three in Martin Crosbie's trilogy delivered what I had expected. Martin is a fantastic storyteller. I enjoyed reading the final installment of the trilogy as much as I enjoyed the other books in the series.
September 17, 2017
Great Ending for this Trilogy
Long awaited and not disappointed. These are three neat books and All Good Men Must Fail was the perfect conclusion to figuring out the temporary life. The words flow and you are right there in the story - even atop a Scottish castle.
Long awaited and not disappointed. These are three neat books and All Good Men Must Fail was the perfect conclusion to figuring out the temporary life. The words flow and you are right there in the story - even atop a Scottish castle.
September 21, 2017
This brings the first two stories full circle. It is well written and a quick read. The characters develop throughout the trilogy and the courage, love, fear and strength to move forward is just amazing....
June 9, 2017
Blazed through this because I couldn't wait to see how this trilogy turned out. Loved it! Crosbie's writing is a joy.
October 12, 2017
Journey of Life
This trilogy is a wonderful story of life, love, hopes and dreams. Amazing characters that became real to me. Don't miss out on this journey
This trilogy is a wonderful story of life, love, hopes and dreams. Amazing characters that became real to me. Don't miss out on this journey
April 5, 2017
‘Ghosts are everywhere. They’re always here. We think they’re gone. We think that ghosts just disappear but sometimes they don’t.’
Where Scottish born Canadian author Martin Crosbie found his voice is a mystery. His ability to create stories that explore the psyche of his chosen stand-in trope in such a way that within a few sentences you are so aware of the character's life and feelings that he seems to be sitting beside you, in conversation with only you. Martin began this trilogy ‘My Temporary Life’ in 2011, followed by Book Two ‘My Name Is Hardly’ in 2012, and now in 2017 he offers the final book of the trilogy ‘All Good Men Must Fall’. (He has published four other disparate titles, all excellent, also).
To provide a bit of back story, in the first book this committed reader wrote, ‘Martin Crosbie enters the literary arena with a self published novel that shows considerable promise. The lead character is Malcolm Wilson, an adolescent who lived in Scotland with his parents until his promiscuous mother returned to her roots in Canada, leaving her husband and son behind in Scotland. His parent's finally divorce, and Malcolm begins what he terms a "temporary life," spending his summers in Vancouver with his loose mother and boyfriends, then returning to live with his father in Scotland during the school year. He leads this disjointed life without many friends until an unfortunate display of his own loyalty changes the direction of his life. With the help of a father-figure and other friends in Canada, he grows up, prospers, falls in and out of relationships, finally meets the girl of his dreams - Heather, a girl with her own abusive past and the extra baggage of having a child too early in life. Malcolm commits to assisting Heather regain her child and that is where the violence and intrigue interrupt the action and propel the book to a suspenseful but satisfying end.’
Now in much the same polished form Martin offers the ‘what happened’ from that first book – ‘Is it possible to start over? Do ghosts from the past really disappear? Can you leave them behind in a different country, a different life, and pretend they never existed? Malcolm has everything he ever wanted. He returns home to Scotland to live with his partner, Heather and her daughter, Emily. Their extended family includes his father and his best friend. When Heather begins to hear strange noises in their old house she knows who it is. She believes that her father, who was pronounced dead, has tracked them down and has come to take back Emily.’
The story contains situations that make us look more deeply into our lives, our motivations, our needs. Martin Crosbie is a very, very fine writer.
Where Scottish born Canadian author Martin Crosbie found his voice is a mystery. His ability to create stories that explore the psyche of his chosen stand-in trope in such a way that within a few sentences you are so aware of the character's life and feelings that he seems to be sitting beside you, in conversation with only you. Martin began this trilogy ‘My Temporary Life’ in 2011, followed by Book Two ‘My Name Is Hardly’ in 2012, and now in 2017 he offers the final book of the trilogy ‘All Good Men Must Fall’. (He has published four other disparate titles, all excellent, also).
To provide a bit of back story, in the first book this committed reader wrote, ‘Martin Crosbie enters the literary arena with a self published novel that shows considerable promise. The lead character is Malcolm Wilson, an adolescent who lived in Scotland with his parents until his promiscuous mother returned to her roots in Canada, leaving her husband and son behind in Scotland. His parent's finally divorce, and Malcolm begins what he terms a "temporary life," spending his summers in Vancouver with his loose mother and boyfriends, then returning to live with his father in Scotland during the school year. He leads this disjointed life without many friends until an unfortunate display of his own loyalty changes the direction of his life. With the help of a father-figure and other friends in Canada, he grows up, prospers, falls in and out of relationships, finally meets the girl of his dreams - Heather, a girl with her own abusive past and the extra baggage of having a child too early in life. Malcolm commits to assisting Heather regain her child and that is where the violence and intrigue interrupt the action and propel the book to a suspenseful but satisfying end.’
Now in much the same polished form Martin offers the ‘what happened’ from that first book – ‘Is it possible to start over? Do ghosts from the past really disappear? Can you leave them behind in a different country, a different life, and pretend they never existed? Malcolm has everything he ever wanted. He returns home to Scotland to live with his partner, Heather and her daughter, Emily. Their extended family includes his father and his best friend. When Heather begins to hear strange noises in their old house she knows who it is. She believes that her father, who was pronounced dead, has tracked them down and has come to take back Emily.’
The story contains situations that make us look more deeply into our lives, our motivations, our needs. Martin Crosbie is a very, very fine writer.
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