Novels

Creeping Shadows

A fast moving sweeping tale full of intrigue drama and suspense and a story of a young child’s journey to manhood. A young Dutch boy grows up in WW2 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The tragedy of war and the work of the Resistance. The unexpected tragic loss of his father. Emigration to Australia with his mother and stepfather. At 13, to his despair Jobe finds out he has been abandoned by his mother to work for his keep on a Dairy farm . Farm life turns out to be harsh and cruel at times.

He soon realizes his destiny is in his own hands, there is no one he can turn to. Under dramatic circumstances involving a confrontation with a paedophile he escapes the country life and moves back to the city.

He finds work at the local abattoirs a tough and uncompromising work place. Jobe is suddenly drawn into murder crime drugs and betrayal. A woman goes missing. A worker at the abattoirs is found with his throat cut. There is a man who likes young girls. Is there a connection? Then there is the attractive Irish woman that works in the abattoirs canteen that takes a shine to Jobe. Who is she really? Who is she watching? Does Jobe have a future or will his family and the people around him drag him down?

 

Distant Echoes

This crime novel, ‘Distant Echoes’ sequel to the successful ‘Creeping Shadows’ by KLAAS KALMA, will take your breath away and totally absorb you.

When Jobe, a young man, finds himself completely alone in the world and sleeping under a bridge in Melbourne, he doesn’t know that the bikie gang he is about to join is also to become part of an investigation into the disappearance of three local teenage girls.He himself becomes a suspect as the result of a previous involvement in a murder enquiry

Peter, an Aboriginal with a colorful disadvantaged past of his own and now milk bar owner and local champion-mentor of troubled teenagers, comes to Jobe’s rescue.

The families of the missing girls are becoming desperate and are ready to take the law into their own hands.Confrontations with police are becoming common.

Senior Detective Mark Langley and his feisty offsider Senior Constable Rita Harlow believe they’re about to crack the case. Langley’s marriage is in trouble and his career is on the line. Langley also has to suddenly deal with a personal tragedy of the worst kind .Will he cope? And will they solve the mystery in time to save Felicity, Nicki and Gina?

The suspense keeps building as KLAAS KALMA twists and turns the plot in a thoroughly irresistible mix of mystery, melodrama, history, horror and love.