The Mithras Folly
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Published: December 2008
First sentence: "Sean only noticed the woman when they were half way across to the island.  It was her hair that first caught his eye...  It was cut short, in an almost manly way, but was of a delicate auburn colour which for some reason stirred memoriesin his sun-dulled brain.  Distant memories, from a duifferent life..."
Description: Strange carvings adorn the walls of the lonely tower Sean finds deep in the woods near his home.  But fascination turns to anger when he discovers the tower belongs to a judge, the man responsible for jailing his brother Michael for terrorist crimes he didn't commit.  Years later, when Michael again faces arrest, accused of involvement in a policeman's killing, he and Sean move to a remote island off the Donegal coast.  But any sense of security vanishes when Sean recognizes a visiting tourist as one of the murdered man's family...