Dreamwalkers Book One - The Intruder. A Markland Garraway Paranormal Mystery Thriller Read online

Dreamwalkers

  (Book One)

  The Intruder

  A Paranormal Mystery Thriller

  By Andrew M Stafford

 

  ‘Be careful for what you yearn…’

   

 

  Text Copyright © 2017 Andrew M Stafford

  All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

 

   

 

  Thank you to

  DC Rob Callaway (Retired) for his advice on matters of the law

  Beta Readers Sharon Newton and Dozy Powell

  Nigel Burrough

  Penny Rowe for proof reading

 

 

  For Kerry, Olivia, Sam, Mum and Sharon.

  Especially for Dad and Ivan.

  The poem referred to in Badock’s Wood was written by John Fairfax (1930 – 2009)

 

  Dreamwalkers is the sequel to The Hill by Andrew M Stafford. Although it is a sequel, it is a ‘standalone’ book, which does not need to be read in conjunction with The Hill.

   

  Please note: This is the first book in a two part series. The story begins with Dreamwalkers (Book One) - The Intruder, and carries on seamlessly and concludes with Dreamwalkers Book Two – The Ghost Returns.

  Alternatively, you have the option to purchase an omnibus edition containing both Book One and Book two, which readers are recommended to purchase.

   

  Table of contents

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 41

  Chapter 42

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45

  Chapter 46

  Chapter 47

  Chapter 48

  Chapter 49

  Chapter 50

  Chapter 51

  Chapter 52

  Chapter 53

  Chapter 54

  Chapter 55

  Chapter 56

  Chapter 57

  Chapter 58

   

  Please note: This is the first book in a two part series. The story begins with Dreamwalkers (Book One) - The Intruder, and carries on seamlessly and concludes with Dreamwalkers Book Two – The Ghost Returns.

  Alternatively, you have the option to purchase an omnibus edition containing both Book One and Book two, which readers are recommended to purchase.

   

 

 

  Prologue

 

  It has been a tough couple of years for Markland Garraway.

  In September 2009 Ben Walker was murdered on a Bronze Age burial mound in Badock’s Wood in Bristol. Daniel Boyd, fled the scene and thought he had got away with the horrific crime he had committed.

  But the burial mound held a secret and Ben lived on. His spirit was nurtured within Christopher Jameson, who was born at the precise time that Ben died.

  Three years later, DI Garraway, along with hypnotist Tom Judd, communicated with Ben’s spirit through toddler, Christopher Jameson whilst he was under hypnosis.

  Markland Garraway is the only detective to have closed a case with the evidence provided by the murder victim; after the victim was killed.

  Solving the crime had turned him into a reluctant hero, and proving that life exists after death made him famous around the world.

  But all things come at a cost. Markland suffered ridicule whilst on the case. Support from the Avon and Somerset Constabulary had been minimal and he had been signed off as unfit to work for almost a year.

  He had suffered mental health, crippling arthritis, alcoholism and to add to everything, his wife left him. Joan, was unable to cope with her husband and the way he had been affected by the case.

  And all because of the influence of the burial mound, which Markland refers to as ‘The Hill’.

  Tom Judd has recently published his memoirs in a book called ‘The Man Who Caught His Killer’. Immediately it is a best seller and Markland finds himself, once again, in the spotlight.

  Markland continues on the road to recovery, vowing never to set foot in Badock’s Wood again.

  But The Hill has not finished with Markland Garraway.

  Once More, the burial mound in the woods is reaching out to him.

  Chapter 1