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Alida van den Bos - Fiction Writer
Alida van den Bos is the writer of several novels:
Amy and the Skeleton Key Dead Certainty Facing the Music Flight into DeathJennifer and the Bunker of Horrors The Story of Prisoner Number 329 A Swastika for AnitaThe Last Black CrossThe Dutch MigrantsGuilty Until Proven InnocentThe Last Black Cross (Sequel- The Story of Prisoner 329) |
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Dead Certainty by Alida van den Bos is set in the Central Coast
of NSW. Diana is an estate agent who finds a body in a four-poster bed in a house she is listing for auction. She thinks it is a body, until it moves.
The plot accelerates through a combination of kidnapping, clairvoyance, drug sales, illicit sex, amnesia, a family-split involving a racehorse trainer and ransom demands.
ISBN 978-1-9211-1881-4
Embracing her, he kissed her and finally let her go when the nurse walked in.
Confused, Diana hurried out of the hospital, then she remembered Joe saying he knew he'd been in a stable to look at a horse. But then, how did he end up in the four-poster bed at 51 West Drive? Maybe she'd get the answer if she was allowed to show him the house. |
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Prisoner Number 329 is a novel of historical fiction based on
fact around the tragedy, resolute defiance and haunting images
of torture.
The plot embraces the inconceivable brutality endured by prisoners, especially Jews intertwined with the lives of those who tried to
help them.
ISBN 978-0-646-47193-8
After turning it over a few times and admiring the drawing,
the guard commented, "You forgot to put me in it."
"I'll put you and me in it when I get home," she answered, smiling.
On her way home, thinking about it, she felt faint. She told her friend who was waiting for her, what had happened and asked
him if it wouldn't be better to destroy it.
"No," he said, "show it to your children and let them draw you
and the guard in it because if they get suspicious and come to
your house, it's better if you can show it to them." |
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Jennifer and the Bunker of Horrors by Alida van den Bos is based around Jennifer Jones. Jennifer starts work in the kitchen
of Sunpark College for boys where she stumbles across a secret bunker used by paedophiles. She inadvertently becomes part of
the investigative team into murder and drug use. One officer,
Donald, becomes romantically involved with Jennifer and helps
save her life after she is kidnapped by a former boyfriend.
ISBN 978-1-92140-92-8
"You're not planning to actually use it, are you?"
"Why not, Louis, isn't that a perfect opportunity to search his flat?"
"No, Jenny. Don't do it. I'm almost sure he'd have nothing in his flat that we could get him on. He's not that stupid. Now, about your drawing of the bunder's interior and the possible location of the secret room. Simon looked at it and he reckons the drawing is a great help. He had something like that worked out already and he actually found the room and almost got killed in the process." |
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Amy and the Skeleton Key Editorial Evaluator: "I thoroughly enjoyed reading 'Amy and the Skeleton Key.' This crime/romance fiction story is a work of considerable scope; an intriguing and exiting read. After her father's death twenty year old Amy Landers hides the fact that her brother is raping her from her grieving mother. To stop her from running away from home her mother and brother have committed her to an institution for wayward girls; with a similar institution for boys close by.
An array of weird and interesting characters and suspicious happenings weave through Amy's life in the institution. When she finds a skeleton key and opens a locked door discovering drugs and proof of who is receiving money Amy is attacked and almost dies.
There is romance and intrigue, under-cover cops and secrets in this fast paced read. I found the work well written in an easy fluent style with good descriptive narrative. The various settings and movements from one to the other maintain the pace of the story developement, and the author keeps up the critical tension that takes the reader through the book. The characters are well crafted and developed with realistic dialogue. I found the plot well constructed with a strong sense of timing and suspense and the need for constant action and interaction." |
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When Ally Lohman, a young vibrant Australian woman, attempts to move out of her alcoholic father's home to be with her lawyer boyfriend Nicholas, an altercation leaves Ally in a coma, her father dead, and Nicholas unjustly accused of murder.
Ally recovers, though with no memory of the incident, and travels to Germany where she takes care of her beloved grandmother, whom she calls Oma.
Upon arrival, she discovers that Oma's handyman, Albert, has infi ltrated Oma's bank accounts. With help from Jonathan, her doctor back in Australia, Ally uncovers a sinister plot cooked up by Albert and his lover Frieda to murder Oma and receive her estate. Intrigue, murder and death ensue as Ally and Jonathan set out to foil the coconspirators, hoping then to return to Australia and recover her memory and reunite with Nicholas.
For this book, van den Bos was inspired, in part, by the childhood experience of German occupation during WWII when innocent people
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Flight into Death is a crime thriller about Nina, a children's author, who escapes a violent marriage to the vile, philandering, drug importing Roberto.
She relocates and buys a house at the Central Coast area to what she hopes is a safe place, and finds love in Matthew, but also finds evil forces at work.
Paul, the plumber who wanted to buy the house before Nina beat him to it, believes there is a hidden treasure in the house and tries to scare her into abandoning the property leaving dead and decaying animals at the foot of the stairs and a threatening note.
Born in the Netherlands, Alida van den Bos lives in Bonnells Bay, Central Coast, near Newcastle, Australia. Her love of writing has been a lifelong pursuit, leading her to become a novelist five years
ago.
Alida van den Bos is a member of the Australian Society of Authors and has a Diploma Graduate from the world-renowned The Writing School. Alida was born in Arnhem, Holland in 1930, and was later educated in Tilburg. |
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Arriving in Melbourne in 1959, the coldest day of the year, the van den Bos family came to what they thought was the land of hope and glory. Having lived through World War II, and Dick through the Korean War, they wanted to escape the tiny country of the Netherlands, where everything was regulated from the cradle to the grave, hoping for a better future for their children and themselves.
Looking back, it had been a road of trial and error, sometimes frustrating, but more often funny and interesting.
(The other man was a Yugoslav and asked if he could sing for half-an-hour, from 8-8.30 on Thursday nights.
Another weirdo we thought, but why not? "You can sing all day," I told him, "if you want to."
On Thursday night at eight o'clock we were curious and waited in the kitchen that adjoined his room. Even Harry joined us, but we were not prepared for the noise that came from his room. It was loud, it was terrible... |
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With her husband and two children in 1959, Alida immigrated to Australia where adventure beckoned. The family tried opal digging in South Australia's Coober Pedy and Lightning Ridge, where she wrote at every opportunity using life experiences to produce a series of short stories.
Then the family moved to the mid-western city of Orange where Alida gave birth to her third child and started a horse stud aptly named Running Hoofs. This led to successes on local and metropolitan racecourses, and all the time she stored ideas and data to develop her numerous fictional novels. |
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