Running Forever: Featuring Meredith Hawkes (The Meredith Hawkes Thrillers Book 2)

Meredith Hawkes is on the move again, to Woodbridge in Suffolk. After he’s found a bed for the night, he searches for a town-centre pub serving food, and goes inside. There’s a striking young woman propping up the bar, laptop, tablet, and newspaper spread out before her.

Hawkes buys a drink and orders food. The girl ignores him. A broad man comes in, hustles up to the girl, and kicks off, telling her to keep her nose out of his affairs, or she’ll regret it. He’s sure upset about something, but that’s it, and he’s gone as fast as he arrived.

Hawkes sympathises with the girl, but she imagines he’s trying to pick her up, and is abrupt with him. He shrugs his shoulders, and moves away to sit in the corner to eat his dinner.

Ten minutes later, the girl packs away her things, and makes to leave. But at the door, she pauses and approaches his table, and apologises for being rude. Water off a duck’s back to him, as he points to the opposite chair, and she accepts the invite, sits down, and orders food.

She has a story to tell, and needs help in unravelling it, and it isn’t long before she discovers he’s just the kind of guy she can share her troubles with.

So begins “Running Forever”, the second in a series of Meredith Hawkes stories, and one that contains massive criminality, murder, and death, and it’s no surprise that everyone Hawkes meets is not as they first appear.