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    The Bundgolata Mystery: The Jasper Night Stories, #1
    The Bundgolata Mystery: The Jasper Night Stories, #1
    The Bundgolata Mystery: The Jasper Night Stories, #1
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    The Bundgolata Mystery: The Jasper Night Stories, #1

    By Stephen J Bannister

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    In book 1 Jasper Night finds himself dealing with a creature that does not belong in this time and place. It has "leaked" across from its own world and is now causing trouble in ours. It is a creature like no other on Earth. Strong, cunning and a killer, it has made a habit of feasting on humans. Jasper investigates and is one of a few who can deal with the situation. He makes a journey into the South Australian Outback to see if he can track it down.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen J Bannister
    Release dateMar 25, 2024
    ISBN9798224421183
    The Bundgolata Mystery: The Jasper Night Stories, #1
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    Stephen J Bannister

    Stephen. L. West was born in the UK but moved to South Australia in the mid-sixties growing up mainly in the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide. At seventeen he enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy where he learnt his trade. Whilst still serving, he married Trudi in nineteen eighty. After a ten-year career he joined the New South Wales Fire Brigades before the family, now four with two children, decided to move back to South Australia. His writing career started in the late nineteen-eighties creating technical manuals which soon led to looking further afield and dabbling in fiction. As an amateur astronomer with a lot of interest in other sciences, he decided to write his first science fiction novel. ‘I had this thing going around and around inside my head so I decided one day to get it out of there and onto paper.’ Stephen and Trudi still live in South Australia, in the mid-north and are both involved with the Country Fire Service, Stephen as a firefighter and Trudi as a financial coordinator. Their family has expanded to six grandchildren (with more to come).

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      The Bundgolata Mystery - Stephen J Bannister

      INTR​ODUCTION

      Ask a person their definition of paranormal activity their first and most likely response will be along the line of ghosts, ghouls, or poltergeists if they believe in such things. It’s a reasonable assumption, but the most simplified definition is beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation .

      The true definition leaves much more to the imagination. Amongst other things it leads the door open to aliens, UFO’s, dragons, vampires, ghosts, demons. Then there are things that can’t be bracketed. The list is almost endless.

      These activities, or events as those in the business like to call them rarely go about announcing themselves with large neon lights bringing attention down upon them. They can be big events but generally remain localised. Most are quite subtle, a plastic bag blowing down the road on the breeze when there is no breeze. A cough from inside a room when you’re the only one home. You’re shadow moves yet you don’t. You put your coffee mug down on the left side of the table and turn to look out the window, when you turn back it’s on the right side of the table forcing you to doubt what you know is correct, it was placed over there, but maybe you did put it where it now is.

      The people that deal with the big events are an enigma, something in itself that cannot be explained. There’s some doubt that the true natural detectives, as their employers call them are even people at all but something else, perhaps something supernatural.

      There are irregular detectives too. They are definitely people, almost normal people. They have a gift, a talent that can be nurtured and grown whereas the naturals were born into it, picking up where their parentages left off.

      It’s a paradox, the naturals aren’t natural, and the irregulars are. So now we have our backdrop as we introduce you to Jasper Night, a natural, one of the best in the business.

      Chapter ​One

      His eyes squinted, a frown formed above them. ‘...what’s the connection? There has to be one, I’ve just got to find it,’ Jasper Night muttered to himself as the ABC news presenter was reporting on the disappearance of a local grazier that hadn’t been seen for several days, the incident occurring in the far mid-northern town of Bundgolata,.

      Jasper had heard of the town before but was coming up short as to why it had triggered a faint recollection. He sat forward in his recliner forcing the padded chair to lean with him, his eyes glued to the television.

      The story crossed to the town where a local ABC part-timer was staring at a camera unsure if she was on air or not. After a few seconds she blinked and started to read from her notebook, looking up as she finished each sentence as if to emphasise what it was she was saying.

      ‘The local police do not believe the disappearance of local land holder Philip Evans is suspicious, but they do hold some concerns for his safety. Mr Evans has been known to go interstate on business trips without letting anybody know

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