Edwin Deas

EdwinDeas is a recently retired accountant, who never encountered any adventures inhis lifetime. Therefore, he had to make them up in this, his first work offiction entitled Crises on The Cumbraes: The Unlikely Adventures of a RetiredAccountant. Along the way, he had to borrow some places and people, heavilydisguise the latter so as to be unrecognisable, and would like to thank themfor their invaluable inspiration.

EdwinDeas was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and has split his life between Scotlandand North America, the latter including British Columbia, Canada andCalifornia, USA. He is unsure which nationality to own up to and tends to usewhichever suits the circumstance. He does, however, have a deep and lastinglove for a certain island back in Scotland.

EdwinDeas is a Chartered Certified Accountant from the UK; a Chartered ProfessionalAccountant from Canada and holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from theUniversity of San Diego. He strenuously denies that writing financial statementsprepared him for writing works of fiction and he enjoys the necessary learningexperience to do the latter.

EdwinDeas lives in Oceanside, California with his wife, Bronwyn Jenkins-Deas, whoputs up with a lot but is never anything other than loyal and supportive.Jasper the dog completes the household.

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CRISES ON THE CUMBRAES: The Unlikely Adventures of a Retired Accountant.

What does a sixtyishaccountant do when forced into retirement and an unplanned future? What doeshis busy academic wife do to save her work and sanity? She encourages him totake off from California to Millport on his favourite Scottish island in searchof an adventure. Adventures seem to find him rather than the reverse and Calumtakes on the persona of an amateur sleuth to investigate the allegation ofnuclear waste going missing and the apparently unrelated disappearance of aHollywood diva, whom he met on the trans-Atlantic flight. An American researchcompany that comes under suspicion at the power station proves to be connectedto Calum’s wife’s research funding. And, the husband of the missing diva turnsout to be an American entrepreneur who has bought the largest football team inScotland and is already embroiled in the sectarianism that divides the sport.To make matters worse, he does not believe that Calum’s intentions arehonourable. The police get increasingly frustrated with Calum’s meddling but heperseveres to discover