Richard Powell

Books by Richard Powell

Richard Powell

Richard is a Canadian expat freelance writer/photographer living in Cyprus. His articles have appeared in local and international magazines. His thriller mystery series is about a detective couple in Sussex after WWII. His travelogues include an historical trip along a Roman Road in England, the Sussex Coast Road follows the coast from Rye to Chichester and his latest book is a tour of western Cyprus. More information can be found at ...

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The Missing Prisoner

Book #1 from the series: Mike & Valerie

Saskatchewan, late summer 1947, Mike Bodnar, Canadian WWII veteran was riding the rails to avoid his old life. Captured at the ill fated raid on Dieppe in 1942. Damaged after spending 3 years in German POW camps. Near the tracks, Mike finds the body of a young man thrown from a passing train. Searching the body for ID he finds his best friend’s...

The Missing Fortune

Book 2 in the Mike and Valerie Series

Book #2 from the series: Mike & Valerie

The coded keys to a fortune are hidden on two paintings looted by the Nazis in France during WWII. A Jewish family’s wealth was transferred to a vault in a Swiss bank for safekeeping before the war.

April 1948, an English lord lies stabbed to death in the library of his country house. The only thing missing from his art collection is one of the...

The Missing Painting

Book 3 - Mike & Valerie Series

Book #3 from the series: Mike & Valerie

The burned body of a talented painting restorer is found in his studio with his throat slashed. His house in rural Sussex, contains 49 classical paintings. Are they real or just good forgeries? They are worth a fortune.

July 1948, Mike and Valerie are settling down in Lewes, Sussex. Mike, an ex Canadian policeman and POW survivor, wants to try...

Series

Mike & Valerie

The Missing Prisoner, The Missing Fortune, and The Missing Painting

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Other Writing

Sussex Coast Road

A tour of the Sussex Coast takes us through some of the most fascinating towns and beautiful countryside in England. This book is more than just a tourist guide, it contains antidotes, pictures, strange facts and oddities known only to the locals. From Rye to Chichester, we find bustling modern cities, historic tourist towns and ancient villages, cliffs with sweeping views of the channel, sand dune lined beaches, rolling hills, great houses and gardens, castles and history going back over...