It's March already, 2016 is racing away.
With so many books
already promised for this year it doesn't seem prudent to be starting
a new project, but when inspiration strikes!!!
Released this year:
Sleepwalker.
(Published through Pronoun)
Set in Fuengirola,
my own base for much of 2002, and an eventful time. I had just
returned to Europe from South Africa and was busy negotiating the
terms on a bar and restaurant in Benalmadena, ETA planted a bomb just
down the road, and I still clearly remember the blast almost throwing
me out of bed.
One lasting
impression of the Spanish coast is the moonlit beach at Sohail, and
in my mind, it was the perfect setting for this story about a young
somnambulist who finds herself caught in the middle of a murder
investigation.
Deborah Grant is a
normal, healthy teenager. A girl standing at a crossroads in her
young life, and she has a decision to make:
Allow her loving yet
domineering father to dictate her future, or.
Strike out on her
own, follow her heart and dare to dream?
A long holiday is
what she needs, and the Costa del Sol has beckoned. Fuengirola has
welcomed the buxom blonde into its sun-drenched embrace.
But the Spanish
resort reveals deeply buried desires, desires that she had never
dared to dream lived inside her, desires that cause Deborah to rise
from her bed in the early hours... and in a trance, she walks.
Disturbing, yet
harmless she imagines...
Until the morning
that she wakes to a nightmare discovery.
Suddenly, Debbie is
terrified to close her eyes!
Sleepwalker, a
psychological thriller that will make you wonder just how safe it is
to fall asleep!
***
Amazon, in their
usual heavy handed manner have already culled a 5 Star review for
Sleepwalker. Quite how they justify these random acts, I don't
understand. I have lost several reviews just recently, as have many
other authors. It seems a classic case of catch 22. In order to
promote, authors have to use social media, we connect with readers,
build a following. Sometimes a connection will buy a new book,
sometimes they will volunteer to review in exchange for a free copy.
Amazon then decide to delete the review... because the author knows
the reviewer???
How can we possibly
win?
So please buy my
book, and if you enjoy it write a review... but for heavens sake,
don't add me on twitter or facebook, because if Amazon find out...
you are likely to get deleted!
Here is the review,
I managed to copy it from Scribd where it is actually still live.
Disclaimer: I was
given a free electronic edition of this book in exchange for an
honest and unbiased review.
Sleepwalker is not
the type of book that I would usually select, and the first few
chapters led me to believe that I wouldn't be rating it very highly –
and then suddenly BANG, the plot twists began as more diverse
characters entered the story. From that moment on it became a well
crafted and suspenseful who-dunnit, and that uncertainty is carried
right through to the very last page.
Basically, without
giving too much away, Sleepwalker is the story of Debbie Grant, a
wilful teenager, away from her protective father for the first time,
and like most eighteen year olds alone on Spain's Coast de Sol, she's
going a little crazy. Until she suddenly discovers that, unaware, she
leaves her bed in the middle of the night... and sleepwalks.
She is also unaware
that her nocturnal wanderings have made her the obsession of a
psychopath. A man determined that she will belong to him, and him
alone.
And so begins a
sinister game of cat and mouse, as a cold and calculating serial
killer stalks the pretty blonde, violently eliminating threats and
competition, only a Captain of the Guardia Civil stands between her
and the menace, a man old enough to be her father... but the man that
she has become determined is her soul mate as she unwittingly sets up
the final showdown.
Difficult to
pinpoint the exact genre, this book is a wonderful mix of romance,
suspense and police procedural, a gripping psychological thriller.
Highly recommended.
***
Pre-order. Due out
end of April – beginning of May.
Doomsday – The
Jihadist
Another
psychological thriller. Set in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest
this book explores a nightmare scenario... what would happen if a
weapon that all feared to use fell into the hands of fanatics.
Terrorists that believe that the power of prayer will protect them
from the apocalypse that they are about to release.
The consequences of
its release would be too horrific!
A biological weapon
so devastating that not even the most deranged would ever consider
using it. Or so the security agencies hope.
But what if the
deranged are also deluded, believing that prayer is protection enough
against a pathogen that kills everything in its path.
One such believer is
The Jihadist, and he will stop at nothing to win his holy war.
And so the story races from the deep jungles of
Brazil to the bustle of Tokyo, from icy Denmark to the heat and dust
of Yemen.
Fate has chosen two
men to oppose the Jihadist and expose his network, and for the sake
of mankind – They must not fail.
Also promised for
2016
Gondell's Quest –
The Sword of Kalenzi.
Rise of the Kressa
Non Plus Ultra
!!Watch this space!!
Other news:
The Red Trade has
been reduced to only 99 cents (or currency equivalent) and is
available at this low price from Amazon, iTunes, Barnes & Noble,
Kobo, Scribd, Lulu etc.
