Sneaky Peek: Keep Your Friends Close by June Taylor eBook, Available now. Paperback: 10th January 2019




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Blurb
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer…
An addictive and shocking psychological thriller.
A friend who won’t let you escape.
When Karin is taken on a romantic break by her loving partner Aaron, she can’t wait for him to propose. But her surprise weekend quickly becomes a nightmare from which she may never escape.
Who wants everything you have.
They are staying by the beach at the Midland – a grand hotel where Karin used to work. And where Karin’s dangerous and obsessive ex, whom she has been trying to leave behind for years, is waiting patiently for her to return.
Who won’t stop until your life is in ruins.
Now all of Karin’s darkest secrets are being dragged into the light and her friends are turning against her. When one of them is murdered, Karin begins to realise just how treacherous relationships can be…

Author Bio
June Taylor is a UK psychological thriller writer. Keep Your Friends Close is her second
book for HarperCollins Killer Reads. For many years she was a TV promos writer/producer before turning to writing plays and fiction.  She was runner-up in the 2011 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction competition with her YA novel.  Her debut Adult psychological thriller Losing Juliet was nominated for the Not the Booker Prize 2017.

June is active in her local writing scene, including serving on the Board of Script Yorkshire and taking part in Leeds Big bookend.  When she’s not writing she likes to shrink her life down into a campervan and take off on some adventure. 
She lives in Leeds. 


Sneaky Peak ... KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE

If Mel had chosen to walk by that night after tripping over her outstretched legs, as she sat in her usual spot under the damp stone ceiling of the Dark Arches, Karin might not even be here now. She knew she looked and smelt like rotting garbage, a stinking heap cluttering up the pavement, yet something in Mel had made her stop. She had bent down to ask her name, wrapped a scarf around her neck and given her gloves to put over her freezing fingers, white and numb at the ends.
Then she began asking questions.
Why was Karin in such a state? How had it come to this?
Some people bothered to do that.
When Mel reached her limit, Karin watched her go, calling, ‘You have a nice night.’ That’s what happened: she was used to it. So twenty minutes later, to see her returning with piping hot coffee and a cheeseburger, seemed like a miracle. Mel also gave her money for a hostel, making Karin promise that she would be sure to find one. Karin didn’t let on that it was too late for that night, but she did use the money for the following one.
‘Is this where I can find you?’ she enquired before abandoning her to the cold again. Karin remembered that question had made her laugh, sitting in this gloomy Victorian tunnel under the railway station, full of shadows, and thunderous noises from above.
‘Yes, this is my current address,’ she replied. ‘The Dark Arches, Leeds.’

You can connect with June here:

Twitter @JoonLT
Occasionally on Instagram too.







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