The Crime Warp

Yaaay! Chuffed to bits to be on the Whatever It Takes blog tour. Thanks to Rachel's Random Resources for the invite. I love offering sneaky peeks  as it's a great chance for the reader to get a feel for the novel and I'm convinced that once you've read this sneaky peek you'll be clicking the To Buy Link. But first ... Whatever It Takes Blurb DCI Jane Birchfield is facing a series of personal challenges: a rocky relationship with her partner, her mum hardly talks to her; and her boss and mentor is critically ill, which means she is having to cover his post as well as her own. Then she has to take charge of the toughest of murder investigations. Jamie Castleton is found dead, seemingly frozen in position at a computer in a grubby internet cafe in the Manchester suburb of Ashbridge. Enquiries reveal he was a self employed tech consultant and a computer expert, so what was he doing in there? The more Jane and her team dig under the surface, the more the evidence p...

Available here (Ad link) With well over a million copies sold, it's no secret that Leigh Russell's DI Geraldine Steel is a popular character, so it gives me great pleasure to offer a Sneaky Peek of her most recent Steel thriller  DEATHLY AFFAIR First though, here's the blurb: Four bodies... But who is guilty in this deadly web of secrecy and lies? When two homeless men are strangled to death, Detective Sergeant  Geraldine Steel is disturbed by the cold-blooded nature of the crimes. H er suspicion s intensify as two more victims are discovered, forcing her to question the motivation behind the murders. Plagued by red herrings, the investigation drags Geraldine ever deeper into the lives of three people caught in a toxic triangle of love and deception. Are these murders random, or is there more to this than meets the eye?  A little bit about the lovely author  LEIGH RUSSELL : Leigh Russell’s Geraldine Steel series has sold over a million ...

Available here BLURB Harrogate attracts hundreds of players to the annual Games Convention and for one player it is the perfect opportunity to kill by the mechanics of his own sinister game. Each victim will die in the same way. Each will be classed as the loser and their time will have run out. The escape room and the game table will draw more, each believing they are invincible. However, in every game there is always a traitor waiting in the wings. The latest in the bestselling Harrogate Crime Series. Author Bio You could say that the writing was clearly on the wall for anyone born in a library that they might aspire to be an author but to get to that point Malcolm Hollingdrake has travelled a circuitous route. Malcolm worked in education for many years, even teaching for a period in Cairo before he started writing, a challenge he had longed to tackle for more years than he cares to remember.  Malcolm has written a number of successful short ...

Both my parents migrated to the UK and when I read Long Way Home I thought about my father who left his home in Eastern Europe when he was 17 and didn’t see it again until fifty years later. It brought back lots of memories of him because there was something particularly evocative about both the title and themes of the novel. Long Way Home didn’t just strike a chord with me - the mix of good writing, smart plotting and stories drawing on contemporary social issues appealed to lots of readers, both in the UK and right across Europe.     Long Way Home wasn’t just a flash in the pan. Dolan has now signed a deal for another two novels in the Zigic and Ferreira series and the TV rights have also just been optioned by ITV. Here’s a sneak preview of the next two books in the series, which have piqued my interest even more than the first book did.   Tell No Tales – January 2015. A car ploughs into the bus stop early one morning leaving a trail of death and destructi...