HOT NEWS! I’m back in the chair for the first time in 15 months. Chapter 1 of Murder Night, book 7 in the Amy Rowlings Mystery Series is written. I’ve really surprised myself by managing to knock out just under 2000 words today. Good ones too. Chapter 2 will be where the murder actually happens. Hoping to get onto that tomorrow. The stories will be shorter in future, around 80 to 85k words instead of my usual 110k plus, so I might be able to get more books out in a shorter time… that’s the plan anyway, but we all know how my plans can go awry… still, it’s positive news
The Murder Awards. Book 3 in the Amy Rowlings Golden Age Mystery Series is now available from all audiobook outlets, including Audible. Read by the wonderful Gemma Lawrence of Luther and Casualty fame, this fine actress really nails the Amy character.
When Amy Rowlings and Inspector Bodkin are invited to a black-tie civic awards ceremony at the Town Hall, they expect to be met with the usual boring speeches and toe-curling sycophancy, but when the recipient of the night’s ‘Businessman Of The Year Award’, Nelson Kelly, is found stabbed to death after being called from the stage to answer the telephone, the evening begins to liven up.
Nelson’s company has just won a lucrative contract to build a new armaments factory and many of the town’s elite, having backed a rival bidder, aren’t happy at missing out.
When the CID department at the local police station is suddenly reduced in manpower, Bodkin is told he will have to manage the murder investigation alone.
Into the breach steps young Amy Rowlings, the twenty-one-year-old with a mind every bit as sharp as her fictional hero, Hercule Poirot.
Amy, an avid crime fiction reader, movie buff and collector of American records, brings her insight and intelligence to the aid of the overstretched inspector as he attempts to find a way through the morass of lies, deception and corruption.
Once again, Amy must utilise all the investigative techniques she has learned from Agatha Christie’s famous detective to help bring a brutal killer to justice.
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Unspoken A heart-warming, dramatic family saga. Unspoken is a tale of secrets, love, betrayal and revenge. Unspoken means something that cannot be uttered aloud. Unspoken is the dark secret a woman must keep, for life.
Alice is fast approaching her one hundredth birthday. She knows she only has a short time left and is desperate to unburden herself of the dark secret she has lived with for eighty years.
Jessica, a journalist, is her great-granddaughter and a mirror image of a young Alice. They share dreadful luck in the types of men that come into their lives.
Alice decides to share her terrible secret with Jessica and sends her to the attic to retrieve a set of handwritten notebooks detailing her young life during the late 1930s.
Following the death of her invalid mother and her father’s decline into depression and alcoholism, she is forced, at 18 to take control of the farm. On her birthday, she meets Frank, a man with a drink problem and a violent temper. When Frank’s abusive behaviour steps up a level. Alice seeks solace in the arms of her smooth, ‘gangster lawyer’ Godfrey, and when Frank discovers the couple together, he vows to get his revenge.
Unspoken. A tale that spans two eras and binds two women, born eighty years apart.
Encore For Murder, book six in the Amy Rowlings Mystery Series, was runner-up at last night’s Romantic Novelists Association Awards night at the Royal Leonardo Hotel at Tower Bridge, London. I cannot tell you how proud I am of my shortlisted award certificate. Thank you to everyone who wished me luck at the event. You’re all fabulous people. I may have some news for you all in the coming days, but aside from that, there is the small matter of the release of The Murder Awards in audiobook format, published by Ulverscroft and Isis Audio on June 1st. It is narrated as usual by the fabulous actress Gemma Lawrence.
It began with a trivial moment of carelessness, but the shockwaves that reverberate from this seemingly insignificant incident, spread far and wide.
Ed and his heavily pregnant wife Mary are on an errand for Ed’s ailing father before the pair depart for warmer climes. But the winter of 1962 comes early and one innocuous event and a hastily taken decision will have devastating consequences for the family of young Rose Gorton. Mary’s already fragile mental state is put under further stress while Ed tries to make sense of events that are spiralling massively, Out of Control.
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