At 2am this morning I typed The End on the final page of the sixth Amy Rowlings Golden Age mystery. Encore For Murder. The novel came in at just short of 110,000 words so pretty much the average length for an Amy book. The story is a bout a man who has been murdered twice. How can that possibly happen. You’ll be able to find out in late May when the ebook version of Encore For Murder is released. The paperback will follow shortly afterwards when signed copies will be made available.
Alice is 18. Godfrey is a 38 year old married lawyer. He has been helping Alice set up a trust for the family farm to stop it falling into the hands of the jealous Frank.
‘Well, that’s about it, Alice, our business is concluded. I do hope we will meet again soon.’
‘Wait, please, don’t go yet,’ I almost begged.
He shrugged. ‘I’m not in a rush. What did you want to discuss?’
‘Dance with me,’ I said.
‘I’m sorry?’
‘Dance with me, before you go. We’ve had lunch, tea, Martini’s, but we’ve never danced.’
He looked around. ‘Do you have a radio or something?’
‘Much better than that,’ I said. ‘Wait here, please don’t leave, I’ll be back in two shakes.’
I rushed from the room and grabbed my beautiful, blue gramophone from its place next to the tallboy, then I picked up my record case, and returned to the front room, closing the door behind me with my heel. To my intense relief, he was still there.
I set up the machine and selected Fred Astaire, singing Night and Day. I lowered the arm onto the record, then turned around with my arms open wide.
Godfrey smiled at me. ‘I love this song.’
We danced slowly, and properly to begin with, one of his hands in mine, one on the back of my shoulder, but as the dance progressed, I moved his hand down to my waist and put both of mine on his back. My breasts brushed against his chest and a tingle, like a tiny, electric shock, ran down my spine. My eyes sought his and I pressed even closer. He attempted to lose eye contact but mine must have contained powerful, eyeball-magnets, because his gaze only left mine for a millisecond.
‘Alice. This can’t happen,’ he said, huskily.
I snuggled into his chest and laid my head against his shoulder. ‘I know,’ I replied softly.
‘It’s wrong. I’m old enough to be your father,’ he said, brushing his lips against my neck.
‘I know,’ I repeated.
His hot breath breezed past my ear, then he kissed my neck gently, from the ear to clavicle.
I thought my knees were going to give way. I pulled my head back and looked him in the eye again.
‘Alice… I’ll hate myself…’
‘I won’t,’ I said, truthfully. I moved my head forward hesitantly, then his lips found mine and my heart melted.
Tracy’s Hot Mail, the hilarious first book in the Tracy’s Hot Mail series is FREE to download until Jan 9th.
Tracy’s the new girl in the office. A sassy nineteen year old with an eye for cloned fashion and an ear for the latest gossip, she reveals all in a series of emails written to her friend, Emma. Tracy doesn’t spare anyone’s blushes as she dishes the dirt on friends, family, and foes. If something is worth hearing, it is worth telling… Everyone gets the Tracy Treatment, her benefit-fiddling father, her porn obsessed boyfriend, even her pocket billiards champion boss. Not forgetting the office’s serial bum pincher and his latest conquest, the office tart. Behind Tracy’s wide eyed innocence and reassuring smile lies a muck spreader of the highest calibre. No secret is safe.
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A lover of cloned, market stall fashion and the Primark sales rail, Tracy is still working the promotions circuit under the guidance of her uber-iffy agent, Shayne Slider.
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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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