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No Way To Live Christmas Playlists
getting to know the characters No Way To Live is a Christmas thriller, set across a week in December, just as shops, cafes and radio stations start ramping up the Christmas music. One way I decided to get to know the main characters was to create a Christmas playlist for each of them. See what… Read more
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Reading James Bond Short Stories: For Your Eyes Only
James Bond Short Stories The James Bond short stores collected in ‘For Your Eyes Only‘ make up Ian Fleming’s eighth James Bond book, but I left it until after I finished reading all the novels. I wish I’d kept to the order in which they were published, because these stories enrich Bond’s character, and Fleming’s… Read more
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How my Thriller series Angel of the South was born
I’ve written in a previous post about how I came to write a Christmas thriller in a flat in Riyadh. But it was only later, when I came to edit the novel, that I realised an unexpected character had pushed herself into the forefront. And she was so intriguing, I needed to see how her… Read more
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How My Christmas Thriller Was Born in A Flat In Riyadh
Origin Story Strangely for a Christmas thriller, No Way To Live was born in Riyadh. There were no Christmas decorations to get me in the spirit, but Riyadh’s surface-to-air missile defences provided a form of seasonal fireworks display. After my family left Jakarta in the summer of 2020, my wife and children, and our two… Read more
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Thriller Book Cover Reveal
No Way To Live – Blurb She’s the deadliest person he knows. And now he’s betrayed her. A ruthless London gang targets an innocent shopkeeper and his daughter, prompting Tom Adams to walk away from the criminal life he never wanted. After all, it’s the season of goodwill. When he warns the shopkeeper of the… Read more