Here at last, details of my new novel GARGOYLE PIXIE DOG. It’s different.
My fifth Danny Lancaster is a short thriller plus six short stories, ideal bite-size summer holiday reading. GPD, as it’s known to Team Danny, is published as an ebook and paperback on July 24 and available as an Amazon ebook preorder now at www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B010T2CHK4
This is what it’s about:
WHEN young homeless street artist Cat goes missing her rough sleeper friend Hooper asks private investigator Danny Lancaster to find her. But how do you trace someone with no address, job, credit cards, no social media – a woman who lives off the grid? Danny’s only clues are a faded chalk drawing on a pavement and a lost dog. But an angry man is losing control. A frightened man is running for a train. Then an early morning walker finds a girl’s body on the beach. The clock is ticking as Danny hunts the Gargoyle.
+ six short stories:
THE CUCKOLDS CALLING: When Rebekah Court suspects husband Richard is cheating she hires Danny Lancaster. But the private investigator is out on a limb when infidelity weaves a tangled web.
SELFIE: A schoolgirl’s trust is abused when she reluctantly poses for her boyfriend’s intimate photos. Gemma is self-harming, bullied at school, terrified of what her parents and teachers will say. Her best friend Ashley’s last hope is Danny Lancaster.
THE HOODIED MAN: Student Sophie Medcalf was on the threshold of a new life when she was brutally murdered. The bloody unsolved killing drives her boyfriend Simon to the edge. Danny Lancaster tries to stop him jumping.
THE GERMANS CAN’T KILL ME: Melody Hamilton cannot accept that the sudden death of her sick and elderly father Lloyd, a war hero and talented artist, was an accident. Danny Lancaster must find out who might benefit from Lloyd’s passing.
INSIDE JOB: Models and fashionistas at a catwalk show are locked in and deprived of their mobiles until Danny Lancaster can find out which one is hiding the Duchess of Brighton.
SUDDEN DEATH: Aging gang boss Big Eddie Archer summons Danny Lancaster when someone starts murdering pals from his criminal past. Danny must hunt down the man behind this vicious vendetta before the body count gets out of control.
MY TBR list is on the back burner at the moment but I’ve just finished ABATTOIR BLUES by Peter Robinson, a dark, bloody story of murder and theft down on the farm for DCI Banks. Cracking Dales Noir.
AND I passed a four-hour easyJet flight reading FACE DOWN by Garry Bushell. It’s short, sharp, tongue-in-cheek, fists up, pants down Lads’ Noir.
NEXT up are Anya Lipska’s A DEVIL UNDER THE SKIN and JS Law’s debut thriller TENACITY, out on July 30.
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GUNNER: My dad’s war diary – all proceeds to a military charity
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LGSZQTU – only 99p
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