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Nestled on the banks of the River Ribble, Preston has faced its challenges but is once again a thriving Northern city, with a vibrant multicultural population. Especially when she receives a mobile phone containing one sole contact, Simon — and a warning to tell no one.
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If you love a dark police procedural, with a focus on the procedure, then I'd highly recommend this book to you! This is one hell of a rollercoaster ride the pages were turning so fast I didn’t want to put the book down. Christie said: “It is a very competitive industry but don’t let that put you off, follow your dreams.
A stranger came into our home, strangled my mother to death and left me sitting alone with her body.
Debut author Christie Newport overcomes decades of pain to
An utterly compelling and propulsive thriller that grabs you from the first page and refuses to let go! Her physical symptoms worsened, leading to inflammation in and around her body, from feeling like her lungs were being crushed to feeling like her brain was being pushed, and constant excruciating pain. I didn’t think someone with my working class background, my poor health, my education or my ethnic origin could be an author. Find your place within the writing community, there will be information shared that will be invaluable to you and your writing career.Durrant, Rachel McLean, Lynda La Plante and Dorothy Koomson will devour this page-turning crime thriller. Inspirational Edge Hill University Alumni Christie Newport has overcome illness to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a published author. A propulsive thriller with a flawed protagonist, a diabolical villain and enough procedural detail to make the setting life-like.
THE RAVEN’S MARK an absolutely gripping crime thriller with a
I decided I wanted to prove to myself, my family and the world that I could be more than my illness, and more than the world expected me to be. It's difficult to strike the right balance between trying to offer a more accurate version of a police procedural and fictional events and sadly a couple of times the book didn't quite get the balance right and I kept wishing we'd get back to the action.Christie said: “I missed out on a lot of my education because I was in and out of hospital undergoing procedures, surgeries and various experimental treatments. Giving her advice to students wanting to get into the writing industry, Christie added: “My advice is, work hard and never give up on yourself. My family have been told to say goodbye to me on numerous occasions but somehow each time I fought on against the odds.
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Her personal life is a bit of a mess, although she has an excellent support system of her Aunt Margie and best friend Millie. Since developing a rare illness as a child, Christie found reading and creating stories to be an escape. Now Beth faces the hardest case of her career : Rose Danes’s throat is cut, her body discarded on a council estate. Then a key witness is kidnapped and Beth finds herself in a race against time to stop the killer before he can kill again.I tore through this dark, shocking and brilliantly executed police procedural peppered with eye-popping twists galore.