As I hinted at yesterday, today is the second of three days of Capital Crime previews and giveaways.
This is a crime festival taking place in London, 30th May - 1st June, and the more I hear about it, the more excited I am getting to be able to attend this year.
So without further ado, today's session that I am previewing is Rob Rinder’s SUSPECT Authors.
Rob Rinder’s SUSPECT Authors: A Game of Two Truths and A Lie where nothing is quite as it seems… with Claire McGowan, Joseph Knox and Louise Candlish.
Deception is a crucial feature in crime fiction, both on and off the page.
I'm especially excited for this as I've read and enjoyed books by three out of four of the authors, and have Louse and Joseph Knox's new books on my kindle ready waiting for me to read them.
In fact these are the newest releases by this lovely author line up, and then below that there is a ticket giveaway.
My review of this book will be posted on 21st May.
Everyone here has killed someone.
There is no way off this island.
You will all either kill or be killed here.
One of these statements is a lie. But which one?
Amira’s less than thrilled to be spending the weekend with her husband’s university friends. Two of them are hosting a joint fortieth on a private Scottish island, with vintage champagne, expensive gifts, and soaks in the wood-fired hot tub. Despite the luxury, Amira knows she’s going to feel left out, not to mention freezing cold and cut off.
When they decide to play ‘two truths and a lie’, anonymously posting three statements about themselves into a box, years of resentment start bubbling to the surface. And then an extra slip of paper emerges, scrawled with three chilling threats. Who wrote it? And are two of the statements really true—have they all been responsible for someone’s death?
With no phone reception and no way off the island, the group are trapped here until the end of the weekend. And as tension rises and secrets are spilled, they can’t shake the feeling that they’re not the only ones here. Is someone watching them? Someone who wants them dead? Or is it one of them who has murder in mind?
'When you’re living a lie, you find it’s best to avoid close attachments…’
Lynch, a burned out con-artist, arrives, broke, in London, trying not to dwell on the mistakes that got him there. When he bumps into Bobbie, a rehab-bound heiress - and when she briefly mistakes him for her missing brother - Lynch senses the opportunity, as well as the danger…
Bobbie’s brother, Heydon, was a troubled young man. Five years ago, he walked out of the family home and never went back. His car was found parked on a bridge overlooking the Thames, in the early hours of the same morning. Unsettled by Bobbie’s story, and suffering from a rare attack of conscience, Lynch tries to back off.
But when Bobbie leaves for rehab the following day, he finds himself drawn to her luxurious family home, and into a meeting with her mother, the formidable Miranda. Seeing the same resemblance that her daughter did, Miranda proposes she hire Lynch to assume her son’s identity, in a last-ditch effort to try and flush out his killer.
As Lynch begins to impersonate him, dark forces are lured out of the shadows, and he realises too late that Heydon wasn’t paranoid at all. Someone was watching his every move, and they’ll kill to keep it a secret.
For the first time, Lynch is in a life or death situation he can’t lie his way out of.
Charlotte and Perry long for summers at Cliff View, their gorgeous holiday home overlooking the turquoise waters of Pine Ridge. And now that city friends Amy and Linus have bought a property nearby, they plan lazy weeks of sun, sea and sipping rosé on Charlotte’s summerhouse veranda.
But there’s trouble in paradise…
A rising tide of resentment towards second-home owners is heading their way and small acts of criminal damage are escalating into something more menacing. By the end of the summer, families and friendships will be torn apart and Pine Ridge will be known for more than its sun-drenched beaches.
It will be known for murder…
Giveaway to Win a single ticket to Rob Rinder's SUSPECT Authors at Capital Crime (Open INT)
Capital Crime have kindly offered one lucky reader a single ticket to Rob Rinder's SUSPECT Authors event at Capital Crime, on Thursday 30th May starting at 16:10. The festival is being held at Leonardo Royal Hotel St Paul's, London.
Although I'm happy to have the giveaway open internationally, please don't enter unless you can get to London on 30th May in the afternoon.
The ticket is just for the single event of the festival, and I believe access to the signing straight afterwards for books by these authors.
Good luck!
Terms and conditions
Giveaway open to anyone able to get to London on 30th May and is able to attend, all options are voluntary, but please do what they ask, as I will be verifying the winner. Giveaway closes 23:59 14/5/24. Winner will be announced on twitter and emailed, and they will need to reply within 7 days, or forfeit the prize, and I will re-draw for a new winner. Good luck everyone.
And please join me again tomorrow for one more preview and one more giveaway for Capital Crime. and of course don't forget to enter yesterday's too.
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