Lonely Nights Productions

Everything comes to those who wait – and boy, what a wait!

It was back in 2019 when preparations were first made to get my third crime novel – Strider Begins: Road to Nowhere – into print, thanks to that wonderful couple who run Britain’s Next Best Seller, David and Kelly McCaffrey. I’d first met them at a London Comic Con event, they loved the book and we all thought that was it.

Of course then the global pandemic struck. People had far more important things to be concerned about, plus social distancing would have ruined any potential book signing event, so I was relaxed enough to bide my time.

Not that it hasn’t been an anxious wait, naturally. And I am so over-joyed that we can finally launch my third book on the unsuspecting crime novel-loving public today. It still hasn’t sunk in entirely TBH.

Strider Begins: Road to Nowhere is available from today (11 April 2022) on Amazon – please click the link in this paragraph.

The paperback version is £8.99, and it also comes available on Kindle devices. It’s 288 pages and of course written in English – although we are looking at getting it reprinted in other languages around the globe.

You can even read the first six pages on Amazon, to give you a flavour of my writing style and the general story. Basically it uses the framing device of Detective Constable Dominic Strider, of Chester CID, sitting down with his girlfriend Kate to recount some of his older cases, starting with his very first murder investigations.

The novel takes place in the run-up to Easter – so its publication this week is very fortuitous and timely indeed!

On his last day in uniform before joining CID, Strider foils a bomb plot after finding an explosive device outside Chester Cathedral. This sparks a chain of events that leads him on a manhunt for the bombers, taking in two very different murder victims – a local journalist and an elderly lady – and his entanglement with a devious drug dealer and some very distinctive bank robbers.

But the back-drop to his adventures is his collapsing marriage, leading to his final conclusion that, for all the crimes he solves that week, what has he really achieved if his private life is in freefall? By the final page, you’ll find out how he’s done a great deal of good for the city of Chester, but will still have travelled down a Road to Nowhere.

My PATREON PAGE AND OTHER LINKS

In preparation for today’s book launch, I have started a Patreon page for people who wish to support my writing endeavours, including the completion and publication of my FOURTH DC Strider crime novel, which I am half-way through.

For £1 a month you will get sample chapters from my three published Strider books and early segments of the fourth book, and have a chance to read my previous short stories and other writing, including sample film scripts. You will be the first to know about book signings and interviews. There is a What’s App number just for Patreon supporters on which you can ask me questions about my writing process. You can see pictures of Chester I have personally taken, and look out for some videos which I will be doing for YouTube in the future. There’s also plans for me to take part in podcasts, which supporters will have exclusive access to before anyone else.

Every penny raised will go towards promoting and supporting my books, including me getting the fourth book published and promoted in full. So don’t hesitate, please support me today on Patreon.

You can find out about my previous DC Strider books – No More Lonely Nights and Long & Winding Road – on my Amazon author’s page.