With London
sweltering under a heatwave, many of us are pondering about our summer
vacations; with the crucial question of what to pack in terms of our reading.
Carrying a few crime
and thriller novels in our hand luggage is useful for managing the usual
hassles of mass transit, as well as a distraction for the mind in these times
of geopolitical and economic worries.
So the Shots Team
were delighted to recently celebrate the launch of two such thrillers, tense
novels that not only provide distractions from reality, but also provoke thought
and make us question what we see as the reality presented to us from the
various media sources.
Firstly Mike Stotter
and I were invited to celebrate the launch of K J Howe’s nerve-shredding
thriller Skyjack,
which follows up the adventures of Hostage
Negotiator Thea Paris from the ITW Best Debut novel of 2017 The
Freedom Broker.
Kim Howe was in London to launch Skyjack, who with her
Publishers Headline, invited several journalists / literary commentators and
book reviewers to tell us a little about what is in store for Thea Paris and
her team.
And a few photos
from the event, as we recommend this highly energetic thriller.
Later I joined Ayo Onatade
and several fellow Journalists to celebrate the launch of
Catherine Steadman’s Something
in the Water, the NY Times bestseller.
I was amused to bump
into Crime Writer Ross
Armstrong at the launch, being unaware that Catherine Steadman is his wife –
which amused this fellow actor / novelist.
Soon it was time for
Catherine and her publisher Simon and Schuster to welcome the guests to the
launch party for SOMETHING IN THE WATER
We present a few
photos from the event, and recommend this engaging and dark thriller, with one
of the most surreal openings I’ve read in some time.
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