YOU CAN PRE-ORDER NOW!
I am delighted to say that Beneath the Flesh, the fourth book and this time a novella, in the Darker Minds series of standalone crime/psychological suspense, will release as an e-book on 5th June, 2026.
Here is the blurb for the book, to set the scene…
IF YOU INVITE A STRANGER INTO YOUR HOME, YOU’D BETTER HAVE NO SECRETS…
There’s an argument. A moan. Ella is too scared to wait and see what’s happened. But the next morning, her landlord has vanished, leaving her alone with Miriam, her cruel and abusive landlady. If Ella hadn’t run away years ago, she wouldn’t be stuck here now.
Miriam wakes. She’s not in bed; she’s on the kitchen floor, cold and confused. Then she finds a knife next to her – and it’s soaked in blood, just like her husband’s bed sheets.
When Miriam advertises for a tenant two months later, one comes knocking. While Miriam can’t wait to install new tenant, Maya, into her missing husband’s single bedroom, Ella knows there’s more to this new paying guest than she’s letting on. Because Ella knows exactly who she is. But is Maya an ally – or an enemy?
Revenge is a dish best served cold…
I have very much enjoyed converging the stories of these three women, especially Miriam. She was a lot of fun to write about!
You can pre-order Beneath the Flesh from a variety of e-book stores right now. It will be available to buy and download immediately on 5th June from Kobo, Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers and will, like all my other e-books, be available to order through your local library or library app. So if you prefer to use BorrowBox, Libby, Hoopla or other apps offered by your library, you can request Beneath the Flesh (and any of my other books, too).
Other books in the series:
Beneath the Flesh is the last book I am writing in this collection. My writing is transitioning, and I will be explaining much more about this in future posts. However, I feel that it is also pertinent to mention it here. After much careful consideration, and notwithstanding the fact that I have thoroughly gained deep enjoyment from writing the Darker Minds books as well as my other standalone suspense novels, I have made the decision as a creative to return to the genre which both began my writing career and for which I have an enduring passion: literary fiction. The Secrets That Haunt Us and The Reason for Everything: and other stories, are both literary fiction books, one a novel and the other a short story collection which houses a number of my prize-winning stories. I have so many other tales to tell which do not sit neatly within genre boundaries, and this is where I intend to put my focus, going forward.
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