CLAIRE LADDS

Author of character-driven psychological literary fiction and other darker books, all with an emotional pull

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Show Me Dead – OUT NOW on Amazon!

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[Post update: Show Me Dead is no longer available on Kindle Unlimited. You can buy the e-book on many stores here.]

This is a very exciting day for me because it’s LAUNCH DAY for Show Me Dead!

I am absolutely thrilled to say that Show Me Dead is now available to buy from Amazon. And if you’re a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you can download and read the book FREE as part of your subscription – and I’d love it very much if you do! 😁

If you pre-ordered the book, then it should already have landed on your device. You may even have already started reading it, which is fantastic.

Show Me Dead is the first book I’ve written in my new Darker Minds series. Each book in the series is a standalone novel, linked by a premise:

Dark minds are at work. Sometimes it takes a darker one to stop them…

Here’s a bit about Show Me Dead, in case you’ve not yet come across it.

THE DEEPER YOU GO, THE DARKER YOU GET. THE STAGE IS SET…

Ripped away from her circus family and kidnapped, Angel finds herself the unwilling ‘guest’ in a dilapidated theatre, belonging to a man who calls himself the Puppet Master.

She’s not the only captive, either. All of the broken and terrified people below ground are forced to perform for a very darkly discerning audience.

When performers begin to go missing, no one knows why, or who will be next. Fear is growing and Angel intends to ensure one thing – that it won’t be her. What is happening here? Just who is the Puppet Master, and what does he want with her? Angel may well wish that she’d never found out. But is he really the one pulling the strings?

To save them all and get to the truth, Angel has to perform the darkest show of all. But truth comes at a price. And someone will pay…

You can find, buy, and download to read as a Kindle Unlimited book by clicking the button below:

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I really hope you love reading Show me Dead. I have had such an amazing time writing it, and loved every second of creating the darkness inside the main characters. I would love to know what you think of Angel and of the Puppet Master – and which one you found yourself drawn to most. Do feel free to contact me and let me know.

To all my readers – thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for helping my launch day be fantastic. If you’ve bought or downloaded my book, that’s just wonderful. If my words thrill you, touch you, scare you, or make you want to read more books, then I can’t ask for more than that. I write because I love it, and if I can bring you along for the ride, then it’s literally the most fantastic feeling ever!

Show Me Dead by Claire Ladds

Show Me Dead – Pre-order now!

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I am thrilled to let you know that Show Me Dead is now available to pre-order!

Show Me Dead is the first book I’ve written in the Darker Minds Crime and Suspense series. The books are linked by theme, so can be read in any order.

Dark minds are at work. Sometimes it takes a darker one to stop them…

Here’s the book description:

THE DEEPER YOU GO, THE DARKER YOU GET. THE STAGE IS SET…

Ripped away from her circus family and kidnapped, Angel finds herself the unwilling ‘guest’ in a dilapidated theatre of a man who calls himself the Puppet Master.

She’s not the only captive, either. All of the broken and terrified people below ground are forced to perform for a very darkly discerning audience.

When performers begin to go missing, no one knows why, or who will be next. Fear is growing and Angel intends to ensure one thing – that it won’t be her. What is happening here, and just who is the Puppet Master, and what does he want with her? And is he really the one pulling the strings?

Lives are at stake. And the only way Angel can save them is to enact the darkest show of all. But at what cost…?

Show Me Dead will release on January 14 2022 (which actually isn’t that many weeks away!). It will be available in Kindle Unlimited, for those who have a subscription. But if you don’t, or you’d prefer to purchase the book, you can pre-order Show Me Dead on Amazon now, so it lands on your Kindle as soon as it releases.

I am really hoping you’ll love this series as much as I am creating the dark and twisty-turny stories in it! 😊

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Sneak peek at the cover of the first book in my new crime and suspense thriller series

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I’m absolutely thrilled to have received the covers for the first three books in my forthcoming crime and suspense thriller series. There will be much more news on this soon, and it’s been fantastic to have readers already showing interest in what this series will entail.

If you’re following me on Facebook or Instagram, or maybe Twitter, you might have noticed the odd (very small) sneaky peek at the first book in the series. I thought I’d reveal a little bit more here today (of the books, not of me, thankfully – that would head us into the realms of horror fiction!), and let you catch a bit more of a glimpse of the cover of the first book.

There’s a few clues to both the book and the series on this image that you’ll find if you look closely, so I’ll let you play detective with that! It won’t be long before I’ll be able to tell you everything you need to know about this book, and the new series. And I’ll definitely be releasing teasers to my readers about it on social media before then.

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Coming soon… a new crime and suspense series

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I’ve had some questions recently about one or two posts I’ve included on social media that give a bit of an inkling that I’m writing a new series. Some readers have asked me what it’s going to be, so I thought I’d tell you a teeny weeny bit about it.

I have been working on a new series for a few months now, and I’m absolutely loving it! I’m not quite ready to reveal everything about it yet, but I can definitely tell you that it’s rooted in crime and suspense. This is no cozy mystery series (although I love those), but something that most definitely cranks up the darkness notch a fair old way. Twisted villains and flawed heroes/heroines, and some blurring of the lines where good and bad and right and wrong may mean different things to different people. Wrongs are righted and justice is served – only maybe not always in the conventional way…

Each book is linked by an overall series theme (which I’m keeping under wraps for a little while longer). As each book has different characters in it, each one is a standalone story, which also means that the series can be read in any order (handy to know that, if you come across book 6, you won’t have to hunt around to find books 1-5 beforehand, in order to make sense of the series!).

I’m still tweaking the details and doing all the behind-the-scenes stuff, so that’s all I can say about the series for now. More news on it coming soon…