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I was going to wait until I read this to mention it, but you must believe me -- if you haven't read anything by Chris Dolley, you need to do so immediately! Here's the latest author blurb from this funny, multi-talented man:
Chris Dolley has been a computer consultant, a pioneer computer games designer, an amateur detective and once, as a teenager, freed a small country. Now he lives with his wife and a large collection of animals on a farm they renovated in the Normandy-Maine Regional Park.
How can you not be curious about Chris Dolley's work? This is the author of the SF novel Shift, of the autobiographical amateur detective story French Fried, of the pictorial International Kittens of Mystery! Medium Dead and What Ho, Automaton! are traveling with me on my laptop next week. I'll try anything Chris Dolley writes.
So, just to let you mystery readers know about his quirky little mystery debuting this month at Book View Cafe:
Peter Shand is the 'safe pair of hands' – a high-flying police administrator seconded to a quiet rural CID team to gain the operational experience he needs for promotion. On his second day he’s thrust into a high-profile murder case. A woman’s body is discovered in an old stone circle – with another woman buried alive beneath her.
The pressure on Shand is enormous. The case is baffling. There appears to be no link between the two crimes. The media is clamouring for answers. And Shand’s convinced his wife is having an affair with someone called Gabriel. Which just happens to be the name of the two chief suspects. Both are womanisers, and both produce a mystery woman - who sounds suspiciously like Shand’s wife - as their alibi, The pressure builds. Shand can’t sleep, a local journalist is out to discredit him, his wife is about to be dragged into the case and then, goaded at a press conference about lack of progress, he invents a lead. And keeps on lying – to the press, his boss, his team – telling himself that he'll solve the case before anyone finds out.
And then a second murder occurs. And had there been a third?
Shand begins to doubt his ability. He's desperate, increasingly unpredictable, pursued by an amorous psychic, and unjustly gaining a reputation for arresting livestock.
What's going to break first? The case, or Shand?
Chris Dolley has been a computer consultant, a pioneer computer games designer, an amateur detective and once, as a teenager, freed a small country. Now he lives with his wife and a large collection of animals on a farm they renovated in the Normandy-Maine Regional Park.
How can you not be curious about Chris Dolley's work? This is the author of the SF novel Shift, of the autobiographical amateur detective story French Fried, of the pictorial International Kittens of Mystery! Medium Dead and What Ho, Automaton! are traveling with me on my laptop next week. I'll try anything Chris Dolley writes.
So, just to let you mystery readers know about his quirky little mystery debuting this month at Book View Cafe:
Peter Shand is the 'safe pair of hands' – a high-flying police administrator seconded to a quiet rural CID team to gain the operational experience he needs for promotion. On his second day he’s thrust into a high-profile murder case. A woman’s body is discovered in an old stone circle – with another woman buried alive beneath her.
The pressure on Shand is enormous. The case is baffling. There appears to be no link between the two crimes. The media is clamouring for answers. And Shand’s convinced his wife is having an affair with someone called Gabriel. Which just happens to be the name of the two chief suspects. Both are womanisers, and both produce a mystery woman - who sounds suspiciously like Shand’s wife - as their alibi, The pressure builds. Shand can’t sleep, a local journalist is out to discredit him, his wife is about to be dragged into the case and then, goaded at a press conference about lack of progress, he invents a lead. And keeps on lying – to the press, his boss, his team – telling himself that he'll solve the case before anyone finds out.
And then a second murder occurs. And had there been a third?
Shand begins to doubt his ability. He's desperate, increasingly unpredictable, pursued by an amorous psychic, and unjustly gaining a reputation for arresting livestock.
What's going to break first? The case, or Shand?
